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When Robin Wolaner entered into a joint venture with Time Inc. to launch her brainchild, Parenting, she made business history as a successful — and rich — woman in a male-dominated magazine industry. Now, for women who are wondering just what it takes to pull off their own triumphs in the fickle business world, Wolaner presents 80 Naked Truths that provide instantly gratifying lessons for ambitious women. Presented in delicious, bite-sized nuggets, Wolaner’s Naked Truths can be put into action regardless of experience, industry, or whether the reader is a one-woman start-up or a big-company employee. With wisdom and attitude, Wolaner reveals: * Why showing honest emotion helps in the workplace * The one thing women need to learn to negotiate successfully * Effective ways to recover from a mistake * Unusual advice for hiring and firing — and for being hired and fired For anyone who sees success on the horizon, Naked in the Boardroom will get her there on her own terms. Introduction 1. Hey Carly, It’s Different Being a Woman 2. Burn Your Career Plan 3. How to Listen to Your Gut 4. Mentors and Antimentors 5. Doing the Right Thing 6. Doing the Wrong Thing — and How to Recover From a Mistake 7. Hiring Stars — and Keeping Them 8. Firing…From Both Sides 9. Niceties: Manners and Rituals 10. Tools of the Trade 11. The Unbalanced Life of a Working Mother 12. What’s Next 13. P.S.: How a Nonparent and Anticapitalist Raised Millions to Found Parenting Magazine Acknowledgments Index
