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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

All that corruption helped them hit quarterly EPS targets. On one occasion, the company sent a civil engineer to the top of a 500-foot cooling tower to do a walkdown. Tim asked the engineer: “What are you looking for while you’re up there?” That’s what Wells Fargo did. But it’s not sustainable. 5 Leadership Frequencies.

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The Authenticity Trap for Workers Who Are Not Straight, White Men

Harvard Business Review

Many employees are encouraged to “just be yourself,” only to find their authenticity — and their career ambitions — constrained by unwritten office rules about appearance, speech, and behavior. Moving up in an organization depends on looking and acting like a leader, on being perceived as having “executive presence” (EP).

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