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Leadership and Self-Deception, 3rd Edition
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Leadership and Self-Deception, 3rd Edition

by The Institute Institute
September 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
4h 31m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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5 Beneath Effective Leadership

“After nine years at the law firm,” Bud began, “I left to become general counsel of Sierra Product Systems. Do you remember Sierra?”

Sierra had pioneered several of the processes that Zagrum had exploited to climb to its place at the top of the high-tech manufacturing heap. “Of course,” I replied. “Their technologies changed the industry. Whatever happened to them?”

“They were acquired—by Zagrum Company.”

“Really? I never heard that.”

“The deal was sort of complicated. But the long and short of it is that Zagrum acquired most of Sierra’s useful intellectual property—patents and so on. That was 16 years ago. At the time, I was COO of Sierra and came to Zagrum as part of the deal. I had no idea what I was getting ...

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ISBN: 9781523097821