Careers Are A Jungle Gym, Not A

The Traditional Metaphor For Careers Is A Ladder, But I No Longer Think That Metaphor Holds. It Just Doesn’t Make Sense In A Less Hierarchical World... Build Your Skills, Not Your Resume. Evaluate What You Can Do, Not The Title They’re Going To Give You. Do Real Work. Take A Sales Quota, A Line Role, An Ops Job. Don’t Plan Too Much, And Don’t Expect A Direct Climb. If I Had Mapped Out My Career When I Was Sitting Where You Are, I Would Have Missed My Career.

I Had Heard That When People Lost People, There Was Anger. But I Definitely Experienced It A Lot More Than I Was Prepared For It. Anger Was Not Something I'd Ever Really Felt In My Life And I Was Not Prepared For It.

It's Hard To Visualize Someone As A Leader, If She Is Always Waiting To Be Told What To Do.

It's More Pressure On Women To - If They Marry Or Partner With Someone, To Partner With The Right Person. Because You Cannot Have A Full Career And A Full Life At Home With Your Children If You Are Also Doing All Of The Housework And Child Care.

I Walk Out Of This Office Every Day At 5:30 So I'm Home For Dinner With My Kids At 6, And Interestingly, I've Been Doing That Since I Had Kids. I Did That When I Was At Google, I Did That Here, And I Would Say It's Not Until The Last Year, Two Years, That I'm Brave Enough To Talk About It Publicly. Now I Certainly Wouldn't Lie, But I Wasn't Running Around Giving Speeches On It." "...there's No Such Thing As Work-life Balance. There's Work, And There's Life, And There's No Balance.