Content Cover WOMEN, LEADERSHIP & IT 06 Advice to Advance Your Career Not Taken 08 Choosing the Road Adriana "Andi" Karaboutis Executive Vice President Technology and Business Solutions Biogen Idec Take Chances and 22 Get Your Hands-Dirty, Love your Job Pam Parisian CIO AT&T Services and Pay It Forward 14 Put Yourself Out There Becky Blalock Former CIO, Southern Company, and author of Dare: Straight Talk on Confidence, Courage, and Career for Women in Charge 28 A Brief History of Women in IT Straight Talking 32 Hard Data, Soft Levers 36 Going Google Howard Alexander Khushnud Irani Director, Business Systems Data Warehousing Boeing SVP and CIO Holcim