We all face personal loss and events that knock us out sooner or later in life. These are bound to have a devastating effect on our life. And it is ok to be knocked out for a while. Take a pause and grieve. But it is equally important bounce back and return to a normal and productive life. In Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Wharton psychologist Adam Grant, shows how we can build the strength to overcome life’s challenges and support loved ones coping with loss, illness, and other adversity.Take a look at these Option B book reviews and share your views about the book.
Sheryl Sandberg is chief operating officer at Facebook, overseeing the firm’s business operations. Prior to Facebook, Sheryl was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department under President Clinton, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and an economist with the World Bank.
Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated teacher for four straight years. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers and the world’s top 40 business professors under 40. Adam is the author of two New York Times bestselling books translated into 34 languages.
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
Author: Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf (April 24, 2017)
ISBN-10: 1524732680, 978-1524732684
Option B Summary
Option B combines Sandberg’s personal insights after her husband died unexpectedly with Grant’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. It turns out that people are not born with a fixed amount of resilience; it is like a muscle that everyone can build.
Sandberg and Grant offer concrete steps we can take to recover and rebound from adversity and explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war.
They also address how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces. Many of these lessons can also be applied to everyday struggles.
Option B Reviews
Option B is perhaps one of the most awaited books of the year so far and has received mostly favorable reviews.
“It is Sandberg whose story commands our riveted attention, and it is her natural and untutored responses to the horror that are most moving.” ~ Caitlin Flanagan, The New York Times
” this accounting of Sandberg’s resilience does for the process of grieving what her previous work has done for women in the workplace.” ~ Kirkus Reviews
“In the same way she implored graduates at Berkeley to “celebrate everything” in a speech not long after Dave’s death, Option B implores us to build wells of strength to cope with adversity, but also to find compassion for ourselves and those around us when it hits us, as it will.” ~ Jenny Anderson, Quartz
Option B Excerpt
Here’s an excerpt of the book. Take a peek and tell us if you agree with the Option B reviews.