Walk Away to Win: A Playbook to Combat Workplace Bullying

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Considerations

Clear the mechanism.

—BILLY CHAPEL

If you are contemplating walking away from your current role, I suggest four additional considerations that may help you sustain the strength, willpower, and dignity you will need to see it through.

Activate Your Allies

First, do everything you possibly can to assemble and activate your allies and friends.

Shortly after leaving Nike, I was blessed to be invited to help establish a group called “The Wing Women.” We decided that former Nike employees, who identified as female and needed a network, would band together and, taking a page from “wingman”—as in “I got your back”—would create a group. At our quarterly meetings, we devote our time to personal connection, as well as philanthropic, professional, ...