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Only a Flawed Genius Builds a Bugatti Veyron
VW's Ferdinand Piech's autocratic style and love of cash-burning vanity projects should have made him a managerial disaster. He was anything but.
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How is that the most outstanding corporate leaders are so frequently the most flawed?
Steve Jobs’s fanatical obsession with the user experience turned Apple Inc. into one of the world’s most valuable companies. But there’s no shortage of tales about him being mean and rude.