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The book draws on the knowledge accumulated during the authors thirty years of experience working in and for such firms, supplemented by what she has learned from her work with hundreds of professional women and men that she has coached in accountancy, law and consulting firms as well as in award-winning womens leadership programmes.
The practical exercises that appear within the book have been extensively tested and finely honed over time and are designed to build on one another, thereby allowing readers to manage their careers efficiently and effectively. They help the reader to articulate what she wants from her career and what she can offer a professional service firm, ensuring that others understand her ambitions, hopes and dreams as well as her knowledge, skills and expertise. The exercises build to provide guidance for managing office politics, developing business and ultimately obtaining the desired results from appraisals and promotion opportunities.
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INSIDE KNOWLEDGE
How Women Can Thrive in Professional Service Firms
INSIDE KNOWLEDGE
How Women Can Thrive in Professional Service Firms
BY
ALISON TEMPERLEY
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Emerald Publishing Limited
Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK
First edition 2017
Copyright 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited
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ISBN: 978-1-78714-566-5 (Print)
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To all the wonderful women who have contributed to this book in many different ways.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
By Claudia Parzani, Linklaters Regional Managing Partner for Western Europe
I was born in a small town where every dream seemed too big to come true.
I thought it was because I was still a child, with short pig-tails, a pink smock and a white bow. I laid the blame on my age. I will grow up and certainly my dreams will find their own space then I thought small dreams for babies and big dreams for adults. But, after having waved goodbye to my school uniform with a smile, I understood that the blame was not on my age, but rather on the air, on the low sky that I breathed, on what I was told and taught at home and at school. My biggest dreams, those highest, most beautiful ones, those I would have liked to see flying like a magic kite high in the sky, would never find their air. Because I was a girl. Because the wind was not for me.
I am not sure that I have been truly ambitious in my life, not enough according to my male friends anyway. I have never fought, not once, just for the pleasure of getting a position, a title or a role. However, I am sure that I have always been determined, determined to follow the wind and my dreams to their horizons, no matter what. Of course, while following the wind, I sometimes felt that I might fall, but I also felt, deep down in my heart, that I would always pick myself up again, perhaps not always stronger, but always with a lesson learned.
And so, following the wind, I left that small town where everyone knew each others names, holding my head high while looking for broader horizons, for cities with a different air, for higher skies where my kite would fly in the wind.
Me, all on my own, with only one piece of luggage: my dreams. Those of the young girl I had been, those of the girl I was, and those of the woman that I would become.
Today I am a lawyer. I love my clients, the deals that I do, I warm in finding new solutions to old problems, in changing the expected order of things into dynamic, unexpected harmony. Every morning I go to work with a smile, and in the evening, on my way back home, I realize that I havent lost it, that its still there, just like the rainbow-colored kite that follows me around everywhere. I work for a firm that I love and that has proven to me time and again that it believes in women and their dreams.
But this is not enough for me. I have found the wind, I have learnt to fly high and yet I want more. Because for many years now, I wake up in the morning with the same wish burning deep inside of me, the desire to leave a better world to my three daughters, a world where women who reach important positions do not make it into the news, a world where merit is the rule and gender doesnt matter, a world where each kite can reach the wind and touch the sky.
That is why YOU are my biggest dream now! You are the generation of women that will change the sky above our firms, above our society, above each and every country in this world.
You are the ones born with the wind in your hair and todays young girls will look at you and believe that everything is really possible, that the world truly belongs to all of us, that passion, energy and commitment can truly transform every single dream we dream into reality. And that the air that we all breathe was really made for flying.
Our firms, our society and our world need You. We cannot throw away one-half of all the talent there is, we cannot renounce the ability to see the world with new and different eyes, we cannot afford to squander the chance to take better decisions every day.
That is why today I am here with Alison and with you.
You who have bought this book or have received it as a gift from someone who loves you and wants to support you you must be ambitious.
You have to remember at every moment of your life you have all you need to get where you want to go within yourself.
You have to be aware that the limits before you are only reflections of your tired eyes, your dark thoughts and your fearful dreams. Take a breath and take courage, because you were born to fly.
Do not swap your personal life for your career; the wisdom needed for the realization of both such dreams is already inside you.
Do not wait for the right moment; there is no better moment than this one, the bravery to take a run-up and head into the wind is already inside you.
Do not ask for the impossible, the important thing is to start to fly, the wisdom needed to find your unique piece of sky is already inside you.
Raise your hand even when you doubt that you are the right person for the task. Most probably you are the right person for it; you just need to get over your fear of flying and admit to yourself that you want that position, that title or that project.
Raise your hand when the race is about to start, do not be afraid of losing. We all slip and fall down sometimes, but in order to win you have to run, to give it a try, to get closer to the starting blocks.
Raise your hand whenever someone is asking for help. Give to those who ask, never be greedy, never be envious.
Be truly a woman, proud of your style, authentic and sincere.
Be truly a woman but have fun as if you were still a young girl. Always try to be happy, cherish the small things and enjoy the many choices you have every day.
Be truly a woman, a brave woman, continue to follow your dreams with every single beat of your heart.
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