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How Great Questions Won the Day

CEO Insider

I’ve had the good fortune to be part of many outstanding teams during my career. About 30 years ago, I was part of a four-person ad hoc team that we assembled to compete for an advertising and PR account. It’s memorable and meaningful for me because it’s when I first experienced how asking great questions […].

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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. For example, Sharon (all names have been changed), an administrator in a compliance office, recounted an interaction with a male colleague. to find out.

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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. For example, Sharon (all names have been changed), an administrator in a compliance office, recounted an interaction with a male colleague. to find out.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories. In-depth interviews with these leaders provide some insight and solutions that can help us when we do face these quandaries. Over 50 had occurred in the course of the last five years.

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