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Managing Direct Reports What do you look for in the people working for you? How do you figure that out in the interview process? How do you train them for success? What is your process for evaluating them?

Confrontation If your best executive asks you for more territory, how do you handle it? Describe your process for both promotion and firing. How do you deal with chronic bad behavior from a top performer?

Lindon held anger in his chest, but he didn’t let it speak for him. He kept it in a tight grip, and he used its heat as fuel. “I am grateful for what you have done for my family. But I do not look favorably on those who keep Coppers imprisoned as slave labor, or who kill Jades in their beds over a blood feud.” Jai Long’s back straightened. “I will

Driven and often intimidating to underlings, Covey became an intellectual foil to Bezos and a key architect of Amazon’s early expansion.

We hired Milton Pollack, a brilliant lawyer who later became a distinguished federal judge. The suit unfolded slowly, and I fell into a ritual of having dinner with Pollack once a month during which he would update me on our progress and his methods. At that time he had a daughter in elementary school; he told me that before he asked any question o

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