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Authentic Leadership (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
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Authentic Leadership (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

by Harvard Business Review, Bill George, Herminia Ibarra, Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones
November 2017
Beginner content levelBeginner
160 pages
1h 34m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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What Bosses Gain by Being Vulnerable

By Emma Seppala

One morning in Bangalore, South India, Archana Patchirajan, founder of a technology startup, called her entire staff in for a meeting. When everyone was seated, she announced that she had to let them go because the startup had run out of funds. She could no longer pay them. Shockingly, her staff of high-caliber engineers who had their pick of jobs in the booming Silicon Valley of India, refused to go. They said they would rather work for half their pay than leave her. They stayed and kept working so hard that, a few years later, Patchirajan’s company—Hubbl, which provides internet advertising solutions—sold for $14 million. Patchirajan continues to work on startups from the United States, ...

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ISBN: 9781633693920