Simultaneously, I have been actively pursued for an innovative management position by a large corporate facility in an inner city.

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Although some veterans have recently left and some new executives have been hired, many senior positions are still filled by people who have been with the company for more than a decade, says Michael Cusumano, a professor at the MIT's Sloan School of Management and the author of a book on the inner workings of Microsoft.

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