Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Kindle Edition
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Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their
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potential. Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TEDTalk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which became a phenomenon and has been viewed more than two million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto. In Lean In, Sandberg digs deeper into these issues, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to cut through the layers of ambiguity and bias surrounding the lives and choices of working women. She recounts her own decisions, mistakes, and daily struggles to make the right
choices for herself, her career, and her family. She provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career, urging women to set boundaries and to abandon the myth of “having it all.”
She
describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women in the workplace and at home. Written with both humor and wisdom, Sandberg’s book is an inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth. Lean In is destined to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what they can..
Reviews I had heard some of the buzz about this book before I picked it up. Usually I don't do reviews, but I like reading what other people say about books. I'm writing this because I think some of the reviewers are missing what is significant (at least) to me about the book. Of course, Sheryl Sandberg is priviledged. No one in my family would even dream of going to Harvard. There are no doctors in my family. I don't make millions a year. I'm single with no children. Basically I could disregard half of the book. HOWEVER, the other half really struck a cord with me. I've also been criticized for being too direct -- something that is not considered negative for a man. It made me think about how I approach meetings. Do I speak up? Do I wait for someone else to ask a question so I won't have to? Do I sit at the table? Do I have a voice that says I'm not qualified? Am I an imposter? Thinking about these questions made me realize that I can be passive about my career choices. There's a young man in my department who is new to the industry and training for his new position. Every meeting he speaks up. Even though some of his questions and comments are boarderline embarrassing, I guarantee upper management knows who he is. It doesn't bother him at all to ask those questions. It's an interesting contrast to all the women just sitting there.
The best message to take from this book is to be aware of what is going on in the workplace. Take the opportunity to change the inequality. Don't wait for someone to "fix" things for you. When opportunities present themselves jump on them if it's what you want. Take control.. ================================================== I am woman. Hear me roar. ROWR! That is what the subtitle of this femtastic book of back-arching awesomeness should be! In Lean In, genius Sheryl Sandberg--who is easily better than Cleopatra, Boudica and the Virgin Mary all put together--is putting on her stilettos and extra lipstick as she calls her female hordes to action. Why? Because those evil, uncivilized and overly hairy men still control the one area in the world where women are not in the majority: leadership positions in government and industry.
This is naturally an unholy evil that rivals even the Holocaust, simply because women must best men at everything, something I wholeheartedly agree with according to feminista lore/mythology/fairytales. I can't believe that it's the 21st century, and men are still breathing, kicking and, yes, even alive! OMG! OMG! Women have had 30 years where they earned more university degrees than men, yet they're still being kept down...by the man. Clearly, this is all misogyny and sexism perpetrated by dirty old white men. This makes me so angry that I am seriously thinking about exposing every bad boyfriend I ever had on Dontdatehimgirl.com. Oh, snap!!
I think that Sheryl does a really rad, b/o/o/b/s-out job of exposing exactly why women are still mistreated like 3rd-class citizens, even though Democrat Barack Obama (an evil man, too) is the president. And, at that, who better than Sheryl to explain this because she has put in a career's worth of fighting against these evil, horrible, bad men in corporate America, rising all the way to Facebook's COO. Sure, she only works for Mark Zuckerboy, a man, because she wasn't ambitious enough to actually found Facebook, but that's really beside the point.
As a woman who has risen to the top in corporate America, Sheryl naturally knows what it takes to beat all the men and become Queen Bee. And she wants to help her fellow gals so much that she honorably collected all this information in this book, just so she can charge you $14 for it, girlfriend! If that doesn't say girl power, then I don't know what does, ese! Meow. Purr. Purr.
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