Leadership lessons startups can learn from the mistakes of these 2 corporate giants

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"Clearly, while Murthy and Tata had an expectation of a privileged status post retirement based on what they did pre retirement, Gates didn’t seem to have any such expectation. What tenets of leadership did Murthy and Tata miss out on that Gates didn’t?

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 Science journalist and New York Times reporter Daniel Goleman, through his research, found that above the IQ threshold of 120, EQ becomes a far more important factor in predicting leadership success than IQ. While IQ above 120 is welcome, it benefits only if accompanied by strong EQ qualities like interpersonal skills and team work.

Very high IQ without accompanying EQ leads to downfall at some point (as Travis Kalanick at Uber discovered painfully).

It is at such junctures that the third intelligence—detachment quotient (DQ), the ability of leaders to detach from their businesses—takes over. Leadership geniuses like Gates realize very quickly that despite their superior intelligence and prior success, their successor needs to operate under different business environments and that their interference would do more harm than good. They successfully yield their IQ and EQ to their DQ and soon, detach themselves altogether from their own ventures."

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https://www.techinasia.com/talk/leadership-lessons-mistakes-corp-giants

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