James Cham

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Carl Bass told me that when he became CEO of the design software company Autodesk in 2006, “I still had this old-fashioned idea that being an executive leader meant that you make really important decisions. By the time I left, I made almost no important decisions. I mean that very seriously; I probably made one every two years. And to make them, I’d say to a roomful of people, ‘I’m going to make the call, but first I want to hear all your opinions, all right?’” At Google, Eric Schmidt also gave up even trying to appear that he was in unilateral control. “We had a list of running issues that ...more
The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results
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