When I Was In High School, I

Aiming For Perfection Causes Frustration At Best And Paralysis At Worst.

Women Have Made Tons Of Progress. But We Still Have A Small Percentage Of The Top Jobs In Any Industry, In Any Nation In The World. I Think That's Partly Because From A Very Young Age, We Encourage Our Boys To Lead And We Call Our Girls Bossy.

After My Husband, Dave, Died, I Called My Friend Adam, A Psychologist Who Studies How People Find Meaning In Our Lives, And I Asked Him What, If Anything, I Could Do To Help Myself And My Kids Get Through This. We Started Talking About Resilience, Then Reading About It, Then Talking To Other People Who Had Gotten Through Grief And Other Huge Challenges. In Time, Those Conversations And That Research Helped Me Heal.

Sixty-four Percent Of Managers In The U.s. Are Afraid To Be Alone In A Room With A Woman. Mentoring Is All About Being Alone In A Room With Someone. Let's Start Talking About This Honestly. The Lack Of Equal Access Is The Silent Killer For Women And No One Wants To Talk About It.

Presenting Leadership As A List Of Carefully Defined Qualities (like Strategic, Analytical, And Performance-ori Ented) No Longer Holds. Instead, True Leadership Stems From Individuality That Is Honestly And Sometimes Imperfectly Expressed.... Leaders Should Strive For Authenticity Over Perfection.