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Your senior leadership shouldn't be individual contributors

When someone making about $250,000 a year is line-editing tweets, you may have a priority problem within your organization -- and you should probably fix it.

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Ted Bauer
Jun 05, 2016
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I was poking around a Facebook thread, and some dude who was senior leadership at a recent job I had made an interesting comment. The picture in question on the thread was a candy jar, about 1/4 full. Apparently it was a "stress candy" jar, and so, being 3/4 depleted, the idea is that the team in question is really, super stressed. That's a totally norm…

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