Sheryl Sandberg is the COO of Facebook. She is an amazing woman, intelligent, inspiring, successful and beautiful. She recently gave the commencement speech at Harvard Business School (
Sheryl Sandberg HBS Commencement Speech) and I had to share it! Reading about how she got to where she is, how she stepped outside the box, took risks and believed in herself is truly inspiring. Made me think, when was the last time I did something without second guessing myself. I am good at my job, I am successful and I know my coworkers respect me but, would they respect me even more if I took a few more risks and was a more confident in my decisions? She really opened my eyes to the fact that exuding confidence and believing in yourself forces others to believe in you!
If you are inspired by this speech, if you are woman who aspires to be successful in the workplace I also suggest you read Mika Brzezinski's book
Knowing Your Value. I wish I read this book when I was 22 years old and starting my first job. Just read it, you will be inspired and you will realize that women need to be empowered in the work place, we need to ask for or even better yet, take what we want because no one is going to give it to us!
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