It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.
The reason I wrote Lean In is I think people weren't actually noticing that we had stopped making progress. I gave a TED talk and said: "It turns out men still run the world." And the audience gasped as if that was news.
Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.
I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in ways that might initially scare you. That can be being an architect of change.
Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority - can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.
We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing.
Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.
