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Why Facebook Needs Sheryl Sandberg
- rachelbythebay 15y agoThis article also has a number of jabs at Google and basically says it failed to "appreciate the value such people can bring". She left in 2008. It's 2011, and time has not been kind to less-traditional engineering folks.
- jfarmer 15y agoSubmitted by Josh Kopelman -- not something one sees every day. :)
- prakash 15y agoJosh has been on HN since the beginning: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jkopelman http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jkopelman
- wallflower 15y ago> And she's made great use of her political skills, praising subordinates in public and keeping reprimands private. So so important. Public image is not just what you think you're projecting to the world but how others think you are doing. Criticizing someone in public is one of the worst things you can do to a relationship. I once threatened to quit a job in public (angry, loud shouting) over some silly technical implementation detail - and I got called into the boss' office because I had disrupted the office environment. People outside our team were asking my boss what was going on...