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Courage over Comfort
Pamela Maynard—CEO of Avanade, a forty-five-thousand-person global technology company focused on digital innovation—shared a story with us about one of the hardest things she had to do as a leader. The role of CEO is a balance of priorities—it’s important to inspire your workforce, drive business growth, manage stakeholders, and more. And in 2020, just six months into her role as CEO of Avanade, the organization and the world suddenly faced a global pandemic, and those priorities were put to the test. “It was an immensely challenging time for everyone, and it quickly became clear that the pandemic would have a massive impact on both our people and our business.”
With the world locking down, there was a lot of economic ...
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