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A few months ago Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg gave a speech that quickly went viral about why there aren’t more women making it to the top of the career ladder. It was a great speech â€" motivating, intelligent and thoughtful. She didn’t offer policy prescriptions or propose ways in which the workplace could better accommodate women; rather, she told women how they could better help themselves succeed.

Today my IWF colleague Libby Jacobsen alerted me to Leslie Bradshaw’s new blog over at Forbes.com, where the opening entry is titled, “Why Women Having a Seat at the Table is Not Enough.” Bradshaw is playing off of Sandberg’s advice that the kinds of choices women make â€" starting with where they choose to sit at a meeting â€" can have a dramatic impact on their long-term professional success.

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