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Five New Year’s Resolutions Every Leader Should Make

Harvard Business Review

Leaders have long recognized that an inherently diverse workforce “matches the market” and confers a competitive edge by recognizing the unmet needs of consumers and clients like themselves. Leadership roles are given to those who also look and act the part, who manifest “executive presence” (EP). Be a more active ally.

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The Authenticity Trap for Workers Who Are Not Straight, White Men

Harvard Business Review

Many employees are encouraged to “just be yourself,” only to find their authenticity — and their career ambitions — constrained by unwritten office rules about appearance, speech, and behavior. Moving up in an organization depends on looking and acting like a leader, on being perceived as having “executive presence” (EP).

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Why I'm Glad I Got Fired

Harvard Business Review

I'm sure I asked this next question in the kind of holier-than-thou voice that only a 20-something can conjure: Why would I shift my career from Apple and GoLive (a hot web authoring software) to CAD, where innovation levels and growth were single digit? That CAD stuff, I asked? Ah-huh, he said. Why don't you just come talk to Carol?

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed.

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U.S. Latinos Feel They Can’t Be Themselves at Work

Harvard Business Review

They modify their appearance, body language, and communication style — all components of executive presence (EP), that intangible element that defines leadership material. ” More than half (53%) of Latinas and 44% of Latinos say that EP at their company is defined by conforming to traditionally white, male standards.

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