"Lean in" reading sharing - long-term dreams and short-term goals in career

Key points from this article:

1- People often focus on finding the right position for themselves and explaining how their skills will help the company. But it's a great way to put the needs of the company you want to serve first.

2-Career is a grid, not a vertical ladder. - Patty Sellers

3-When choosing a job only one criterion is important, and that is whether it will allow you to grow quickly.

4-In the face of risks and uncertainties, women are more inclined to pursue stability, while men are more open-minded. Women need to change their mindset and stop saying “I’m not ready yet” to think “I want to do it and I can learn by doing it.”

As early as my freshman English class, I heard about the name Sheryl Sandberg and her book "Lean in" from the teacher. Why is this book called "Lean in"? Lean means leaning the body, while lean in means leaning the body forward. What does it mean? When you sit down at the table in a meeting and want to express your opinion, do you slouch backwards and lean back in your chair, or do you sit up straight forward? It's obviously the latter, right (unless you're a big boss and have nothing to fear)? Therefore, the author intends to use this book to encourage more women to sit at the table boldly and express their opinions bravely, instead of just cowering in a corner of the conference table and being a bystander. It's a pity that I was too young and too simple at that time. I wasted my time on a lot of meaningless things, but missed a lot of opportunities to explore myself and good things worth seeing. This book is one of them. I want to read it. Quite regretful.

The author of the book "Lean in" is Sheryl Sandberg, a bachelor and master's student who taught at Harvard University and received a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in business administration (MBA) respectively. ) degree student, former Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration (Lawrence Summers, who was the author’s undergraduate thesis advisor and a famous American economist), Chief of Staff, Vice President of Google’s Global Online Sales and Operations Department, and currently COO of Facebook

(Chief Operations Officer, Chief Operating Officer), is also the first female member to join Facebook’s board of directors (it sounds awesome), and is considered to have successfully solved the problem of women’s “ A good example of the century-old dilemma "Do you want a family or a career?"

In this book, Sheryl talks about her career development process and the differences in treatment that women and men experienced in the workplace. I have a lot of feelings about the problem, and I have put forward my own opinions and suggestions. What is commendable is that the author will donate all the income from this book to "LEAN IN" (a non-profit organization created by the author to encourage women around the world to bravely realize their ambitions) and other related women's charitable organizations. In addition, she also delivered a popular TED talk on why we have so few female leaders to encourage more women to fully realize their self-worth.

Although this book is written to encourage women, in my opinion, many novel ideas in the book can also inspire the majority of male compatriots. This article only shares the author's four very novel and very valuable viewpoints in the chapter "Long-term dreams and short-term goals of career".

1-People often focus on finding the right role for themselves and explaining how their skills will help the company. But it's a great way to put the needs of the company you want to serve first.

When eBay senior marketing executive Lori Goller wanted to join Facebook and have sex with Sheryl, what she said to Sheryl was: "I want to be with you." Working at Facebook. I should tell you what I'm good at and what I want to do, but I find that everyone is doing it. So, I want to ask you: What is your biggest problem right now? ?” Her words shocked Cheryl, as no one among the thousands of people she had hired had said anything similar before. Later, Cheryl told Lori that recruiting was her biggest problem. Goller agreed and accepted the challenges of entering a new field. In the end, she performed so well that she was promoted to Facebook's head of people. Later, when asked if she would return to marketing, she responded that a job in human resources would allow her to have a greater impact on the company.

2-Career is a grid, not a vertical ladder. ——Patty Sellers

Vertical ladders restrict people’s movement—there is only one way to get to the top, either up or down, or standing on the ladder, or falling Come down. On vertical ladders, most climbers have to stare at the butt of the person above them.

The grid allows people to have more exploration possibilities - there are many ways to climb to the top of the grid, you can go up and down, take twists and turns, and even occasionally hit dead ends.

A trellis can provide a wider view to more people, rather than only those at the top having the best views.

Therefore, when you are hesitating whether to continue working in a job you are familiar with but don’t like so much, or to jump to a job you are unfamiliar with but you are more willing to do from scratch, maybe You can think about it outside of the present. If you continue to work for 30 years, and you choose a new job to start over, it is equivalent to going back 4 years. So what does it matter if you go back 4 years ago? ? If taking another path makes you happier and learns new skills, that means you're actually moving forward and improving.

Sometimes, we may lose more possible opportunities because we are too reluctant to let go of what we have already gained; or we may be stubborn about what we have already lost (the so-called sunk cost) and lose more ( Just like sometimes I wait for the bus for a long time and it doesn’t come, and then I think it’s better to take a taxi, but then I think about it again, I just waited for the bus to save some money, and if I take a taxi now, the time I spent waiting will not be in vain. It's here, and I've been waiting for it for so long, so it must be coming soon, but it turns out it may have taken longer,).

3-When choosing a job only one criterion is important, and that is whether it will allow you to grow quickly.

This was what Eric Schmidt, one of the founders of Google, said to Cheryl when she was hesitating whether to work at Google. At that time, Google was still in its infancy and was not well-known, and Cheryl was in desperate need of making money to relieve financial pressure. So, with an MBA background, she followed the typical MBA routine and made a spreadsheet, listing possible opportunities horizontally and the selection criteria vertically. But judging from the scores on the table, Google is not favored. Moreover, not only was the job level lower than the positions offered by other companies, but more importantly, she did not even know what the job entailed. When she talked about this with Schmidt, he covered her spreadsheet with his hand and told her, When choosing a job, only one criterion is important, and that is whether it will allow you to grow quickly. When a company develops rapidly, there will be more things to do than there are not enough people to do it; when the company's development slows down or even stagnates, there will be too many people to do things; when intrigues begin in the company, its development will also stagnate, and everyone will be shaken. He said: "If someone invites you to get on a rocket, you don't ask where you will sit after you get on, you just get on." It was these words that made Cheryl immediately make up her mind. Facts have proved that she made the right choice.

4-In the face of risks and uncertainties, women are more inclined to pursue stability, while men are more open-minded. Women need to change their mindset and stop saying “I’m not ready yet” to think “I want to do it and I can learn by doing it.”

The reasons for this difference are that firstly, gender stereotypes make it difficult for women to enter fields usually dominated by men, and women are more likely to compromise with their partner’s career pursuits and will not blindly pursue them. Self-worth; another reason is that they are too worried that they do not have the skills needed to take on new tasks.

An internal HP report shows that women will only publicly apply for jobs if they think they are 100% qualified, but men will respond to job offers as long as they feel they are 60% qualified. . The ripple effect of this difference is huge.

Therefore, women need to change their thinking and stop saying "I'm not ready yet". Instead, think "I want to do it, and I can learn while doing it." A good example is Padmasree Warrior, the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems in the United States. When she was asked by the Huffington Post: "What mistakes have you made in the past?" What’s the most important lesson you learned in high school?” she responded. “When I was first starting out, I turned down a lot of opportunities because I thought, ‘I’m not qualified for this’ or ‘I’m not good at this. The field is not yet understood'. Looking back now, the ability to learn quickly and achieve results is the most important thing at a certain time. Now, I often tell people that when looking for your next goal, there is no. The so-called perfect opportunity. You have to take the initiative to seize the opportunity and create an opportunity that suits you instead of blindly rejecting it.”

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