Quotes by Julie Sweet - Page 2

A lot of the values of millennials are shared by all of our generations. Who doesn't want purpose, feedback and balance?
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Feedback
Generations
Millennials
Shared
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If you aspire to senior leadership, you're going to have to work hard. That doesn't mean you have to give up everything.
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Aspire
Senior
Work Hard
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The impact of digital and technology without a shared success mindset can be very detrimental to communities around the world.
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Technology
Detrimental
Digital
Impact
Mindset
Communities
Shared
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We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where our people can be successful, both professionally and personally.
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Diverse
Strive
Inclusive
Our People
Professionally
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While men and women alike are liberated by the balance that work flexibility affords, women appear to derive greater value from it.
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Balance
Flexibility
Greater
Liberated
Men And Women
Work Men Women
Affords
Alike
Appear
Derive
Work Women Men
Value
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I personally feel I will have failed if I do not make progress toward making us the most inclusive and diverse workforce in the U.S.
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Diverse
Workforce
Inclusive
Failed
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I have this little plaque that my husband hung on our wall at home. It says, 'If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough.'
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Hung
Husband
Our Dreams
Scare
Wall
Your Dreams
Big Enough
Says
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The new normal is continuous learning, and we look for people who demonstrate lots of different interests and really demonstrate curiosity.
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Curiosity
Normal
Lots
Continuous
Demonstrate
Interests
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I think there is a general view that sustainability is really important. I do think it is a top priority. I don't know that it's the top priority.
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Sustainability
General
View
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It's important to reflect upon how far we've come in achieving gender equality in the workplace and how we could move faster toward even greater goals.
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Equality
Faster
Gender
Workplace
Achieving
How Far
Reflect
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I want to leave Accenture better than I found it. I am focused on investing our people, our community and effective diversity and inclusion initiatives.
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Community
Diversity
Focused
Found
Inclusion
Investing
Our Community
Effective
Leave
Community I Am Better
Initiatives
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Digital fluency... is literally your ability to do things like banking online, to connect with people, to use a device and the Internet in a very easy way.
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Banking
Digital
Easy Way
Fluency
Your Internet People
Connect
Device
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We believe our diversity makes us stronger, smarter, and more innovative, helping us better serve the needs of our clients, our people, and our communities.
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Believe
Clients
Diversity
Helping
Innovative
Needs
People
Smarter
Stronger
More
Us
Believe Better People
Communities
Makes
Our People
Serve
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We see our clients saying we want a diverse team and also to attract people particularly the millennials they really care about working in a diverse workplace.
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Clients
Diverse
Millennials
Workplace
People Care See
Attract
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This goes to show how much of an impact culture has. Even in countries where online access is readily available, there may not be the same expectation for women.
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Access
Available
Impact
Online
Countries
Expectation
How Much
Readily
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I don't care what level you are, there is the need to offer straight talk when you're working with clients. You have to have the courage to deliver tough messages.
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Clients
Messages
Deliver
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We're living in a world where clients constantly are saying to me, 'The most important thing you can do is to tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear.'
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Clients
World Me Important
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I worked starting when I was 14. I was the reservationist at the Elizabeth Howard dinner theater. They had never hired someone in high school, let alone a 14-year-old.
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Elizabeth
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It is very hard to transform your culture and your workforce to be a relevant company in the digital world if all of your processes are stuck in the traditional world.
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Company
Digital
Digital World
Hard
Relevant
Stuck
Traditional
Workforce
Very
Culture World Your
Processes
Transform
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In the old, on-premises world, we had to make updates client by client. With digital, companies need to move quickly and change quickly, and cloud provides a competitive advantage.
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Advantage
Competitive Advantage
Digital
Client
Cloud
Companies
Competitive
Provides
Quickly
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Digital disruption has blurred industry lines. You have industry convergence. You have cross-industry platforms. And you have CEOs who are benchmarking the best, regardless of industry.
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Convergence
Digital
Disruption
Lines
Platforms
Blurred
Ceos
Regardless
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People who come to Accenture want to be part of collaborative teams that are interesting and diverse. We think it's actually a real differentiator as we try to get people to come join us.
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Diverse
Interesting
Collaborative
Join
Teams
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We're supposed to be bringing out-of-the-box thinking and innovation, and you cannot do that unless you've got diversity... It's everything from gender to ethnicity to geographic diversity.
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Ethnicity
Gender
Innovation
Bringing
Geographic
Supposed
Unless
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What you want is to have women at the same pace as men doing tech immersion. It's not that every woman has to do it, but to close the gap, you need to have them do it at the same pace as men.
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Pace
Women Men Woman
Gap
Tech
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We don't always talk about that as a leadership quality. I think what's really important is having empathy, understanding the experiences of how someone is going to experience what you have to say.
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Leadership
Quality
Empathy
Understanding
Experiences
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You can't expect leaders and people to be intentional, take the steps that are needed, and be a part of making progress if you're not willing to be transparent about where we are and where we want to go.
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Needed
Steps
Transparent
Willing
Expect
Intentional
Leaders
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An employee, even a very junior person, if they can articulately summarize a meeting, if they can put together a presentation and even emails that are really salient and to the point, they are so valued.
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Presentation
Emails
Valued
Junior
Meeting
Summarize
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Blockchain is moving beyond cryptocurrency, and it's worth paying attention - especially since successful prototypes show that blockchain, also known as distributed ledger technology, will be transformative.
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Technology
Attention
Moving
Prototype
Successful
Since
Also
Beyond
Show
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Distributed
Paying
Transformative
Worth
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Innovation hubs are going to be in cities focused on the industries and clients of that city. So in Houston, it's focused on our industrial companies, particularly the energy sector, robotics, and automation.
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Automation
Cities
Clients
Houston
Innovation
Robotics
Industrial
Sector
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There are three things that I have found were really critical in my first year: listening, prioritizing, and communicating. I don't think they're different for women. It's really about that first year as a CEO.
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Ceo
Critical
Three
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We must understand what is on clients' minds and what their needs are, and we must also be close to our teams who are serving our clients. At day's end, it is all about delivering value to our clients as defined by them.
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Clients
Defined
Needs
Serving
Understand
Also
Close
Minds
Teams
Value
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When you come into a role, there seems to be just a ton of different places you can make an impact. But it's critical in that first year to be seen to be a leader that can actually accomplish things and has a sense of priorities.
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Accomplish
Priorities
Different Places
Ton
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My parents believed in the American dream and the power of education, but didn't have the money to send me to college. I realized early on that I needed to go against the flow and be better than everyone else to support my family.
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Dream
Education
Family
American Dream
College
Flow
Needed
Support
Education Family Power
Against
Everyone
Believed
Early
Everyone Else
Parents
Realized
Send
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We believe that creating an inclusive and diverse environment is not only the right thing to do, but it also makes our company stronger, smarter, and more innovative - which helps us better serve the needs of our clients, our people, and our communities.
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Clients
Diverse
Innovative
Right Thing
Smarter
Believe Better People
Inclusive
Our People
The Right Thing
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My mom was a beautician in her early days, and then my parents decided that one of them needed to go to school in order to build the future. So my mom started going to college when I was in eighth grade, and she graduated when I was a freshman in college.
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Decided
Eighth Grade
Freshman
Needed
Early Days
Eighth
Grade
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In fact, blockchain has the potential to fundamentally change how we share information, buy and sell things, interact with government, prove our identity, and even verify the authenticity of everything - from the food we eat to the medicine we take to who we say we are.
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Authenticity
Medicine
Verify
Change Food Government
Blockchain
Fundamentally
Interact
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One of the big aha moments is how many large companies still don't use collaboration tools and aren't using digital technologies internally. They're engaging with their customers, but they haven't invested in the infrastructure that allows their employees to telecommute.
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Collaboration
Engaging
Infrastructure
Tools
Employees
Invested
Technologies
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We called our research 'Getting to Equal - How Digital is Helping to Close the Gender Gap at Work.' And at its heart we found that when men and women have the same level of digital fluency, women are better at using their digital skills to gain more education and find work.
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Digital
Equal
Fluency
Gender
Helping
Men And Women
Research
Skills
Education Work Men
Women Are
Education Work Women
Gain
Gap
Same Level
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Through our Building Bridges dialogues at Accenture, where we have brought together people from diverse backgrounds to have sometimes difficult conversations, such as around race, I have experienced the power of storytelling to help people from diverse backgrounds understand each other.
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Backgrounds
Bridges
Difficult
Diverse
Race
Storytelling
Together
Power Together People
Understand
Brought
Conversations
Experienced
Help
Help People
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Digital is really two things. It refers to a set of technologies, everything from artificial intelligence to the use of e-commerce. But digital is really about a different way of working, of making decisions, of partnering and reaching your clients, and so it's also about how you do things.
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Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Clients
Different
Making Decisions
Reaching
Two
Decisions
Also
Different Way
How
Set
Working
Making
Technologies
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People often talk about the self-driving car and what will that do. In 32 states, the number one job is to be the driver. But remember, it's not just the driver. Let's think about the truck stops along the way. When you suddenly have a lot of other people who are dependent on those careers.
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Careers
Dependent
Truck
Driver
Number
Stops
Suddenly
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I grew up with a single pair of shoes until I grew into the next size. My parents believed in the American dream and the power of education but didn't have the money to send me to college. I realized early on that I needed to go against the flow and be better than everyone else to support my family.
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American Dream
Flow
Education Family Power
Everyone Else
Pair
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Cloud is so important because it enables digital transformation. It underpins disruptive new technologies in social, mobile, and analytics - and it is enabling industry leaders to compete in digital. Innovation is happening in the cloud - and cloud gives companies the speed and flexibility to be much more agile.
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Digital
Disruptive
Flexibility
Industry
Innovation
Mobile
Speed
Transformation
Agile
Cloud
Companies
Enables
Gives
Happening
Leaders
New Technologies
Technologies
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