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- Did you know that many of the traditional 'rules' for career success were never designed for you, and that breaking them might be your smartest move?
- What’s the secret to turning systemic workplace challenges into unique strategic advantages that command respect in any boardroom?
- What if you could master the ten specific mindsets that allow top female leaders to navigate bias and reclaim their personal power?
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Key Takeaways from Take Back Your Power
- Discover why acknowledging the unfair, systemic biases in the workplace is the crucial first step to taking well-informed action and reclaiming your individual power.
- Understand the complex 'double bind' and 'invisible tax' working women face, and learn how to actively flip the script on ingrained gender narratives.
- Learn how to identify and revoke your 'free passes'—those comfortable but costly self-imposed excuses that cause you to relinquish your true potential.
- Find out how to embrace and amplify your unique 'superpower,' ensuring your value shines even in corporate cultures that traditionally favor a narrow set of traits.
- Master the balance between advocating for widespread systemic equality and taking individual responsibility so you can thrive and make your mark right now.
Learning Tools
Reinforce what you learned from Take Back Your Power
Mind Map
Take Back Your Power
Acknowledge the Unequal Playing Field
Systemic Biases
Taking Action
Revoke Your Free Passes
The Concept
The Solution
Amplify Your Superpower
Finding Your Value
Leveraging Your Strengths
Build Firm Foundations at Home
The Home-Work Connection
Achieving Balance
Reverse Engineer Your Legacy
Define the End Goal
Create a Roadmap
Quiz — Test Your Understanding
Question 1 of 6
What did Deborah Liu realize she was doing wrong at the Money 20/20 conferences?
Take Back Your Power — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Note the gap
Chapter 3: Cancel all free passes
Chapter 4: Boost your superpower
Chapter 5: Lay solid foundations at home
Chapter 6: Engineer your legacy backward
Take Back Your Power Summary & Overview
Take Back Your Power (2022) is part memoir, part practical guide to making your mark as a woman in the workplace. Through a wide-ranging selection of anecdotes from women at the top of their fields, it offers ten rules for career success and shares the mindsets and strategies that make each possible.
Who Should Listen to Take Back Your Power?
- Female business leaders and employees
- People from underrepresented backgrounds looking to make their mark at work
- Men committed to fostering equality in the workplace
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