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Naked in the Boardroom: A CEO Bares Her Secrets So You Can Transform Your Career

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I loved reading Naked in the Board Room, which I'd characterize as a must-read for any woman who is pursuing a career. The book covers all the A-Z's of how to most effectively succeed in business, while simultaneously maintaining your morals and your sanity! Everything is included - from hiring to trusting your gut It's definitely "the book" to read this spring!

Eileen Bramlet

Much ink has been spilled in the service of helping women succeed in business, but this book finally gets it right. Wolaner combines her own amusing and inspiring story with brilliant and accurate insights about the real nature of the business world and what it takes to thrive in it without losing your mind or identity. The result? The truest portrait with the wisest advice available. Every woman needs a mentor. Now, thanks to this book, every woman can have one.

Robin Wolaner speaks the truth about how to be an effective manager, including the fundamental concept that being human and emotional has a place in the office. I might be a guy, but I think it's one of the most useful business books I've read.

What a nice change from the typical corporate How-To books, especially for women! Given the get-all-you-can mindset of corporpate raiders ever-present in the media headlines, where corporate ethics seem to be lost under the fax machine, this author and her recounts bring a welcome breath of fresh air. It's a quick read with useful tips on how to be true to one's spirit --- something you so rarely hear of in the art-of-war of business "guides". Highly recommended for beginners in business or the seasoned player. Anette Powell, President, Excelleration Point

I just started a new job, the first one in which I had to manage a number of employees. I'd have been lost without this book. It's smart, it's clear, it's funny -- and the author knows whereof she speaks. Obviously, she's a smart career woman, but she's also full of heart and soul. Buy this book!

With wit, wisdom and remarkable insight, Robin Wolaner provides women (and men) an enormous number of tips and rules for getting ahead in the workplace. You'll find a plethora of practical information ranging from negotiating your next raise to handling sticky office situations. This is a book that you are going to want to keep deskside since it is as relevant for senior executives as it is for those in the early stages of their careers. I'm going to keep an extra copy handy to give as a graduation present to my career bound niece -- and another for a friend eagerly awaiting her next promotion.

As a businesswoman myself, I can only say I wish this book had been around twenty years ago. Not only is it wise and useful, it's a funny, fascinating read full of good stories that would be great gossip even if they weren't so helpful.

This is not just one great book, it's actually a couple great books - a business advice title of uncommon candor, a jaunty personal memoir, and an eye-opening account of life as a powerful woman and mother in corporate America. In the interest of full disclosure, Robin was one of my mentors - and this book manages to distill her cool wit, cut-to-the-chase honesty, and keen judgement into one galloping read. If you're a woman in corporate America, read this book - and if you're a man in corporate America, really read this book - Robin's rare combination of fearless leadership, humility and open heart are a model for look-yourself-in-the-mirror career success.

Naked in the Boardroom is terrific -- witty, insightful, practical, and best of all, a great read. Wolaner's Naked Truths are right on target. Amazingly relevant for both new and experienced businesspeople.

Robin Wolaner will be the career coach you've always wanted. As both the entrepreneurial founder of Parenting Magazine and the CEO of a division of Time Warner, she'll tell you how to successfully navigate both small and large organizations. You'll learn from her mistakes and take away tips that worked for her and other women executives. Wolaner delivers her advice in a conversational style that puts you in the inner circle of her high potential proteges. She's straightforward, self deprecating, funny, and determined to help you perform on every challenge.