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Permission to Screw Up

Permission to Screw Up

How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong

by Kristen Hadeed

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appears in Best Leadership Books, Leadership, and Personal Development.

The inspiring, unlikely, laughoutloud story of how one woman learned to lead?and how she ultimately succeeded, not despite her many mistakes, but because of them. This is the story of how Kristen Hadeed built Student Maid, a cleaning company where people are happy, loyal, productive, and empowered, even while they?re mopping floors and scrubbing ...

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appears in Best Leadership Books, Leadership, and Personal Development.

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