Acknowledge Your Achilles Heel

As we discussed in last week’s Female Maverick Must Dos for Rule Two: Build your Kitchen Cabinet, your own personal kitchen cabinet could be the difference between wild success or spectacular failure. We were amazed to learn that only 30 percent of entrepreneurs have one. Having a group of advisors and/or close friends who can call you a genius and a dumba$$ in the same sentence might be a Female Maverick’s greatest asset. Who else can tell you the unvarnished truth when you are heads down building a business? Before we go on, let’s review the Female Maverick Must Dos for Rule Two.

Assembling the group that will give it to you straight, however, takes time and effort. We found that brutal honesty was as important as business acumen, and that women in our lives were generally better at giving the unvarnished truth than men.

Let’s start with something easy - be honest about what you can do, and what you can’t.