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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

I’d need to conduct a dozen customer and employee focus groups to fill in the gaps if I wasn’t having regular check-ins with the shoeshine guy.” We try to help leaders make a very rational cost/benefit analysis about what clinging to the raft is costing them. That often creates the motivation to change.

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7 Myths About Coming Out at Work

Harvard Business Review

Research shows that coming out increases job satisfaction , intention to stay , and emotional support from co-workers, whereas staying “in the closet” has costs — both for the individual and the company. Myth #7: People are scared to come out just because of career risks.