In many cases, women need to be more open to taking risks in their careers.
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on.
'Option B' draws not just on my story but on the research and stories of many people overcoming all kinds of adversity. No one should have to go through challenges and trauma alone.
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.
Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man
When communicating hard truths, less is often more. (p.80)
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception.
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...
I thought resilience was the capacity to endure pain, so I asked Adam how I could figure out how much I had. He explained that our amount of resilience isn’t fixed, so I should be asking instead how I...
I take you to be mine in love. I promise to love you deliberately each day, to feel your joy and your sorrow as my own. Together, we will build a home filled with honor and honesty, comfort and compas...
Fathers who want to drop out of the workforce entirely and devote themselves to child care can face extremely negative social pressure.
As an associate at McKinsey & Company, my first assignment was on a team that consisted of a male senior engagement manager (SEM) and two other male associates, Abe Wu and Derek Holley. When the SEM w...
Although it can be extremely difficult to grasp, the disappearance of one possible self can free us to imagine a new possible self. After
I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
Painful knowledge is better than blissful ignorance
When husbands work fifty or more hours per week, wives with children are 44 percent more likely to quit their jobs than wives with children whose husbands work less.
When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.
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...
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.