“What's been most helpful to me is realizing that those times when all the heads in the room turn and look at me as if I was crazy, reinforce my own leadership capability. Because I've been in a number of those settings where I've been right. And I've been right often enough that now when it happens I don't automatically think, "Oh, my, what's wrong with me?" or "Ohhh, I must not be ready for this role," or "They know so much more than I do."” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksEnoughHappensTurnsRealizingMy OwnRoomsNumbersRolesCrazyReadySettingSettingsHelpfulCapabilityLook At Me Author:Mitchell Baker
“Just to have the confidence to say, "Which end of that spectrum am I usually on?" That's been very helpful to me. Because it's a really awkward setting.” EndsSettingSettingsHelpfulAwkwardSpectrum Author:Mitchell Baker
“Usually, you know, you're at a table and you're the only woman, you've got this idea, you finally speak up - I mean, I've been in some settings where every head turns toward me and then they all turn away as if I've never spoken. Which I think happens when whatever I said was so out of the blue, or so awkward, that they just didn't know how to respond.” IfsThinkingKnowsMeanSaidIdeasHappensTurnsSpeakKnow HowBlueTablesSettingSettingsAwkward Author:Mitchell Baker
“I guess my other advice is that it's really good to be comfortable among groups of men! It's just a very common work setting and I don't actually think about it too much, but there must be some comfort level that I've developed over the years.” ThinkingMenYearsLevelsCommonToo MuchGroupsAdviceComfortComfortableSettingSettings Author:Mitchell Baker
“We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.” CertainDevelopmentProjectsSettingSettingsReleaseEntityPressured Author:Mitchell Baker
