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...publicist. "He's kayaking out to meet you with his personal trainer!" I was surprised, or rather, confused. Was I supposed to be impressed that he could kayak? Or swept away by the strange, albeit larger-than-life gesture? I was still stumped when Crowe scaled the ship's ladder, grumbled something to the photographer who had been taking pictures of his approach and disappeared into the hold. "He told me to f___ off," said the photographer nervously. "I was breaking his concentration...
...Greider, individual companies can cure the syndrome only by “recognizing the value of having workers involved intimately in the decision-making process…[making them] feel like they are participants with voice and with the ability to go up to people above them on the ladder and tell them, ‘You’ve got this wrong. What you’re doing is going to hurt, not help, the country...
...panelists also discussed the challenges facing women who are climbing the corporate ladder, noting the “Old Boys’ Club” that exists at many law firms and businesses...
...Jacob’s Ladder...
...concepts in social psych is self-presentation—the way we present ourselves to the world around us. A person’s self-presentation is often complicated as they strive to ingratiate ourselves with others, get ahead in their careers and generally climb the ladder as is expected. People adjust their self-presentation to their environment—here at Harvard, where everyone is clawing to get ahead all the time, people can have particularly diverse and incongruent selves. Call me crazy (my roommate does it all the time), but I think that the pressure we experience...