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During my entire early career in multiple organizations, I never had a formal performance review. But I learned a lot in moments like that one. I remember once, as deputy campaign manager for a gubernatorial campaign in 1998, I walked into the campaign manager’s office to tell him about a big problem I’d discovered. He listened and said, sarcastically, “Wow. Has no one ever faced this problem before?” I’d come in with a problem but not done one bit of work to propose some solutions!

Scaling People

Claire Hughes Johnson

Given this, Office needed to create features that delivered so much value to IT professionals in the enterprise that they outweighed the cost of deploying (and, in their view, training) employees. Simply making Office more enterprise-friendly and easy to deploy was nice, but it was still more difficult to deploy than to do nothing. We needed to accomplish this on time and within the magical three-year window.

Hardcore Software: When Microsoft Office Went Enterprise

future.a16z.com

It is actually not the issue that causes the pain but your interpretation of it.

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp

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