Reimagining the Face of Leadership | Levetta Armstrong | TEDxTupelo Women

[music] [applause] I still remember the sting of my first real disappointment at work. I was a young woman working in a busy bookstore when my manager suddenly quit. I kept with the day-to-day operations, opening and closing, bank runs, placing textbook orders, and reconciling customer complaints, all during the busiest season of the year, only to find out I wasn't even considered for the managing position.Somehow, I wasn't qualified enough to be promoted. Yet, I was qualified enough to train the new manage ...