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Naked in the boardroom : a CEO bares her secrets so you can transform your career / Robin Wolaner.

By: Wolaner, Robin.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005General Notes: "A Fireside book."; Includes index.Description: xiv, 207 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0743262271.Subject(s): Women executives -- United States | Women chief executive officers -- Training of -- United States | Women executives -- Training of -- United States | Industrial management -- Vocational guidance -- United States | Career development -- United StatesDDC classification: 650.1/3/082
Contents:
Hey Carly, it's different being a woman -- Burn your career plan -- How to listen to your gut -- Mentors and antimentors -- Doing the right thing -- doing the wrong thing--and how to recover from your mistake -- Hiring stars--and keeping them -- Firing--from both sides -- Niceties : manners and rituals -- Tools of the trade -- The unbalanced life of a working mother -- What's next -- P.S.: how a nonparent and anticapitalist raised millions to found Parenting magazine.
Summary: Drawing on her own career in magazine publishing and media development, Wolaner shows you how to succeed because of, rather than despite, your unique background and personality. With humor, attitude, and fierce intelligence, she reveals: the keys to successful negotiation on behalf of the company or yourself; what great public speakers know and tricks you can use; how to do the right thing in the gray zones of business ethics; effective ways to recover from a mistake; and much more.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 650.13 W83 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003324555

"A Fireside book."

Includes index.

Hey Carly, it's different being a woman -- Burn your career plan -- How to listen to your gut -- Mentors and antimentors -- Doing the right thing -- doing the wrong thing--and how to recover from your mistake -- Hiring stars--and keeping them -- Firing--from both sides -- Niceties : manners and rituals -- Tools of the trade -- The unbalanced life of a working mother -- What's next -- P.S.: how a nonparent and anticapitalist raised millions to found Parenting magazine.

Drawing on her own career in magazine publishing and media development, Wolaner shows you how to succeed because of, rather than despite, your unique background and personality. With humor, attitude, and fierce intelligence, she reveals: the keys to successful negotiation on behalf of the company or yourself; what great public speakers know and tricks you can use; how to do the right thing in the gray zones of business ethics; effective ways to recover from a mistake; and much more.

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