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Media and tech’s leadership pipeline is an inbred family tree, essay argues

A Media War & Peace essay argues that Big Media and Big Tech’s leadership crisis stems from executive homogeneity, not technology.

Why it matters. Companies that keep hiring and promoting from the same narrow pool forecloses the outside perspective needed to catch strategic blind spots before they become existential.

Signal from Media War & Peace · Evan Shapiro · read the original.

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