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In the very beginning of his entrepreneurial career, Richard Branson found out that his friend and close associate conspired against him. Continue reading
When Andrey Yanovsky (currently CEO of Nidan Soki) was appointed the head of Coca-Cola regional plant, the whole team grouped around an informal leader against him. Continue reading
Once Art Levinson, CEO of Genentech, seeing that company’s usual meetings were unproductive and formal, invented a very funny game called gBuzz Bingo. Continue reading
When a bright young programmer resolved to leave Apple in protest at firing his project partner, but was too careless to mention his passion for Macintosh, Steve Jobs was not very courteous, but very convincing. Continue reading
While in a hedge fund business Jeff Bezos had risen to the company’s youngest senior vice-president within two years, but abandoned this successful career in favor of his own business – future Amazon.com. Continue reading
To realize his dream about coffee bars chain Howard Schultz, future founder of Starbucks, did not have enough funding. He talked to 242 potential investors and 217 of them said “No”. Continue reading
In 1964 while GE’s new project under Jack Welch’s direction was getting close to a product that could be sold, Welch had to fight for his first general manager position, because his boss thought he did not fit this promotion. Continue reading
Boris Volpe (currently COO of SAP CIS) formerly working as a regional manager in Siberia for a large American FMCG company, once did not let the headquarters make him apply a wrong solution. Continue reading
Once Dee Hock, the founder of Visa, had to plunge into the ocean for an important partner who felt offended and wanted to leave the crucial meeting. Continue reading
