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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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Women’s Leadership Program Delivers $6.5 Million

Your company, and many others, invests millions on multi-year women’s leadership initiative, but there’s little if any return on the investment. Learn the recipe one company used to gain $6.5 million in new revenue from their women’s leadership initiative.

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How to Get Men Advocating for More Women Leaders

In the final 48 hours before the big mentoring event for women, we made a decision that changed everything. This is how we discovered, almost by accident, the secret formula to getting more men advocating for more women leaders.

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Do Women Managers Burn Too Many Emotional Calories?

It’s not always helpful for women managers to understand people so well. Sometimes it interferes with getting the job done, particularly when the job involves delivering tough messages. So why do women burn so many emotional calories and how do we stop?

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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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Women in Leadership

Debunking the Myth that Women Lack Vision

Do women lack vision? The question is raised too often. The answer is “No.” Quite to the contrary, women access and integrate more areas of the brain, more discrete intelligences, that tap logic, language, pictures, metaphors, etc. when solving problems.

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