Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

From how I was raised through my education and my career at Bell Labs and AT&T, I never felt any gender bias. Vivek and Farai have curated a collection of personal, powerful, inspiring, encouraging, disruptive, and challenging stories of women who grabbed the status quo by the horns. I’d never thought about it before.

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CTO Engineering How To Innovation 142

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Not only did I learn a ton, but I began to claim my personal power by deciding I was done with being treated that way.” But is it a smart career choice? Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Don’t Let Your Work Speak For Itself: 3 Ways to Increase Your Visibility. ” Find Jim at @ddiworld.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

If you have plans of becoming a manager or taking on any leadership position, you can help yourself tremendously by being aware of the mistakes that hurt the reputations and relationships of new bosses. Abusing power. Leadership is not about flexing your personal power but empowering others.

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Delegation Learning-by-Doing Reputation Motivation 167

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Over a decade later, I'm still reflecting on what this group of talented bankers taught me about power, trust, and teamwork. The first step in our coaching was establishing each member's personal power style. It was fascinating to watch how insightful a group could be as they pondered each other's career challenge together.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

of all managers , much fewer women rise to the C-suite. A survey of 25,000 Harvard Business School graduates found that although male and female graduates had similar levels of ambition , men were significantly more likely to have positions in senior management, direct reports, and profit-and-loss responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Even those who accuse him of having a "reality distortion field" manage to find themselves talking about his devices. While being liked can increase your influence, the equation works more reliably the other way around: being powerful will get you liked. One person in management told me that Jobs fired him one day. (At

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Power Software Learning-by-Doing Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

Participate in in-fighting and blaming, look out for oneself, have a personal agenda, sabotage projects. Care about personal power and prestige, only focus on quarterly numbers. Lastly, and this is something we care about a lot, good failure should not result in career suicide. Team behavior. Leadership behavior.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 11, 2010

Yes, that was the beginning of my new career, I have been a proud bossy woman ever since! I think the difference is that a bossy woman operates from a place of love and a bully from a place of personal power. By the time this baby girl was four years old, I was her boss! To this day, I use tools he gave me at the age of sixteen.

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Leadership Styles Blog Bottom-up Definition 48

Women's Leadership Exchange

JUNE 7, 2007

Or that publishers finally realized that more than half all the managers in corporate America and half all the business owners are women. Frankel remains upbeat even when she shares her worst career and personal mistakes. Or are more women deciding to take the time to write books?Whatever Does all this sound familiar?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Why does this sort of shift in behavior happen to so many people when they’re promoted to the ranks of management? Research shows that personal power actually interferes with our ability to empathize. Since his promotion, Steve had become less of a team player and more of a superior who knew better than others.

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