Sometimes You Have To Take A Step Back

The following is an excerpt from All Things At Once by Mika Brzezinski (published by Weinstein Books, January 5, 2010).

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods. Mostly, what I didn't have going for me was the success I'd already achieved. Because I'd been working at a fairly high, fairly visible level, people in television invariably thought I would only consider a position at that same level. But I was realisti...