HAVING IT ALL. Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase. Bandied about in speeches, headlines, and articles, these three little words are intended to be aspirational...
Counting blessings can actually increase happiness and health by reminding us of the good things in life.
Counterintuitively, long-term success at work often depends on not trying to meet every demand placed on us. (p.127)
Authentic communication is not always easy, but it is the basis for successful relationships at home and real effectiveness at work.
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...
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...
I know that my success comes from hard work, help from others, and being at the right place at the right time. I feel a deep and enduring sense of gratitude to those who have given me opportunities an...
Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the...
For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.
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...
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You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.
What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers.
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...
She was undergoing daily radiation treatments, which were physically draining and made her forgetful. In any version of picturing this moment—that fantasy of what you want to be—I would have been stro...
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...
One of the cases we worked on concerned the shortage of organ donations, which results in eighteen deaths each day in the United States alone. I never forgot this case, and seventeen years later, Face...
One day she woke up and understood we are all in this together.