Sharing executive lessons learned ("wisdom") and mistakes made (just plain "dumb").
I've run global advertising at a Fortune 500 tech company, led development teams at a startup, and waited tables at my wife's restaurant. A lifetime of dumb mistakes -- and a few smart decisions -- can finally be shared.
Your boss — or more often, your boss’s boss’s boss — has a dumb@ss idea and you’ve been handed the assignment. What do you do? Let’s look at a real-world example, explore different ways it could have been handled, and assess the results.
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