In sports, taking suggestions from a coach is the whole point of practice. Adam traces his openness to feedback to his past as a Junior Olympic diver. Criticism was the only way to get better.
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
We are each unique … which is why it is so wrong to be lumped together by stereotypes or viewed with narrowed expectations based on skin color or chromosomes. The irony is that dealing with this preju...
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Moral elevation describes the feeling of being uplifted by an act of uncommon goodness. Elevation brings out what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Even in the face of atrocity,...
I’m giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them.
Although pundits and politicians, usually male, often claim that motherhood is the most important and difficult work of all, women who take time out of the workforce pay a big career penalty. Only 74...
This experiment supports what research has already clearly shown: success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women.3 When a man is successful, he is liked...
In China, women who are single past the age of twenty-seven are stigmatized as sheng nu, or leftover women. They face severe pressure from their families to marry, stemming from the widespread belief...
In many cases, women need to be more open to taking risks in their careers.2
Now I proudly call myself a feminist. If Tip O’Neill were alive today, I might even tell him that I’m a pom-pom girl for feminism. I hope more women, and men, will join me in accepting this distinguis...
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...
If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can … and accepting them. Journalist Mary Curtis suggested in The Washington Post that the best advi...
If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them. (p.140)
Dealing with grief was like building physical stamina: the more you exercise, the faster your heart rate recovers after it is elevated.
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.
If women want to succeed more at work and if men want to succeed more at home, these expectations have to be challenged. As Gloria Steinem once observed, It's not about biology, but about consciousnes...
One of the conflicts inherent in having choice is that we all make different ones. There is always an opportunity cost, and I don't know any woman who feels comfortable with all her decisions. As a re...
Counterintuitively, long-term success at work often depends on not trying to meet every demand placed on us. (p.127)
HAVING IT ALL. Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase.
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