Lean In - Women, Work and Leadership

As a few people who have written about this book by Facebook's COO, mom of two, and feared that it can't live up to the hype - I agree, it fully lives up to the hype. Every woman, man, anyone aspiring to have a career, read this book. I could just quote and nod in agreement with every line. I have hysterical giggling fits reading it. And I have cried. And most importantly, it's an eye opener into constructive thinking - and hopefully action. At 200 pages, it's a quick and easy read. I dsiagree, though, that it's about leadership. Not all of us aspire to lead. Some of us are happy to work at the bottom of the pile, as long as our work is valued, and provides some value - to others but also to us as individuals. Having had my three kids without much "planning" as to how it would fit into my career - and I've has a good one so far anyway. And talking to so many young but also not so young women (latter defined as 35 and up), it's so sad how many are putting off having kids, because of an immense fear they'll not make it at work. We need to think bigger than that next mini-promotion, that next mini-extension of a 6-month contract. That's a never ending cycle, and I've said it to anyone I meet and who asks me for advice on this: just do it. If you're ready to have kid one, two, three or four, do it. Life offers so many different paths to get to where we want, and sometimes having children helps us decide what it is that we want from our careers in the first place. So, read the book. If you don't, I will buy it for you or read it out loud via telephone. Or type it up here, line for line...