move up in a company, employees must have had a global assignment, or worked in operations. “Both of these criteria,” says Marianne Cooper, a sociologist at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, “can end up excluding women, because women are more likely than men to have partners that work, so this can mean they are less mobile. And women tend

Onlyness offers a different path to unity—not by demographic but by purpose; it is a way to connect with people who have the same hopes and dreams but may not share a common history and experiences. This shift keeps the focus on the idea—not on competing personal identities—so it can grow mightier.

useful in clarifying your values, but use it

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If you feel alone, you will not pursue an innovative project as vigorously, because the need to belong is greater than the desire to create.

The key is in the agreement: the implied handshake between your purpose and the group’s shared purpose, between what you give and what you get.

Whenever individuals are thrown into a situation without a clear understanding of who we are to one another, the first human response is to define a hierarchy, a pecking order.*

Research has shown that listening is the single biggest factor in accounting for successful leadership, besides basic competence.*

The information itself doesn’t create the change, the tension does.