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For this week's podcast we're featuring a conversation between Facebook C.O.

Cheryl Sandberg and HBR Editor-chief Adiagnacius.

They sat down recently in California to talk about Cheryl's new book, Lean In.

What follows are some excerpts from their conversation?

Enjoy.

So who is the book for and what is the ultimate takeaway you would like or the primary takeaway you would like from it?

I think the book is for any woman who wants advice on how to sit at any table she wants to sit

at and any man who wants to be part of creating a more equal world both at home and in the workforce,

you know we know that institutions that can use the talents of the full workforce perform better.

There's data that suggests that I think that that's of the full workforce perform better.

There's data that suggests that.

I think that's increasingly will be proven to be true.

We also know that more equal marriages are happier and more stable.

And so I think there's a lot of potential for this to have very positive effects for our organizations and for our homes.

Okay, so I want to come back to a bunch of those.

You're doing a big publicity rollout, Oprah, Time magazine, other things.

You've become effectively a major spokesperson for some of these topics.

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