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Women In Tech: Career Advice From Elite Execs

"Risk is the key element around planning successful careers," said Wal-Mart CIO Karenann Terrell. Thus began one of the most candid, practical career-advice discussions you'll ever hear for women in the IT field and the executives responsible for developing and retaining that talent.

The panel was the highlight of an event on Monday organized by the Michigan Council for Women in Technology. It was sponsored by Detroit's Big Three automakers, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, and featured a discussion with the CIOs of those three companies. I served as emcee of the event.

The panel with Wal-Mart CIO Terrell also included Boeing CIO Kim Hammonds, IBM senior VP Bridget van Kralingen, Cisco senior VP Sheila Jordan and Michigan CIO David Behen. My colleague Laurianne McLaughlin led the discussion.

Given what these leaders have achieved, their career moves don't look very risky. If you end up as the CIO of Wal-Mart or Boeing, your choices look pretty smart in retrospect.

But these leaders shared how their journeys came with moments of deep doubt about whether they had made a disastrous move or even gotten in over their heads. "Those moments, driving in your car and thinking 'What have I really done?'-- I've had those moments," Boeing's Hammonds said.

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