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Five New Year’s Resolutions Every Leader Should Make

Harvard Business Review

By building a dedicated team of talent , sponsors see a measurable benefit to their own careers: White leaders — both men and women — with a posse of protégés are 11% more satisfied with their own rate of advancement than those who haven’t invested in up-and-comers. Be a more active ally. Be a more proactive protégé.

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

All that corruption helped them hit quarterly EPS targets. As many big organizations very deliberately move to more agile ways of working, leaders are finding that the controlling tendencies that helped bring them this far in their careers are less useful now. Their raft might be micromanaging what gets done and how it gets done.

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U.S. Latinos Feel They Can’t Be Themselves at Work

Harvard Business Review

They modify their appearance, body language, and communication style — all components of executive presence (EP), that intangible element that defines leadership material. ” More than half (53%) of Latinas and 44% of Latinos say that EP at their company is defined by conforming to traditionally white, male standards.

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