Making Real Connections (HBR Women at Work Series)
by Harvard Business Review, Amy Gallo, Amy Edmondson, Tina Opie, Dorie Clark
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Don’t Underestimate the Power of Women Supporting Each Other at Work
by Anne Welsh McNulty
As my experiences from being a rookie accountant to a managing director at an investment bank have taught me, conversations between women have massive benefits for the individual and the organization. When I graduated college in the 1970s, I believed that women would quickly achieve parity at all levels of professional life now that we had “arrived”—I viewed the lack of women at the top as more of a “pipeline” problem, not a cultural one. But the support I expected to find from female colleagues—the feeling of sisterhood in this mission—rarely survived first contact within the workplace.
When I was a first-year accountant at a Big Eight firm (now the ...
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