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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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CONCLUSION Realizing Your Full Potential

Although some of the facts that we’ve brought to light in this book may seem dire, we hope that the stories we’ve shared have given you the confidence you need to move forward with a sense of optimism. Your career path will be unique, so hopefully you’ve been inspired by the accomplishments of the dozens of trailblazing, courageous women we’ve described. Maybe you will connect the dots to found the next big company, like Caterina Fake, land a job that didn’t exist a few years ago, like Kristie Lazenberry, or embrace your roots and challenge societal expectations and stereotypes, like Yeimy Báez.

You now have the two main tools you need to do these things and much more. The first is an understanding ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781647827199