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How Bonnie Hammer Turned ‘Uncommon Common Sense’ into Book to Help Women Navigate Life in the C-Suite


Bonnie Hammer, NBCUniversal vice chair, explains the motivation and inspiration behind her new book '15 Lies Women Are Told at Work.'

For years, Hammer also nursed the idea of writing a book that would capture her decades of experience navigating business, financial and personal pressures at the highest levels of Big Media’s C-suites. Here, Hammer elaborates on her motivation for writing the book, how the workplace has changed for women and where things stand in the battle for gender parity and those all-important seats at the table. I think we run the risk of handicapping the younger generation, male and female, with the belief that there’s always a safe space to go rather than to figure out how to use their voice in a good, healthy way to have a conversation or to push back if they need to.

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