I love #8. Makes me correct on one count, immediately!

PS – How do you 'blend in' when you are the only woman at work, especially when the men are bent to the chauvinistic side. Then an appearance by me equals their brains screaming – woman! woman! woman! no matter what my intelligence is saying.
The effort taken to blend in, to make my brains count for more than my gender is hard work, and takes time and is unfortunately, a process oft repeated.

There are tons of Top 10 list and there 3 tons of advice for job seeker / or manager in needs.

This is by FAR the best I've seen. I'd like to add some comments:

1. If you have to work 15 hours à day EVERYDAY, it also doesn't show proper priority/work/time management. I had to do it sometimes for weeks. But if someone is doing it all the time, he's hitting the gaz for a nice burnout! or a bad reputation.

6. Some manager are just giving lectures in team meeting. Some team member are experts whom opinion are never asked. Team member will loose interest pretty quickly if the are never heard.

But a bit in contrario of the sixth advice you gave, one of the most important one would be: "Don't be afraid to show off a bit". Reporting about your accomplishments is often overlooked or taken for granted. You have to be inventive and promote your (and your team) work. Participate to newsletter and tell a success story about your team (the writer would gets more recognition). Blog it somewhere.

Thanks again. Your advices are refreshing and useful.

Charles.