Bavor: Sundar Pichai's dynamic range in strategic thinking is second to none
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Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor reflects on the key leadership traits he observed while working closely with Google CEO Sundar Pichai during his 18-year career at Google.
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“Sundar has a remarkable ability to look at a problem From wildly different zoom levels. His dynamic range in thinking is second to none. Zoomed all the way out. Highest level strategy. How is this going to unfold over the next five years? All the way into the details, the pixels, the drop shadows, the sound, the texture of something.”
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