Don't Let Your Fears Overwhelm Your Desire.

Grief Comes And Goes, It Ebbs And Flows. I Think One Of The Lessons Of This For Me Is That There's No One Way To Grieve. Everyone Does It In Their Own Way, In Their Own Time, And We All Process Life And Its Challenges And Its Ups And Downs As They Come.

In Those Same 10 Years, Women Are Getting More And More Of The Graduate Degrees, More And More Of The Undergraduate Degrees, And It's Translating Into More Women In Entry-level Jobs, Even More Women In Lower-level Management. But There's Absolutely Been No Progress At The Top. You Can't Explain Away 10 Years. Ten Years Of No Progress Is No Progress.

All Of Us Want The Same Things. We Want To Be Good To The People Around Us And For Our Lives To Have Meaning. For Me That Means Making The World A Little Bit Easier For Women.

Let's Acknowledge That Men Reach For Opportunities More Quickly And More Easily Than Women. So Often As Managers, We Give The Job To Whoever Starts Solving The Problem, To Whoever Jumps In. Since We Know Men Will Jump In Faster Than Women In So Many Circumstances, We Have To Slow Down And Encourage More Women To Sit At More Tables.

There Is No Straight Path From Your Seat Today To Where You Are Going. Don't Try To Draw That Line. You Will Not Just Get It Wrong, You'll Miss Big Opportunities. And I Mean Big-like The Internet. Careers Are Not Ladders, Those Days Are Long Gone, But Jungle Gyms. Don't Just Move Up And Down, Don't Just Look Up, Look Backwards, Sideways Around Corners. Your Career And Your Life Will Have Starts And Stops And Zigs And Zags. Don't Stress Out About The White Space-the Path You Can't Draw- Because There In Lies Both The Surprises And The Opportunities.