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# 11M+ TED Talk views Data-driven insights Empowers risk-taking Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

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> 🚀 Lean In and Lead On: The ultimate playbook for fearless career growth!

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## Key Features

- • **Inclusive Empowerment:** Advocates for both women and men to foster supportive workplaces.
- • **Blueprint for Leadership:** A proven roadmap to break barriers and lead with confidence.
- • **Global Bestseller Status:** Join millions worldwide inspired by this #1 international bestseller.
- • **Powerful TED Talk Legacy:** Leverage lessons from a talk viewed over 11 million times.
- • **Actionable Career Strategies:** Master negotiation, mentorship, and work-life balance with expert advice.

## Overview

Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg is a #1 international bestseller and cultural phenomenon that combines compelling research, personal stories, and practical advice to empower women to overcome career barriers. Inspired by her TED talk with over 11 million views, this book offers actionable strategies for leadership, negotiation, and mentorship, encouraging women—and their allies—to take risks, seek challenges, and achieve professional and personal fulfillment.

## Description

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A landmark manifesto" ( The New York Times ) that's a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential. In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than eleven million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto. Lean In continues that conversation , combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what they can. Sandberg, COO of Meta (previously called Facebook) from 2008-2022, provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career. She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment, and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women both in the workplace and at home.

Review: Could this be the next step? - I had heard the buzz about Sheryl Sandberg's Lead In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead that many of you may have heard as well. Written by an elitist with a double Harvard degree who was mentored by Larry Summers (gasp!) and is worth hundreds of millions in stock from Google and Facebook (oh no!), she couldn't possibly have anything to say to women in less fortunate positions. It was a vanity book designed to elevate Facebook (really?). I have to admit that it has been a long time since I remember a book being so roundly condemned by so many who hadn't even read it. The fact that a book authored by a woman about women was raising such a stink intrigued me. If I hadn't planned to read it before, I certainly looked forward to reading it now. I should be used to pundits being wrong. Honestly, there were some points in this book that almost had me wishing I were thirty years younger and still working. It takes a lot to do that. I am happy with my life (except for the grief part) and I don't generally envy the lot of today's working women. Lean In is not so much a feminist manifesto, as it is a hands-on guide to how a woman can think about and alter her chances for success. From the cultural inhibitions that women internalize to the social judgments levied on our performance, Sandberg presents possibilities for change. She addresses many of the same issues I tried to deal with in my career. And although I did okay, I know that some of the advice she offers would have made it possible for me to do a lot more. (Of course in those days she could not have attended Harvard. Or Yale. And COO of Facebook? Not likely.) Times have changed since Betty Friedan. Women can now attend Harvard. Women can become the COO of Facebook. But not enough of them do. And that is what Sandberg is trying to change with Lean In. Well researched and documented, Sandberg uses statistics, personal anecdotes, and stories from other successful women to present her case. She then uses some common sense, more research, and creative thinking to propose solutions. From the book: "I am fully aware that most women are not focused on changing social norms for the next generation but simply trying to get through each day. Forty percent of employed mothers lack sick days and vacation leave, and about 50 percent of employed mothers are unable to take time off to care for a sick child. 21 Only about half of women receive any pay during maternity leave. 22 These policies can have severe consequences; families with no access to paid family leave often go into debt and can fall into poverty. 23 Part-time jobs with fluctuating schedules offer little chance to plan and often stop short of the forty-hour week that provides basic benefits. 24 Too many work standards remain inflexible and unfair, often penalizing women with children. Too many talented women try their hardest to reach the top and bump up against systemic barriers. So many others pull back because they do not think they have a choice. All of this brings me back to Leymah Gbowee's insistence that we need more women in power. When leadership insists that these policies change, they will. Google put in pregnancy parking when I asked for it and it remains there long after I left. We must raise both the ceiling and the floor." Yes, Sheryl Sandberg has had a storied career, leaving her worth close to a billion dollars, named as one of Forbes top five most powerful women in the world, but then, who would want to read a book by a failure? Who wants advice from someone who hasn't succeeded in making a difference? Maybe this is all just an evil plot to grow Facebook's audience and the value of her stock. Or maybe it just is what she says it is. A way forward for women and their life partners. (She devotes an entire chapter to how important a life partner is to anyone's success in life.) Lean In doesn't have to have all of the answers in order to be pointing in the right direction. It is clear that the women's movement has stalled: on Friday North Dakota passed the most repressive anti-women laws the nation has ever seen, virtually denying women the rights guaranteed by Roe vs Wade, and we learned that NYPD officers have been ordered to run criminal record checks on the victims of domestic abuse. Clearly we need to do something. Until we have a greater share of power, our rights will continue to be dictated to us by others. It is time women started reaching for the levers of power in corporations, institutions and governments. Lean In doesn't stop with the last page. In addition to her TED talk, she has set up, of course, a Facebook page, and a website looking to continue the conversation. She envisions women meeting in small (8 to 12) Lean In Circles to learn from each other and support each other's growth. Small circles that have been disparagingly referred to as a throwback to the consciousness raising of times gone by. What her critics forget is that those consciousness raising parties did a lot of good back in the day. Jodi Kantor, of the New York Times, in an attempt to show how evil this plot is, published a copy of the document that is being circulated to potential corporate partners in the Lean In movement. (BTW, said corporate partners are only asked the use of their logos and endorsement, not funding, and their support for their employees who chose to join the circles.) I read the document, which I found here: [...] And wish that when my girlfriends and I got together during the 70s in an informal support group at a nearby watering hole that we could have had access to the material and format of the new Lean In Circles. We got the job done, and helped other women move along their career paths, but not nearly enough and not quickly enough. All profits from her book go to LeanIn.org which is a non-profit public benefit corporation that runs the website of the same name. Lean In is not for all women. Nor is it meant to be. Not all women want a high powered career and a family. But for those who do, and for their partners, it is a book well worth reading.
Review: Not a self help book but very insightful - If you're looking for advice and guidance, this isn't the book for you. However, if you are looking for anecdotes that provoke your thoughts on what it is to be a woman in the workforce, this is a pretty good book. The book consists of anecdotes related to Ms. Sandberg's life. They are easy to follow and not boring. She couples the anecdotes with facts and statistics. For example, at one point she writes about the number of female CEOs who head Fortune companies as well as their marital statuses. This kind of info isn't something that many people would immediately research, but it's interesting to read about it. I especially liked her chapter on mentors. I have often seen in my own career that women spend a lot of time looking for someone to mentor them. Sandberg described this as the "professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming." It was very interesting to read Sandberg's opinion on this because I've often felt that women are taught in professional schools as well as the work force to look for mentors-much more often than their male counterparts. Again, very thought provoking to read. I also appreciated Sandberg's ideas on making your partner a "real partner". I personally can't imagine working in the role that I do without having my spouse as a partner in our home life. I find that most of my peers feel the same way. This idea of a real partner tied in well to her chapter on the "myth of doing it all". Her ideas were really well thought out and helpful for a woman who is a part of any family unit-even those women who don't have long-term partners. They still need a support network, but have often been made to feel ashamed if they can't do it all and have to rely on others for help. Kudos to Sandberg for highlighting this! I have heard a lot of negative reviews about this book-mostly that it is targeted toward extremely well educated women who are on an executive track. The book undoubtedly speaks to those women, but there is a strong and positive message for those female readers who aren't in that position. As I mentioned earlier, the book shouldn't be read for advice, but much more for thinking about our own places in the workforce. As a woman who worked her way through college at difficult, low paying jobs and later through professional school at a large corporation I see both perspectives and recognize how hard it is for women and how a book filled with advice would be a great read, but this book isn't for that purpose. In any event, it's a good book, an easy read, makes for great conversations and perhaps sharing of advice from other readers. It's worth reading.

## Features

- TEDtalk 50 most powerful women seek challenges take risks

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #25,397 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #21 in Women & Business (Books) #63 in Economic History (Books) #73 in Feminist Theory (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 17,695 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Could this be the next step?
*by S***Y on March 18, 2013*

I had heard the buzz about Sheryl Sandberg's Lead In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead that many of you may have heard as well. Written by an elitist with a double Harvard degree who was mentored by Larry Summers (gasp!) and is worth hundreds of millions in stock from Google and Facebook (oh no!), she couldn't possibly have anything to say to women in less fortunate positions. It was a vanity book designed to elevate Facebook (really?). I have to admit that it has been a long time since I remember a book being so roundly condemned by so many who hadn't even read it. The fact that a book authored by a woman about women was raising such a stink intrigued me. If I hadn't planned to read it before, I certainly looked forward to reading it now. I should be used to pundits being wrong. Honestly, there were some points in this book that almost had me wishing I were thirty years younger and still working. It takes a lot to do that. I am happy with my life (except for the grief part) and I don't generally envy the lot of today's working women. Lean In is not so much a feminist manifesto, as it is a hands-on guide to how a woman can think about and alter her chances for success. From the cultural inhibitions that women internalize to the social judgments levied on our performance, Sandberg presents possibilities for change. She addresses many of the same issues I tried to deal with in my career. And although I did okay, I know that some of the advice she offers would have made it possible for me to do a lot more. (Of course in those days she could not have attended Harvard. Or Yale. And COO of Facebook? Not likely.) Times have changed since Betty Friedan. Women can now attend Harvard. Women can become the COO of Facebook. But not enough of them do. And that is what Sandberg is trying to change with Lean In. Well researched and documented, Sandberg uses statistics, personal anecdotes, and stories from other successful women to present her case. She then uses some common sense, more research, and creative thinking to propose solutions. From the book: "I am fully aware that most women are not focused on changing social norms for the next generation but simply trying to get through each day. Forty percent of employed mothers lack sick days and vacation leave, and about 50 percent of employed mothers are unable to take time off to care for a sick child. 21 Only about half of women receive any pay during maternity leave. 22 These policies can have severe consequences; families with no access to paid family leave often go into debt and can fall into poverty. 23 Part-time jobs with fluctuating schedules offer little chance to plan and often stop short of the forty-hour week that provides basic benefits. 24 Too many work standards remain inflexible and unfair, often penalizing women with children. Too many talented women try their hardest to reach the top and bump up against systemic barriers. So many others pull back because they do not think they have a choice. All of this brings me back to Leymah Gbowee's insistence that we need more women in power. When leadership insists that these policies change, they will. Google put in pregnancy parking when I asked for it and it remains there long after I left. We must raise both the ceiling and the floor." Yes, Sheryl Sandberg has had a storied career, leaving her worth close to a billion dollars, named as one of Forbes top five most powerful women in the world, but then, who would want to read a book by a failure? Who wants advice from someone who hasn't succeeded in making a difference? Maybe this is all just an evil plot to grow Facebook's audience and the value of her stock. Or maybe it just is what she says it is. A way forward for women and their life partners. (She devotes an entire chapter to how important a life partner is to anyone's success in life.) Lean In doesn't have to have all of the answers in order to be pointing in the right direction. It is clear that the women's movement has stalled: on Friday North Dakota passed the most repressive anti-women laws the nation has ever seen, virtually denying women the rights guaranteed by Roe vs Wade, and we learned that NYPD officers have been ordered to run criminal record checks on the victims of domestic abuse. Clearly we need to do something. Until we have a greater share of power, our rights will continue to be dictated to us by others. It is time women started reaching for the levers of power in corporations, institutions and governments. Lean In doesn't stop with the last page. In addition to her TED talk, she has set up, of course, a Facebook page, and a website looking to continue the conversation. She envisions women meeting in small (8 to 12) Lean In Circles to learn from each other and support each other's growth. Small circles that have been disparagingly referred to as a throwback to the consciousness raising of times gone by. What her critics forget is that those consciousness raising parties did a lot of good back in the day. Jodi Kantor, of the New York Times, in an attempt to show how evil this plot is, published a copy of the document that is being circulated to potential corporate partners in the Lean In movement. (BTW, said corporate partners are only asked the use of their logos and endorsement, not funding, and their support for their employees who chose to join the circles.) I read the document, which I found here: [...] And wish that when my girlfriends and I got together during the 70s in an informal support group at a nearby watering hole that we could have had access to the material and format of the new Lean In Circles. We got the job done, and helped other women move along their career paths, but not nearly enough and not quickly enough. All profits from her book go to LeanIn.org which is a non-profit public benefit corporation that runs the website of the same name. Lean In is not for all women. Nor is it meant to be. Not all women want a high powered career and a family. But for those who do, and for their partners, it is a book well worth reading.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not a self help book but very insightful
*by K***. on August 13, 2013*

If you're looking for advice and guidance, this isn't the book for you. However, if you are looking for anecdotes that provoke your thoughts on what it is to be a woman in the workforce, this is a pretty good book. The book consists of anecdotes related to Ms. Sandberg's life. They are easy to follow and not boring. She couples the anecdotes with facts and statistics. For example, at one point she writes about the number of female CEOs who head Fortune companies as well as their marital statuses. This kind of info isn't something that many people would immediately research, but it's interesting to read about it. I especially liked her chapter on mentors. I have often seen in my own career that women spend a lot of time looking for someone to mentor them. Sandberg described this as the "professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming." It was very interesting to read Sandberg's opinion on this because I've often felt that women are taught in professional schools as well as the work force to look for mentors-much more often than their male counterparts. Again, very thought provoking to read. I also appreciated Sandberg's ideas on making your partner a "real partner". I personally can't imagine working in the role that I do without having my spouse as a partner in our home life. I find that most of my peers feel the same way. This idea of a real partner tied in well to her chapter on the "myth of doing it all". Her ideas were really well thought out and helpful for a woman who is a part of any family unit-even those women who don't have long-term partners. They still need a support network, but have often been made to feel ashamed if they can't do it all and have to rely on others for help. Kudos to Sandberg for highlighting this! I have heard a lot of negative reviews about this book-mostly that it is targeted toward extremely well educated women who are on an executive track. The book undoubtedly speaks to those women, but there is a strong and positive message for those female readers who aren't in that position. As I mentioned earlier, the book shouldn't be read for advice, but much more for thinking about our own places in the workforce. As a woman who worked her way through college at difficult, low paying jobs and later through professional school at a large corporation I see both perspectives and recognize how hard it is for women and how a book filled with advice would be a great read, but this book isn't for that purpose. In any event, it's a good book, an easy read, makes for great conversations and perhaps sharing of advice from other readers. It's worth reading.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Harnessing Unbridled Ambition
*by D***G on September 9, 2013*

Sheryl Sandberg believes that not enough women are CEOs or close to it. She is less concerned about what happens in the corporate world below that level. Hanna Rosin, in "The End of Men and the Rise of Women" (2012), demonstrates how women now largely dominate middle-level management and also college graduate numbers. So male college finishers and men occupying middle-level management positions are more and more scarce, while the industrial and hard labor jobs are also drying up. This can lead to widespread dependency on women and a loss of self-respect for males within families. Both these books are extremely valuable, and they are complimentary, but you wouldn't know that from reading Sandberg's book. She even manages to misspell Rosin's name in the end notes, and doesn't include her in the index. It's unfortunate, because taken together, these two books give a broad picture of what's happening to the roles of men and women in the workplace. The primary purpose of Sandberg's book is to inspire, and she's very effective at this. She urges women to aim high, be brave, insist on a place at the meeting table, and pay attention to the likeability factor, which can be summarized as: "If a woman is competent, she does not seem nice enough. If a woman seems really nice, she is considered more nice than competent." Here's how to get a job: a senior director of marketing at eBay came to visit Sandberg and told her, "I want to apply to work with you at Facebook, so I thought about calling you and telling you all of the things I'm good at and. . .like to do. Then I figured that everyone was doing that. So instead, I want to ask you: What is your biggest problem, and how can I solve it?" Sandberg responded, "Recruiting is my biggest problem. And, yes, you can solve it." Sandberg gives excellent protocols for choosing an ideal mentor. She believes that one should bring one's whole personality to work, and show emotion when that is appropriate. Women, according to her, can help create a workplace where it's O.K. to hug, nurture, or even cry. She recognizes the artificiality of having one personality at work and another at home. Sandberg urges parental leave for both men and women and even close parking places for pregnant women. But she asks women to work as long as possible and to make plans for returning to work as soon as possible. She sees many women lose promotions and more sophisticated work because they give up too early due to pregnancy or even the thought of one day having a baby. Sandberg asks that men and women really share the work in the home 50% - 50%. "As women must be more empowered at work, men must be more empowered at home. I have seen so many women inadvertently discourage their husbands from doing their share by being too controlling or critical." Sandberg decries the myth of "having it all" or "doing it all." She no longer tries to work constant 12-hour days and sacrifices some opportunities so she can be with her children at important times. Sandberg says that sexist innuendoes such as being labeled a "feminist" should not be ignored, but faced boldly and dealt with immediately. She exhorts women to work together toward equality, citing Betty Friedan's refusing to work with Gloria Steinem. Bursting with research and footnotes and replete with helpful anecdotal vignettes, Sandberg's book shines with her sparkling personality and should be read by both men and women.

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