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“‘I’ve taken a leap of faith on several occasions,’ she says. ‘And in every case, on some level, I’ve become a beginner again.’”
Susan Lyne, from The many lives of Susan Lyne (Fortune Magazine)
“As author Laura Vanderkam has pointed out, for many of us, there’s actually a pretty strong correlation between how busy we are and how important we feel. “We live in a competitive society, and so by lamenting our overwork and sleep deprivation — even if that requires workweek inflation and claiming our worst nights are typical — we show that we are dedicated to our jobs and our families,” she wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal.”
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Levo League Offers Networking, Jobs for Young Women
There are plenty of places on the Web to network, job-hunt and look for career advice. Levo League’s pitch is that there aren’t many of those places that attract young professional women, and it wants to fix that.
me giggling with the happy @levoleague office puppy Bauer.
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Powerful women fund Gen-Y startup
(Fortune’s Most Powerful Women)
If you’re creating a career platform for aspiring Gen-Y women, it’s smart to line up star businesswomen as angel investors. Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Gilt Groupe’s Susan Lyne, and serial entrepreneur Gina Bianchini invested slivers of the $1.25 million that Levo League has raised to get off the ground, but so what that their stakes are tiny? The two young entrepreneurs behind the new site know how to ask for help and how to get attention as well.
Office Hours with Susan Lyne Recap
On other people:
- “Single biggest asset you will have through your careers are your peer relationships…People that I have started out with have come back into my life over the years.”
- “Long term career allies are your peers sitting next to you.”
- ‘Help your peers & make them feel you will pay this forward & they’ll be credited.”
- Lyne saved Jack from dying in the 1st ep of Lost “8 million American women were gonna turn the television off…you have to put yourself in the place of the viewer.”
- “I love one on one conversations…I like to understand what drives people. I’ve always been a critical reader.”
On getting started:
-“If I was starting I would prefer to be at a startup…They’re always understaffed. Understaffed organizations create opportunity.”
On being well rounded and true to yourself:
-“Your resume should only be one piece of what you bring…you’ve got to have self knowledge of what you’re really good at”
- “I would urge all of you to do is not to focus just on your experiences, but what you think you’re good at.”
On iPads: “People shop more on their iPads during the weekend.”
How getting fired can be a blessing:
- “What if this is an opportunity? What do I wanna do as opposed to reacting to offers?”
- “Being fired helped me to self-direct instead of react, and led to my first CEO job.”
- “Surviving being fired is one of the defining moments for me.”
On flexibility and finding a career:
-“The ability to make changes and start something new doesn’t end when your 30, you can do it when you’re 60.”
- “I found something that I was good at and that I loved doing. It sounds like a simple idea.”
- “I could move industry to industry. Bring the talents that were mine alone and make an impact there.”
- “What’s the white space there?
- “I found something I like and I’m going to jump.”
On being the boss:
-“Big difference between being a part of the leadership team and having the final say. You have to own the decision making.”
- You won’t always make the right decision but you need to stand by it so it gives people direction to move in.
- “Susan, I don’t buy a dog and bark for it.” Rupert Murdoch to Susan when she launched Premiere Magazine.
@reshmasaujani’s quote from @aw_bush & @raffisapire’s video, Get Moving, Young Grads!
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