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I always remember what's the most important thing - my kids.
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If you look at my career, I've taken on a lot of risky roles.
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Agility is fundamental to leading a team through times of change.
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Team
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Honestly, my secret is I pick really, really good people around me.
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Good People
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There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.
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Women Men Behavior
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It's hard not to identify with some of what Hillary Clinton is up against.
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Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Identify
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People need to go back and remember what it was once like to lead businesses in emerging markets.
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Emerging
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I don't believe in management by fear. I also won't sacrifice the future of a company for a quarter.
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Management
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It's critically important for Europe to have a different way to think about the role of agriculture in society and the economy here.
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The signal of the importance of something is whether you're actually measuring it and you're holding people accountable to improving those numbers.
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Importance
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I don't compromise at all on how people lead and manage other people. I don't want to work in an environment where people are belittled and berated.
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Compromise
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There is value in finding a combination of internal people, stretching them and seeing their potential, then marrying that with someone from the outside.
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Combination
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When I walk into a new organization and I don't know the industry or the people, which has always been the case, I do a few things. One is I think about the business from the outside in.
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Organization
Business People New
Case
Few
Few Things
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Most women I know who have been successful in business, it's because they've been willing to take on the risky challenge that other people would say, 'Oh, I'm not sure I want to do that.'
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Risky
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One of the things I've learned is people are smart, and they understand what should be done. They understand what the challenges are, but they're not always able to have their voices heard.
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Voices
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I am very comfortable not being the expert and actually putting people who work for me forward. I don't need to know all the answers, and I don't need to be the one who's out there up front.
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Answers
Comfortable
Work I Am Me
Work Me I Am
Forward
Front
Putting
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Bayer CropScience aims to lead the way in sustainable crop solutions, and we are heavily investing in R&D, as well as production capacities, to respond to global demand for differentiated crop solutions.
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Demand
Investing
Solutions
Aims
Capacities
Crop
Respond
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The people inside the company, generally two to three levels down, they know best what's wrong and how to fix it. It's just that their voices aren't being heard. I listen for words, tonality, and language.
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Levels
Tonality
Voices
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When I was not working, when our children were little, our life was all about our kids and our relationship. We didn't spend tons of time going off and spending time with friends and going on vacations alone.
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Spending Time
Life Alone Time
Tons
Vacations
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Anyone who ends up being a leader of a large complicated organization, whether you're a male or a female, you're working an immense amount of hours, and you can't do everything. You can't have complete work/life balance.
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Being A Leader
Complicated
Immense
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Male
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As a woman, this is one of these areas where you have to walk a fine line: the classic, 'Are you soft and squishy, and you hug everybody, and you're a cheerleader?' versus, 'Are you the hard-nosed you-know-what female dog?'
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Cheerleader
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'Women on Board' provides a roadmap for high-performing women leaders to join high-performing boards. It is a must-read for every sitting board director, man or woman, and for everyone who aspires to a corporate board seat.
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Corporate
Women Man Woman
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Join
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I don't need to spend hours in meetings, because I can have a two-minute conversation with a colleague who is pretty damn smart and who knows how to get the job done. And, if he needs my help on something, he'll let me know.
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The reality is that unless you understand the regulatory environment and payment structure, you can't revolutionize it. I think most tech companies and startups have come to this realization: that you have to partner with people in the ecosystem.
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Environment
Payment
Reality
Structure
Understand
Companies
Ecosystem
Partner
Regulatory
Revolutionize
Tech
Startups
Tech Companies
Unless
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The thing that has not had enough attention is really thinking about how to use modern breeding techniques to really look at the germplasm pools and find ways to actually improve yields and to improve the heat and drought tolerance of these crops.
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Breeding
Crops
Drought
Had Enough
Heat
Tolerance
Pools
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Yields
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Saying you must rotate three crops a year, a certain percentage of your land must be set aside, and some of the other proposals, my sense is that it's a little anti-technology, and the ability of European farmers to feed Europe is reduced as a result.
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Crops
Aside
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Managing through ambiguity can be difficult for even the most experienced leaders. Defining a clear set of goals for your team demonstrates that there is an end in sight. However, it's crucial during this time to move through the transition in phases.
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Ambiguity
Crucial
Defining
Phases
Sight
Time Your Goals
Experienced
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I consciously make an effort to get to know some of the women who may be in the middle of the organization - they're not at senior management levels - and try to figure out whether there's a new opportunity they can take on that enables them to shine and succeed in a way they may not have in the past.
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Levels
Management
Senior
Enables
Shine
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Build an environment that empowers your team to take risks. Set metrics for what needs to be achieved and measure against them to track progress along the way. If targets aren't being met, challenge your team to reassess and come back with a new strategy. And create a culture where people are awarded for challenging the status quo.
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Status Quo
Strategy
Achieved
Awarded
Empowers
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I always remind my team to take a step back and ask themselves, 'Why are we doing this?' For us, 100% of the time, it is to better serve our patients, consumers, and customers. This is a great question to come back to when your team is losing focus; it reduces stress and mobilizes people to get excited about the collective possibility.
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Possibility
Time Great Focus
Collective
Patients
Remind
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