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The Connected Company - Dave Gray

Here’s an excerpt from a related blog post: “I’ve noticed some troubling trends lately in the business world. A recent analysis of S&P 500 companies shows that when you triple the number of employees in an organization, its productivity drops by half. The average life expectancy for a U.S. firm today is just 15 years, down from 75 years on the heels of the Great Depression. What’s more, only 40 percent of companies survive more than a decade. I believe all of this is happening because businesses are growing increasingly complex and are collapsing under the weight of that complexity. If we are to avoid such failures in the future, we need to understand the nature of large, complex systems and let go of traditional notions of how companies function. Historically, we have thought of businesses as machines and designed them with similar characteristics. We tend to expect them to perform a certain function, so we design and build them to perform that function for their entire lives. Either that, or we divide up tasks into machine-like parts. We separate departments and tasks from one another (finance, sales, operations, etc.), and we design work-flows that process inputs into outputs (raw materials into products, prospects into customers, complaints into resolutions, etc.). The problem with this thinking is that the nature of a machine is to maintain consistency, while the nature of a company is to grow. Customers want new products and services. Different systems are needed. And companies are made of people, not levers and gears. Some executives may wish they could put their business strategy into a machine, push a button, and wait for results. But it doesn’t work that way. If you want results, you have to execute your strategy through people. So, what happens if we stop thinking of the modern company as a machine and start thinking of it as a complex, growing, and connected system? What if we manage our companies as we do our cities? Cities are more productive than corporations. A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia shows that when the working population in a given geographical area doubles, its productivity (the rate of invention) goes up by 20 percent.” In the video above, Dave talks more about how companies could evolve in our new social age. He’s such a great, visual presenter; I would rate this a “MUST WATCH”. See what you think.

Reinventing the technology of human accomplished.

Does your vote count? The Electoral College explained - Christina Greer

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IBM’s 3 big chip breakthroughs explained

万圣节期间采摘南瓜

在家煮出香濃豆漿，製作好吃豆花

做法：先把不完整或不飽滿的豆子去除再洗過之後泡水，水要蓋過豆子，夏天約泡４小時，冬天約泡６小時，先倒入適量的豆子到果汁機中，再準備一瓶礦泉水倒入約一半的礦泉水後­開始攪碎，絞碎到無顆粒狀，再準備鍋子上面蓋上紗網，把絞碎後的生豆漿倒入後使勁扭乾，再準備另一個鍋子，把另一半礦泉水加入煮開後另加入處理完後的豆漿，一邊加一邊攪拌­直到煮滾，這樣處理就不會讓豆漿煮到溢出來,煮滾後讓豆漿溫度降約８０～８５度即可，再來準備桶鍋倒入市售豆花粉、水，一定要攪拌均勻後，馬上把煮完後的豆漿立即沖入，之­後不要動鍋子靜置，大約等十分鐘後就會凝結，凝結之後把泡沫撈起，這樣就完成水水嫩嫩的豆花

超淨養生豆漿機

food processor

Ira Glass makes balloon animals

Explore a Google data center with Street View

一鍋二吃 花雕雞 創新麻辣重口味

A Farm for the Future

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4xHOIg_HAo&feature=channel&list=UL

An animated short about the big choice in 2012's presidential election, by Simpsons / Family Guy animator Lucas Gray.

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Swinging Pendulum - Cool Science Experiment

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In this episode, you get two matches for the price of one. Breaker Box vs. Last Rites, and Ragin Scotsman vs. Sewer Snake. Breaker Box was designed to be the ultimate spinner killer - how will it fare against the ultimate spinner? In the second match-up, The winningest robot in history takes on some uppity high school kids.

Here is Lee Soo-man, the creator of the idol system and a large presence in the piece, speaking about “Cultural Technology,” which is the science behind K-pop:

here is my digitized recording of a “Talk by Steven Jobs” from the 1983 IDCA

肺臟第1問：為何有人感冒一兩天，很快變成嚴重肺炎？

肺臟是人體面積最大器官，有人說它是「一對綠葉」，在人體不停伸展收縮，為我們進行換氣。出問題就像樹枯了葉子，嚴重影響到健康。《康健》【身體百科-肺臟100問】公開強健肺、保養肺與治療肺的健康祕密...

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Owl City 和 Carley Rae Jepsen 的二重奏"Good Time" 这首歌里面有很多很口语的美语说法！ 1）I'm in 算我一个 2）I'm down 我可以啊！我想去！ 3）get down 去疯玩儿

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Stanley Tucci And Eric Ripert Drink Vodka And Roast A Fish On 'On The Table' (VIDEO)

Stanley Tucci's Lemon Risotto with Whole Roasted Branzino Lemon Risotto: 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus additional for serving 1 large shallot, finely chopped 1 ½ cups Vialone Nano rice ½ cup dry white wine 5 cups hot homemade chicken stock or low-sodium store-bought broth 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice Zest of 1 large lemon, plus additional for garnishing Chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley Fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf-EU6P1UR0&feature=channel&list=UL

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《本色美国》之品牌系列:"小资情调"的星巴克

随着中国经济的发展，中国日渐壮大的中产阶级的消费力得到越来越多的国际品牌的认可。许多欧美品牌纷纷抢滩中国，这其中包括著名的LV和GUCCI等。由于中国消费者对国­外品牌还不太熟悉，再加上对"舶来品"的崇尚心理，美国很多二、三线品牌，到中国后重新定位，将自己打造成一线高端品牌，甚至卖出奢侈品的价格。在我们的系列节目，"本色­美国 之品牌"系列中，我们要为你还原这些在中国的所谓"大牌"在美国的真实面目。这其中最典型的有哈根达斯和星巴克。这两个在美国大众品牌在中国的成功已经成为美国市场营销教­程的典范。这样的名单还可以列出很多很多，餐饮类如必胜客，猫头鹰等，服装类的CK、GUESS、Levi's，以及汽车类的Buick等等。在品牌@USA节目中，我们­将一一为您介绍。今天为你介绍在中国极富"小资"情调的星巴克在美国的本色。

煮出清澈的高湯

材料:雞骨600克、豬龍骨600克 不要拿豬關節骨來熬湯，因為油酯含量較高會讓湯濁白，先準備一鍋熱水，把雞骨.豬龍骨一起下鍋汆燙，直到水滾開，這樣就能去除肉質的薄膜與血，再來準備一鍋水把煮滾後的骨­頭撈起放入水中清洗，另再準備一鍋熱水，把清洗後的骨頭放入鍋中，注意要讓水微滾且不要蓋鍋蓋，滾開煮時湯表層會有油與浮膜要撈起，這樣煮三小時後，準備濾網來過濾高湯，­如果要更漂亮可再加棉布或紗布過濾，之後保存只要冷卻後用塑膠袋裝起或保鮮膜蓋住鍋子冷凍就可以了，要食用再退冰，這樣就完成高湯製作

How smoke detectors work

Bill takes apart a smoke detector and shows how it uses a radioactive source to generate a tiny current which is disrupted when smoke flows through the sensor. He describes how a special transistor called a MOSFET can be used to detect the tiny current changes.

20110219 東森財經新 聞 現代啟示錄 地下外交部 士林官邸 - 1

Foundation 01 // Jack Dorsey

In this series premiere of Foundation, Kevin Rose interviews Jack Dorsey, the creator, co-founder and chairman of Twitter and the CEO of Square. The conversation talks of entrepreneurship, decision making, trial and error, and the path Jack took that lead to the creation of Twitter and Square.

Foundation 20 // Elon Musk

Elon Musk if the founder of PayPal, SpaceX, and Telsa Motors.

Amazon Kindle Press Conference - September 28, 2011, New York City

刻骨铭心的历史【澳洲广角】

【新唐人2012年7月15日讯】【澳洲广角】(436)刻骨铭心的历史：与辛亥革命同年的百岁老人康韶禹的沧桑人生。 【澳洲广角】黄金海岸 【澳洲广角】台客闪舞一起来 【澳洲广角】悉尼鱼市场 观众朋友们，大家好！我是凌云，欢迎收看澳洲广角。今天我要介绍给您的是两位生活在不同时代、有着不同背景的杰出人物。一位是历经百年沧桑，与辛亥革命童年的老人；另一位­呢则是曾经的澳州著名的橄榄球运动员，现今的大公司首席执行官。 康绍禹先生1911年出生于河北唐县的一个书香门第，这位与辛亥革命同年的老人，生于乱世，历经艰辛。但是凭着深厚的中国文化的底蕴，以及追随国父的三民主义的坚强信念，­使他得以潇洒走完充满变数的人生旅途。康老于2012年6月在墨尔本溘然谢世，让我们跟随康老的足迹去了解这一段刻骨铭心的历史。 橄榄球是澳洲人非常喜爱的一项运动，橄榄球明星们更是家喻户晓的人物。今天我们要一起走进Mark Coyne世界，看看这位曾经的澳洲橄榄球队的风云人物，是如何成功的华丽转身，成为一家大公司首席执行官的。

整個道路都塌了 記者差點掉下去

三峽老街淘空男摔死　朱立倫要究責

The Spangler Effect : Bed of Nails Season 01 Episode 27

Baby Soda Bottles Test Tubes & Rack

These transparent, unbreakable test tubes are used for safe science experiments in classrooms everywhere. They can be sealed with a bottle cap, thrown in the dishwasher, dropped, tapped, or stepped on and they just won't break! Great for encouraging kids to explore and create results on their own. Each test tube measures 15 cm (5.75") tall, 2.5 cm (1") in diameter and holds approximately 60 mL (2 ounces) of liquid. Includes a colorful test tube rack and an activity guide with lots of fun ideas to get kids started on their new science adventure. Perfect for your Science Discovery Center. Recommended for children ages 3 and up. What's included? 6 Large plastic test tubes (Baby Soda Bottles) with caps Test tube rack How does it work? Why are these test tubes called Baby Soda Bottles? Steve Spangler coined this name when he introduced them to teachers everywhere as the world's greatest test tube for kids. Believe it or not, Baby Soda Bottles are really just that: baby bottles before they are blown up into the 2-liter soda bottles you see in the store. Here’s how it works: The tubes are placed into a vacuum mold and heated so they soften. Hot air is then blown into the tube, stretching the warmed plastic to 40 times its original size. When the plastic cools into the shape of the mold, the bottle is ready to fill with your favorite refreshing drink. What does it teach? Baby Soda Bottles can be used to teach kids more things than you can imagine! Grow plants, observe critters, collect water samples, explore different densities, hydrate polymer crystals, and mix all the colors you can find in a rainbow. Kids are only limited by their own creativity—put one of these test tubes in their hands and they’ll be sure to discover something new! Product FAQ Does this come with an activity guide? Yes. There are 15 different hands-on activities inside the guide ranging from experimenting with colors to growing seeds and watching the roots to observing chemical reactions. These things can do it all. What color caps does it come with? The colors are either blue or yellow.

Spinning Match --------- What causes the matchstick to move?

Spinning Match What causes the matchstick to move?

Square Bubbles - Cool Science Experiment

走进美国第一流高中

郎咸平:品牌背后的故事

Behind a mining monopoly

Canadian companies control a majority of Latin American mining. Activists say those companies are polluting and violating indigenous rights.

American funnyman Larry Miller in Studio Q

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Amazing Table Tennis Shots 2011

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CASE: Procter and Gamble, Inc ( Canada).: Scope

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Copier: A playful look at how it works

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A Filipino Food Tour In Manila (VIDEO)

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ano chiheisen kagayaku no wa dokoka ni kimi o kakushite iru kara takusan no hi ga natsukashii no wa ano doreka hitotsu ni kimi ga iru kara saa dekake you hitokire no PAN NAIFU RAMPU kaban ni tsumekonde * tou-san ga nokoshita atsui omoi kaa-san ga kureta ano manazashi chikyuu wa mawaru kimi o kakushite kagayaku hitomi kirameku tomoshibi chikyuu wa mawaru kimi o nosete itsuka kitto deau bokura o nosete

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"Mother in the Dream" (梦中的额吉)

A 12-year-old Mongolian boy- Uudam (乌达木 Wudamu in Chinese) who lost his parents at the age of 8 in a road accident singing the song-"Mother in the Dream" (梦中的额吉) to his mother in heaven. He seldom talk about his story but when he miss his mother, he will sing this song. Besides, he always dream about his mother, sitting beside him. The song is in Mongolian, therefore, not everyone can understand the lyrics. However, his singing touched every judges and audiences in the hall without the understanding of the lyrics. He sang out all his love and though to his mother. A touching song, performed by a boy who got a sad story behind, a voice comes from far Mongolia sending his though to his mother at heaven. A great performance by a 12-year-old boy! He got an interesting and beautiful dream which is to invent a kind of ink that just need a drop to drop on the ground, the whole world will cover with green grass. one more thing to add, his mother wished to see his singing on the stage when she was alive. the translation of lyrics as below: In the stillness among the vast lands I dream of Mother praying for me She looks afar and gives precious milk to the heavens As offering for my well-being My Mother, so far away. Stars twinkle above the grasslands while In my dream I see Mother's caring face As she prays to the heavens to wish me godspeed My Mother, so far away. In my dream I see Home basking in golden sunbeam While Mother softly sings an enchanting melody There in the grasslands lies my everlasting home My dearest Mother, wait for my return. My dearest Mother, wait for my return.

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Video Of Sheryl Sandberg’s Inspiring Speech at Harvard Business School

Her speech in its entirety: It’s an honor to be here today to address HBs’s distinguished faculty, proud parents, patient guests, and most important the class of 2012. Today was supposed to be a day of unbridled celebration, and I know that’s no longer true. I join all of you in grieving for your classmate….today still marks a distinct and impressive achievement for this class, so please join me in giving our warmest congratulations to the class…. When Dean Nohria asked me to speak here today, I thought, come talk to a group of people way younger and cooler than I am? I can do that, I do that every day, I like being surrounded by young people except when they say to me, What was it like being in college without the internet, or worse, Sheryl, can you come here, we need to see what old people think of this feature. When I was a student here 17 years ago, I studied social marketing with professor Kash Rangan, and one of the many examples Kash used to explain the concept of social marketing was the lack of organ donors in this country, which kills 18 people every single day. Earlier this month, Facebook launched a tool to support organ donations, something that stems directly from Kash’s work. Kash, we are all grateful for your dedication. MY SECTION TRIED TO HAVE HARVARD’S FIRST ONLINE CLASS So, it wasn’t really that long ago when I was sitting where you are, but the world has changed an awful lot. My section, section B, tried to have HBS’s first online class. We had to use an AOL chat room and dial up service (your parents can explain). We had to pass out a list of screen names, because it was unthinkable to put your real name on the internet. And it never worked. It kept crashing…the world wasn’t set up for 90 people to communicate at once on line. But for a few brief moments though, we glimpsed the future, a future where technology would power who we are and connect us to our real colleagues, our real family, our real friends. It used to be that in order to reach more people than you could talk to in a day, you had to be rich and famous and powerful, be a celebrity, a politician, a CEO, but that’s not true today. Now ordinary people have voice, not just those of us lucky to go to HBS, but anyone with access to Facebook, Twitter, a mobile phone. This is disrupting traditional power structures and leveling traditional hierarchy. Voice and power are shifting from institutions to individuals, from the historically powerful to the historically powerless, and all of this is happening so much faster than I could have imagined when I was sitting where you are today and Mark Zuckerberg was 11 years old. ONE WOMAN CEO LOOKED AT ME AND SAID ‘WE WOULDN’T EVEN THINK ABOUT HIRING SOMEONE LIKE YOU’ As the world becomes more connected and less hierarchical, traditional career paths are shifting as well. In 2001, after working in the government, I moved out to Silicon Valley to try finding a job. My timing wasn’t really that good. The bubble had crashed, small companies were closing, big companies were laying people off. One woman CEO looked at me and said, we wouldn’t even think about hiring someone like you. After awhile I had a few offers and I had to make a decision, so what did I do? I am MBA trained, so I made a spreadsheet. I listed my jobs in the columns and my criteria in the rows, and compared the companies and the missions and the roles. One of the jobs on that sheet was to become Google’s first business unit general manager, which sounds good now, but at the time no one thought consumer internet companies could ever make money. I was not sure there was actually a job there at all. Google had no business units, so what was there to generally manage. And the job was several levels lower than jobs I was being offered at other companies. So I sat down with Eric Schmidt, who had just become the CEO, and I showed him the spread sheet and I said, this job meets none of my criteria. He put his hand on my spreadsheet and he looked at me and said, Don’t be an idiot. Excellent career advice. And then he said, Get on a rocket ship. When companies are growing quickly and they are having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves. And when companies aren’t growing quickly or their missions don’t matter as much, that’s when stagnation and politics come in. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on. About six and one-half years later, when I was leaving Google, I took that advice to heart. I was offered CEO jobs at a bunch of companies, but I went to Facebook as COO. At the time people said, why are you going to work for a 23-year-old? The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It doesn’t make sense in a less hierarchical world. When I was first at Facebook, a woman named Lori Goler, a 1997 graduate of HBS, was working in marketing at eBay and I knew her kind of socially. And she called me and said, ‘I want to talk with you about coming to work with you at Facebook. So I thought about calling you, she said, and telling you all the things I’m good at and all the things I like to do. But I figured that everyone is doing that. So instead I want to know what’s your biggest problem and how can I solve it.’ My jaw hit the floor. I’d hired thousands of people up to that point in my career, but no one had ever said anything like that. I had never said anything like that. Job searches are always about the job searcher, but not in Lori’s case. I said, you’re hired. My biggest problem is recruiting and you can solve it. So Lori changed fields into something she never thought she’d do, went down a level to start in a new field and has since been promoted and runs all of the people operations at Facebook and has done an extraordinary job. CAREERS ARE NOT A LADDER–THEY’RE A JUNGLE GYM Lori has a great metaphor for careers. She says they’re not a ladder; they’re a jungle gym. As you start your post-HBS career, look for opportunities, look for growth, look for impact, look for mission. Move sideways, move down, move on, move off. Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they’re going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job, don’t plan too much, and don’t expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career. You are entering a different business world than I entered. Mine was just starting to get connected. Yours is hyper-connected. Mine was competitive. Yours is way more competitive. Mine moved quickly, yours moves even more quickly. As traditional structures are breaking down, leadership has to evolve as well. From hierarchy to shared responsibility, from command and control to listening and guiding. You’ve been trained by this great institution not just to be part of these trends but to lead. As you lead in this new world, you will not be able to rely on who you are or the degree you hold. You’ll have to rely on what you know. Your strength will not come from your place on some org chart, your strength will come from building trust and earning respect. You’re going to need talent, skill, and imagination and vision, but more than anything else, you’re going to need the ability to communicate authentically, to speak so that you inspire the people around you and to listen so that you continue to learn each and every day on the job. If you watch young children, you’ll immediately notice how honest they are. My friend Betsy in my section a few years after business school was pregnant with her second child and her first child was about five and said, ‘Mommy, where is the baby?’ And she said, ‘The baby is in my tummy.’ And he said, ‘Aren’t the baby’s arms in your arms? And she said, ‘No, the baby’s in my tummy.’ ‘Are the baby’s legs in your legs?’ ‘No, the whole baby is in my tummy. And he said, ‘Mommy, then what is growing in your butt?’ As adults, we are never this honest, and that’s not a bad thing. I have borne two children, the last thing I needed were those comments. But it’s not always a good thing either. Because all of us, and especially leaders, need to speak and hear the truth. The workplace is an especially difficult place for anyone to tell the truth, because no matter how flat we want our organizations to be, all organizations have some form of hierarchy. What that means is that one person’s performance is assessed by someone else’s perception. HONESTY IS MISSING FROM THE WORKPLACE This is not a setup for honesty. Think about how people speak in a typical workforce. Rather than say I disagree with our expansion strategy or better yet, this seems truly stupid. They say: I think there are many good reasons why we’re entering this new line of business, and I’m certain the management team has done a thorough ROI analysis, but I’m not sure we fully considered the downstream effects of taking this step forward at this time. As we would say at Facebook on the internet, three letters: WTF. Truth is better used by using simple language. Last year Mark decided to learn Chinese and as part of studying, he would spend an hour or so each week with some of our employees who were native Chinese speakers. One day, one of them was trying to tell him something about her manager, so she said this long sentence and he said simpler please. And then she said it again and he said, no, I still don’t understand, simpler please…and so on and so on. Finally, in sheer exasperation, she burst out, my manager is bad. Simple and clear and very important for him to know. People rarely speak this clearly in the workforce or in life and as you get more senior, not only will people speak less clearly to you but they will overreact to the small things you say. When I joined Facebook, one of the things I had to do was build the business side of the company, put some systems into place, but I wanted to do it without destroying the culture that made Facebook great. So one of the things I tried to do was encourage people not to do formal PowerPoint presentations for meetings with me, and I would say things like, Don’t do PowerPoint presentations for meetings with me. Why don’t you come in with a list of what you want to discuss, but everyone ignored me, they kept doing their presentations meeting after meeting, month after month. ‘NO MORE POWERPOINTS IN MY MEETINGS AND I MEAN IT’ So about two years in, I said, ‘OK, I hate rules but I have a rule, no more PowerPoint in my meetings and I mean it.’ About a month later I was about to speak to our global sales team on a big stage and someone came up to me and said, Before you get on that stage, you really should know everyone’s pretty upset about the no PowerPoint with clients thing…What? So I got on the stage and said, one, I meant no PowerPoint with me. But two, more importantly, next time you hear something that’s really stupid, don’t adhere to it, fight it or ignore it, even if it’s coming from me or Mark. A good leader recognizes that most people won’t feel comfortable challenging authority, so it falls upon authority to encourage them to question. It’s easy to say that you’re going to encourage feedback but it’s hard to do, because unfortunately it doesn’t always come in a format we want to hear. When I first started at Google, I had a team of four people and it was really important to me that I interview everyone, being part of my team meant I had to know you. When the team had gotten to 100 people, I realized it was taking longer to schedule my interviews so one day at my meeting of just my direct reports, I said maybe I should stop interviewing, fully expecting them to jump in and say no, your interviews are a critical part of the process. They applauded. Then they fell over themselves explaining that I was the bottleneck of all time. ‘WHEN YOU’RE A LEADER, IT’S REALLY HARD TO GET GOOD AND HONEST FEEDBACK’ I was embarrassed, then I was angry and I spent a few hours just quietly fuming. Why didn’t they tell me I was a bottleneck, why did they let me go on slowing them down? Then I realized that if they hadn’t told me, that was my fault. I hadn’t been open enough to tell them I wanted that feedback and I would have to change that going forward. When you’re the leader, it is really hard to get good and honest feedback, no many how many times you ask for it. One trick I’ve discovered is that I try to speak really openly about the things I’m bad at, because that gives people permission to agree with me, which is a lot easier than pointing it out ijn the first place. To take one of many possible examples, when things are unresolved I can get a tad anxious. Really, when anything’s unresolved, I get a lot anxious. I’m quite certain no one has accused me of being too calm. So I speak about it openly and that gives people permission to tell me when it’s happening. But if I never said anything, would anyone who works at Facebook walk up to me and say, ‘Hey Sheryl, calm down. You’re driving us all nuts.’ I don’t think so. As you graduate today, ask yourself, how will you lead. Will you use simple and clear language? Will you seek out honesty? When you get honesty back, will you react with anger or with gratitude? As we strive to be more authentic in our communication, we should also strive to be more authentic in a broader sense. I talk a lot about bringing your whole self to work—something I believe in deeply. MOTIVATION COMES FROM WORKING ON THINGS WE CARE ABOUT Motivation comes from working on things we care about but it also comes from working with people we care about, and in order to care about someone, you have to know them. You have to know what they love and hate, what they feel, not just what they think. If you want to win hearts and minds, you have to lead with your heart as well as your mind. I don’t believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time. That kind of division probably never worked, but in today’s world, with a real voice, an authentic voice, it makes even less sense. I’ve cried at work. I’ve told people I’ve cried at work. And it’s been reported in the press that Sheryl Sandberg cried on Mark Zuckerberg’s shoulder, which is not exactly what happened. I talk about my hopes and fears and ask people about theirs. I try to be myself. Honest about my strengths and weaknesses and I encourage others to do the same. It is all professional and it is all personal, all at the very same time. I recently started speaking up about the challenges women face in the workforce, something I only had the courage to do in the last few years. Before this, I did my career like everyone else does it. I never told anyone I was a girl. Don’t tell. I left the lights on when I went home to do something for my kids. I locked my office door and pumped milk for my babies while I was on a conference call. People would say, what’s that sound. I would say, ‘What sound? I hear a beep. It’s a fire truck.’ But the progress we’ve made in the last decade has convinced me we need to start talking about this. I graduated from HBS in 1995 and I thought it was completely clear that by the time someone from my year was invited to speak at this podium, we would have achieved equality in the workforce. But women at the top C-level jobs are stuck at 15% or 16% and has not moved in a decade. Not even close to 50%. We need to acknowledge openly that gender remains an issue at the highest levels of leadership. The promise of equality is not equality. We need to start talking about this. We need to start talking about how women underestimate their abilities compared to men and for women, but not men. Success and likeability are negatively correlated. That means that as a woman is more successful in your workplaces, she will be less liked. This means that women need a different form of management and mentorship, a different form of sponsorship and encouragement, and some protection, in some ways more than men. There aren’t enough senior women out there to do it, so it falls upon the men who are graduating today just as much or more as the women, not just to talk about gender but to help these women succeed. When they hear a woman is really great at her job but not liked, take a deep breath and ask why. We need to start talking openly about the flexibility all of us need to have both a job and a life. A couple of weeks ago in an interview I said that I leave the office at 5 p.m. to have dinner with my children, and I was shocked at the press coverage. One of my friends said I couldn’t get more headlines if I had murdered someone with an ax! This showed me this is an unresolved issue for all of us, men and women. Otherwise, why did everyone write so much about it? And maybe, most importantly, we need to start talking about how fewer women than men, even from places like HBS, even in this class, aspire to the very top jobs. WOMEN WILL NOT CLOSE THE LEADERSHIP GAP UNTI L WE CLOSE THE PROFESSIONAL AMBITION GAP We will not close the leadership gap until we close the professional ambition gap. We need more women not just to sit at the table, but as President Obama said a few weeks ago at Barnard, to take their rightful seats at the head of the table. One of the reasons I was so excited to be here today is that Dean Nohria told me that this is the 50th anniversary of letting women into this school…Your dean is so passionate about getting more women into leadership positions and he told me he wanted me to speak this year for that reason. I met a woman from that first class once. She told me that when they first came in, they took a men’s room and converted it to a woman’s room. But they left the urinals in. The urinals are long gone. Let’s make sure that no one ever misses them. As you and your classmates spread out across the globe and walk across this stage tomorrow, I wish for you four things: First, keep in touch via Facebook; this is critical to your future success! And since we’re public now, could you click on an ad or two. Two, that you make the effort to speak as well as seek the truth. Three, that you remain true to and open about your authentic self. And four, most deeply, that your generation accomplish what mine has failed to do. Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world. I join everyone here in offering my most sincere congratulations to the HBS Class of 2012. Give yourselves a huge round of applause. ...............................

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