How does the promotion process actually work?

The market has been volatile again this week yet
I'm sticking to my guns with my message encouraging
networking and relationship building.

Why? Two reasons.

One, the promotion process takes at least one or two years
typically during which time the market will have cycled
through many permutations.

While of course you must absolutely be sensitive to
what people are experiencing during tense times and
connect with them appropriately, you are continuing
to strategically build relationships, regardless where
the market is at a given moment in time.

Two, successful, ambitious women are perceived more
favorably when they are familiar to the peers who are
judging them.

The Heidi/Howard Roizen HBR case study experiments 
demonstrated that likeability and success are positively
correlated for men and negatively correlated for women,

Here's the important point though -- in a subsequent
study (1) it was found that more assertive men were seen
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