♥ & $: Sometimes It’s About More Than Money — My Take On the Sheryl Sandberg Debate

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In 1996, I was invited to speak to an MBA class at my alma mater, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. They wanted to hear about my career as a marketing executive. I wanted to tell them about how hard it was to juggle two children and that seemingly successful career. After 45 minutes detailing the myriad of challenges I faced, one student politely raised her hand and said, “I really just want to know about the work you did in marketing. Can we focus on that?” My answer to her then is the same as now: “If you don’t figure out the personal, you’ll never figure out the professional.”

Which bring me to this column. Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past few weeks, you can’t have missed the hullaballoo stirred up by Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg. Boy is she getting a drubbing. Her new book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, has been called elitist, simplistic, and heteronormative (read Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Connie Schultz piece in the Washington Post to get a great review).

Sandberg’s argument, that women sabotage their own careers by not having enough ambition, is giving fuel to the already blazing firestorm about work and balance and why there aren’t more women at the top. As a woman who left her successful business career to focus on her family, a woman who one might accuse of having gone

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