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Sabina Nawaz is the author of YOU’RE THE BOSS: Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need) and an elite executive coach who advises C-level executives and teams at Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions around the world. Sabina routinely gives speeches each year and teaches faculty at Northeastern and Drexel Universities. During her fourteen-year tenure at Microsoft, she went from managing software development teams to leading the company’s executive development and succession planning efforts for over 11,000 managers and nearly a thousand executives, advising Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer directly. She has written for and been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, NBC, Nasdaq, and MarketWatch.

A Few Quotes From This Episode

• “It’s not power that corrupts. It’s pressure.”
• “As our job expands, the added pressure to perform corrupts our actions, and our increased power will blind us to the impact of those actions.”

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: You’re the Boss: Become the Manager You Want to Be and Others Need by Sabina Nawaz
• Forbes Article: “Under Pressure: Why Stress, Not Power, Corrupts Leadership Actions” by Sabina Nawaz on Forbes
• Book: Creative Acts for Curious People by Sarah Stein Greenberg

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