Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236) and index.
Like Nothing You've Ever Seen Before -- "Life's Short, Learn Fast" -- "Some Computer Company" -- Where the Boys Are -- "Better I Should Suffer" -- We're All Start-Ups -- Somebody's Going to Want a Piece of You -- This Is High-Wire Living -- Why "Now"? -- The Trip to Bodaciousness -- This Is High-Performance Living -- Bodaciousness Starts On The Inside -- The Inside Story: Fourteen Bodacious Ways for Career and Personal Power -- Bodacious Women Make Their Self-Esteem Priority One -- Bodacious Women Know Their Value Prevails -- How to Make a Decision Like an Engineer -- Bodacious Women Observe What's Happening but Don't Jump to Conclusions -- Bodacious Women Are Curious -- Bodacious Women Trust Their Inner Voice -- Bodacious Women Don't Take It Personally -- How to Journal for Discovery -- Bodacious Women Get Over It -- Bodacious Women See Barriers as an Opportunity to Do Things Differently -- Bodacious Women Focus on What's Going Right -- Bodacious Women Welcome Risk and Relish Change -- Bodacious Women Know That "Gratitude" Only Rhymes With "Servitude" -- Bodacious Women Embrace Competition -- Bodacious Women Cultivate Relationships for Many Reasons -- Bodacious women Notice Moments of Magic and Serendipity -- Staff Your Bodacious Start-Up Self -- How to Be a Great Client -- Your Mother Always Said to Choose Your Friends Wisely -- Strategies for Staffing Your Social Circles -- How to Be an Empire Builder -- The Three A's: Now Economy Ways to Leverage Your Relationships -- How to Be a Great Consultant -- The Ten Things You Want Your Reputation to Say About You -- Bodacious Women Take A Stand -- Get Control Over What You Can Control -- Why Bother? -- Don't Let This One Slide -- Trust Your Instincts, Be Yourself, and Check With a Friend -- A Little Testosterone Goes a Long Way -- Stand by Your Stand -- The Notes You Take Could Save Your Career -- A Few Short Words About the Short B-Word -- Take Charge of Your Financial Future -- Down With Up-Talk and Other Bodacious Checkpoints -- When Someone Takes a Stand With You -- Culture Shock -- Bodacious Women Thrive On Shift And Change -- Change Is Inevitable; Growth Is Optional -- The Bodacious Leadership Big Six -- Launch the Change Reaction -- The Choice Is Always Yours -- The Bodacious Thrive-on-Change Six-Pack -- How to Survive a Layoff -- How to Interview in the Now Economy -- How to Evaluate Multiple Job Offers -- There's Almost Always More Money: What Most Employers Don't Want You to Know When They Talk Salary -- Stock Options: Explain That Again, Please -- So You've Got the Job. Now What? -- One Thing I Wish I'd Understood Before I Quit Aol -- Office Politics Isn't Always Pretty, but Snow White and Sleeping Beauty Are -- Politics Is Our Friend -- How to Tell Whether Someone's Playing Power Games With You -- (Office) Size Still Matters -- Strategies From the Political Masters -- The Art of Quitting Well -- Voodoo Politics -- Breaking Through To Bodaciousness -- The Choices You Make and Actions You Take Will Be Based on Strategy, Not Survival -- You Are More Aware of What's Happening in You and Around You, and You Use This Information Constructively -- You Are More Relaxed and More Comfortable With Yourself and Feel Less Defesive -- You Go From Survivor to Victor -- You Give Yourself More Credit -- You Do What It Takes to Create Your Best Physical, Emotional, and Mental Health -- You Are Constantly Learning -- You Are More Effective in Achieving Your Dreams -- You Will Gain New Friends and Lose Others -- You Will Take More Risks -- You Will Help Other People Make Their Dreams Come True -- You Will Break the Rules -- You Will Tell People What You Want -- You Will Control Yourself, Influence Others, and Let the Rest Unfold -- Bring It On! -- What We Can Learn From New Economy Business Mistakes -- Your Big, Bodacious Personal Business Plan -- Eleven Ways to Make Your Own Luck -- Achieving the Bodacious Goal: Like No One You've Ever Seen Before -- Epilogue: Life's Short, Learn Fast -- Bodacious Ways.