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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Different World | |
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| The Original Study | |
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| What Are the Seven Secrets for Success? | |
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| How Much Will I Need to Change? | |
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| Using the Four P's in Your Success Strategy | |
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| The Seven Secrets | |
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| Successful People Realize the Importance of a Mentor/Advocate/Cheerleader/Coach | |
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| The Importance of a Mentor/Advocate/Cheerleader/Coach | |
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| The Role of the Mentor | |
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| The Stages of a Mentoring Process | |
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| Changing Workplace, Changing Employees | |
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| Finding a Mentor | |
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| Developing Mentoring Relationships | |
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| Barriers to Mentoring Relationships | |
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| The Queen Bee Syndrome | |
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| Key Facts of Mentoring | |
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| Mentors as Change Agents | |
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| Cross-Gender Mentoring | |
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| Organizational Roles in Mentoring | |
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| Advocates: Keeping Your Success Motivation Alive | |
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| Successful People Know How to Increase their Visibility | |
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| The Professional Portfolio | |
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| Tooting Your Own Horn--Subtly! | |
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| When You Have Changed, but Your Boss Doesn't See It | |
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| Visibility and Your Boss | |
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| Making Presentations--and Other Terrors! | |
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| Inviting Yourself to Be More Visible | |
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| Influence and Visibility in the Organization | |
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| Successful People Know How to Develop an Effective Network | |
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| Developing and Keeping Track of Your Network | |
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| Successful People Have Learned to Communicate Effectively | |
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| One-on-One Communication | |
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| Improving One-on-One Communication | |
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| Being Heard in Meetings | |
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| Reluctance to Promote Yourself | |
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| Sorry! | |
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| Business Is Business, Not Personal | |
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| Preparing Yourself in the Event of Conflict | |
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| Negotiating Effectively | |
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| Power Derailers | |
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| Adapting Your Style to the Environment and Situation | |
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| Socialization--the Next Generation | |
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| Successful People Know How to Balance Work and Home | |
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| Have We Forgotten How to Have Fun? | |
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| Where to Start | |
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| Work and Home | |
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| Making Choices | |
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| What Organizations Can Do | |
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| Strategies for Balance | |
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| Generation X and Baby Boomers | |
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| The Workaholic | |
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| Successful People Know When to Take Smart Risks | |
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| If This Is Supposed to Help ... Then Why Do I Feel Sick? | |
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| The Imposter Syndrome | |
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| Barriers for Women | |
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| Assertiveness as an Asset | |
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| Overcoming Personal Insecurities | |
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| When Do I Take a Risk and Leave a Bad Situation? | |
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| Successful People Understand the Politics of the Organization | |
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| Taking Some Risks--and Minimizing Others as You Move Ahead | |
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| Overcoming Biases | |
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| Putting the Secrets to Work | |
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| Men and Women at Work | |
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| Gender Roles | |
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| Early Socialization (How It May Affect Your Success) | |
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| Learning Leadership Strategies | |
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| Establishing the Rules | |
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| Gender Expectations | |
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| Differences Between Men and Women | |
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| Being Heard Among Men | |
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| Receiving Feedback, Taking Criticism, and Not Taking It Personally | |
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| Men and Women on Interviewing | |
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| Differences in Negotiating | |
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| Different Styles | |
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| Differences in Conversations | |
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| Giving Feedback | |
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| Basic Differences in Communication | |
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| Perceptions of Men and Women | |
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| Differences in Mentoring Between Men and Women | |
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| Do Old-Boys' Networks Work for Women? | |
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| Sense of Humor | |
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| Success Strategies When You're Downsized | |
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| Updating Your Skills | |
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| Networking If You're Downsized | |
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| International Influences | |
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| International Networking | |
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| Mentors | |
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| Government Support for the Advancement of Women | |
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| Balance | |
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| Bringing Differences to the Workplace | |
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| Women and Technology | |
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| Looking to the Future | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Index | |