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Got Leadership Grit and Grace?

Lead Change Blog

Despite being a vice president who managed a department of 150 people in a $2 billion annual revenue organization, a male boss felt free to describe me to the CEO as a “soft and round Aunt Polly” and a female colleague as a “colorful little butterfly.” Escape the myth that power is evil and influence is better.

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Exit, Voice, and Albert O. Hirschman

Harvard Business Review

You're a corporate shareholder unhappy with the direction management is taking. Do you a) switch over to the Democrats, b) raise hell in the media, or c) try to stay welcome in the party's corridors of power in order to quietly exercise your influence? A similarly poor result, Hirschman wrote, might apply to public schools in a U.S.