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Ambitious Women Deserve Our Praise, Not Our Disdain

by Bonnie Marcus | Jul 28, 2015 | gender diversity, Self Promotion, Success

No one with ambition has come under fire more than Hillary Clinton. As early as 2006, a survey by The New York Observer found a “virtual cottage industry” of anti-Clinton literature. Her political career, especially her bid for the 2016 presidency, has only increased...

Political Savvy: The Missing Link To Women’s Advancement

by Bonnie Marcus | Jul 19, 2015 | Office politics, Success, Women in Business

Every year Forbes publishes its list of the world’s most powerful women. Many such lists honor women who have made it to the top of their field. Yet currently, women hold only 5.3 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions and 5.4 percent of Fortune 1,000 positions. The...

Career Curveballs: Hey Boss, Are Those Cement Shoes You’re Handing Me?

by Bonnie Marcus | Jul 15, 2015 | Success, Women in Business

This is a guest post from Whitney Johnson. It’s 1996. I work in investment banking at Smith Barney Shearson. My boss, who hired and mentored me, has been given the boot. Because I’m on the wrong side of the political aisle, I’m also in peril. Realizing that I...

What Misty Copeland Teaches Us About Ambition

by Bonnie Marcus | Jul 6, 2015 | goal setting, Success

At 19, Misty Copeland imagined herself not as a member of the corps, but as a principal dancer. In her memoir, Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, Misty writes that “It felt right. It felt like a promise. Someday, somehow, it was going to happen for me.” And so it...

Ambitious Women Deserve Our Praise, Not Our Disdain

Political Savvy: The Missing Link To Women’s Advancement

Career Curveballs: Hey Boss, Are Those Cement Shoes You’re Handing Me?

What Misty Copeland Teaches Us About Ambition

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