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The Day Steve Jobs Asked the CEO of Starbucks to Fire His Entire Team, "If You Want to Save the Company, Fire everyone."

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bigstock In the midst of one of the most complex crises for Starbucks, an uncomfortable conversation marked a breaking point that years later would be seen as a brutal lesson on leadership. Howard Schultz, who was CEO of Starbucks had just returned to the company's management in 2008, in an environment where consumption contracted and coffee began to be perceived more as an avoidable expense than as a daily habit. That's when he turned to someon…
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bigstock In the midst of one of the most complex crises for Starbucks, an uncomfortable conversation marked a breaking point that years later would be seen as a brutal lesson on leadership. Howard Schultz, who was CEO of Starbucks had just returned to the company's management in 2008, in an environment where consumption contracted and coffee began to be perceived more as an avoidable expense than as a daily habit. That's when he turned to someon…

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Revista Merca2.0 broke the news on Thursday, April 30, 2026.
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