{"id":619,"date":"2013-05-13T11:28:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T11:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/?p=619"},"modified":"2013-05-15T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T10:27:19","slug":"lean-in-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/2013\/05\/13\/lean-in-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Lean In – Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LeanMy wife read this book recently and suggested that I might find it useful, not only in light of my role on the CBGE, but helpful to me personally as a man in leadership vocationally.\u00a0 As is quite often the case, she was right.\u00a0 Lean In<\/em>, by Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, is a book about leadership.\u00a0 While primarily written for women, many of her premises clearly apply to men also, but more importantly give men (and women) some important insights about why women may \u201chold back\u201d rather than \u201cLean In.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sandberg, from her own experience, puts forth that while women experience the realities of the many external barriers that have historically and continually kept women from advancing up the leadership ladder there is also the important factor of one\u2019s own internal barriers. (Oh, by the way, she also suggests that advancement in today\u2019s world is not up a ladder, but up a jungle gym, with many routes to higher rungs of leadership.) In this book, she explores some of the life experiences that may contribute to what she calls the \u201cleadership ambition gap.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having actually read the book, I find it interesting the various controversies and criticisms of this book or even more frequently of Sandberg personally.\u00a0 Many criticize her for having the means to enable her to maintain a career while raising children, when many women do not have that choice but must <\/span>work in order to survive. These are some of the realities of those external barriers that keep women down, or at least from advancing. \u00a0Others are critical of her and imply that she advocates for a specific position, such as, women should remain in the workforce or that somehow they are viewed negatively if they choose to remain home to raise their children.\u00a0 I personally saw none of this as I read the book.\u00a0 Rather I believe that Sandberg advances the challenge that the discussion needs to continue so that gains made by the work of pioneers of the past are not lost.<\/p>\n

After having read this book, and in serving on the Covenant\u2019s Commission on Biblical Gender Equality, I am continually amazed at how one\u2019s personal biases prevent people from an open reading or discussion on the topic of gender equality, whether that be a secular book like Sandberg\u2019s or even the Bible.\u00a0 I am reminded of a statement made by a teenager that I was seeing in counseling many years ago, \u201cOur minds are like cement\u2026all mixed up and set.\u201d\u00a0 May it not be so for us.\u00a0 Our world, and the church need us all to demonstrate the ability to listen with open minds and open hearts to hear and see a whole viewpoint in its entire context before rejecting it or judging it as error.<\/p>\n

You may find Lean In<\/em> at Amazon by clicking here<\/a>
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