My vacation read the last two weeks was Drop The Ball by Tiffany Dufu. This book was recommended by one of the mentors in the accelerator we’re participating in for our business and I was really looking forward to it, but honestly it was a huge disappointment. I bailed 3/4 way through which, as a committed finish-every-book person, I pretty much *never* do.
Essentially, the book is about coaching women to stop micromanaging their husbands and allow them to do things to around the house/with kids so they can break free of gender roles and #leanin more at work. As someone who has spent the last 5 years growing a business and not being primary parent to my children, this really didn’t resonate. I was hoping it would be more balanced: not just about dropping the ball at home but also about how to pass the baton at work so you could spend more time at home.
I could see how this might be helpful for some women, but Dufu’s parenting style and marriage (in which she and her husband lived and worked on different continents) just did not resonate with me. I’m trying to figure out how to spend more time taking care of my children, not less. If anything I’d like to take some of that stereotypical “women’s work” back from my husband as I try to reclaim the life I had in the early days of our marriage before business took over.
I’m on the fence between ⭐⭐ and ⭐⭐⭐ only because I think it could be useful to a particular group of women. If there’s a book that is the complete opposite of this, let me know in the comments because that’s what I was hoping for here.
