Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life). This item is unavailable.Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life)

The president of the Hearst Magazine empire draws on her personal experiences and professional accomplishments to share the secrets to success for women climbing the corporate ladders, furnishing valuable lessons on ambition, self-confidence, risk, establishing a healthy family-work balance, and how to recognize and seize opportunity. 100,000 first printing.

CATHIE BLACK heads Hearst Magazines, a division of Hearst Corporation. She manages the financial performance and development of some of the industry’s best-known magazines, includingCosmopolitan, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar,and O, the Oprah Magazine. Black made publishing history in 1979 as the first woman publisher of a weekly consumer magazine, New York, and she is widely credited for the success ofUSA Today, where for eight years, starting in 1983, she was first president, then publisher. Before joining Hearst, she also served five years as president and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America. She lives in New York with her husband, son, and daughter.