It's easy to dislike senior women because there are so few. If women held 50 percent of the top jobs, it would just not be possible to dislike that many people. (p.50)
Most people have a style in the workplace that overshoots in one direction—too aggressive or too passive, too talkative or too shy. In that first deal, I said too much. This was not a shock to anyone...
My hope, of course, is that we won’t have to play by these archaic rules forever and that eventually we can all just be ourselves.
Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn more from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely. Long
Now the stress dream was real. I was alone in my bed. Alone when my kids went on playdates. Just one hour in my house without them made me project into the future to when they would go off to college,...
Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our faces, of course) are all important elements of managing a career.
Wanting to improve is not a sign of weakness.
We are a new generation and we need a new approach.
We move closer to the larger goal of true equality with each woman who leans in.
We need to be grateful for what we have but dissatisfied with the status quo. This dissatisfaction spurs the charge for change. We must keep going.
When Gloria Steinem marched in the streets to fight for the opportunities that so many of us now take for granted, she quoted Susan B. Anthony, who marched in the streets before her and concluded, Our...
When psychologists study power dynamics, they find that people in low-power positions are more hesitant to share their views and often hedge their statements when they do.
Feeling confident—or pretending that you feel confident—is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
And contrary to the popular notion that only unmarried women can make it to the top, the majority of the most successful female business leaders have partners.
As Gloria Steinem observed, Whoever has power takes over the noun—and the norm—while the less powerful get an adjective.1 Since no one wants to be perceived as less powerful, a lot of women reject the...
As Helen Keller put it, When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. For
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 need more men to sit at the table … the kitchen tab...
As women must be more empowered at work, men must be more empowered at home.
At a small dinner with other business executives, the guest of honor spoke the entire time without taking a breath. This meant that the only way to ask a question or make an observation was to interru...
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