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Cheryl Sandberg’s best selling book, Lean In, isn’t just number one on the bestseller list these days—everyone is talking about it, from critics to columnists, from dinner party guests to bloggers. Through the narrative of her own personal stories and those of others, Sandberg’s book chronicles the ways women often hold themselves back from reaching their leadership potential.
Toward the beginning of the book, Sandberg—the chief operating officer of Facebook—discusses a commencement speech she gave to the graduating Barnard seniors, the speech that launched her as a ‘lean in’ missionary. In that speech Sandberg charged the Barnard women to ‘lean in’ to run the world, because, as she poignantly states, the world is in need of them to change it. In that speech Sandberg challenged the Barnard women to ask themselves, ‘what would I do if I weren’t afraid?’ In that speech Sandberg challenged the Barnard women to not just reflect on what they would do, but to actually go do it.
Luckily for us, we have some Jewish role models to inspire us in Sandberg’s charge. Continue reading »
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