449: Leaning Out with Marissa Orr

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🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Marissa Orr shares fresh, actionable wisdom on the workplace gender gap and reframes how alleged weaknesses can actually be strengths.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) The problem with the ‘lean in’ mentality.

2) How power and money trigger value judgments when it comes to gender differences.

3) Why strengths depend on context.

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— ABOUT MARISSA —

Marissa Orr began her Google career over 15 years ago as a founding member of Google’s Sales Operations & Strategy team, after which she worked as Vertical Marketing Manager at Facebook. She has conducted talks and workshops for thousands of people at diverse organizations across the globe. Originally from Miami, she now lives in New Jersey, with her three children.

• Marissa’s book: Lean Out: The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace

• Marissa’s website: https://www.marissaorr.com/

• Marissa’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarissaBethOrr

• Marissa’s Medium: https://medium.com/@MarissaOrr

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Research: Explaining Gender Differences at the Top

• Research: Men and Women: No Big Difference

• Research: Do Women Shy Away from Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?

• Research: The role of gender in team collaboration and performance

• Research: Gender Styles in Communication

• Research: Do Nice Guys — And Gals — Really Finish Last? The Joint Effects of Sex and Agreeableness on

• Research: Who’s Better at Selling: Men or Women? Data From 30,469 Sales Calls

• Book: The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know by Katty Kay

• Book: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex by John Gray

• Book: The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem: The Definitive Work on Self-Esteem by the

• Book: Leading Pioneer in the Field by Nathaniel Branden

• Book: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McKitis.
0:19.2	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 449 with Marissa Orr. This is a juicy one and
0:24.7	may be controversial, provocative, and I hope it's controversial and provocative in a
0:29.6	good way. We are going to talk a bit about the gender gap leaning in versus leaning out and systems and
0:35.8	structures and strengths and how we perceive them and deploy them and I think it's really fascinating
0:41.2	to get the wheels turning in some interesting ways. We cover a wide array of
0:46.7	viewpoints and voices on the show and I think that as so long as we got actionable wisdom that sharp is universal skills required to flourish at work from relevant, authoritative and engaging voices.
1:00.7	I want to hear about it.
1:01.6	I did, fun fact invite I guess the foil to
1:04.6	Marissa Orr's perspective Cheryl Sandberg I invited her on the program through
1:09.2	her publicist but they declined at the time so I don't know maybe they'll change the bind after this but I think it's a juicy one and if it makes you angry
1:17.2	I think it's good to think of it a little bit about you know what's behind that and if it makes you say right on girl that that's interesting too so I think you're in for a treat well without further ado
1:26.9	you're gonna learn one the problem with the lean-end mentality to how power and money
1:32.0	trigger value judgments when it comes to gender differences and 3.
1:36.0	Why Strengths depend on context.
1:38.4	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adams reference
1:41.5	or the boatload of research we site it's over at
1:43.8	awesome at your job dot com slash F-449 and now here is Marissa Story Marissa
1:49.3	or began her Google career over 15 years ago as a founding member of Google Sales Operations and Strategy Team, after which she worked as Vertical Marketing
1:56.9	Manager at Facebook. She's conducted talks and workshops for thousands of people at diverse
2:01.0	organizations across the globe.
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