Don't Hate Her because She's Successful

     "Don't Hate Her because She's Successful". This was the cover headline of the TIME magazine that I got for this month's issue.( I ordered the TIME magazine last year to increase my reading comprehension skills). Well, the catch phrase did catch me by surprise, intriguing me as to question myself who this lovely young woman actually was.
At first, I thought she was a politician since TIME portrayed so many politicians as winners  both last and this year, including the eminent Obama (president of the U.S.), President Park(the first female president ever in South Korea), and the famous Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.( I got very interested in her for her incessant effort to democratize Burma; I also watched a movie "The Lady" based on a true story of her). Anyhow, going back to whom the woman really was in the cover, she was the COO(Chief Operating Officer) of Facebook. I don't think there is a need to explain Facebook here. Everyone, including myself, knew who the CEO of Facebook was, provided that the movie "Social Network" was such a big hit in the box office world wide. 
     However, and I mean nonetheless, who would have thought that a non-politician, non-civil rights advocate, and non-CEO would ever appear on the cover of TIME? I would like to make myself clear that I have no prejudice against women, no narrow-mind towards gays, and no discrimination on COO's especially. I was just appalled that TIME does consider woman COO's successful in a world infested with man-CEO's. So what was her name? Her name was Sheryl Sandberg. Yep, not ICEBERG everybody. (Sorry..for the joke) In spite of my habit of screening through the very first page of the magazine, I rushed through the page in which Sheryl Sandberg was introduced. Her personal profile was neatly introduced by starting off with her childhood life and how she aced high school, securing her spot in notorious HARVARD. To me,  her childhood experience was inextricably plain, too plain to be true. I am not bragging, but I think my childhood was more exciting(?) than hers. 
     Yet, her profile of being admitted to Harvard Law School was stunning. It was really an astonishment since I knew the LSAT score (178 out of 180) of those that got into Harvard law. What was more surprising was that she gave up law for business. She transferred to Harvard business school. So far so good. That's what I thought when I kept on reading because I am a guy who believes that prestigious schools cannot completely tell who someone virtually is and what he or she is really made of. He or she also needs to have conscience and integrity to help those who are in desperate need. Okay, I admit. Harvard is amazing. But, and but again, what does she have other than Harvard to be chosen as the one to show up on the cover of TIME out of those thousands and thousands of Harvard graduates? That remained quite a mystery to me until I read about the part after she got her MBA degree from Harvard. She worked for Google and engaged herself in politics by working for the U.S. Department of Treasury. The final niche for her was in Facebook led by Mark Zuckerberg as the CEO. Her peers in Facebook said that she was enthusiastic and ruthless when it came to work. When she was resting and not doing work, she managed other employees by providing them with food when they were hungry and offering them a lively environment so that their efficiency went up. With rigorous work schedule, she never yielded family to work. Instead, she did both. That part to me was a "WOW!" for when my mom was a CEO( She was in the education industry and managed colleges in U.S.) she came home almost at 2 am EVERYDAY. I know more than anyone how hard it is for a woman to do both, even though she is not a leader. Of course, she divorced with her ex-husband, but the status quo was that she was a winner in managing her family and work at the same time. This was indeed amazing to me inside-out. When I finished reading the magazine about Sheryl Sandberg, I concluded that she deserved to be on the cover. After all, who succeeds in rearing one's family and operating a global firm at the same time? We all might think that there may be women around us like Sheryl Sandberg, but in reality, it is finding 'needle in a hay stack'.