Diversity Management, News and Updates
Facebook has been in headlines frequently lately, and the press has not been positive. After claims of unfair working conditions, retaliation and pandering to right-wing figures, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s name is in the news again. He attended a congressional hearing on Wednesday to discuss Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency, Libra. Instead,…
Former First Lady Michelle Obama kept it all the way real on the latest stop of her successful “Becoming” book tour at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Saturday. In a moment of full disclosure, Obama expressed the difficulties of “having it all.” “Leaning in” is a formula that Facebook COO Sheryl…
Facebook has come under fire by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) for absence of diversity in the boardroom none of itseight board membersare people of color and for having allowed the Russian government to systematically use its platform to exploit the Black community. In a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill…
By Bob Moritz,US Chairman and Senior Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers As chairman and senior partner of PwC, I have closely followed the debate about Sheryl Sandberg’s new bookLean In. Sandberg has brought renewed attention to the critical challenge of diversifying corporate leadership. While Sandberg focuses on inspiring women to embrace ambition, I…
By Barbara Frankel Sheryl Sandberg thinks the concept of mentorship for women is highly overrated. Sandberg’s wrongand here’s why. Before I take apart the argument about mentoring made by Sandberg, the Facebook COO who is on every media channel pushing her book Lean In, I have a confession: I never…
One of my coworkers passed along an article from The Atlantic about why men need to “Lean In,” too. The Atlantic only got half the story. It’s not about “housework”; if we’re talking about top management, at a certain point, a couple has to decide which person is going to…
Why are so few women in senior management According to Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, it’s because women haven’t taken enough responsibility in advocating their own successand it’s about time they stepped up and got themselves out of this “stalled revolution.” In her newly released book Lean In: Women, Work and…
By Barbara Frankel Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In comes out today, and it has been lighting up social media and Sunday talk shows with its concept that women have to “try harder” and not rely on their employers or their mentors to look out for them. As a…