Yesterday morning on the way to work, NPR was broadcasting an interview with Sheryl Sandberg and her new book Lean In was mentioned and discussed. Then, when I arrived home, she was on the cover page of the weekly Time magazine that I receive in mail. At night, I saw Piers Morgan had a piece on her and 60 Minutes a program on her. How is it that everyone has a program or release about her on the same exact date? Did they all want to be the first and that was the only way to avoid their content being out dated? But how do they learn about the timeline and schedule of other competitive media. Today, TED reshared an old video of her famous talk, "Why we have too few women leaders", on facebook too. It is as if over night, the world decided to concentrate on her. What happened? How does it work?
Was her book released yesterday?
Hi Nargess, you are right, the book obviously hit the nerve of many readers. I was also surprised that the Germany translation was issued almost the same day as the English original. Either an entire crew of professional translators worked day and night on the book, or they used Google Translate ;-)
ReplyDeleteI red a couple of chapters, and found it really intelligent and much better than the stereotypic man-bashings. There is for instance a very interesting part of the book where Mrs. Sandbergs describes the conflict when a man of a higher position meets a woman of a lower positions (naturally she is of younger age). This is immediately branded as motivated by other than professional interests. But an elder man meeting a younger male colleague at a bar after a conference to have a drink together and chat about some background information and gossiping about competitors and so on, this is considered appropriate and good mentoring praxis. To avoid this unequal treatment at all, Mrs. Sandberg cites a higher rank guy of Goldman Sachs who said that he decided to meet colleagues only for breakfast and lunch, not for dinner any more.
best regards, Michael