Learn, Work, Lead

Peterson’s Learn, Work, Lead: Things Your Mentor Won’t Tell You

by Terri Tierney Clark

So you've Leaned In, now what? In today's world, women's career success relies on much more than just taking advice from a mentor, knowing how to network, and being proactive. Young professional women have to learn how to analyze career decisions for themselves and figure out what to do when their decisions don't work out.

Learn, Work, Lead: Things Your Mentor Won't Tell You is a cutting-edge career and job search guide that will teach you those skills and give you the tools to navigate successfully in a gender-biased workplace. It will show you how to plan your career now so that you will be chosen to lead in the future.

Learn about the corporate world. Topics include:

• Make your boss look good.
• Find your voice.
• Plotting your course
• How do you network?
• Want it? Ask for it!

This book offers coaching on how to analyze career decisions and make the best choices, even when your solutions differ from your mentors' advice.

Reviews say that this is a “great book for college students and young professionals.”

Terri Tierney Clark, a graduate of Smith College and Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, has over 20 years of business experience, in senior positions at companies like Merrill Lynch and her own advisory business, Summit Equity Advisors. At Merrill Lynch, she was one of the first female managing directors in their investment banking division and was also elected to the company's first women's steering committee. She has presented on a variety of professional topics for women at numerous colleges and career events. She is married, with a son, and two daughters.