As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in the pecking order watch every move you make – and so they know a lot more about you than you know about them.

As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in the pecking order watch every move you make – and so they know a lot more about you than you know about them.
BOB SUTTON

Beneath Boss Creature Group Moving Order
Know when and how to get out of the way.
BOB SUTTON

Knows Out Way
Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for “extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering.”
BOB SUTTON

Accolate Engineering Extraordinary
When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on “vacation” and came back with $2 million in orders.
BOB SUTTON

Awards Engineering Million Order Vacation

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