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This reads as a tribute to a mother’s imagination and to the possibilities she passed on. It can be taken to mean that ambition is often inherited first as belief, long before it becomes opportunity. It lands in families where one generation had limited choices, yet chose to raise children with a wider sense of what they could become.
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About Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, philanthropist and writer
Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American technology executive, philanthropist, and writer. She was chief operating officer of Meta Platforms from 2008 to 2022, and she founded LeanIn.Org. Sandberg became widely known through her work at Meta, where she held one of the company’s top leadership roles for more than a decade. She is also associated with LeanIn.Org, the organization she created, and with writing and public speaking on leadership and work.
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Books by Sheryl Sandberg
Lean In
2013
Option B
2017