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The Leadership Gene

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It was the summer of 2001. I returned to my coffee and magazine in the waiting area until the receptionist ushered me into the vice president’s office for my big interview. This article was published in November 2012 and has been updated. It turns out, I was 20 minutes early. I could just sit and relax and read and wait.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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A 2012 study conducted by Yale researchers revealed that even science professors—male and female—evaluate the information on a résumé more harshly when the applicant is a woman. “So if I start a company with two guys from Harvard and one guy from Yale, I will want to hire guys who went to Ivys because that feels less risky to me.”

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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A Sudanese woman, Alik, who was pregnant and had two young children in tow, arrived in Fort Worth, Texas, without her husband, Dyan, in 2012. In 2001 Mary Parry was homeless and living in a tent in Pennsylvania when she began befriending hikers along the roughly 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail. People Restoring Faith in Humanity.

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