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Mar 2021
27m 19s

What Black Leaders Bring to the Table

Harvard Business Review
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Chad Sanders, a former tech executive and entrepreneur, says that people of color, especially Black men like him, often feel the need to assimilate to white corporate culture. They learn to code switch and downplay their race. But Sanders realized a few years into his career that, by trying to fit in, he was failing to leverage the strengths he'd developed g ... Show More
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