If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.
Imagine that a career is like a marathon—a long, grueling, and ultimately rewarding endeavor. Now imagine a marathon where both men and women arrive at the starting line equally fit and trained. The g...
Mighty Be Our Powers,
Men are allowed to be focused on their own achievements, while loyalty is expected from women.
Major changes can result from these kinds of nudge techniques, small interventions that encourage people to behave in slightly different ways at critical moments.4
When I don't feel confident, one tactic I've learned is that it sometimes helps to fake it.
I’m giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them. Now
Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the chances we missed, not the chances we took.
It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
Men have an easier time finding the mentors and sponsors who are invaluable for career progression. Plus, women have to prove themselves to a far greater extent than men do. And this is not just in ou...
Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. It comes from gratitude for what’s good in our lives and from leaning in to the suck.
Men need to support women and, I wish it went without saying, women need to support women too.
Decades of social science studies have confirmed what the Heidi/Howard case study so blatantly demonstrates: we evaluate people based on stereotypes (gender, race, nationality, and age, among others)....
Do not wait for power to be offered. Like that tiara, it might never materialize. And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
In order to fix the problems we needed to be able to talk about gender without people thinking we were crying for help.
INTRODUCTION
Seeking out diverse experiences is useful preparation for leadership.
Miscommunication is always a two-way street. (p.85)
Reverend Veronica Goines sums this up as, Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.
We evaluate people based on stereotypes (gender, race, nationality, and age, among others).4 Our stereotype of men holds that they are providers, decisive, and driven. Our stereotype of women holds th...
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