I Go Around The Room And Ask

At Facebook, We Try To Be A Strengths-based Organization, Which Means We Try To Make Jobs Fit Around People Rather Than Make People Fit Around Jobs. We Focus On What People's Natural Strengths Are And Spend Our Management Time Trying To Find Ways For Them To Use Those Strengths Every Day.

I Want Women To Get Paid More. I Want To Teach Them To Negotiate So They Get Paid More.

When My Mother Took Her Turn To Sit In A Gown At Her Graduation, She Thought She Only Had Two Career Options: Nursing And Teaching. She Raised Me And My Sister To Believe That We Could Do Anything, And We Believed Her.

But The Upside Of Painful Knowledge Is So Much Greater Than The Downside Of Blissful Ignorance.

I Spent Most Of My Career, Including My Time At Mckinsey, Never Acknowledging That I Was A Woman. And, You Know, Fast Forward - I'm 43 Now - Fitting In Is Not Helping Us.