McKinnon

British

/ məˈkɪnən /

noun

Sir Don ( ald ) ( Charles ). born 1939, New Zealand politician; secretary-general of the Commonwealth (2000–08); deputy prime minister of New Zealand (1990–96)

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That mission -- conceived and championed in part by Bill McKinnon, the Clark Way Harrison Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences and interim director of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences -- will collect detailed images of Europa's surface and improve measurements of its ice shell and ocean.

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Todd McKinnon might never have become CEO of $16 billion software company Okta if not for an uncool move he made early in his career — and one that goes against the conventional wisdom.

From MarketWatch

As his coworkers bailed for “sexy” jobs at internet startups during the height of the dot-com boom, McKinnon made the seemingly boring decision to stick things out at PeopleSoft, a maker of human-resources software.

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McKinnon didn’t stay at his job out of inertia.

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McKinnon saw dot-com companies with “a lot of high funding and a lot of fanfare” that never amounted to anything.

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