What is your biggest problem, and how can I solve it?
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...
We move closer to the larger goal of true equality with each woman who leans in.
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
We find our humanity—our will to live and our ability to love—in our connections to one another.
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...
Then he explained that only one criterion mattered when picking a job—fast growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more s...
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.
The keynote speaker, Dr. Peggy McIntosh from the Wellesley Centers for Women, gave a talk called Feeling Like a Fraud.1 She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they...
That even in the face of the most shocking tragedy of my life, I could exert some control over its impact.
Studies show that mentors select protégés based on performance and potential. Intuitively, people invest in those who stand out for their talent or who can really benefit from help. Mentors continue t...
Social scientists have observed that when members of a group are made aware of a negative stereotype, they are more likely to perform according to that stereotype.
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.
Sharing emotions builds deeper relationships. Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about. To really care about others, we have to under...
Self-compassion comes from recognizing that our imperfections are part of being human.
SOMETIMES I WONDER what it would be like to go through life without being labeled by my gender. I don’t wake up thinking, What am I going to do today as Facebook’s female COO?, but that’s often how I’...
Part of every misery, C. S. Lewis wrote, is misery’s shadow…the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer.
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’...
Owning one’s success is key to achieving more success.
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...