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How to Be a Human Leader

A collection of highly successful women have some tips for developing that most fundamental and crucial of skills: speaking up.
Source: AP / Mark Lennihan

Here is a very impressive group of women: Jean Case. Rabia Chaudry. Rochelle Keyhan. Joanne Lipman. Arati Prabhakar. Sandra Phillips Rogers. Gillian Tett. My colleague Gillian White. Case is, among other things, the CEO of the Case Foundation. Chaudry is, among other things, the president of the Safe Nation Collaborative. Phillips Rogers is the group vice president, general counsel, and chief legal officer of Toyota Motor North America. The list goes on. On Thursday evening at the Aspen Ideas Festival, co-hosted by the Aspen Institute and —in a conversation moderated by Pamela Reeves, gender advisor to Melinda Gates (and the wife of Jeffrey’s editor in chief)—they gathered to share stories of challenge and success in an American work environment that was not designed with women in mind.

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