Lessons Learned from Sheryl Sandberg's New Book

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, speaks at a Facebook event for marketing professionals in 2012 in New York.

Google still owes her some babysitting.

While she was working at Google, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin attended Sandberg's baby shower and each presented her with certificates entitling her to one hour of babysitting. She still hasn't taken them up on the offer.

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She knows a lot of really enlightened men.

There's no official count of how many men out there want to improve the work-life balance in American culture and boost women in the workplace, but Sandberg seems to know an enviable share of them. She has a bevy of stories about Summers, Page, Brin, and Zuckerberg being evenhanded, fair, and supportive in their treatment of women—not to mention a husband who consciously tries to equally split housework and childcare duties.

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead will be released by Knopf on March 11.

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