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Start smart. Plans keep your career moving on your terms—not anyone else’s.

Pay, promotion, recognition all depend on tactics like journaling, reinforcing each other at meetings, teaching ourselves to negotiate, and underlining our achievements through memos, reports, and even idiosyncratic gestures.

It’s really important to recognize that insulting/ degrading/ ridiculous comments aren’t about you—they’re about the person saying them. Don’t take the remarks personally but do take them seriously because you need to learn what’s really going on.

Being true to yourself, having the nerve and the self-knowledge to cut through the mythologies, is the only way ahead for women—and for business.

Skills are the absolute prerequisite of confidence. Because skills can be acquired, confidence can be acquired—but both must be worked at over time

Everyone needs things from meeting, negotiations, or relationships. You are more powerful when you understand what these needs are. For some it may be clarity, reassurance, details; for others, it may be new ideas, speed, raw data. Power accrues by understanding those needs and deciding how you want to address them.

…you get power by giving it, your company becomes powerful by serving.

I am struck that the most satisfied women I talk to place fairness, equality, at the heart of what they do. Their private lives are defined by mutual support, respect—and patience.

We want lives that are integrated and consistent—in which we undertake different responsibilities but with consistent, coherent, and substantial values.

…women are the true trailblazers in business today. Headcounts and salaries may be one benchmark—but, increasingly, we measure our success not in how well we play the game but in how profoundly we change it.

As I watch women leave traditional business structures and as I watch them flourish, I see the beginnings of our parallel business universe arising. It’s one in which companies work differently and in which lives are lived honestly—a world of work in which lives are integrated, not delegated.

We are smart, determined, pragmatic, and disciplined. We have high standards, for ourselves and everyone we work with. We refuse to accept that business must be dishonest and dehumanizing.

What I see all around me are millions of women inventing and discovering ways of working that are direct, fair, honest, and that earn them respect for who they are.

I came across this informative and useful book via: AntonellaPavese.com