Leaning In and Communicating: Interns Learn from Sheryl Sanberg and Each Other
September 10, 2013
The article Lean In Moments: Anne Madoff at Palantir Technologies on Seeing I-To-I refers to Sheryl Sandberg’s recent publication Lean In, which encourages young women to take on more responsibility and trust their abilities in the workplace. A young female intern at Palantir Technologies felt dismayingly out of her element when she began there. This was not a new feeling, or a unique one. There is an ongoing self-doubt in spite of her achievements and success. The article explains,
“One day at lunch, my insecurities finally subsided. I was sitting with some interns I didn’t know very well, and one of the girls I’d just met said, “Ugh! My Palan-fear was out of control when I got here. I’m so glad it’s eased up.” I looked at her confusedly, and asked what “Palan-fear” meant. “You know, the fear that everyone here is way smarter than you are,” she replied. I felt just like I did at 16 when I read about Sheryl Sandberg’s anxieties: “wow, it’s not just me.”
Simply knowing that this was a wide-spread fear, a disease in fact, seemed to alleviate its effects. Palantir’s interns discovered that everyone feels like the dumbest person in the room on occasion. This sort of marketing seems to channel Marshall McLuhan’s ‘medium as message’ campaign.
Chelsea Kerwin, September 10, 2013
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