![]() ![]() Institutional barriers are very real, but they are also rigid and long-standing. This is a focus from which we all benefit. While she acknowledges the multitude of institutional barriers that still exist, she focuses her book on how we hold ourselves back. Sandberg’s book navigates women’s challenges from the playground to the corner office by focusing on what we, as women, internalize along the way. Whether in family, friendship, career, volunteerism, or book writing, put 100 percent into those things you pursue. Lean In teaches several lessons, and this is the first: be ambitious, unapologetically ambitious, in the way you choose to live your life. In fact, Sandberg doesn’t care what the book is, but rather, what it does. ![]() In its first pages, Sandberg forewarns that it is limited in scope not a memoir, not a career guide, not a self-help book. ![]() Lean In, a follow-up from Sandberg’s now-famous 2010 TED lecture, is a short but sweet thing––a paper and glue version of its author. And her environment, as she acknowledges with gratitude and humility, is chock-full of support. Sheryl Sandberg, like all of us, is a product of her environment. Sheryl Sandberg, COO and Number Two at Facebook, starts her book by thanking her parents, for teaching her that “anything was possible,” and her husband, for “making everything possible.” This dedication might not strike one as unusual, but when reading Lean In, you begin to note its importance. ![]()
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