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What Business Leaders Can Learn From The Afghanistan Disaster

Chief Executive

Yet all too soon, local warlords and government officials figured out how to get rich by organizing a kleptocracy and putting government positions up for sale. By 2014, senior positions would be on sale for millions of U.S. I participated in these official discussions from 2011 to 2013 and in unofficial talks in 2017 and 2018.

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Very Cheap, Then Very Expensive (On Job Titles)

Ed Batista

A theme in my work with founder/CEOs is what I call "the judicious imposition of structure," which includes the need to clarify who's responsible for what and how decisions get made as the organization scales. [5] When enough people--or the right people--believe a story, it suddenly becomes true. [7] They become constraints in themselves.