Exploring the firing and subsequent rehiring of Sam Altman, the chapter reveals how personality clashes during Thanksgiving week caused upheaval at Microsoft and OpenAI. It emphasizes the role of interpersonal conflicts in business decisions, overshadowing assumptions of scandal or breakthrough.
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Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and a best-selling author. His latest book is “Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection.” Mary Long caught up with Duhigg for a conversations about:
- The habits of Supercommunicators.
- How Boeing and Netflix navigated communications crises.
- An under-the-radar figure running the technical side of Microsoft.
Host: Mary Long
Guest: Charles Duhigg
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineers: Rick Engdahl, Dan Boyd
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