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Robin Wolaner founded Parenting magazine after working at a such publications as Runner's World and Mother Jones, After Time Warner purchased Parenting, Wolaner became CEO of Sunset Publishing, launched Vibe and helped develop Martha Stewart Living. She later became exec VP of CNET.
The New York Times once called Robin Wolaner a "corporate entrepreneur." As such, she's had an insider's perspective on how companies run-more specifically, the different kinds of management species who push buttons that shape market performance. "Naked in the Boardroom: A CEO Bares Her secrets So You Can Transform Your Career (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, March 2005) is a kind of "What Color Is Your Parachute" for senior executives. Making career choices, Wolaner writes, is not something that happens just as you enter the job force. It's a process that's continues every day you show up to earn a paycheck. Indeed, the higher up the professional ladder you step, the more important such monitoring becomes. Wolaner contends that women face different challenges in that kind of introspection than do men.
Your business card says that you're at the top of your game, but you're miserable....