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File. Shelley Broader was named president and CEO of Fort Myers-based retailer Chico’s FAS Inc. in 2015.
File. Shelley Broader was named president and CEO of Fort Myers-based retailer Chico’s FAS Inc. in 2015.
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For all his genius, Steve Jobs, by many accounts, could be a Grade A jerk. The years following his death have brought out into the open many stories about the visionary Apple co-founder’s lack of sensitivity, even outright callousness, toward employees, colleagues, rivals and other people in his orbit.

 

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