Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

From how I was raised through my education and my career at Bell Labs and AT&T, I never felt any gender bias. Vivek and Farai have curated a collection of personal, powerful, inspiring, encouraging, disruptive, and challenging stories of women who grabbed the status quo by the horns. I’d never thought about it before.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

If you have plans of becoming a manager or taking on any leadership position, you can help yourself tremendously by being aware of the mistakes that hurt the reputations and relationships of new bosses. Here are the ten most common that I see in my work as a leadership coach. Abusing power. Poor communication.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Raise your personal standards. Boost your leadership skills. Supercharge your career. Listen to Your Conscience contains over 65 powerful essays from Frank’s blog — FrankSonnenbergOnline — which has attracted millions of readers. DR. RODGER DEAN DUNCAN , Bestselling author of CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 11, 2010

When I reflect on these stories, I am reminded that leadership comes in many forms. Yes, that was the beginning of my new career, I have been a proud bossy woman ever since! I think the difference is that a bossy woman operates from a place of love and a bully from a place of personal power. It sounds about right to me.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

We recommend that you look at three categories of behavior: individual, team, and leadership. Participate in in-fighting and blaming, look out for oneself, have a personal agenda, sabotage projects. Leadership behavior. Care about personal power and prestige, only focus on quarterly numbers. Leadership behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Even those who accuse him of having a "reality distortion field" manage to find themselves talking about his devices. While being liked can increase your influence, the equation works more reliably the other way around: being powerful will get you liked. One person in management told me that Jobs fired him one day. (At

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Women's Leadership Exchange

JUNE 7, 2007

Or that publishers finally realized that more than half all the managers in corporate America and half all the business owners are women. And add to that all the great books by women that we feature on the Womens Leadership Exchange online bookstore and things are looking up in the land of Business Literature.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

of all managers , much fewer women rise to the C-suite. A survey of 25,000 Harvard Business School graduates found that although male and female graduates had similar levels of ambition , men were significantly more likely to have positions in senior management, direct reports, and profit-and-loss responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Why does this sort of shift in behavior happen to so many people when they’re promoted to the ranks of management? Research shows that personal power actually interferes with our ability to empathize. The most common leadership failures don’t involve fraud, the embezzlement of funds, or even sex scandals.

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