Superbosses share not only personality traits – confidence, competitiveness, imagination, and integrity – but also people strategies, according to Sydney Finkelstein, Steven Roth Professor of Management at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and author of Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent, in a recent article he wrote for Harvard Business Review, In his research on the managers he calls superbosses (which include Mary Kay Ash, Larry Ellison, Ralph Lauren, George Lucas, Julian Robertson, and Bill Walsh, among others), Finkelstein identified the following practices in hiring and managing talent: 1. Unconventional hiring

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