![]() The infusion of “Lean In” into the zeitgeist is clear: Hillary Clinton spoke of “leaning in” last week, in conversation with Christine Lagarde and Thomas Friedman at Tina Brown’s “Women of the World” conference and it seems to have influenced Arianna Huffington’s newly released “Thrive.” And yet the book has had its detractors. Auletta writes that Sandberg doesn’t quite see the point of rehashing horror stories about sexist acts-that only “diverts women from self-improvement”-and that she “opposes all forms of affirmative action for women.” He describes a meeting in which Sandberg told twelve female Facebook executives, “What I believe, and that doesn’t mean everyone believes it, is that there are still institutional problems and we need more flexibility in all of this stuff, but much too much of the conversation is on blaming others, and not enough is on taking responsibility ourselves.” It is in this spirit that Sandberg imagined her book as the basis for a social movement. In each of these boys’ clubs, she thrived. Before she was a billionaire, Sandberg earned undergraduate and business degrees at Harvard, where she became a protegée of Lawrence Summers when he was named Secretary of the Treasury, she worked as his chief of staff. In his interviews with her, the thoughts that inform “Lean In” were beginning to take shape. ![]() Ken Auletta wrote a Profile of Sandberg in the magazine in 2011, three years after she left her position as a vice-president of Google to take Facebook’s second-most-prominent executive seat. ![]()
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