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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?

Sheryl Sandberg

Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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Change Female Leadership. Comfortable Need
Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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Ability Women Worth
I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.
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Believe Mother Myself Simplicity Success Women Young
Done is better than perfect.
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Complete Improvement Perfection
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Development Encouragement Gratitude Help People Success
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Home Success Women
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
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Happiness Inspiartional Luxury Passion Path Success
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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Mentor Need Stop Women Yourself
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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Achievement Childhood Expectation Leadership Live Men Ourselves Reason Women
But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
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Authentic Believe Change Connection Myself People
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 Presence Result Success
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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Career Work
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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Believe Confidence Hands Ourselves
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
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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Anger Better Expectation Goodness Leadership Place Voice Women Work World Yourself
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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Issues Life Lose Work
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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Dream Hard Work Myself People
Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.
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Career Decision Marriage Yourself
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
Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.
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Existence Expectation Home Time Trust Value Women Work
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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Breathe Leadership Perspective Skill Time Yourself
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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Change Help Inspirational Philosophy Positive Wisdom
Build your skills, not your resume.
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Choice Skill Yourself
Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
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Believe Communication Silence Start Truth Understand View
Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.
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Hard Work Men People Skill Success Women
It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Herself Leadership Visual Wait

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