Elizabeth Holmes may be a fraud, but she knows leadership psychology

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The Theranos founder’s rules for business success would probably have inspired management textbooks if her company hadn’t failed.

If Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes had not been a criminal and a fraud, or even if she was and somehow cracked the secret of small-sample blood pathology, her life rules could have inspired shelves of management books.

Here was a young woman – she founded the company in 2003 at age 19 – attempting to maintain a consistency of behaviour that would inspire confidence in men of enormous experience. Holmes knew that to be taken seriously, she had to be punctual, decisive and direct.

 

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'If she hadn't got drunk she would have passed that breathalyser test'

She's a psychopath but people were fools to be duped by this. Here's a rule of thumb: no scientific claim to improve something by 1000 is true if there are no patents or labs working somewhere in the middle already. Goes for Cold Fusion too (no not the web2db app).

'Company hadn't failed' Weird way to spell. Didn't have a product, lied about it, jeopardised people health. This wasn't some bad business decisions. It was a flim flam merchant

It was always going to fail.

You failed to acknowledge that she was a liar and cheat. She was caught. That was the reason her business failed.

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