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Stephen was a hired gun at my first startup. His contract started a year before I arrived, but he was long gone before I walked in the door. The story goes that when Stephen started, he found a small, solid team of five engineers, a QA lead, and a project manager. They were slowly and steadily going . . . nowhere. After two weeks of watching the team’s slug-like pace, Stephen was fed up.
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Lopp, M. (2016). Stables and Volatiles. In: Managing Humans. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2158-7_3
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