"The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn't your gender, it's you,"

This is a good article that applies to anyone desiring to succeed in business.....Men or Women.... By JOHN BUSSEY Our recent recounting of how Jack Welch clashed with a group of female executives over how best to advance to the top of corporate America touched a raw nerve in the business world. Readers fired off a barrage of comments. "He's right," one wrote about the former CEO of General Electric GE +0.37% . "RESULTS—that's all that counts, period." Not so, wrote another: "Mr. Welch's notion that his career, or anyone's, is a result of a single androgynous metric—'performance'—is false." The workplace is still an "old boys' network." Words From the Top Read comments from women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies about how they got to where they are, and the myths about advancement they saw along the way. . View Slideshow [SB10001424052702303360504577412632271663446] Bloomberg News Angela Braly, CEO, WellPoint 'The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn't your gender, it's you. Take risks.' So I went to the 18 women who are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies—a record number but still just 3.6% of the total—and asked their opinion. What factors, personal or in the workplace, fueled their careers and what myths about the advancement of women did they encounter along the way? Eleven gave their thoughts.