You praise her work, you invite her to serve on the committees with the most power and influence, introduce her to clients and use your influence to make sure she is given the best available human resources to get her job done in such a way that she will be the obvious next candidate for promotion to equity partnership, the C-suite, or senior executive status.

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Reading more tweets and Facebook posts from the campaigns is probably a poor use of your time, and the outcome of the 2012 election at this point is probably not something you can influence.

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