8 minute read K urt Eichenwald posed a thought experiment in his 2012 Vanity Fair investigation of Microsoft: imagine the company had hired Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Larry …

8 minute read M arch 2012. Donna Morris sat in a Mumbai hotel room, jet-lagged and frustrated, talking to a reporter about what wasn't working at Adobe. "We plan to abolish an…

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10 minute read I n the spring of 2001, Netflix laid off a third of their company. Forty people from a team of 120. What happened next confused everyone. The remaining team didn&…

11 minute read T he scene plays out in a cramped office in Oakland, 2002. Around the table sit veteran baseball scouts. Decades of experience between them. They've seen thousa…

13 minute read T wo candidates sit across from you in final-round interviews for the same role. The first candidate answers questions with precision. They have a track record of results…