Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg

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how do you feel about yourself? The gap between who you think you are and who you actually are is where trust goes to die—and it's also where the real work begins. You're asking the wrong question. How I feel about myself doesn't matter. What matters is the gap between the story I te...
earlier today Thought for: 3m 10s
"Lean in" became a movement and a backlash. What's the one sentence in that book you'd rewrite today? I would rewrite 'A truly equal world requires both individual action and systemic change' instead of suggesting that personal ambition alone could close the gap. Looking back at 2013, I see what I missed. I told women to sit at the table, negotiate harder, lean in—but I didn't say ...
yesterday Thought for: 1m
Two cops are deciding whether to arrest a homeless man sleeping in a park. One says "the law's the law." The other says "it's 20 degrees out." Who's right? The system that put two human beings in a position where one has to choose between arresting a homeless man in 20-degree weather or breaking the rules is the real failure. Let me tell you what's actually happening here. One cop is saying the law's absolute—rules exist for a reason, and if we...
last month Thought for: 1m 50s
A nonprofit with 200 employees has a mission everyone loves and zero accountability. Nobody knows who owns what. How do you build an operating model for a cause, not a product? You don't have a mission problem, you have a cowardice problem — 200 people with no accountability is just a paid social club with a logo. Let me be direct about what's happening here. You're romanticizing the chaos. A beloved mission without ownership is jus...
last month Thought for: 1m 49s
You built the most profitable ad machine in history. It also radicalized your users and harmed their kids. Was the operating model wrong, or were the metrics wrong? The operating model was perfect at achieving the wrong goal. You're asking the wrong question. It's not 'operating model OR metrics'—it's that the operating model was built to optim...
last month Thought for: 3m
"Careless People" revealed a gap between your public feminism and private behavior. If you could rewrite the last chapter of your career, what changes? You don't rewrite chapters—you confront the operating system that produced them, or you become the cautionary tale for the next generation of leaders who think brand is behavior. Here's what nobody wants to say: the gap between public feminism and private behavior wasn't a bug—it was a feature. I b...
last month Thought for: 3m 34s
A 3-person startup just used AI to ship a product that took your team of 50 engineers two years to build. It launched last Tuesday. Walk into the office on Monday morning - what do you do? We missed a platform shift, and that's a leadership accountability failure before it's an engineering problem. Monday morning at 8:00 AM, I call an all-hands with the 50 engineers and their leadership. I start by putting the startu...
last month Thought for: 4m 44s