Sheryl Sandberg on Resilience
Sheryl Sandberg is a remarkable person. Alongside leading a $500 billion business, with 24,000 employees and 2 billion monthly active users, she has mobilised millions of women around the world to achieve…
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Everyone says, 'oh it's fine to make mistakes, it's fine to do things wrong'. But actually? making that true is really difficult.
— Sheryl SandbergCOO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In
Resilience is the responsibility and opportunity of the community.
— Sheryl SandbergCOO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In
Adversity is happening all around us at the individual level, it's happening at a company level, it's happening at industry levels; and we can either face it and learn from it or we can pretend it's not happening. And I think that is the key.
— Sheryl SandbergCOO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In
We have to stop pretending that there's no adversity, or that we can't do anything about the adversity we face. We need to fix the culture of silence and ignorance surrounding bias and adversity.
— Sheryl SandbergCOO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In
In order to fix bias you have to admit to them, you have to admit they exist and bring them out of the shadows. Then you can call them out.
— Sheryl SandbergCOO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In
Resilience is not a muscle we're born with, it's something we have to build and believe in over time. We should never ask ourselves how much resilience we have, but rather how much we can build, and how we can build it into ourselves, our friends, and the people around us.
— Sheryl SandbergCOO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In
The real 'a-ha!' moment of my experience was realising that resilience is not a muscle we're born with, it's something we have to build and believe in over time. We should never ask ourselves how much resilience we have, but rather how much we can build.
— Sheryl SandbergCOO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In
Resilience is the responsibility and opportunity of the community. We can either face it and learn from it or we can pretend it's not happening. We have to explicitly face the fact that resilience is the responsibility of all of us, together.
— Sheryl SandbergCOO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In
In order to fix bias you have to admit to them, you have to admit they exist and bring them out of the shadows. Then you can call them out. We have to stop pretending that there's no adversity, or that we can't do anything about the adversity we face.
— Sheryl SandbergCOO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In