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The Key Leadership Skill?

Great Leadership By Dan

Seconds before the crash all four of the plane’s engines stopped working. ·. Whilst the message to Air Traffic Control from an American plane about to run out of fuel would have been short, sharp and very to the point a Colombian would put it very differently. There was nothing wrong with the plane. ·. The plane simply ran out of fuel.

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.