About This Book
The most important skill ambitious women need isn't doing more—it's learning to let go of doing everything.
Tiffany Dufu was a standard-bearer for the women's leadership movement and a self-described poster girl for doing it all—until having her first child exposed the unsustainability of that ideal. Drop the Ball blends memoir and manifesto to argue that women's leadership stalls not from lack of ambition but from an excess of obligation. Dufu shows how reevaluating expectations, shrinking the to-do list and meaningfully delegating to others creates the bandwidth necessary to pursue what actually matters.
For driven women who have been told that having it all requires doing it all, this book offers a direct counterargument: embracing imperfection and expecting more from others isn't a concession—it's the strategy that allows real goals, deeper relationships and lasting success to coexist.