As Paul Simmonds, CEO of Kinsington Textiles, Inc. (KTI), pulled into the company’s parking lot just before dawn, he saw that he wasn’t the first one in. Of the two cars already there, the blue Chevy probably belonged to the security guard. But the white Saab belonged to David Murray, the vice president of human resources and a trusted lieutenant.
A version of this article appeared in the January–February 1997 issue of Harvard Business Review.
