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04Precedent · how it went for them

The situation“Someone senior is going to try to hijack the next meeting.”

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

WorkedShouldn’t have been tried

Worked · Kimberly Bryant, Black Girls Code, February 2017

In February 2017, shortly after Susan Fowler's blog post detailing her year at Uber, Kimberly Bryant (the founder of Black Girls Code, which she had started in 2011 as a part-time evening programme in her San Francisco apartment) was offered a $125,000 donation from Uber as part of the company's public response to the crisis.

Worked · Bob Iger, Disney, 2006 to 2012

During his tenure as CEO of Disney, Iger handled three landmark acquisitions, Pixar (2006), Marvel (2009), and Lucasfilm (2012), each requiring him to sit across from a single towering personality whose company was the asset: Steve Jobs, Ike Perlmutter, George Lucas.

Shouldn’t have been tried · Enron, late 1990s to 2001

Enron ran a "rank and yank" performance system in which the bottom ten per cent of employees were fired every review cycle.