Your personal brand isn't just a tagline — it's you. It is the process of discovering and clarifying the qualities that differentiate an individual from the rest. Personal branding is a smart strategy for the ambitious and those seeking to set foot or level up their careers.

Personal Brand 

Personal branding is a smart strategy for ambitious entrepreneurs. 

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Career

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Personal Development

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Business

The 5 Vital Rules of Personal Branding

There is a warning about being a generalist. “Jack of all trades, master of none.” “Equipped with knives all over, yet none is sharp,” “Nine trades, the tenth one — hunger.” Yet, many of the most impactful people have been generalists. Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Richard Feynman, Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Leonardo Da Vinci, to name a few. The founders of the five largest companies in the world are polymaths. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, Larry Page, and Jeff Bezos

The most impactful people are generalists

A modern polymath can be defined as someone who becomes competent in at least three diverse domains and integrates them to create breakthrough ideas in new fields and industries. For example, Elon Musk has combined an understanding of physics, engineering, programming, design, manufacturing and business to create several multibillion-dollar companies in different fields. Specialists, by contrast, only focus on knowledge from their own field.

The era of the modern polymath

Several significant changes trending in our knowledge economy are disrupting conventional wisdom on the value of specialisation. In today's world, being a polymath is an advantage. People who love learning across fields can become more financially successful and impactful in their careers.

Being a modern polymath is the new normal

Creating an atypical combination of two or more skills that you’re merely competent in can lead to a world-class skill set. Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, combined his humour, mediocre illustration skills and interest in business culture to create one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He states if you want to become extraordinary in life, <ol><li>Become the best at one specific thing. Unfortunately, few people can manage that.</li><li>Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things. The combination will make what you do rare.</li></ol>

Combine two skills

Most creative breakthroughs come from making atypical combinations of skills. Researcher Brian Uzzi, a professor at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, found that the most impactful scientific papers often have teams with atypical combinations of backgrounds. In another comprehensive study, Uzzi compared the results of academic papers by the number of citations they received and other papers they cited. The top-performing studies cited atypical combinations of other studies.

Making creative breakthroughs

It's never been easier to learn a new, valuable skill.<ul><li>The quality of knowledge in every domain is continually improving.</li><li>There is an abundance of free or affordable content from the world's top experts in every medium imaginable.</li></ul>

It's easy and fast to become competent in a new skill

<ul><li>One of the main ways that new skill sets, industries, and fields emerge is by combining them with old ones.</li><li>The number of new academic fields and business industries is increasing exponentially.</li><li>As the number of new skills increases, the number of possible combinations increases exponentially.</li></ul>

It's easier than ever to pioneer a new field, industry, or skill set

Fifteen years ago, none of the following professions existed:<ol><li>App developer</li><li>Social media manager</li><li>Driverless car engineer</li><li>Cloud computing specialist</li><li>Big data scientist</li><li>YouTube content creator</li></ol> Imagine if you could go back in time and master these skills before they became big? Image what skills are going to be valuable in the next 20 years? In an environment of accelerated change, we're going to have to become polymaths to survive. We'll have a dozen new careers, each requiring new skills.

Being a polymath future-proofs your career

Many of the biggest problems that face society and individuals can benefit from integrated disciplines. For example, obesity is complex. Many different fields are needed to solve the problem, such as exercise physiology, genetics, behavioural psychology, sociology, economics, marketing, general psychology, education, and nutrition.

Being a polymath sets you up to solve more complex problems

You can have a very valuable skill set globally, but if everyone also has that skill set, you're a commodity. However, becoming a polymath can help develop a unique skill set that few others have, making it possible to differentiate yourself. Peter Thiel ask of candidates he might hire, "What's the one thing you believe is true that no one else agrees with you on?" It tells you if you have rare and valuable ideas.

Being a polymath helps you stand out

Being a polymath will be the new normal. Polymaths who combine diverse skills to create innovations and solve complex problems will have an impact while generalists who fail to synthesise their knowledge will have no real impact. Specialists risk getting trapped as they focus on a narrow skill set and reputation. Their careers are fragile. If their professions disappear, it can become impossible to switch without starting over. Polymaths are anti-fragile. They adapt to changes in the environment. They can quickly combine their existing skill sets in multiple ways.

Make yourself anti-fragile

Use mental models to become a modern polymath. Mental models transcend disciplines. They are the links that connect disciplines together. For example, the 80/20 rule states that in many domains, 20 percent of your efforts will produce 80 percent of your results. You can use this mental model to improve efficiency in every area of your life and field of study. Identify the 20% of clients that create 80% of your business. Identify 20% of tasks that create 80% of your productivity, And so on.

How to become a modern polymath

The most comprehensive case that has ever been made for why nearly everyone should become a polymath in a modern knowledge economy. The warning against being a generalist has persisted for hundreds…

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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People Who Have “Too Many Interests” Are More Likely To Be Successful According To Research

<ul><li>You are drawn to interesting topics which do not immediately seem to fit into your current professional arsenal.</li><li>Your professional contributions, relevance and value evolve due to your relentless professional curiosity.</li><li>Gradually your professional arsenal grows as you continuously learn.</li><li>What you know and continuously learn, combine and recombine to form a complex and flexible, yet robust, puzzle.</li></ul>

How Our Career Takes Shape

<ul><li>Give yourself permission to allow relentless professional curiosity to drive your career trajectory.</li><li>Embrace professional innovation and cross-functional synergy to catalyze your next professional steps forward.</li><li>Various mindset shift programs catalyze people who solve problems differently to collaborate more successfully across value silos.</li><li>Create and implement innovative and robust business outcomes together.</li></ul>

Walking The Path Unseen, One Step At A Time

Do you describe yourself as a person driven by relentless professional curiosity? Do you love learning new ideas, concepts, information?

Does Relentless Professional Curiosity Drive Your Career Trajectory?

At the same time, a person prepares and makes various decisions within the framework of his own official activity. Such work determines the activities of the manager, who personally makes decisions, and thus will shape the work of employees in accordance with the preparation and implementation of these or other decisions. Managerial decision-making should be based on scientific basics and methods.

Decision Making By The Manager

A management decision is a creative act of a management subject that establishes a group work plan in accordance with the effective resolution of an urgent problem based on knowledge of the objective laws of the functioning of a managed organization and analysis of data on its state. That is, MD is a choice that a manager must make in order to fulfill the duties due to his position.The purpose of MD is to ensure movement towards the tasks set for the organization. Also, one of the main factors for the effective achievement of established goals is the human factor.

Managerial Decision

First of all, the importance of the manager himself plays here - his personality, motivation, behavior, determination and other qualities. Another significant skill is the ability to form a team, organize and control the whole project "chain", in which place the qualities of a manager, leader are expressed to the maximum extent.

Managerial Decision #2

Systems thinking - the ability to look at the process from above, make a balanced goal setting, carry out real design, quickly implement a decision based on this data, which is in the directive.Delegation of authority and supervision of the execution of tasksOrganization and effective management of own processes and time: time-management, distribution of cases with weighted coefficients, separation of issues according to the ABC / XYZ method, the Eisenhower matrix, finishing things up to completion according to the GTD method.The Art of Negotiation + Successful Presentation Skill.

Essential Skills for an Effective Leader

Communication / support of subordinates / motivation (individual sample). Informative exchange, communication skills.Formation of a (new) / building (old) effective team (+ formation of a comfortable working atmosphere and corporate culture).Building the concept of KPI rewards / punishments (agreement on goals, KPI table).Conflict resolution. Analysis, hiring, retention and respect of employees.Manager's image / charisma / own style (actions, clothes) / responsibility (groundedness, self-made style).Effective implementation of meetings - both as an accomplice and moderator of the meeting.

Essential Skills for an Effective Leader #2

Decision making is directly related to purposeful human activity. In private life, any individual makes decisions about choosing a specialty, arraging a family, spending holidays, allocating a budget, etc.

The formation and selection of these decisions, as a rule, are made empirically: by logical thinking and intuition.

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Management disicion-making skills

Based on Radical Candor, you have to start by caring personally:<ul><li>You need to know someone on a personal level, know their dreams, fears, and struggles, as well as what matters to them in life.</li></ul>Knowing what drives a person and their goals give you what you need to address them in a way that will strike a chord. Whatever you’re about to share needs to resonate and align with their personal core values.

Start with caring personally

Easier said than done, but once you do it, you’ll never go back to being a word-mincing mush mouth again.<ul><li>It’s truth time. And it’s starting to feel good.</li><li>There are plenty of reasons to put off the hard talk or telling someone you care about that it’s time to face the music.</li></ul>When you reframe what you’re doing as giving someone the benefit of knowing the truth, rather than calling someone out, it might take the sting out for both parties.

Tell people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear.

None of this candor stuff works unless you’re telling the truth. That’s job one. Since the truth can be a bitter pill, we tend to embellish it a little bit, and before you know it, it bears little resemblance to the actual truth.<ul><li>That doesn’t mean that you should zing your words with a poisonous arrow, but rather, make sure they are factual, don’t exaggerate to make a point and be kind about it.</li><li>Being honest when you’re sharing will be appreciated. Sometimes it may take a bit of time, but in the long run, your friend or colleague will see it as the caring act that it was intended to be.</li></ul>

Tell the truth

Compliment sandwiches don’t really work because everyone knows what’s coming after the first bit of praise. However, there is something to be said for finding the good and highlighting it.<ul><li>Compliment, hammer, then reframe the compliment. Ugh.</li><li>It’s important to note is that there is always something good you can point out, even if it’s just the effort or intent. Just because something doesn’t work out or was a flop doesn’t mean everything about it was a fail.</li><li>Find the good and recognize it.</li></ul>

Point out the good

<ol><li>What’s the reason for dropping this truth bomb? Is it to address their career growth, their health, their relationship? You need to be crystal clear & make sure it is at the heart of the conversation.</li><li>Why does it matter to them & why does it matter to you? If you’re telling a hard truth because you’re giving insight that will help them advance in their career, that’s a great reason for them. </li><li>You should also address why it matters to you: In this case, the reason for your candor on your part may be that you’ve set a personal goal to be better at developing others instead of throwing in the tow<warningtag>el</warningtag></li></ol>

Clarify why

The bottom line is that once you begin the practice of being radically candid, it will become your new way to operate. That’s likely to be your nerves at play, so just hang in there and you’ll improve.The more you follow this practice, the more you build that muscle for yourself, but you may also be inspiring others to do the same so they can also become great, candid, communicators.Keep this in mind:<ul><li>It makes sense to address things directly and clearly.</li><li>It’s helpful and honest.</li><li>It’s the right thing to do.</li></ul>

Rinse and repeat (pay it forward)

No one likes to have the hard talk.
If you handle it right, it will make you the best leader in a company, and the best friend anyone could have.

If you handle it right, it will make you the best leader in a company, and the best friend anyone could have. Easier said than done, but once you do it, you’ll never go back to being a word-mincing…

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The Best Way to Handle a Difficult Conversation At Work

“The little ME wanted a swimming pool, like a swimming pool in the house. That's how I should work. But now I think having a swimming pool in the home is torture. Who would pour water? fill the pool ? clean it? close it? Lot of work growing up. I just understand a lot of things right now. It's not for me.”

Growing Up..

“It's just like random thoughts, you know the 3 am thoughts ? something like that. It's really deep, really confusing. At some point it's just so scary “What am I going to do?” And some points “Ah, I'm not going to do anything.” Sometimes, “Oh, I don't care at all. Let people do whatever they want”. Just so, so confusing. So, so sad. And It's just, so ME. I like how the things are right now. I don't want it to last forever because I'm confused and I don't want to be confused. I want to put things the right way. Have a plan in my hand. It just hits really differently.”

Future Fear

“ I just wanna be myself. I just wanna be successful and famous all over the world, yeah.”

Fame... 

“It's not like I never cared about my future. It's more like, I just want to get successful. I dunno how, but “successful” and I’m just positive about that, but don't know how . Just work and you'll get what you want.”

Thoughts About Being Sucessful

"So in class 10th
, when like moving to 11th, I had to choose which subject I should 
opt. Number one factor, our school didn't offer humanities. I just thought like..you have this taboo, not 
taboo. What is it? ...You have this hoax, like people of other streams can't ..are 
not that respected. Yeah. They're not like that respected as science people and 
like humanities people are not respected as commerce people and science 
people are the top most respectable person. That thing. And I, I just fear that in 
our system, I wouldn't have that many choices if I opted to humanities."

Selection Of Streams 

“And it wouldn't be nice to live my ambitions. Like I’ll just list it down whatever I 
had. Starting of President, Prime minister, Chief minister and Architect. And I 
can't even do basic math and I can't draw. So, I'm a dumb person when it comes 
to what directions. So, and, and I never dreamed of being a doctor. It's just too
 far. No, no blood at all. I don't despise of being doctor, but it's just like, I can't be 
doctor. It's just too demanding. And like every day, every week I switched my dream job. But at the end of the 
day, all I wanted was a really nice life.”

Unrealistic Ambitions 

Teenage Dreams and Confusion 

There's been a stigma around career breaks for too long, despite the reasons to pursue one, such as starting a family, focusing on health and wellbeing, and pursuing passions. However, career breaks are really important parts of your career journey and what makes you unique. Still, it can be intimidating to publicly share your career break story while trying to return to the workforce.

Stigma around career breaks

Tackle the job search with transparency and honesty. You can now add a career beak to the Experience section of your LinkedIn Profile, with the option to show the type of break you took like caregiving, career transition, health and well-being, and more. Share your new experiences and skills gained. Ensure to look for ways to connect them to roles you're interested in so that you stand out to recruiters.

Highlight your career break on your LinkedIn profile

Proactively bring up your career break during the interview.  Focus on how your time away has developed you, the valuable skills you've learned, or how you discovered a new passion.  Connect the dots between what you did during your career break and what you can bring to a particular role as a result. For example, you helped your child with homeschooling and realised you had a passion for teaching or community volunteering.

Share your experience and learning in job interviews

62% of people have taken a career break at some point. So, don't be afraid to reach out to your professional community for help and advice. In your LinkedIn Profile, turn on the Open-to Work feature. It will increase your likelihood of getting a recruiter message. Ask for advice with a post on LinkedIn. Sharing your story can also inspire others to do the same and bring attention to this topic.

Network and connect with others who can help

LinkedIn’s Camilla Han-He says jumping back from time away from work is more than possible. It’s a reality for many who are ready to move forward.


3 ways to highlight a ‘career break’ to land your next job

Most professionals begin their presentations by sharing background information, details surrounding the circumstances for you being there, or explaining the journey of a product or service. While context is important, it inadvertently obscures your purpose. Starting off with too much context up-front can mean you risk executives disengaging quickly.

Common Mistakes to Avoid when Presenting to Executives- Leading With Context

You may fall into the trap of believing a longer presentation equates to greater value. In other words, you may assume that the more data and justification you present, the stronger your case will be. This isn’t true. Executives value brevity. It signals your mastery over a subject.

Talking Too Much or Rambling

It’s crucial to prepare in advance of meeting with executives, but there is also such a thing as over-preparation. Often, clients rehearse their talk word-for-word. This backfires when your time slot is cut short or an executive throws an unexpected question your way, like in the scenario described earlier.

Being Too Attached to Your Script

Pre-wiring is a form of doing your homework, and serves as few purposes:<ul><li>You can surface concerns and defuse objections, making negotiation easier.</li><li>You can gain valuable insight about what executives already know and potential gaps in knowledge so you can tailor your content.</li><li>You can uncover new details or consideration that lead you to adjust your presentation.</li><li>You can research their biggest pain points and criteria for making decisions.</li></ul>

How to Present to Executives with Confidence: Plan A Preemptive Meeting

“B.L.U.F.” is an acronym that comes from the military and stands for “bottom line up front.” Instead of making the mistake of leading with context, you instead get to the point quickly. You beginyour presentation with the most important information first – whether that’s your request, call-to-action, solution, recommendation, or key conclusion – which helps you be perceived as a crisp, concise communicator.

Focus on “B.L.U.F.”

Another useful model is the SCQA format:<ul><li>Situation. What is the context? Who are the players involved?</li><li>Complication. What is the problem? What are the risks and opportunities?</li><li>Question. What is your hypothesis? How can you overcome hurdles or capitalize on opportunities?</li><li>Answer. What is your proposed solution? What data or insights back up your conclusion?</li></ul>

Make Your Material Memorable

The job of an executive is to focus on the bigger picture of an organization. They deal in vision and strategy, not implementation and execution. That’s why your presentation needs to focus on the what and why, not the how.

Hit All the Areas of Concern

Executives are notorious for interrupting. They will have questions, and they won’t wait until the formal Q&A time to ask them.One strategy is structuring your presentation like an accordion. In other words, design it so that you can expand or shorten it as needed.Lastly, leave ample time for discussion. Follow the 10/30 rule: if you have 30 minutes on the agenda, plan for 10 minutes of content and earmark the rest for interaction. Anticipate questions seniors leaders may have, so that you’re ready to answer them on the spot.

Keep It Flexible 

It’s easy to think members of the C-suite will be highly critical. However, they respond to great presentation skills just like any other team member. 


How to win a presentation in front of your top executive

The concept of work life balance basically views work and life as 2 separate parts of our life that need to be maintained equally. In a much broader sense, it means to utilise more time for leisure things, family time or simply self care. It is something which many youths, including myself, struggle with. It’s difficult to find a space that is just the right balance of work and leisure.

Introduction To Work-life Balance 0

The reason why work-life balance has become such a growing topic in discussions among the self-help and self-care community is because the “constant hustle” cultre has fixed the idea of constantly being on the go, working and being productive into the workforce and has made it the norm.This has built the toxic idea in most workplace employees that they should be constantly on the go and hustling, being productive instead of taking time off for themselves and doing things that they love.

About work-life balance

Even if you love your job & are motivated to work, overworking yourself without taking breaks will eventually lead to some resentment – either towards yourself, your colleagues or even your job.Constantly being on the run, working even on the weekends will lead to eventual burnout – be it mentally or physically – this is what leads to resentment & negative feelings which is your mind & body’s indication to needing a break.Assuming that working harder than others will lead you to great success in your career is wrong. Yes, it might help to get ahead, but at the cost of your own well being.

<ul><li>Define </li></ul>Before going into work-life balance, you need to know what is ‘balance’ for you.Write down the things in your life that are priorities, then analyse your life daily life and try to make an estimate on how much time you’re able to allot to each priority.Then take a moment to reflect on that.Are you happy with that? What would you like to change? How much of a change do you want? How will that change your life?

Tips to maintain work-life balance

<ul><li>Set Schedules </li></ul>When you realise how you want your day-to-day life to be organized it becomes easier to schedule your day accordingly.Set a fixed schedule for workdays with fixed times for work and fun things that you enjoy .When you have a fixed schedule, especially one that is more or less consistent throughout all workdays, it becomes much easier to get into that ‘flow’ state of work and enjoy uninterrupted work times. Also helps you detangle yourself from work after a specific time and just enjoy other things.

Now, it might seem easy to fix a schedule and plan out your entire day, but the difficult part is sticking to that workplan and being consistent with it. Especially as someone like me who doesn’t fit well with schedules and hates being routine, it gets boring.

Cons To This

<ul><li>Turn Off </li></ul>Turn off work mode – both, from your devices and your head.Turn off work and email notifications. If possible, turn off devices and spend time doing the things that make you happy or spend time with people that make you happy.It’s important to not let work distract you during times that are supposed to be your ‘off’ times. Obviously this won’t work for you if you have a job that requires you to be on alert most of the times.But for a student plus writer like me, it’s easy to shut off my phone and go out on a walk or read or study my favourite subjects.

<ul><li>Make Boundaries </li></ul>When you have a schedule and fixed times for everything, there is only that limited time for you to work and to relax. It’s important to learn to maintain that boundary between your work and your personal life. Learn to not bring your work into your personal space, to give time to people outside of the work environment and maintain balance.The way to achieve this balance is from within, it is a resultant of your own choices and it’s important for you to make wise decisions and respect the boundary that you have created for yourself.

If you are someone like me who finds it difficult to work within boundaries,it’s going to be a difficult task to navigate through them and be disciplined, but the only way to have successful work-life balance is by execution- simply learn to work within boundaries and stick to your routine.

Cons To This 

<ul><li>Reflect </li> </ul>After atleast a month of following through, go back to analysing your daily life. Ask yourself the same questions you asked yourself in the first step. Are your answers different now? Do you feel more happy/content with the way your work-life balance is now? Observe and reflect on your emotions before and after and see if things have changed.

<ul><li>Work-life balance is based on the idea that work and life are 2 different parts of our life that need to be maintained equally. It creates this barrier between work and life and puts a pressure on people to be able to manage both equally and successfully. </li><li>But the reality of the situation is that work and life can never be equally balanced in life. </li></ul>

Cons to work-life balance

<ul><li>There will be times when you will have to make certain decisions based off of your professional life and that takes priority in your everyday life. </li><li>There will also be times when your personal life will take the spotlight and you will set your work away to enjoy your life with people you love or just do things to keep yourself happy. </li></ul>

So when it is clear that having a perfect work-life balance isn’t possible and yet we pressurise ourselves to live that way, it is just like running a race but in the opposite direction to everyone else – you might feel like you’re winning when in reality you’re making decisions that will not benefit you. It’s important to accept that the idea of perfect work-life balance is not correct. Accept that you cannot treat things as rigid blocks, sometimes things are just grey

Work-life integration removes the idea of having a perfectly balanced equation between work and life and blends everything together.To be precise, it removes the rigid boundaries between your personal and professional life and sets your day in such a way that work, health, family, self, everything is given appropriate attention but without the strict regimes and schedules.It is a way of creating a collaboration between many areas of your life.

Work-life integration

With the added flexibility to your life, it becomes easier to manage work and personal life and if you feel like adding more things to your life, you can easily do that.It gives the opportunity to be professional while handling many things at the same time and still remain sane !

Pros Of Work-life Integration 

<ul><li>Create a schedule that focuses on all the main priorities in your life. Unlike schedules from work-life balance that dealt with ensuring ‘equlibrium’ between work and life on almost a daily basis, these schedules are based more on what you feel like and what you’re motivated to do</li><li>For example – one day I might be in the mood to study and write and instead of going out with friends i would just stay at home and read a book or draw. </li><li>The next day I might not be in the mindset to study, so I could spend time with friends and family.</li><li>It’s a way to balance your life,but in a way that suits you.</li></ul>

Tips to work-life integration

<ul><li>The only thing to keep in mind is to make sure that your schedule distributes time to all your priorities in a more or less equal amount and fulfills you and the people most important to you.</li><li>Just like in work-life balance situations, it’s important to have boundaries here as well, but not as strict/rigid.</li><li>Here you don’t have to set times in your day reserved only for work and only for fun. You only have a brief blueprint of how much time you want to spend working and how much on leisure things.</li><li>You just need to try and not let the two (work and fun) overlap and keep them at a distance.</li></ul>

Tips... 

<ol><li>If you don’t spread your priorities out equally, you might end up spending most of your time either working or on leisure things.</li><li>You may not be able to properly navigate through the blend of work and life and might lose the grip on maintaining balance between the two.</li><li>You may have your mind constantly preoccupied with other things due to lack of proper scheduling of thoughts and work times.</li></ol>

Cons to work-life integration

Having work-life balance is an important thing.. or is it? Here is debate about the pros and cons of work-life balance and a slightly better option. 

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The book’s title is a reference to the need to get workplaces and government “to pay up for the unseen, unpaid labor of mothers—via respect, recognition, and cold, hard cash.”

Pay Up

<ul><li>Give women control over their schedules. </li><li>Support women with childcare.</li><li>Own their role in shaping gender dynamics in homes.</li><li>Provide paid leave for illness or taking care of a sick child.</li><li>Identify and eliminate any anti-mom bias.</li><li>Don’t rush new mothers back to work.</li><li>Establish a strong reentry approach</li><li>Prioritize women’s mental health.</li><li>Advocate for mothers publicly.</li></ul>

Nine ways workplaces can work for women:

<ul><li>Affordable, quality childcare</li><li>Paid parental leave.</li><li>Monthly payments to moms</li></ul>

Three policy approaches

All things being equal, I’d hire a mom 10 times over because we’re the ones who know how to juggle a million things at once, which is in fact the ideal worker.”

The founder of Girls Who Code and bestselling author of Brave, Not Perfect confronts the “big lie” of corporate feminism and presents a bold plan to address the burnout and inequity harming America’s working women today. We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers, all they needed to do is dream big, raise their hands, and lean in. But data tells a different story. Historic numbers of women left their jobs in 2021, resulting in their lowest workforce participation since 1988. Women’s unemployment rose to nearly fifteen percent, and globally women lost over $800 billion in wages. Fifty-one percent of women say that their mental health has declined, while anxiety and depression rates have skyrocketed. In this urgent and rousing call to arms, Reshma Saujani dismantles the myth of “having it all” and lifts the burden we place on individual women to be primary caregivers, and to work around a system built for and by men. The time has come, she argues, for innovative corporate leadership, government intervention, and sweeping culture shift; it’s time to Pay Up. Through powerful data and personal narrative, Saujani shows that the cost of inaction—for families, for our nation’s economy, and for women themselves—is too great to ignore. She lays out four key steps for creating lasting change: empower working women, educate corporate leaders, revise our narratives about what it means to be successful, and advocate for policy reform. Both a direct call to action for business leaders and a pragmatic set of tools for women themselves, Pay Up offers a bold vision for change as America defines the future of work.

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Books

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER The founder of Girls Who Code and bestselling author of Brave, Not Perfect confronts the “big lie” of corporate feminism and presents a bold plan to address the burnout and inequity harming America’s working women today. We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers, all they needed to do is dream big, raise their hands, and lean in. But data tells a different story. Historic numbers of women left their jobs in 2021, resulting in their lowest workforce participation since 1988. Women’s unemployment rose to nearly fifteen percent, and globally women lost over $800 billion in wages. Fifty-one percent of women say that their mental health has declined, while anxiety and depression rates have skyrocketed. In this urgent and rousing call to arms, Reshma Saujani dismantles the myth of “having it all” and lifts the burden we place on individual women to be primary caregivers, and to work around a system built for and by men. The time has come, she argues, for innovative corporate leadership, government intervention, and sweeping culture shift; it’s time to Pay Up. Through powerful data and personal narrative, Saujani shows that the cost of inaction—for families, for our nation’s economy, and for women themselves—is too great to ignore. She lays out four key steps for creating lasting change: empower working women, educate corporate leaders, revise our narratives about what it means to be successful, and advocate for policy reform. Both a direct call to action for business leaders and a pragmatic set of tools for women themselves, Pay Up offers a bold vision for change as America defines the future of work.

Reshma Saujani

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