Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead... But Gutsy Girls Do - Plot & Excerpts
But Gutsy Girls Do CHAPTER EIGHTStrategy #6: A Gutsy Girl Asks for What She WantsIdon't think anything has ever been as hard for me as asking for what I want. There were plenty of things early in my career that I yearned for but never had the nerve to request— raises, a better office, a title change—and do you know what helped take the sting out of not getting them? The sheer relief I felt from not having made myself ask.Asking doesn't come easily to most of us. There's no better evidence of that than Bill Carter's book, Night Shift: The Battle for Late Night TV. In it he describes how David Letterman had never asked for a clause in his NBC contract guaranteeing that he'd be given the Tonight Show when Johnny Carson retired. There was a clause that guaranteed him $1,000,000 if he didn't get it. But he hadn't asked for what really mattered to him. It's shocking to discover this because when you watch David Letterman every night, you assume he's one of the gutsiest guys alive.Yes, asking for what we want is tough for most of us, including even gutsy girls.
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