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Category Archives: Leadership
Take a stand with Booko: Car Crash
Lech Blaine was just seventeen when he was in a crash that killed his best friends and changed his life. Car Crash is a memoir exploring how we grieve in an age of social media and how a tragedy shapes a community.
Take a stand with Booko: The New Climate War
The New Climate War shows how fossil-fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and to delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.
Take a stand with Booko: Men who hate women
Going undercover, and including interviews with former members of these communities, Men Who Hate Women provides the first, comprehensive look at the roots of misogyny.
Take a stand with Booko: Unfinished
From her dual-continent twenty-year-long career as an actor and producer to her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s story, Unfinished, will inspire a generation around the world to gather courage.
Take a stand with Booko: Broken
Jenny Lawson suffers from depression. In Broken, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humour.
Take a stand with Booko: One Life
Megan Rapinoe is one of the world’s most talented athletes and beyond her massive professional success on the soccer field. In One Life she discusses becoming an icon to millions, boldly speaking out on the issues that matter most.
Ted Talk: In uncertain times, think like a mother
There’s a simple and powerful way to confront the world’s most pressing crises, says women’s rights activist Yifat Susskind: think like a mother.
“When you think like a mother, you prioritize the needs of the many, not the whims of the few”
6 Essential Lessons for Women Leaders
Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala share six standout lessons on what it takes to lead and build solidarity in the face of gender bias and stereotypes in this inspiring Ted Talk.
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Job interviews can be pretty intimidating, one way to put yourself at ease is to ask your own questions. Do you have a favourite question that you like to be asked, or even one you ask the interviewer?