The Confidence Effect

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Taking Control of Your Career

Finally, nothing requires more resilience than navigating a career that can span decades—and must weather the storm of countless setbacks, obstacles, challenges, and outright roadblocks. This chapter looks at the long term and provides sound strategies for creating habits that, if begun now, can ensure smooth sailing as you navigate your career and your journey from competence to confidence.

Planning for Potential

I think that very often, women don’t necessarily plan their careers. We have a penchant to feel lucky if we get a job, let alone a promotion, and simply “wing it” from opportunity to opportunity until we find ourselves in some position that wasn’t necessarily achieved by some grand design.

Case in point: ...