summary ofLean InBook by Sheryl Sandberg, Nell Scovell

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Claim your place

Sheryl Sandberg once hosted a lunch at Facebook for a visiting delegation from the US Treasury. Fifteen executives, a buffet, a long conference table. The senior officials filled their plates and sat down at the table.The women who had come with them ate last and took chairs along the wall. Sandberg invited them over, but they stayed where they were. Nobody had told them to sit at the side. They had been invited to that meeting as experts, but it went ahead with them positioned as the audience.Sandberg's argument in Lean In starts right there, in the gap between having a place and taking it. She spent 14 years as Facebook's chief operating officer, and with co-author Nell Scovell, she turns what she learned into a series of practical choices."Leaning in" is her shorthand for choosing to step forward rather than wait to feel completely ready. You take the seat, say the number, or put your hand up before you're certain you belong in the room. Over the next few minutes, those ideas become concrete moves you can test in your own career.