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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

I’d need to conduct a dozen customer and employee focus groups to fill in the gaps if I wasn’t having regular check-ins with the shoeshine guy.” Their raft might be micromanaging what gets done and how it gets done. How do you encourage leaders to recognize that they are carrying a raft and then convince them to put it down?

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7 Myths About Coming Out at Work

Harvard Business Review

Research shows that coming out increases job satisfaction , intention to stay , and emotional support from co-workers, whereas staying “in the closet” has costs — both for the individual and the company. For others, decisions about when and how to come out are often out of their control.