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development and coaching of a small number of additional product managers (typically,

“pulse” surveys

LinkedIn’s chairman Reid Hoffman, who also founded PayPal and has worked on startups for over 20 years, is one of the best-connected and most-liked people around Silicon Valley.[952] When Hoffman joined Microsoft’s board, he said he would help Microsoft build stronger connections around Silicon Valley[953] — a key asset for Microsoft, which for man

These managers are more committed to their employees’ development, and to their own.

Lindsey was continuously learning and growing, and he encouraged his employees to do the same, sending them to various self-improvement seminars, such as Dale Carnegie Training and Ed Foreman’s Successful Life Course. “We coined a saying, ‘Businesses don’t grow, people do,’” said Lindsey. “I don’t want this to become a cliché around Defender becaus

over time, the proportion of juniors to seniors required by the firm in a particular practice area will tend to increase.

When he saw a manager failing, he would try to find another role—perhaps at a lower level—where

Goldman Sachs: “You learn from day one around here that we gang-tackle problems. If your ego won’t permit that, you won’t be effective here.”2

In cultivating a mind-set for reflective improvisation,