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Why 85 Percent of New CEOs Are First Timers, with Anand Eswaran
What actually makes a leader fit a job, when the written job spec says one thing and the company needs another? That is the question at the center of my conversation with Anand Eswaran, CEO of Veeam Software, a 15 billion dollar company that exists to put data back together after ransomware attacks, outages, and some of the worst days a company ever has.
Anand is a first time CEO who will tell you, bluntly, that he did not match the spec the board wrote for his own job. The posting called for a proven CEO with a product engineering pedigree and an industry veteran as backup. He was none of…
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