When Robin Wolaner entered into a joint venture with Time Inc. to launch her brainchild, Parenting, she made business history as a successful--and rich--woman in a male-dominated magazine industry. Now, for women who are wondering just what it takes to pull off their own triumphs in tl~e fickle business world, Wolaner presents 80 Naked Truths that provide instantly gratifying lessons for ambitious women.

Presented in delicious, bite-sized nuggets, Wolaner's Naked Truths can be put into action regardless of experience, industry, or whether the reader is a one-woman start-up or a big-company employee.

Introduction

1. Hey Carly, It's Different Being a Woman

2. Burn Your Career Plan

3. How to Listen to Your Gut

4. Mentors and Antimentors

5. Doing the Right Thing

6. Doing the Wrong Thing--and How to Recover From a Mistake

7. Hiring Stars--and Keeping Them

8. Firing... From Both Sides

9. Niceties: Manners and Rituals

10. Tools of the Trade

11. The Unbalanced Life of a Working Mother

12. What's Next

13. P.S.: How a Nonparent and Anticapitalist Raised Millions to Found Parenting Magazine

Acknowledgments

Index