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Chip Conley’s advice to leaders: You don’t have to be a jerk

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After earning his MBA from Stanford Business School in 1984, he eschewed corporate gigs in favor of a $24,000-a-year job working for a commercial real estate developer in San Francisco. Reimagining midlife To be sure, Conley has always been a bit of an iconoclast. He started the Joie de Vivre boutique hotel chain at age 26.