Cynthia Marshall: Rebuilding the Dallas Mavericks
Boss Files with Poppy Harlow
CNN
4.6 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Project Hail Mary is an extraordinary cinematic experience. |
| 0:04.0 | You're a great scientist, Dr. Grace. The world is counting on you. |
| 0:07.0 | Starring Ryan Gosling. |
| 0:08.0 | So I met an alien. |
| 0:10.0 | Two worlds, one impossible mission. |
| 0:12.0 | We're gonna save the stars. |
| 0:14.0 | Project Hail Mary. |
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| 0:20.0 | In this episode of Boss Files. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm uniquely qualified to do this. |
| 0:24.6 | I have to do it for the sisterhood. |
| 0:26.0 | I have to help create a great place to work. |
| 0:28.3 | Dallas Maverick CEO Cynthia Marshall. |
| 0:31.3 | She's the first African American woman ever to lead an NBA team. |
| 0:36.5 | She was handpicked by team owner Mark Cuban and tasked with |
| 0:40.1 | cleaning up a toxic work environment. An independent investigation later found, quote, numerous acts |
| 0:46.3 | of sexual harassment that spanned over two decades at the Mavericks. I walked into a bad |
| 0:52.2 | culture. I walked into a place where the women were not valued and treated the way I would like to see them treat it. So we had a problem with how we treated women. Frankly, I think we had a problem with how we respected and treated people of color. And it wasn't a very diverse and inclusive environment when I got there. |
| 1:12.6 | And so we needed to do some things. She's fulfilled her 100-day plan to turn around the team's |
| 1:18.2 | leadership, taking the organization from no women in leadership to 50%. She tells me she is |
| 1:25.0 | committed to making her employees the top priority. |
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