Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges

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When You Have to Be a Superhero

There are times when you look back and think, “I have no clue how I did that. That was [amazing, the greatest thing ever, a miracle]!” You thought it couldn’t happen. But when something stirred inside, you knew you were going to do this. It was a ridiculously impossible assignment. You stood up to the organization and changed its course in some way. How it happened is a mystery, but you were unbelievably courageous—a fool, more likely a hero.

Take Shannon’s case. She’s been looking after herself since she was 17 years old. That’s when Shannon left home in the middle of the night, after another violent fight with her father. Taking along her mother and twin sister, Shannon stayed with friends. She then found ...