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Women in Leadership

4 Tips to Stop Gender Bias Paper Cuts

To heal, and ultimately stop, gender bias paper cuts, follow these four steps.
1. Begin by finding supporters, raising their awareness and asking them to speak up when cuts occur.

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Leadership

4 Gender Bias Paper Cut Band-aids

Gender bias paper cuts are small acts such as being ignored, overlooked, and singled out. Members of the opposite sex often don’t notice the offending actions. Over time, these small cuts wear away our professional confidence, fortitude, and sense of belonging. It’s best to be prepared in advance and these 4 band-aids will help.

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How to Commit Leadership Suicide

To avoid committing leadership suicide, know the rules of play, especially when leading in a crisis. Bev Scott, who just resigned as head of Boston’s public transportation system, the cranky and beloved MBTA, didn’t play by the rules. Learn from her mistakes.

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Diversity

3 Steps for Race Relations

Understanding race relations calls for empathic imagination. It means seeing that as the mother of a young white man I don’t have the same worry mothers of young black men have shared that their sons will encounter insults or dangerous acts of racism when they leave the house.

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Diversity

A Short Race-y Story

Once upon a time I worked in a forward thinking company. Diversity was a hot and much discussed topic well before it was lukewarm anywhere

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Diversity

Having It All or Not Having All: That is NOT the Question

I was not having it all, when Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article Why Women Still Can’t Have It All, caused an uproar. When I stopped having the travel part of IT ALL, I had time to write that the real question is how to change the gender based determination of which ITs men can have and which ones women can have, and offer two solutions.

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Leadership: Small Actions Big Results

Recently I attended two different meetings in which two different executives enlisted people to lead a specific change initiative. Each of these two leaders did something I call small actions BIG RESULTS.

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Diversity

The Letter I Wish IBM CEO, Virginia Rometty, Had Written

Dear Billy:

With the smell of spring in the air and the Augusta Nationals just around the corner, I am enjoying the prospect of watching this year’s competition in person.

In my role as CEO of IBM, I regret to inform you that we are reducing our sponsorship by 50.8 percent. This is, not coincidentally, the percentage of women in the country’s population according to the 2010 census.

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