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We Have Come a Long Way, But Is It Good Enough? xiii

provide proven techniques, strategies, and skills to avoid getting stuck
or, if you are stuck, to help you get unstuck.
They are as follows:

• Balancing Your Work-Life
• Embracing “Good Enough”
• Making the Break
• Making Your Words Count
• Forming Your Own Board of Directors
• Capitalizing on Your Political Savvy
• Asking for What You Want

One or more of these sticky floors bogs everyone down over the
course of their careers. Staying in the corporate world for too long
eventually emerged as a sticky floor for me. I wanted to run my own
business, and at some point I finally had to ask myself, if not now,
when? It was always going to be comfortable here (wherever here
might be at the moment), so I decided now was as good a time as any.
I did a risk factor analysis: I knew I had enough money in the bank
and potential clients lined up to get started on my own. The only
thing that I had to do was take a deep breath and walk out the door
and, I did!

How Do We Get Stuck?

Women don’t pick up these limiting behaviors and beliefs overnight.
They allow them to evolve over a long period of time—years or even
decades.
Some women have been taught, or have taught themselves (or both),
not to aspire to stretch beyond their comfort zone. Others feel that they
have worked so hard to get where they are, that they couldn’t possibly