Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

Bring your whole self to work. I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.

Coming from Google, you don't exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.