The Facebook chief operating officer has enraged both sexes with her new book on women and work
Sandberg nevertheless made her mark: after rising through the ranks of Google, she joined Facebook, and won acclaim for her management skills. Some critics point out that she is not a female Steve Jobs; she is better at being a chief of staff than producing visionary insights or innovative breakthroughs. But nobody doubts her skill at managing difficult colleagues (be that Zuckerberg or Summers); or that she is brilliant at pulling teams together and promoting her company – and herself – with charm and impressive force. “One of the key things I have been saying is that we have got to look at language,” she says. “We have got to stop saying that our daughters are bossy, or calling women aggressive at work. We have got to break down these stereotypes – nobody says that about men.”
