Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
SHERYL SANDBERGI want to tell any young girl out there who’s a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.
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Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
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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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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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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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What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.
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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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We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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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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We’re focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we’re still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.
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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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Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
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