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

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Robin Wolaner Answers The Significant Seven

Robin Wolaner began her career as a copywriter at Penthouse, worked at Mother Jones and Runner's World, founded Parenting magazine, and launched Vibe and Martha Stewart Living. In Wolaner's new book, Naked in the Boardroom, she shares tales about making a successful go of it all. See the answers Wolaner gave for the Amazon.com Significant Seven questions that we like to run by every author.

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Wolaner rose from office temp to become president and CEO of Sunset Publishing before moving on to write, consult and serve on private corporate and nonprofit boards. Her own stories, and anecdotes from other achievers, are the basis for this chatty instruction manual for the distaff up-and-coming, which begins with the predictable assertion that women are generally different from men. The following chapters exhort readers to burn their career plans, listen to their guts, learn by example, benefit from smart moves, recover from bad ones, hire and fire well and manipulate situations to their advantage. Eighty-one "Naked Truths" punctuate her upbeat tale of mostly serendipitous and intuition-driven maneuvers. These aphorisms range from the obvious ("Return phone calls and emails") to the dubious ("If you undo a bad decision quickly, it doesn't count"). Sidebars labeled "Stripped-Down Wisdom" address corporate basics like how to dress, how to fire and how to cope as a working mother. In "Baring It," successful women recount their biggest mistakes and the lessons learned. Despite the book's intrusive theme of nudity, Wolaner gives some genuinely helpful advice, but often overplays the roles of ambition, networking and gut instinct at the expense of expertise, competence and plain hard work. (Mar.)
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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Fireside (March 8, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743262271
ISBN-13: 978-0743262279
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #996,508 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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WHEN CARLY FIORINA WAS NAMED CEO OF HEWLETT-Packard, her insistence that being female was not part of her success story struck every woman I know as either delusional or a lie. Read the first page

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5.0 out of 5 stars Naked in the Board Room is a Winner!, March 20, 2005

By	Eileen Bramlet (Northern VA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

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5.0 out of 5 stars I needed this book twenty five years ago., March 3, 2005

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Real insight into management, March 3, 2005

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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.

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