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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Facebook’s first HR hire, she has led global people programs, been an HR Business Partner, and CFO.

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Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

That attitude resulted in a company that looks entirely different to almost any other modern Fortune 500 company. One striking example: there's only one person Apple with responsibility for a profit and loss. It's almost the opposite of what is taught in business school.

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The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

Harvard Business Review

In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. No iPad mini at all. Executive exodus: In 2008, Tony Fadell, senior vice president of the iPod division, stepped down. His wife, the VP of HR at Apple, also left. Apple's General Counsel, Nancy Regina Heinen, left in 2006. (In