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Leadership Is About to Get More Uncomfortable

Harvard Business Review

Employees used to know just your name, your face, your business reputation. And along with this increased transparency, you’re held accountable for areas you know less about: new technologies, new markets, new cultures and geographies representing new stakeholders. Technology alone offers several sources of discomfort.

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Without Steve Jobs, Can Apple Stay Powerful?

Harvard Business Review

Apple has been tremendously successful and now ranks as one of the most valuable companies in technology — and for that matter, in the stock market overall. If doing your job well depends on accruing and wielding personal power, there are few careers more worthy of study than Steve Jobs'. Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D.

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