Olympic Learning Meets Leadership: Insights on Grit and Good Power with Ginni Rometty
Ginni Rometty, former chairman, president, and CEO of IBM, is someone who has defined herself and her career through intentional action backed by hard work and determination. She says, “It’s your attitude, and you control it. You can spend ninety percent of your time reliving the problem and ten percent on the way out of it. Or you can spend ten percent dwelling on the problem and ninety percent about what to do going forward.” Ginni was named by Fortune magazine as the number one most powerful woman in the world for three years in a row.
“Hard work is a way to get ahead . . . It doesn’t matter how bad it is, there’s always a way forward.”
What You Will Learn:
- Insights into why your early life informs so much of what you become
- Lessons in how to be more passionate (Hint: do things you like)
- Stories about why you have more agency than you think you do
- The hard truth that no one is beneath homework, not even CEOs
Deep dive into what it means to lead an intentional life, using our powers for good along the way. Ginni isn’t a pie-in-the-sky thinker. She believes in the power of hard work and the value in gaining perspective from our relationship with others. Ginni doesn’t always have the right answer, but she sure has a lot to offer in this episode.
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