Sheryl Sandberg Shares 14 Ways Her Friends Helped Her Career - Lean In

"When I met Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, she told me she wanted to be unapologetically a woman and unapologetically black, and she wasn’t going to brush either off to the side to fit in. Mellody was a big part of my path to Lean In. Many people urged me not to talk about gender. She said, "Yes. Write the book."