Video | Tiffany Dufu | Mind the Gap: Women and Power

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Big Takeaways

• It’s not rocket science in order for you to advance.
• Self-viability: Young women who are really successful at advancing their leadership; they round up their ability.
• Political savvy: Young women tend to treat political savvy as something poisonous. But women who are successful leaders realize that politics is just a part of the ecosystem.
• Women are socially conditioned not to be ambitious, which is the combination of talent and the desire for recognition.
• Effective storytelling: Women who are really gifted at crafting a personal narrative and turning it into an ask, or a pitch, or an argument.
• Ambition simply means you know what your next step is.
• Ambition is not necessarily about taking over the world.
• Using your stories and getting access to the people who can help you along the way.
• The biggest misnomer about leadership advancement is that it is a sole endeavor. It is a team sport.
• Leaders are the cumulative result of other people.
• A sponsor is someone whose primary value is in what they say about you when you’re not in the room. People who expend their political, social, and economic currency on you. People who are laying their bodies on the table, where decisions are made about who’s moving forward.
• There’s always going to be a conversation happening about you. You want to inform that conversation and you want to be a part of advancing your own leadership.
• Women are extraordinary negotiators and extraordinary askers. We just suck at doing it for ourselves. We need to psychologically tell ourselves that if we get more money, that it will make the world a better place.
• It’s an abuse of the virtue of humility if we value that at the cost of our growth, creativity, and ingenuity.

Video originally aired June 23. 2016.