Your Role is Not Your Job Title

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They are the four most dreaded words to hear when you need help: “It’s not my job.

Guess what? It just might be your job.

Maybe it’s the intersection of speaking this past weekend to 12 bright women enrolled in my colleague and friend Stacy Blake-Beard’s leadership and gender B-school class at Mills College or an upcoming call with Shereef Bishay (TedSF: Applying Open Source Principles to the Work Place here) but one thought came to mind when I heard those words.… Read the rest