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With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 542 with Laura Wong.

It is a new era, February, 2002, in 2020,

in which we're now going to have two episodes per week

with the intent of having the same amount of resources on fewer episodes, increases

quality.

So I hope you love what you hear from Laura and the two guests a week to follow now on Mondays and Thursdays.

Laura's going to share how you can build your edge to turn adversity into

advantage. You'll learn one why the myth of hard work can be so dangerous.

Two, how unfair perceptions can quietly limit your career and what to do about them

and three a formula to turn embarrassments and bitterness into enrichment.

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced,

drop on buy-all-sum at your job.com slash F-542 or tap the episode notes or description in your podcast app player of choice to check out those

resources that away. Now here's Laura's story. Laura Wong is a professor at Harvard Business School who specializes in studying

interpersonal relationships and implicit bias in entrepreneurship and in the

workplace. Her research has been featured in several publications like the

Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal,

U.S. today Forbes and Nature.

She was also named as one of the 40 best business school professors

under the age of 40 by poets and quants.

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