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Case Study: A Day In the Life of Alex Sanders: Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products (https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41865)
-Describe Sanders' personality
-Identify Sander's positive qualities as well as those that limit his/her effectiveness
-What are the pros and cons of hiring and managing a talented, but difficult personality?-As a supervisor would you have refused to hire such an abrasive personality? Or are you o.k. with investing the time and energy in these employees?
-If you were Sam Glass, would you invest more time in helping Sander progress at Landon?
-What are your own feelings or experiences about working with "stars"
-How does Sanders feel about $$ and promotion?
-During the reading or discussion, did you sense any gender stereotyping, if so where in the case?Confronting Gender Stereotypes
-Based on the information, is Alex a man or a woman? Did you automatically assume he is a man? Why?
-What is your assumptions indicate about the biases regarding appropriate behavior for men and women in the workplace?
-Does a glass ceiling still exist in the workplace? Is behavior such as Sander's necessary to break through glass ceilings?