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Go Straight for the Joy and Follow Your Purpose

Success

In 2004 I was enjoying the highest-paying, most respectable job I had ever worked. And the third is growth; you simply wake up one morning and what satisfied you yesterday is starting to feel empty. If you take a step with every decision toward what makes you feel most free, you’ll end up at your purpose very quickly.”

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Could Your Name Prompt Hiring Bias?

On The Job

Could someone named Jamal have more difficulty getting help from a mentor or attention from a higher-up than someone named Brad? Or bring up the fact that you live in the same neighborhood or city as a way to close the distance with a key person. Read this latest column I did for Gannett/USA Today.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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“I just do it because—darn it—there are a lot of women [in the world] who don’t have the opportunity to get up in the morning and even get an education, so I can get my butt on a plane and deal with it. I wrote that specifically in my journal, and I just kept looking for when it was going to show up in my life. I’m scared.

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

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Or how, according to a 2020 study published by AnitaB.org, women make up just under 29% of the tech workforce. Thomas and Ayesha Kanji for Harvard Business School in 2004, Childs, as vice president of workforce diversity, executed a plan that created eight task forces. Once you bring new talent in the door, you can’t let up.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

And for the sixth time, we have done the research to find the 25 most influential leaders in this space: the coaches, speakers, authors, mentors and thought leaders to know in 2022. He is a teacher, a mentor, a coach, a convener, and a doer. Coach, mentor, creator. But this year, there’s more.

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