Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
SHERYL SANDBERGThe time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
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Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.
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I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.
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Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
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Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
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When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.
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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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I tell people in their careers, ‘Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.’
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