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This Hispanic Heritage Month, our stallout in the Fortune 500 gives me pause

Fortune5 min read

Boards celebrate leadership firsts. They must also build the support that makes those leaders succeed.

For 20 years, I have been taking the same phone call. A fellow chief executive calls me: more often than not a Latina, and more often than not the first one her organization has ever hired. She was hired to change the place. Everyone she met during the interview process was on board with the plan. Then, somewhere around month nine, something shifts. She realizes the assignment she was handed is one the organization was never built to support. She usually thinks that is a verdict on her competence. It is not. It is a gap in what was built around her. When we hire…

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