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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (infosec.pub)
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Most industries management fails upward. Definitely true in Pharma.

There are CEOs with a 20 year string of development failures, but they bring "vast experience".