It turns out that people who choose to be single are very satisfied with their lives.
Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.17
One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
One stumbling block is that many people believe that the workplace is largely a meritocracy, which means we look at individuals, not groups, and determine that differences in outcomes must be based on...
Option A is not available. So let’s just kick the shit out of Option B. Life is never perfect. We all live some form of Option B. This book is to help us all kick the shit out of it.
Padmasree Warrior, Cisco’s chief technology officer, was asked by The Huffington Post, What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned from a mistake you’ve made in the past? She responded, I said no...
Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional—or worse, sometimes even a negative—for women. She is very ambitious is not a compliment in our culture. Aggressive and hard-charging women vio...
The pipeline that supplies the educated workforce is clock-full of women at the entry level, but by the time that same pipeline is filling leadership positions, it is overwhelmingly stocked with men.
We also all know people who could do so much more if only they believed in themselves. Like so many things, a lack of confidence can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don’t know how to convince any...
We see the potential for good in others and gain hope that we can survive and rebuild.
What helped him build resilience the most, he told me, was overcoming pervasiveness: Extreme compartmentalization may be my biggest superpower, he said, laughing. If a project doesn’t turn out the way...
What is your biggest problem, and how can I solve it?
When I first started working for Larry Summers, then chief economist at the World Bank, he was married to a tax attorney, Vicki. He was very supportive of Vicki’s career and used to urge her to bill l...
When I left Google to join Facebook, as a percentage of my team, fewer women tried to follow me. As they had been all along, the men were more interested in new and, as we say in tech, higher beta opp...
When I wrote Lean In, some people argued that I did not spend enough time writing about the difficulties women face when they don’t have a partner. They were right. I didn’t get it. I didn’t get how h...
When a couple announces that they are having a baby, everyone says, Congratulations! to the man and Congratulations! What are you planning on doing about work? to the woman. The broadly held assumptio...
When a girl tries to lead, she is often labeled bossy. Boys are seldom called bossy because a boy taking the role of a boss does not surprise or offend.
When a woman excels at her job, both male and female coworkers will remark that she may be accomplishing a lot, but is not well-liked by her peers. She is probably also too aggressive, not a team play...
When companies fail, it’s usually for reasons that almost everyone knows but almost no one has voiced. When someone isn’t making good decisions, few have the guts to tell that person, especially if th...
When we are no longer able to change a situation, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl observed, we are challenged to change ourselves. After
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