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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead [Paperback] Sandberg, Sheryl Paperback – 12 March 2013
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- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRHUK
- Publication date12 March 2013
- Dimensions21.6 x 13.5 x 1.56 cm
- ISBN-100753541637
- ISBN-13978-0753541630
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- Publisher : RHUK; 1st edition (12 March 2013); Random House Publishing Group
- Language : English
- Paperback : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0753541637
- ISBN-13 : 978-0753541630
- Item Weight : 210 g
- Dimensions : 21.6 x 13.5 x 1.56 cm
- Country of Origin : United Kingdom
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Sheryl Sandberg is chief operating officer at Facebook, overseeing the firm's business operations. Prior to Facebook, Sheryl was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department under President Clinton, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and an economist with the World Bank.
Sheryl received a BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School.
Sheryl is the co-author of Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy with Wharton professor and bestselling author Adam Grant, which will be released April 24, 2017. She is also the author of the bestsellers Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead and Lean In for Graduates. She is the founder of the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to build a more equal and resilient world through two key initiatives, LeanIn.Org and OptionB.Org (launching April 2017). Sheryl serves on the boards of Facebook, the Walt Disney Company, Women for Women International, ONE, and SurveyMonkey.
Scovell is a television and magazine writer, producer, director and collaborator on the #1 New York Times bestseller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. She is the creator of the televisions series Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and her TV writing credits include The Simpsons, Coach, Monk, Murphy Brown, Charmed and NCIS. She has directed two movies for cable television and an episode of Awkward. She has contributed to Vanity Fair, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. She lives in Los Angeles and Boston.
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In this book, Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg, discusses the various challenges faced by women, trying to balance between their career and family, through various examples from her own life.
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I came to know about this book through one of my closest friends and one of the strongest women I have seen. It is primarily focused on workplace challenges faced by women and puts forth very practical arguments and ways to overcome them. Working in a corporate environment with a number of female colleagues, I could relate to the views presented by Ms. Sandberg. Moreover, the book also serves as a career development guide for anyone irrespective of gender. This book is a must read for not only women but also men, in order to empathize with their female counterparts.
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I would love to share some of my favorite quotes from this book.
✒️"Done is better than perfect." (A quote used often by my friend whenever I tend to overthink before making a decision)
✒️"Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder."
✒️"There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have."
The book beautifully illustrates how women engulf and hold themselves back by the internal barriers, how societal cues inoculates their minds with “appropriate” behavior right from young age, compromising their career goals, beset by self-doubt and deprecating and muting their own achievements.
It is rightly said in the book that when a girl tries to lead, she is often labeled bossy, whereas boys are seldom called so because it doesn’t surprise or offend. The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies.
The image of a happy couple is still perceived as the one which includes a husband who is more professionally successful than the wife. If the reverse occurs, it is considered as threatening to the marriage.
The book also describes how women hold one another back and how they internalize disparaging cultural attitude towards each other without even realizing it.
The author endeavors to drive home that a truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. Compared to males, fewer of women aspire to senior positions. Condition for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns.
I could fully identify with a fact mentioned in the book that merits can be manipulated in favor of men to justify discrimination. It is been limned that while evaluating identically described male and female candidates for a particular job, those who claimed to be the most impartial actually exhibited more bias in favor of male candidates. Men at the top are often unaware of the benefits they enjoy simply because they are men, and this can make them blind to the disadvantages associated with being a woman.
Sheryl has brought up a significant yet subtle reality that when people talk about a female pilot, a female engineer, or a female race car driver, the word “female” implies a bit of surprise. Men in the professional world are rarely seen through this same gender lens.
Gender wars can be appeased and true equality can be achieved through fighting the stereotypes that hold us back.
I just cannot stop myself from touting about the author and her book…
WOMEN: You owe reading this book to yourself. Add it to your shopping list. Or grocery list. Or any other list. It's better if you could read it at the beginning of your career or before you get married, but if not so, still read it. And gift a copy of it to your friends as well. It is such an important book, I believe I will be re-reading it again and again.
MEN: You owe reading this book for all the women in your life- your mother, your wife, daughters, sisters, friends, colleagues, employees, etc. And to yourself - for your business or career or marriage or relationships.
[I bought a paperback copy of this book. The page quality and print were alright. Unlike some of the reviews, mine was a legit copy]
It might have been easy for Sheryl to come up and write may be due to her work experience and association with such organisation and can be heard but its equally our duty as well to let not waste the struggles of females who fought in past and provided us with freedom from so many female issues.
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I feel so sad that so many people criticise Sheryl’s book Without reading it. When I told my partner I was reading “lean in“, he said, “Oh..., People say it’s only for rich elite women who can afford full-time nannies.“ That is a result of malicious rumour. In my opinion people who criticise the book are the ones that focus too much in little details and very often forget the bigger picture that the book is trying to present. “Lean in “has been recommended to me by my mentor, a powerful and knowledgeable business woman after I shared with her that I am struggling with my confidence and almost constantly doubting myself. The book helped me realise that there are many talented and successful women out there who feel the same as I do. Whilst reading the book there were a lot of examples that Sheryl gives that I could resonate with and I agree with almost everything she says. I am competitive and ambitious but think that I am not experienced enough or I am not ready for the big challenge.
We have to help change the world so that our sisters and daughters don’t need to go through the same thing. In my opinion this book is not only suitable for women but men can benefit from it as well. This book is great conversation starters you might want to read it which are partner, and talk about the issues you have always wanted to bring up but couldn’t.


Key tips: 'sit at the table' (ie put yourself forward and don't hold yourself back - 'what would you do if you were not afraid?"); be aware of gender stereotyping and explain why you are going to negotiate before you do negotiate - but don't fail to negotiate (men negotiate naturally and it is expected of them); 'make your partner a real partner' (and, for example, don't go in for gatekeeper behaviour at home and ask him to step aside and let you do it when he's making a mess of things - let him do it himself and learn); generally in finding a job look at the growth potential of the company (as the author did with Google) and think what you can offer an employer that the employer actually wants/needs; and on living your life understand that time is a scarce resource and you can't have or do it all - the whole essence of the thing is trade-offs and decisions.
So, there's a lot of interest here; and the book gives every appearance of being well researched as well as full of personal material. The author tells us in the afterward that she has a co-writer; and that even so writing the book has taken out of the time she spends with her husband. This also has the ring of truth - but it does to some extent underscore the idea that the author is something of an exceptional human being.
I would recommend cross-checking her thinking against the recent book The XX Factor by Alison Wolf. That carefully explains that there are three life styles for women today - one fot the top 1%, another for the remainder of the top 20%, and a third for the other 80%. Sandberg is definitely part of the top 1% in that grouping. So perhaps her thinking is not entirely for everyone....


The reasons for 3/5 This was based a lot on experience coming from having a child and feeling empowered to challenge ecosystem.
Although you can still apply some of the logic, this doesn't give good cases where you don't want to use childcare or marriage to push the feminist. This is sheryl journey, however I think this would be more powerful with different examples