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At a party at Peter Hirshberg’s house recently I sat on the couch next to a woman who told me she’d just moved here from NYC. Peter is Chief Marketing Officer of Technorati, the blog search engine company, and his parties tend to attract an interesting array of characters.
“And what are you doing now in S.F.?” I asked. She told me that she’d left a corporate job in NY to join a start-up in San Francisco. “I’d been one of the highest ranking women at Warner Music Group,” she reported.
“Why’d you leave?”
“When I finally got sick of all the guys making deals over at a local strip club, I figured my career was going to stall out.”
She is, as we say at the Level Playing Field Institute, a Corporate Leaver. Her story is why “Giving Notice” was written. Hidden bias, and unfairness sends millions of professionals packing each year.
