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 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...
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...
The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way, he said. There are always things you can do better. It’s a game of mistakes. Sports
The laws that protect women and minorities and people with disabilities, among others, from discrimination are essential, and I am not suggesting they be circumvented. But I have also witnessed firsth...
The laws of economics and many studies of diversity tell us that if we tapped the entire pool of human resources and talent, our collective performance would improve.
That even in the face of the most shocking tragedy of my life, I could exert some control over its impact.
Some of the most important contributions to our world are made by caring for one person
Shutting down discussion is self-defeating and impedes progress. We need to talk and listen and debate and refute and instruct and learn and evolve.
Progress remains equally sluggish when it comes to compensation. In 1970, American women were paid 59 cents for every dollar their male counterparts made. By 2010, women had protested, fought, and wor...
Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard said that life can only be understood backward but it must be lived forward.
Parental behavioral factors—including fathers who are responsive and positive, mothers who favor self-directed child behavior, and parents with emotional intimacy in their marriages—influence a child’...
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...
Over the past decade, child care costs have risen twice as fast as the median income of families with children.8 The cost for two children (an infant and a four-year-old) to go to a day care center is...
Only 74 percent of professional women will rejoin the workforce in any capacity, and only 40 percent will return to full-time jobs [after taking time out of the workforce to raise children]. Those who...
One thing that helps is to remember that feedback, like truth, is not absolute. Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on oth...
Of the hundreds of answers, most had one thing in common: the majority of regrets were about failures to act, not actions that failed. Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the cha...
My generation was raised in an era of increasing equality, a trend we thought would continue. In retrospect, we were naïve and idealistic. Integrating professional and personal aspirations proved far...
Most people, myself included, really want to be liked—and not just because it feels good. Being liked is also a key factor in both professional and personal success. A willingness to make an introduct...
More boys need that role model and that choices. As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes. We ne...