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Sheryl Sandberg
Convey Values with Stories, Build Supportive Networks, Resolve Conflicts among Domains
“I can’t code. I’m not very technical,” acknowledged Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and, at the time, the lone woman on the company’s board of directors. She was addressing a tech-savvy audience gathered at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference. “For my fortieth birthday, my husband gave me a lifetime of tech support, no complaining. The no complaining part was actually important because he had been providing tech support already—but there was a lot of complaining [on his part],” she said, smiling broadly.1
Clouds had pressed down on Portland, Oregon, as Sandberg arrived to deliver the keynote, even as the forecast—“clouds ...
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