Zia Yusuf, a Pakistani graduate of the Harvard Business School in 1998, joined the SAP, high-tech software company in 2000 after working first at Goldman Sachs. Although Yusuf had no technical training and has never worked in sales, marketing and software development, he quickly moved to the SAP, bringing great commercial value to the organization. This case is the success of Yusuf in navigating organizational dynamics are very complex and large organizations, tracing his career at SAP before. "Hide
by Jeffrey Pfeffer Source: Supplement 16 minutes of video. Publication Date: 03 February 2009. Prod. #: OB73V-VID-ENG
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