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Greg Renker, co-chairman of Guthy-Renker Corporation, remarked to me, “One thing that I’ve observed—and it would be very frustrating for me if I were an assistant—is when the assistant is not treated like a teammate, but as if they are several levels below, even with very good assistants. It has always caught me by surprise that they can even last in that environment and that there is a perception that you can treat an assistant that way.”
Assistants have not been given the recognition and certainly not the compensation for the level of talent that they bring to this role.
—Melba Duncan, CEO, The Duncan Group
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Raewyn Court. “Executive Assistant Back in Vogue.” The New Zealand Herald, February 19, 2014. Accessed February 7, 2015. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11204960.
Robert K. Greenleaf and Larry C. Spears. Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness (New York: Paulist Press, 1977), p. 2.
Hermann Hesse The Journey to the East (New York: Noonday Press, 1932), p. 37.
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Jones, J. (2015). Great Leaders Treat the Assistant as a True Professional. In: The CEO’s Secret Weapon. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-44424-0_13
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