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

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A quick look at diversity in the workplace Between 1970 and 1997, after such screens had become embraced for blind auditions, the odds that a woman would advance beyond “certain preliminary rounds” of a tryout increased by 50%, according to a 2000 study published in the American Economic Review. Start at the top. Former Intel CEO Brian M.

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How to Break Up with Your Business Partner

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Kathi Elster is co-founder of K Squared Enterprises , which helps with workplace conflict, and co-author of Mean Girls at Work and Working for You Isn’t Working for Me. He is 25 years older, and he was my mentor early in my career. “You can partner with your most bitter enemy if you have to,” Emerson says. Keep talking.

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