2) Time is of the real meaning
With the purpose of integrating your work and personal lives in ways that allow you to succeed in both, plan effectively. If time is not right for you to accept an assignment, make sure you communicate your interest and specify when you will be available for it later. Try to foresee the times in your career when you will be able to be most focused, and use those periods to make major career efforts.

3) If you don't blow your own horn, nobody else will
You shouldn’t expect from people to notice your accomplishments. Thriving work deserves public recognition-inside as well as outside your organization. Check your colleagues, team members, and-most importantly-your boss, know what you've accomplished.

4) Expertise impresses
In a unique specialty you may develop an expertise. Consequently, people will hunt to you for that knowledge and you will build credibility and standing. Discover what information or expertise might be lacking at your organization and learn as much as you can about it.

5) Nothing comes to she who waits
Catalyst study constantly shows that taking initiative is critical to getting ahead. Enthusiastically pursue high-visibility assignments and advancement opportunities. Learning about a project that interests you, approach your boss with your plans for completing it, and then do it.

6) It is not just corporations that need to diversify
You should increase a broad range of experience to succeed. Build your knowledge in positions with bottom-line responsibilities such as operations or sales. Consider making both lateral and downward moves that will give you cross-functional experience. Search for a designed succession-planning process at your organization.

7) Fortune favors the brave
With the intention of advance, you must take risks. Express your readiness to take on new, different, and difficult assignments that will allow you to show off your talents and prove your executive potential.

8) Money matters
Ensure you get paid what you're worth. Since women often accept or reject job offers without asking for more money, they tend to start at lower salaries than those who negotiate. Search to find out what salary you should ask for-check with recruiting firms, the Internet, other companies advertising similar positions, and current or former employees for information. When your workload gets heavier, ask for more pay.

The main thing is that earning an MBA leads to:
• increased professional credibility;
• opportunity to change or advance within existing careers; and
• an increase in income.

Women still fight with myth that they don't hold the credentials. However, human resources records often reveal that women hold more degrees than men do. If you get your business degree, make sure everyone knows it. After that, concentrate on overcoming barriers to your own advancement and taking charge of your career. The recommendation and strategies outlined above are based on Catalyst research.