

The summary and analysis in this audiobook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction. With detailed steps and strategies, Sandberg shows how to lean in to our personal lives and careers-and how to help others achieve and succeed. With knowledge gleaned from Sheryl Sandberg's experiences at Google and Facebook, and with insights from her from friends, mentors, and scientific studies, Lean In offers wisdom and inspiration to current and future leaders. Lean In is a modern-day manifesto for women who aspire to rise to the top of their careers, as well as a pointed look at the many ways in which gender bias is reinforced in the workplace.

I guess she’s already being hounded for practical details of how FB is going to do this, but let us just leave it there for now, shall we? Let’s.ĭo say: “Go, girl. Looking outwards instead of retreating into grief. I cannot tell you how much I admire this. Sandberg ended her post with a plea to protect working mothers, saying that America needs to “rethink our public and corporate workforce policies” and “understand that it takes a community to raise children and that so many of our single mothers need and deserve a much more supportive community than we give them.” The very end is a vow “to support them, every day”. To say that their thinking has changed, to admit they might have been mistaken or ignorant to begin with … I do not see many people doing this, in public or private life. Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and the first woman to serve as president of an Ivy League. And to evolve your position publicly is almost equally so. The below is a summary of Chapter 1 from 'Lean In', Sheryl Sandbergs' book.

Whoa – that’s quite, y’know, radical for a corporate bod. She goes on to say that she now thinks that the emphasis Lean In put on self-confidence, dedication and cultivating personal ambition rather than systemic, institutional change was wrong – that individual efforts can only ever be a partial solution. This short summary and analysis of Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg includes: About Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In is a modern-day manifesto for women who aspire to rise to the top of their careers, as well as a pointed look at the many ways in which gender bias is reinforced in the workplace. That’s something you don’t hear very often.
