Making Real Connections (HBR Women at Work Series)
by Harvard Business Review, Amy Gallo, Amy Edmondson, Tina Opie, Dorie Clark
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Make Yourself Sponsor-Worthy
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Maggie says, “I’ve always given 110%.” “Whoever I worked for, I gave them my all, every day, 10 hours a day, weekends and holidays, whatever it took. That endeared me to a lot of powerful men.”
That dedication and loyalty should have made Maggie a star. Yet although she rose in the organization, because she wasn’t strategic about whom she gave her 110% to, she squandered her gifts on leaders who didn’t invest in her. Without a sponsor to spotlight her attributes, offer her opportunities, and kick her career into high gear, she found herself stuck for years in what she calls “permanent lieutenant syndrome.”
Maggie was eventually fortunate enough to find a sponsor and today is an executive ...
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