The CEO Comfort Zone: Why Likability, Grit and Familiarity Are Not a Talent Strategy

Likability, energy, pace, grit, relationship, hunger. (Exclusion, inequity, unfairness)

What executive rhetoric, leadership demographics and Fair360’s data reveal about affinity, sponsorship and who advances.

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