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- Untitled Project
Away from AEOTTC, I'm working on a second, as-yet-untitled...
- FAQ
FAQ - Updates - James Islington
- Giveaway
Licanius 1 & 2 Recap (PDF) FAQ. Giveaway. Giveaway - Signed...
- About Me
About Me - Updates - James Islington
- Signed Books
If you have an existing book you would like to mail James to...
- Contact James
Contact James - Updates - James Islington
- Untitled Project
- Chapter 1 – The Leadership Ambition Gap
- Chapter 2 – Sit at The Table
- Chapter 3 – Success and Likeability
- Chapter 4 – It’S A Jungle Gym Not A Ladder
- Chapter 5 – Are You My Mentor?
- Chapter 7 – Don’T Leave Before You Leave
- Chapter 8 – Make Your Partner A Real Partner
- Chapter 9 – The Myth of Doing It All
- Chapter 10 – Let’s Start Talking About It
- Chapter 11 – Working Together Toward Equality
In which we discover there is an ‘ambition gap’ between men and women and this partly explains why less women make it to the upper echelons of organisations than men. She rightly espouses the need for more positive portrayals of working women and less ‘I don’t Know How She Does it” type stuff. (A book I read and lapped up as a new mother 6 years ag...
Where we discover Sheryl continues to feel like a fraud at times; the power of the ‘fake it til you feel it’ technique she learned whilst an aerobics instructor in the 80s; how the wide-open warrior poses 1, 2 and 3 from yoga can help us take more career-enhancing risks and why women must take the initiative much more than they tend to (the ‘don’t ...
In which the need to be liked is explored and what the research says about the links between likability and competence are spelled out. Clue: it’s not easy for women to be seen as both, which is a very big problem when it comes to career progression. The shocking truth of gender bias is revealed in the not-well-known-enough Howard & Heidi experimen...
In which we discover a powerfully different way to market ourselves to a prospective employer and Sheryl recommends we adopt two concurrent career goals: a long term dream and an 18 month plan. (Recruiters take note: ‘and where do you see yourself in five years time?’ is out of fashion, although really, it was always lame). And get this, the dream ...
In which we learn not to ask Sheryl Sandberg ‘will you be my mentor?’ and her belief that women seeking out mentors has become a problem: she believes it’s creating dependency on others and compares the search for one as being the ‘professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming.’ My view on mentoring (mentor = trusted advisor) is why have o...
The core idea of the book, ‘Don’t leave before you leave’ is another way of imploring women to ‘lean in’ to their careers and put to one side worries about ‘what ifs’ (thinking about pregnancies and babies before they’re a reality). In discussions I have with clients who are looking to return to work after children, the subject of ‘is it worth it g...
In which Lean In and my book, Mothers Work!overlap greatly, specifically chapter three ‘See your family as a team.’ Sheryl and I have a shared outlook on equality in the home, both believing it is a mindset more than anything else. I write ‘…partnering up, like equality, is an attitude more than anything else. Equality is when you both recognise th...
With lines such as ‘no one has it all, ‘done is better than perfect’ (on a poster hanging at Facebook HQ) and ‘perfection is the enemy’ Sheryl and I are back in the same space. This chapter pedals the same message as the chapter ‘Go for good enough at home’ in Mothers Work!As I read a thought bubbles up – I hope there isn’t value in authors still w...
In which we learn Sheryl was rightly incensed as a teenager when patted on the head by ‘legendary’ Tip O’Neill (Lib Dem speaker of US House of Representatives) and told over her head ‘she’s pretty.’ Although oddly, in the following years, she denounced feminism, believing it wasn’t something she wanted to be associated with and that it was redundan...
In which Sheryl encourages us all to be supportive of people’s choices, most notably her friend and newly appointed Yahoo! CEO, Marissa Mayer’s decision to take a very short maternity leave. She touches on getting over the mommy wars; that is, ending competitions to prove that staying at home or going out to work when our children are young is the ...
Sep 30, 2014 · Supposedly, Queen Victoria was asked by one of her newly married daughters about possible carnal activities in the marriage bed. Here are five versions of the response: Just close your eyes and think of England. Shut your eyes tight and think of England. Lie still and think of the Empire. Lie back and think of the Empire.
Read why and how women can lean in instead of leaning back in a summary of a famous book by Facebook's COO - Sheryl Sandberg. One hundred years ago the suffragettes marched in the streets, fighting for women’s rights and equality.
In Sandberg's book, she uses a metaphor that she has been developing over the last few years on the theme of women pursuing their business ambitions in an assertive manner. Women in business are too often content to "lean back" when they should be "leaning in."
Dec 5, 2013 · As Motoko Rich pointed out in her New York Times piece “Making a Word Meme,” the phrase lean in took a life of its own since Sandberg’s much-anticipated book release in March 2013. Rich writes, “the phrase can be almost anything,” and its “fungibility” is a big reason why it has caught on.
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She’s also the Executive Producer of the dramedy feature film, I Like Movies, which opened to sold out crowds at TIFF 2022, continues its award-winning festival run and theatrical release across Canada with Mongrel in March 2023.
