Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less

What you do is less important than the difference you make.

[These] powerful women understood that success in imperfect. What would happen if we all started speaking honestly and openly about our priorities and the choices we make about how we spend our time? How inspiring would it be to the young women in our offices if they saw female executives who don't pretend to do it all, but are open and honest about the balls they have dropped to get where they are today? Women need to support one another by being honest about the compromises we make and by speaking openly about the help we require from our partners and other support systems.

just because you’re better at doing something doesn’t mean you doing it is the most productive use of your time.

Women should stop apologizing, not because we do everything right, but because we need to understand that it is okay to do some things wrong.

Millions of girls only need their fathers to pick up a dustpan for them to aspire to be engineers.

The same man who declined to sign legislation that would allow Americans to earn paid sick time to care for themselves and their families14 told reporters in a press conference, “I cannot and will not give up my family time.

Trying to meet impossible expectations will only continue to harm our physical and psychological well-being.

Drop the Ball: to release unrealistic expectations of doing it all and engage others to achieve what matters most to us, deepening our relationships and enriching our lives

The greatest privilege that men in the workplace have had isn't a corporate or public policy. It's a partner at home. A nonpaid working dad (a.k.a. Stay-at-home dad) might be some working moms' idea of a superhero. But nonpaid working dads are not the ultimate solution. We do not need role reversal; rather, we need a new model of teamwork in which both parents are meaningfully engaged at work and at home, collaboratively making decisions that reflect what matters most to them.

I want the people in my ecosystem to know that their advice and support continues to make a difference in my life.

diversity, when leveraged to solve problems in new ways, is a magnificent thing.

In 2014, researchers at Penn State found that women who juggle work and home were proportionately much more likely to experience higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol than were men.

We need a Drop the Ball movement—

Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely do—the pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly at home, especially when children arrive on the scene.

I used to be the queen of domesticity, a Good Housekeeping cover model in the making. I was also an ambitious professional. These two identities had always been on a collision course. But I was oblivious to that fact until after the crash.