Do You Feel Like You Have to Bend Yourself to Get Along?

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"I find it to be the blessing of being a black woman in these spaces," she says. Do you feel like sometimes you have to bend yourself to get along or have you just given that up? "The statistics are so overwhelmingly against my favor, I would never try to achieve."

Being authentic defines strong leadership. Bozoma Saint John has continually challenged expectations, moving purposefully across multiple roles, from Uber’s chief brand officer to Netflix’s CMO, from Pepsico to Apple, from working for celebrated director Spike Lee to working for iconic Hollywood talent agent Ari Emmanuel. The wall between the personal and professional is artificial, Boz argues, and a barrier to leading what she calls The Urgent Life in a new book. The best leaders tap into their emotions and listen to their instincts, she says, which helps to drive a team and a business forward.

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