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Dear Madeleine,

Our company is experiencing the pressures of the economic downturn in my country (not the US). One of the solutions has been to eliminate a layer of management. As a result, at least four business units that had been led by VPs are now reporting to me.

I am shocked at the lack of process, fundamental organization, ...

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Dear Madeleine,

I am the general counsel for a complex global conglomerate. I have a direct report who came with me from my last job and has always been terrific. She started as an admin and moved on to being a paralegal. Then, with my support and encouragement, she managed to get through law school and pass the bar. She is now a staff attorney.</em...

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Dear Madeleine,

I am the president of a region for a global financial services firm. I have been in the role for about a year. I felt prepared, and I am settling into the job. I have had a lot of leadership training over the years, but I find myself at a loss about how to handle a new situation.

A senior leader who reports to me w...

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Dear Madeleine,

I have been in the same job for a couple of years. I don’t know how to say this without sounding arrogant, but I run circles around everyone else on my team.

To a person, everyone on my team underperforms. They don’t use the latest tools made available to us by our organization and they can’t meet a deadline to sav...

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Dear Madeleine,

I was recently promoted and moved to a new team. I was very excited—first to make more money, and also to learn a new aspect of the business.

Six months later, I’m a bit disillusioned. Both of the things I was excited about are good, but I hadn’t anticipated the loss of my work friends. I found out that last week m...

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