Second, I try to set more personal goals for learning new skills in the next eighteen months.
One reason women avoid stretch assignments and new challenges is that they worry too much about whether they currently have the skills they need for a new role. This can become a self-fulfilling proph...
Miscommunication is always a two-way street. (p.85)
Like me, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy Program, was encouraged to prioritize marriage over career. As she described in The Atlanti...
It is time for us to face that our revolution has stalled.
I don’t know anyone who has been handed only roses. We all encounter hardships. Some we see coming; others take us by surprise. It can be as tragic as the sudden death of a child, as heartbreaking as...
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.
Given how fast the world moves today, grabbing opportunities is more important than ever. Few managers have the time to carefully consider all the applicants for a job, much less convince more reticen...
As the elephant in the room went unacknowledged, it started acting up, trampling over my relationships.
A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I believe that this would be a better world. The laws of economics and many studies of div...
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage ou...
And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.
I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter....
Truly believe that the single most important career decision that a woman makes is whether she will have a life partner and who that partner is. I don’t know of one woman in a leadership position whos...
Dealing with grief was like building physical stamina: the more you exercise, the faster your heart rate recovers after it is elevated.
By the problem. Some things in life cannot be fixed.8 They can only be carried,
You are the promise for a more equal world. So my hope for everyone here is that after you walk across this stage, after you get your diploma, after you go out tonight and celebrate hard - you then wi...
Women face real obstacles in the professional world, including blatant and subtle sexism,
When I don't feel confident, one tactic I've learned is that it sometimes helps to fake it.
We need to stop telling them, Get a mentor and you will excel. Instead, we need to tell them, Excel and you will get a mentor. Clara