When I was graduating, my thesis advisor, Larry Summers, suggested that I apply for international fellowships. I rejected the idea on the grounds that a foreign country was not a likely place to turn...
We plant the seeds of resilience in the ways we process negative events. After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman found that three P’s can stunt reco...
Option A is not available. So let’s just kick the shit out of Option B.
It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.
In many cases, women need to be more open to taking risks in their careers.
In addition to the external barriers erected by society, women are hindered by barriers that exist within ourselves. We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by n...
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on.
He said that when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. Mark was right.
I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.
I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.
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.
So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed,...
Of the basic laws of economics and common
Think personally, act communally.
Statements of opinion are always more constructive in the first person I form.
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception.
One of my favorite posters at Facebook declares in big red letters, Done is better than perfect. (p.126)
Millennial women are less likely than Millennial men to agree that the statement I aspire to a leadership role in whatever field I ultimately work describes them very well. Millennial women were also...
If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can . . . and accepting them.