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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Carl had a Ph.D. But he came from a family with humble roots.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Carl had a Ph.D. But he came from a family with humble roots.

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Spotting the Great but Imperfect Resume

Harvard Business Review

Directors keep nudging these CEOs to play it safe, filling the management team with steady performers whose work history closely matches the job at hand, even if there's no sense of "wow!" Imagine the remorse of a venture capitalist unwilling to back Steve Jobs in 1977, because the personal-computer pioneer never finished college.

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How Hewlett-Packard Lost the HP Way

Harvard Business Review

The other CEO who managed to get tossed out of his job by virtue of his (still largely unexplained) fascination with a B-level (and that's grading generously) actress. Not to mention boardroom soap operas, front-page ethics scandals, and more changes of direction than a surfer in a hurricane. It's just astonishing.".

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Experimentation is vital.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2