She was the only woman in her class to win a Harvard Business School award but, unlike the male recipients, felt compelled to keep her success a secret. In high school, Sandberg was voted “most likely to succeed” but asked a yearbook friend to delete it so she’d have a date to the prom. It’s a problem that plays out time and again in “Lean In.” This makes it hard to close the distance between lucky her and the women who could most benefit from her advocacy. She is also incredibly wealthy - reportedly worth hundreds of millions - and is too often tone-deaf to her voice of privilege. Sandberg is the Harvard-educated chief operating officer of Facebook and a self-avowed feminist who wants to transform the role of women in the workplace. To have a meaningful discussion about Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, let’s acknowledge its flaws and move on to what she gets right.
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