One of my favorite stories about Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s dynamic COO, comes from a company meeting in which employees were complaining about the “unfairness” of having their performance evaluated based on the success of the projects they had worked on, rather than just their individual contribution to those projects. Sandberg acknowledged these concerns, but her reply has stuck with me for years. She asked the employees to imagine a favorite company of theirs that had been disrupted. Kodak, say, or RIM. Imagine all the employees of that doomed company, in the months and years leading up to
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