Your review incisively illustrates my main critique of self-help as a genre. Anyone smart enough to write good self-help (and Sandberg qualifies, as you ably demonstrate) would do more good writing policy recommendations or cultural critiques. Then again, people have to read what you write to do good, and there’s more demand for the former than the latter two.
“subject matter expert who is not a complete sociopath” is a very low hurdle.
Resume including McKinsey & proximity to Larry Summers are huge red flags for me.
Your review incisively illustrates my main critique of self-help as a genre. Anyone smart enough to write good self-help (and Sandberg qualifies, as you ably demonstrate) would do more good writing policy recommendations or cultural critiques. Then again, people have to read what you write to do good, and there’s more demand for the former than the latter two.