A New Metaphor for Your Career
A career is no longer like a ladder; it's like a jungle gym. For your career, look for opportunities, look for growth, look for impact, look for a mission. Move sideways, move down, move on, move off.
A career is no longer like a ladder; it's like a jungle gym. For your career, look for opportunities, look for growth, look for impact, look for a mission. Move sideways, move down, move on, move off.
Emma Gray | Posted 05.30.2012
Sandberg's point that we should (somewhat) blur the lines between our "professional selves" and our "authentic selves" seems relevant to Americans in a whole variety of fields.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2012
As an advisory board member of Glamour Women of the Year, I have the privilege of nominating five inspiring women -- or groups of women -- who have made an impact in 2012. And I'd love to hear your suggestions.
Reuters | Posted 05.24.2012
By Jim Finkle and Aaron Pressman BOSTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg spoke to ...
Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 05.18.2012
Who's getting rich off Facebook? Everyday investors are clamoring to buy a piece of the company, valued at $100 billion, when it debuts on the NASD...
Posted 05.11.2012
Beyoncé, "Hunger Games" author Suzanne Collins and SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro have risen to the top of very different fields, but they all have (at l...
Marcia Reynolds | Posted 05.08.2012
Why do women quit fighting for higher positions or quit their jobs altogether, moving on to something else?
Ekaterina Walter | Posted 05.25.2012
Work/life balance is something every adult strives for, but for women in competitive corporate positions, clocking out before 8 p.m. is often seen as a sign of weakness.
Forbes Woman | Posted 05.01.2012
One of the things I love about GirlQuake is that every day I meet and talk with girls and young women. They inspire me and they inform me. Sometimes I...
Marian Salzman | Posted 04.30.2012
The American family's structure is no longer a perfect slice of apple pie. We've got nests that are no longer empty as jobless millennials move back in with mom and dad and redefine our latest obsession with what it means to be "occupied."
Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 04.26.2012
"If there's one thing I would say to women who are stepping out of the workforce, it's 'Keep a toe in. Just keep a toe in,'" advised Cara France, who should know. She's CEO of a firm that provides high-level marketing and business consultants.
Sheila Moeschen | Posted 04.26.2012
It is time for the concept of harmony to replace the work-life balance buzz.
Julia Landauer | Posted 04.25.2012
Once you recognize your passion, grab it by the horns and make it happen. There's no reason that women shouldn't do what they love, and what they're good at, because it's currently in a male-dominated field.
Bonnie St. John | Posted 04.22.2012
Our journey to understand women's leadership was a collaborative process -- which, when you are talking about a mother and a teenage daughter, means we argued about everything.
The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 04.18.2012
TIME Magazine released its list of 100 Most Influential People today -- and quite a few of those 100 are women. Women made up about 40 percent of TIME...
LearnVest | Posted 04.17.2012
Many moms are happy and willing to martyr themselves.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 04.13.2012
I'll bet you do. That's right: you, over there. The one who just fished a shirt to wear to work out of the pile of dirty clothes on your bedroom floor.
Carol Evans | Posted 04.12.2012
Sandberg's work-life balance is not easy to achieve, but she does manage it. She has proven her value to the company and can leave at 5:30 p.m., have dinner with her family and put her kids to bed.
Women 2.0 | Posted 04.16.2012
There is still a disparity in earnings and leadership titles across genders, but there are more outspoken advocates of professional women than ever before.
Elizabeth Debold | Posted 04.10.2012
It would be easy to call Sandberg a reformer and Steinem the revolutionary, as I might have done years ago. But I question that now.
The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 04.12.2012
Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook, a mother of two, and an outspoken advocate for women leaders. Here's one more reason sh...
The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 04.05.2012
On April 3, we posted a slideshow of the top 11 most influential young leaders in tech, according to PeekYou, a search engine that ranks people based ...
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.28.2012
In the span of a little over a week, two huge studies have found that women are viewed as better leaders than men.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.16.2012
Why should women have to view their dreams as an either/or proposition? Men don't.
Marlo Thomas | Posted 05.13.2012
March is Women's History Month, and I'm being asked the same question -- a lot: "Whatever happened to the women's movement? Where are the feminist freedom fighters today?" I guess if people don't see women marching, they don't think they're moving.
Sheryl Sandberg | Posted 05.31.2012