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04Precedent · how it went for them

The situation“I'm taking over a team that's just had a bad manager.”

Leaders who made the same call — what each did, and how it went.

WorkedShouldn’t have been tried

Worked · Mary Barra, General Motors, 2014

Barra became CEO of GM at the moment the company was engulfed in a scandal over faulty ignition switches that had been linked to more than a hundred deaths — a scandal that had been quietly known inside the company for over a decade and systematically buried.

Shouldn’t have been tried · Paul Biggar and Nathan Chong, NewsTilt, April–June 2010

NewsTilt launched in April 2010 as a Y Combinator-backed platform for independent journalists.