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How Create a More Inclusive Workplace for LGBTQ Employees

Let's Grow Leaders

I also wanted to share with you my story about the power of authenticity and vulnerability, because I truly believe it is the key to everything I have achieved in my career in the last few years. Authenticity and Career Success. I really enjoyed it, and it’s definitely given me some new ways to think about what I do as a manager.”

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The Most Powerful Note on Authenticity I’ve Ever Received

Let's Grow Leaders

I also wanted to share with you my story about the power of authenticity and vulnerability, because I truly believe it is the key to everything I have achieved in my career in the last few years. Authenticity is the key to relationship-building, I think, and relationship-building has been my superpower career-wise.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). How would you say “customer obsession” is different at Amazon from other definitions? Aren’t you curious how Jeff Bezos did it? What’s dangerous is not to evolve.”

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?”

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. Unfortunately, it also leads many of us wonder if the struggle for career parity is truly worth it.

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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?, part 1 of 6

Strategy Driven

By this definition, leadership seems to be something you’re born with. And how do we develop their skills and careers? Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. You either have it or you don’t have it, in which case there is not much you can do about it. What kind of alliances will we need to make?

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

Yet when women try to make themselves more visible, they can face backlash for violating expectations about how women should behave, and risk losing their hard-won career gains. In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. to find out.