Follow your dreams is terrible career advice says Bonnie Hammer, vice chair of NBCUniversal and one of the most powerful women in entertainment. For the past 50 years, she's worked in a male-driven industry and heard all the clichés women are told about getting ahead: trust your gut, fake it until you make it, you can have it all. Some of the aphorisms are harmless, she says, but most of them are actually holding women back. She offers uncommon common sense in her new book called 15 Lies Women are Told About Work and the Truth We Need to Succeed.
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