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ENTERPRISE

Become the CEO of Your Career and Life

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Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

KATHERINE WHITEHORN

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Enterprise is in a woman's DNA–just look at what we accomplish.

VICKIE L. MILAZZO

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Every minute of the day in a woman's life presents bold new ventures, and risks to go along with them. Women understand enterprise. Job, education, household, spouse, lover, kids, friendships—these are separate departments in the enterprise you call life. Who keeps these departments rocking? You.

Let's label them differently: production, research and development, administration, partnerships, human resources, payroll, customer relations. Who keeps this complex enterprise humming? You.

Think about the creative, enterprising strategies you've used to manage it all. Perhaps you didn't realize you were being enterprising. You were simply “getting it all done.” That's CEO language for keeping the lights on, the personnel happy and quality work product churning out on time.

Now let's talk about how you can focus that brilliant enterprising ability to become the CEO of your career and life. Enterprise is a strength. You own it. If you are as enterprising as the CEO ...

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