Carly Fiorina was named "The Most Powerful Woman in Business" by Fortune Magazine when she was 45 years old. She became CEO of Hewlett-Packard which ranked her as the first female CEO of a Fortune 20 company.Her highlight statements:
- Educate yourself widely. Learn about the things that fascinate you.
- It is more important to ask the right question than to know the right answer.
- Every time you overcome something that you are afraid of you become stronger.
- I won't let other people's smaller ideas about who I am define me.
- Leadership is about moving people in a new direction. Management is about producing within defined parameters.
- Give people a vision that is more compelling than what they are afraid of.
- Leadership is about seeing and unlocking potential in others.
- You have to be learning all the time. You learn when you are outside your comfort zone. Create experiences that put people outside their comfort zone.
- In order to see truth, you need passion and dispassion.
- At it's core, leadership is about character.
- When fired from HP, she learned that there is a gift in everything.
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