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Brian Helmick, Co-founder & President, Algentis
A startup manager faces hard choices when he realizes he hired the wrong person for a key position.
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Kate Surman, Administrator, academic medical center
A manager must shift gears when a performance review with a volatile employee takes an emotional turn.
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Roy Vella, Former Director, Merchant Services, PayPal
To sell his vision for a new business venture, a manager must convince two disparate companies to collaborate.
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Mike Folgner, former General Manager, Video, Yahoo
After Yahoo acquires his early-stage startup, an entrepreneur must manage a team resistant to change.
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Lisa Dawe, Division VP, DaVita
A junior manager wrestles with how to react to negative feedback received during a senior management meeting.
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Melissa McSherry, Managing V.P., Major Bank
A non-technical manager must convince a technical whiz to solve a problem her way rather than his way.
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Charles Carmel, VP, Corporate Development, Cisco Systems
A young business analyst is chosen to manage a group of peers that he formerly competed with.
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Josh Golomb, General Manager, DaVita
Golomb must overcome a feeling of personal failure when the fast-growing division he co-leads encounters difficulty.
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Bob Holden, former General Manager, Rent.com (eBay)
A young manager must motivate a team with numerous performance issues in order to achieve lofty growth targets.
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Dave Lyons, Former Director of Engineering, Tesla Motors
An engineering manager feels he needs to choose between a high-stakes project deadline and good peer relationships.
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Eric Westendorf, Principal, E. L. Haynes Public Charter School
A principal must convince a staff member to take over a struggling sixth-grade class even though she would prefer not to.
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Roy Gilbert, Director, User Operations & Policy, Google
The general manager of a fast-growing division confronts the limits of a hands-on style.
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Gerald Risk, President, Asurion
A CFO’s expanded role comes with the proviso that he raise his group’s performance from good to “world-class.”
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Melissa McSherry, Managing V.P., Major Bank
A manager clashes with a new colleague whose team must work closely with her own.
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Chris Tilghman, Director, Inside Track
A just-promoted manager struggles to motivate under-performing employees who are different from himself.
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Lisa Dawe, Division VP, DaVita
A management trainee takes over an under-performing clinic with a staff unaccustomed to solving problems.
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Josh Golomb, General Manager, DaVita
Golomb must resolve a strategic dispute with his boss when a division they launched runs into trouble.
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Charles Carmel, VP, Corporate Development, Cisco Systems
Carmel devotes six months to building a case for a major acquisition at Cisco, but the deal is ultimately nixed.
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