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...
Typically, my eighteen-month plan sets goals on two fronts. First and most important, I set targets for what my team can accomplish. Employees who concentrate on results and impact are the most valuab...
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...
There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.
Resilience is not just built in individuals. It is built among individuals—in our neighborhoods, schools, towns, and governments. When we build resilience together, we become stronger ourselves and fo...
Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others. When we recognize that we can see things only from our own perspective, we can share o...
Professor Rosalind Chait Barnett of Brandeis University did a comprehensive review of studies on work-life balance and found that women who participate in multiple roles 36 actually have lower levels...
One of the things he told me was that my desire to be liked by everyone would hold me back. He said that when you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’...
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...
Often without realising it, women internalise disparaging cultural attitudes and then echo them back. As a result, women are not just victims of sexist, they can also be perpetrators.
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...
Men need to support women and, I wish it went without saying, women need to support women too.
Many have argued with me that ambition is not the problem. Women are not less ambitious than men, they insist, but more enlightened with different and more meaningful goals. I do not dismiss or disput...
I’m giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them.
It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
It bothered me because like most people who have choices, I am not completely comfortable with mine.
In the United Kingdom, women face wage penalties for time out of the labor force as well, with British mothers' average annual earnings decreasing by roughly 13 percent per child. (p.102)
In many cases, women need to be more open to taking risks in their careers.2
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)