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Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Sheryl Sandberg

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst
We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
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Change Ignorance Motivational Strong Voice Women
When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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Company People Value Worth Yourself
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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Institution Mindset Talk Transformation
If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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Enough Inspirational Progress
So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
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Difference Life Perspective Work
I’m not telling women to be like men. I’m telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.
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Change Equality Home Men Woman
Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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Authentic Leadership Perfection Powerful Women
When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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Change Perseverance Success
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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Career Work
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
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Ambition Equality Opinion Smart Time Women Work
Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.
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Need Ourselves Phone Success White Woman
I’m a feminist because I believe in women, it’s a heavy word, feminism, but it’s not one I think we should run from. I’m proud to be a feminist.
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Believe Feminism Inspirational Motivational Run Thinking Word
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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Accomplishment Choice Home Myself Son Success
Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Alone Company Success Team
When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.
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Difficult Empathy People Suffering Thinking

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