I’ve been getting lots of e-mails asking what should companies do as the market remains flat. When companies don ... It’s usually the leader who has gotten stuck and not willing to try ...

they will also tend to let mistakes made by a leader slide, as the general found out firsthand. "[In Iraq] I managed to get my battalion surrounded in the open, flat desert," Mattis said ...

Like Altman, Lightcap has also said that he prefers a flat leadership style ... Read next BI Tech Memo An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down.