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.
SHERYL SANDBERGThe 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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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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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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Your life’s course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.
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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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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
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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. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
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We need to stop telling [women], “Get a mentor and you will excel.” Instead, we need to tell them, “Excel and you will get a mentor.
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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.
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It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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Build your skills, not your resume.
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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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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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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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