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Leaders Need Different Skills to Thrive in Tech

Harvard Business

You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? We at VitalSmarts wanted to uncover whether differences between the cultures of tech and non-tech companies are simply a matter of degree or of kind.

Talent 33
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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Microsoft entered the 20 th century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. Sixteen years later, that dominance is looking threadbare. The result?

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Theranos and the Dark Side of Storytelling

Harvard Business

They told and re-told Holmes’s story until she began to seem less like an actual person, and more like a living symbol—of progress, of innovation, of female empowerment. Humanity’s strange, ardent love affair with story has always fascinated me. But it also attracted an unanticipated audience of business professionals.

Journal 38