Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Both men and women react negatively when women negotiate on their own behalf. A man can just negotiate: "I have a better offer. That's not enough to make my family's ends meet." No one feels bad about it. But when a woman does that, there's a backlash.

If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.

It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.

When the man is traveling with a man, he says, "Let's stay up late and work on this and get this to be better." When the man's traveling with the woman, for the sake of appearances he doesn't do the work with her. That's a lost opportunity for her to be a success.

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.