Lean In

etting our institutions off the hook

hold myself bac

turning into odd-shaped lumps

many employees focus on hours clocked in the office rather than on achieving their goals as efficiently as possib

To compensate, I started checking e-mails around 5:00 a.m.

started arriving at work around 9:00 a.m. and leaving at 5:30 p.m.

when my son slept, I worked instead of rested.

was in the office from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. every day at a minimum. I ran the global operating teams and thought it was critical that I stay on top of as many details as possible. No one ever demanded that I work this schedule; typical of Silicon Valley, Google was not the type of place to set hours for anyone.

Perfection is the enemy. Gloria Steinem said it best: “You can’t do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic ‘til dawn . . . Superwoman is the adversary of the women’s movement.” 6

a big believer in thoughtful preparation. Everywhere I go, I carry a little notebook with my to-do list— an actual notebook that I write in with an actual