August 2011
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
6h 47m
English
book
The Elephant in the Room: How Relationships Make or Break the Success of Leaders and Organizations
by Diana McLain Smith
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TWO
The Life and Death of a Relationship
I now had what the self-help books called baggage, which I would carry around for the rest of my life. The trick was to meet someone with similar baggage, and form a matching set, but how would one go about finding such a person?
—DAVID SEDARIS1
More than twenty-five years have passed since Steve Jobs and John Sculley's much-publicized breakup at Apple. Yet it still serves as a cautionary tale. In two short years, their celebrated camaraderie turned into an antagonism so great it escalated hostilities between divisions, put Apple at risk of a takeover, sent Steve Jobs into a twelve-year exile, and destroyed ...