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Do You Have Their Backs? Or Just Your Own?

One of the bosses I single out for praise in my new book is Intel's Patricia (Pat) McDonald, manager of a fabrication facility that the company, responding to a sharp decrease in sales, decided to shutter in 2009. Faced with the unenviable task of putting 1,000 people out of work, she made it her mission to place as many of them as possible in new jobs, either in other Intel facilities on the same, vast Hillsboro, Oregon campus or in other local firms. I'll always remember the praise I heard from one of her engineers, Sumit Guha. He said that every employee who worked with Pat during that tough time wouldn't hesitate to do so again, because "they know she's got their backs."

Today's topic was adapted from Do You Have Their Backs? Or Just Your Own?

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