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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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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

Cook, of the profound productivity difference between employees who just punch the clock to get their daily pay and those who engage in learning to make productive contributions through which they can build their careers and thereby reap future returns in work and in retirement. That’s just 2.1% Employee incentives.