“Whether you are willing to give more to get more it’s up to you. Regardless of where you fall on the spectrum, not advocating for yourself will extract the biggest cost to your career.”
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I’ll say with full transparency that I approached this book thinking it would be another book that repeated the same few tired old lines of self-help jargon without actually helping. This was on the complete other end of that spectrum. 

White gave extremely clear and practical suggestions and actions for people at all levels to use. She broke down the corporate culture into its simplest parts, and helped to take the emotion out of topics that are often quite charged: pay, promotions, and culture. 

I loved how useful the take home “assignments” were and actually implemented some myself. I appreciated her focus on driving career conversations based on impact rather than desire/deserving as, to her point, impact is what ultimately matters to an organization. I asked some of the questions suggested for career development to my manager and got excellent actionable answers. 

This is a very useful book that I will plan to revisit, as I am working on my own career trajectory. I was really impressed with the intuitive structure of the chapters and content contained within. A truly pleasant surprise!