Rick Watson shares his thoughts with Brad Stone about the recent shakeup at Flexport: “They have to get lean quickly,” said Rick Watson, an e-commerce strategy consultant whose two posts on the situation at Flexport are must-reads. “But you start putting constraints on someone like Dave Clark, and he’s like, What the hell, this isn’t what I signed up for.”

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