The Smart Lemming recommends these Harvard Business Review podcasts and blog posts on Women in business, featuring Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rita McGrath, and Tamara J. Erickson.

To succeed in your career, you have to learn how to admit mistakes, and to take the higher ground. You also have to assess if you’re really ready for that promotion you want, or if …

To get your next promotion, you have to learn how to take initiative, have patience, master your body language, and not burn bridges. Don’t walk over peers and superiors either.
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The Smart Lemming sent out the following tweets, recommending these additional resources from news, articles, and posts on business life, career management, management and leadership, and women in business:

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December 30, 2005
Managing Your Ambition
How do we manage our ambition? What are the risks of wanting more responsibility? I check in with myself to make sure I’m not being self serving by using my company’s …

Ambition. What is it?
I’m still not sure if I completely understand why some people succeed and others don’t. After readingTime’s article, “Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely To Succeed: A fire in the belly …

Paul Michelman, interviews Tom DeLong, Professor, Harvard Business School, on how executives can get more value from their workforce if they recognize and motivate their B players. “These solid, steady performers form the bulk of …

Do you consider yourself a lucky person? Or a person that bad things always happen to? What’s the key difference between lucky and unlucky people? Lucky people expect their lives to be full of luck, …

Successful people are self-confident. They are also positive thinkers, creating their own breaks in life and crushing negative thinking that could stymie ambition. For people stuck in mediocrity, fear is the biggest enemy of their …