By 
Angélique Parisot-Potter
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TED Stage Talk

How to be an upstander instead of a bystander

If you see something wrong in the workplace, what should you do? Business leader Angélique Parisot-Potter says you should speak up, even when it's scary. Sharing her personal experience of voicing concerns at work, she offers three lessons on standing up for what's right.

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