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The Broken Rung
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The Broken Rung

by Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, Maria del Mar Martinez
March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 47m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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CHAPTER 5 The Power Alley

Amy Weaver grew up in Seattle in an extended family full of lawyers—she says she stopped counting at twenty. From a young age, she had no doubt that she would follow the same route, and she did. Amy had always loved to travel, and two years after graduating from Harvard Law School, she joined a renowned Wall Street law firm based in Hong Kong. She enjoyed the work, but a few years later she longed to return to her roots and moved back to Seattle for a job at a midsize law firm.

Several years on, Amy began to feel conflicted about her career. She was on the verge of making partner, which had always been her goal. But she felt that she was missing something at work and longed to make a greater impact. When an opportunity ...

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ISBN: 9781647827199