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"Sheryl Sandberg has become a role model for many women in the workplace, but who does she consider to be her single biggest professional role model? Mark Zuckerberg.\n\"I think professionally the best role model I've had is Mark Zuckerberg,\" Sandberg said during a Time Warner event Monday, which coincided with her appearance on the cover of Time Magazine this week. \"Mark looked at me six months into the job five years ago, he said, 'Sheryl, you care too much about being liked. You are trying to please everyone all day long and you can't do it. And if you never say anything that anyone disagrees with, you're not going to say anything at all.\"\nWhile Zuckerberg may be Sandberg's biggest professional role model, she says her mom is her biggest personal role model. \"My mom is the most giving woman in the whole world who has done more for me and everyone else around her and anyone I've ever met.\"\nSandberg's Time Warner appearance is just one part of her media blitz this week for the release of her first book, Lean In, and the launch of her new organization of the same name, which focuses on the leadership gap between men and women. Sandberg has appeared on 60 Minutes and the Today Show, as well as in Time Magazine and Vanity Fair. \nDuring the event, Sandberg focused on some of the steps that managers, teachers, parents and policy makers need to take to help eliminate what she says is \"stagnation\" in the percentage of women taking the top spot at companies. She also offered her thoughts on how women fare in the tech world in particular \u2014 not great, she says, but not much different than other industries \u2014 and told a sweet story showing how supportive Facebook employees have been about her book.\n\"Something nice happened today, on a personal note,\" she told the crowd at Time Warner. \"At Facebook, we have these red posters that get produced and they say, 'What would you do if you weren't afraid?' and 'Done is better than perfect' and 'Move fast and break things' and 'Keep shipping.' The team printed up 'Lean In' posters today and they put them all around the campus and sent me pictures.\"\nSandberg also briefly touched on the recent work-from-home debate, noting in response to a question that Facebook is perfectly fine with its employees working from home. \"There are Facebook employees we've never met,\" Sandberg said. \"We have some amazing developers that really no one had ever seen, but they turned out great products. We let it happen.\"\nThe option to work from home is certainly important for both men and women with families, but Sandberg has stopped short of criticizing companies like Yahoo (which is run by her former coworker Marissa Mayer) for cracking down on remote employees. When asked about Yahoo in particular, she told Time in the cover cover story that \"No one knows what happened there,\" and added that she believes Mayer has come under extra scrutiny for this and other policies because she is a woman. \nImage via Larry Busacca/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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