The Confidence Myth (14 page)

7. Do you feel confident in your workplace?

8. If you feel confident in your workplace, which of the following practices have enhanced your confidence? (Check all that apply.)

9. If you don't feel confident in your workplace, which of the following practices have inhibited your confidence? (Check all that apply.)

10. Do you feel confident in your personal life?

11. If you do feel confident in your personal life, which of the following practices have enhanced your confidence?
(Check all that apply.)

12. If you don't feel confident in your personal life, which of the following practices have inhibited your confidence? (Check all that apply.)

13. Is there a difference between how confident you feel at work or at home?

14. What would you do if you had more confidence?

15. Do you have a belief in a power greater than yourself? If so, how does that affect your confidence?

403 responses (free-writing)

16. How does your level of confidence affect the risks you are willing to take?

511 responses (free-writing)

17. What might you do to become more confident?
(Check all that apply.)

18. What would your “adult self” say to your “younger self” to inspire her/him to have more confidence?

514 responses (free-writing)

19. What age range do you fall into?

20. What best describes your current position?

21. What gender do you identify with?

1.
Katty Kay and Claire Shipman,
The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance
—
What Women Should Know
(New York: Harper Business, 2014), 17–18.

2.
See appendix B for full survey background, methodology, and instrument.

1.
“Make Innovation Fun,” WomenWorking.com, March 2013,
http://www.womenworking.com/how-make-innovation-fun
.

2.
Sheryl Sandberg,
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
(New York: Knopf, 2013), 8.

3.
Georges Desvaux, Sandrine Devillard-Hoellinger, and Mary C. Meaney, “A Business Case for Women,”
McKinsey Quarterly
(2008): 4.

4.
“Make It Happen: Mentors, Dreams, Success,” first potential broadcast September 1, 2002, presented by South Carolina Educational Television, distributed by American Public Television, a production of Creative Expansions Inc.

5.
“In Her Heels,” WomenWorking.com, July 2011,
http://www.womenworking.com/her-heels
.

6.
“Make a Real Impact,” WomenWorking.com, January 2012,
http://www.womenworking.com/make-real-impact
.

1.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett,
Executive Presence: The Missing Link between Merit and Success
(New York: Harper Business, 2014), 24.

2.
Ibid., 145.

3.
“Is It Arrogance, No!” WomenWorking.com, September 24, 2014,
http://www.womenworking.com/it-arrogance-no
.

4.
Hewlett,
Executive Presence
, 65.

5.
Ibid., 98.

1.
Sheryl Sandberg,
Lean In for Graduates
(New York: Knopf, 2014), 105.

1.
“How to Be Happy in 2014,”
World One
, CNN International, first broadcast, January 20, 2014.

2.
Jessica Valenti, “She Who Dies with the Most ‘Likes' Wins?”
The Nation
, November 29, 2012,
http://www.thenation.com/blog/171520/she-who-dies-most-likes-wins#
.

3.
Sandberg,
Lean In for Graduates
, 65.

4.
Hannah Riley Bowles, Linda Babcock, and Lei Lai, “Social Incentives for Gender Differences in the Propensity to Initiate Negotiations: Sometimes It Does Hurt to Ask,”
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
103, no. 1 (2007): 84–103, doi: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.09.001.

5.
Sandberg,
Lean In for Graduates
, 60.

6.
Ibid., 59.

7.
Ellen Galinsky, “Moving beyond Perfectionism and Finding a Work-Life Fit: Lessons from Marissa Mayer and Anne-Marie Slaughter,”
Huffington Post
, July 20, 2012,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-galinsky/marissa-mayer_b_1690577.html
.

8.
Helene Lerner,
Time for Me: Simple Pleasures for Women Who Do Too Much
(Illinois: Simple Truths-Sourcebooks, 2015).

1.
Helene Lerner,
Smart Women Take Risks: Six Steps for Conquering Your Fears and Making the Leap to Success
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006), 61.

2.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett,
Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor: The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career
(Massachusetts: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), 20.

3.
Ibid., 21.

4.
“Building Relationships with Sponsors,”
WomenWorking.com
, October 2013,
http://www.womenworking.com/building-and-maintaining-relationships-sponsors
.

5.
Tara Mohr,
Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message
(New York: Gotham Books, 2014), 197–198.

6.
Hewlett,
Forget a Mentor
, 20.

7.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Kerrie Peraino, Laura Sherbin, and Karen Sumberg, “The Sponsor Effect: Breaking through the Last Glass Ceiling,”
Harvard Business Review
(December 2010): 10,
http://www.globalwomen.org.nz/site/globalwomen/files/pdfs/The%20Sponsor%20Effect.pdf
.

1.
Henry Mintzberg, “Planning on the Left Side and Managing on the Right,”
Harvard Business Review
54, no. 4 (1976): 57.

2.
Mohr,
Playing Big
, 63.

3.
John Hayes, Christopher W. Allinson, and Steven J. Armstrong, “Intuition, Women Managers and Gendered Stereotypes,”
Personnel Review
33, no. 4 (2004): 403–417.

4.
Christopher W. Allinson and John Hayes, “The Cognitive Style Index: A Measure of Intuition—Analysis for Organizational Research,”
Journal of Management Studies
33, no. 1 (1996): 119–135; and Christopher W. Allinson and John Hayes,
The Cognitive Style Index: Technical Manual and User Guide
(Harlow, UK: Pearson Education, 2012), available online at
http://www.talentlens.co.uk/assets/legacy-documents/71874/csi-manual.pdf
.

5.
Malcolm Gladwell,
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
(New York: Penguin Books, 2006) 23.