A review of Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In'

A review of Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In'

About the writer

Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook and the one and the only woman on her board, recently introduced a book on women and what she can do in order to help them to live better life (Williams, 2013). She was not working as a top boss but still have all the qualities that the top boss of the company doesn't have. As compared to other top executives of her organization she is more charismatic, more eloquent, and more approachable. There are not a lot of female business executives out there but there are a lot of people who want to be like her - just like one who last year had earned$845 million in share options. Lean In is now becoming a best seller and the time is not far when Sandberg will be known as a business guru as well (Applebaum, 2013).

Review

Sheryl Sandberg recently published her book Lean In on the lack of women at the top and what a woman can do in order to help them to climb the career ladder (Tulshyan, 2013). Here is the review of the bestselling book “Lean In”. I tried my level best to place a number of embodiments of it from different places, but by the time I pitched them most books were Sandberg'ed out. I missed the advance booking of the book and therefore, had to wait a lot until the next publication will be out in the market. Thus, here is my review of the book. I have a lot of things to say about this book, which I have not heard elsewhere.

Well, according to me, the bottom line of the book is that the book eventually adds up to a net plus, I myself feel significant ambivalence about this book. In fact, the more deeply I think about this book, the more ambivalence it enthused up. This book according to me has done a fantastic job by encouraging women to stand up and fight for building their career. This has brought a great revolution in our women. But it's terrible when it comes to rationally anchoring that recommendation in the context of our drastically altered, high-unemployment country.

Let's move on to specifies: The way Sandberg discusses the question about the chicken / egg of internal and external barriers to the leadership of a woman is pretty good - the main issue is to falling down of those external barriers, but until or unless the individual women start pushing them it is impossible. I like any good lefty strongly believed that for women's progress structural issues are far more important impediment as compared to individual ones and as compared to individual effort that collective action is more powerful. That said, it is a major fact that that the individual behavior plays a major role, and the women in order to gain more economic power must keep an open eye on ...