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A review by annagwritesandreads
Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Note: If you are not a corporate America girlie, I wouldn't recommend this :)
General Description: Sheryl Sandberg has worked at the top level of Google and Facebook. In her novel, she details tips and thoughts on how women should lean in more to corporate America, despite what women have been taught for years. She teaches you how to sit at the table, lean into opportunities, and overall advocate for yourself in your job.
The good:
- Maybe I'm just a sucker, but I did feel inspired by this book to speak up more in meeting and grow into myself as a corporate worker.
- All the talk around pregnancy still felt very relevant today and I feel like I'll take those tips into my life going forward as I one day hope to become a mom.
- The idea of taking initiative is not one that is intuitive to me, but this book made taking initiative feel more accessible.
- I've actually been able to apply tips from this book into my work life and I do think it's improved my work life.
The loss of a star:
- Reading this in a post covid world made some of the information seem very outdated, even though the book isn't that old. It made me glance over some statistics or paragraphs if I inherently knew that fact changed due to a post covid world. I would read an updated version book that included new information from the post covid world.
Overall, if you aren't sure where you want to go in corporate America, this book could be very enlightening.
General Description: Sheryl Sandberg has worked at the top level of Google and Facebook. In her novel, she details tips and thoughts on how women should lean in more to corporate America, despite what women have been taught for years. She teaches you how to sit at the table, lean into opportunities, and overall advocate for yourself in your job.
The good:
- Maybe I'm just a sucker, but I did feel inspired by this book to speak up more in meeting and grow into myself as a corporate worker.
- All the talk around pregnancy still felt very relevant today and I feel like I'll take those tips into my life going forward as I one day hope to become a mom.
- The idea of taking initiative is not one that is intuitive to me, but this book made taking initiative feel more accessible.
- I've actually been able to apply tips from this book into my work life and I do think it's improved my work life.
The loss of a star:
- Reading this in a post covid world made some of the information seem very outdated, even though the book isn't that old. It made me glance over some statistics or paragraphs if I inherently knew that fact changed due to a post covid world. I would read an updated version book that included new information from the post covid world.
Overall, if you aren't sure where you want to go in corporate America, this book could be very enlightening.