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Breaking Through the Other Glass Ceiling – Your Ego!

Laura Gates
June 29, 2011
Ego , Goals & Purpose , Organizational Development , Race and Gender , Team Building , Transformational Leadership , Women's Leadership
ego , glass ceiling , laura gates , Learning As Leadership , women leadership
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A recent McKinsey report quoted in the Wall Street Journal states that only 11 chief executives of Fortune 500 companies are women, down from a peak of 15 in 2010. Likewise, in her TED talk (see video below) Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg enumerates the woeful lack of women in top positions around the globe. Sandberg places some of the responsibility for this on women themselves, rather than on external forces such as sexism. She says, "Women systemically underestimate their own abilities."