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  Global Sabbaticals Give Professionals New Lease on Careers

  Now, more than ever, appreciation for the world’s diversity and the ability to be effective in diverse environments and to learn from various cultural perspectives is what defines a good manager.

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  Personal Perspective: Joyce Roché Reflects on Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Making a Mark as a Board Member

  This spring, Joyce’s book, The Empress Has No Clothes: Conquering Self-Doubt to Embrace Success, comes out. The title says it all.

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  Building a Better Boardroom: The 20/20 Initiative

  This year, Forté collaborated with its business school and corporate partners to advance a growing movement focused on women reaching at least 20% representation on corporate boards by the year 2020.

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  A Good Woman is Hard to Find: Women and Networking

  For business professionals the ability to network effectively is not just a nice thing to be able to do—it’s a crucial skill on which their careers depend. Across industries, approximately 80 percent of job openings are filled through word-of-mouth referrals. And although networking is often discussed as a job searching tool, that’s only one of […]

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  Expand Your Network: Networking 101

  What exactly constitutes networking, and how can you unleash the power of a network to find everything from an honest car repair shop to a decent job?

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  ExxonMobil Women Executives Participate in PBS Initiative – “Breakthrough Women”

  At the 2013 Greater Houston Conference for Women, the Greater Houston Women Chamber of Commerce recognized seven women leaders from various industries – Healthcare, Education, Construction, Professional Services, Finance, Banking and Energy.

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