Oct 31, 2023
[00:00:00] Lynn Erdman: I'm a huge believer in adding young people to the board. In fact, I did that right before I left my last CEO position. I had interviewed a young lady who happened to have a great position in the city where I was working and I can remember suggesting her to the board and saying, I think she would...
Oct 24, 2023
[00:00:00] John Sommerville: I was talking to somebody recently who was saying that you should never surround yourself with people who are just yes people.
And I said to him, you don't want to surround yourself with people who are no people either. What we need is people who really love us and care for us and will do...
Oct 17, 2023
[00:00:00] John Sommerville: I was in the elevator at General Mills one day with the president of our division. There were about eight of us in the elevator and the elevator stopped between two floors. And I was the one closest to the buttons. And I had no idea what to do.
The elevator stuck. The president of the...
Oct 10, 2023
[00:00:00] Whitney Martin: We were talking about this with my son the other day, he had heard a Malcolm Gladwell podcast that said you have to have 10,000 hours to really do well on something.
John and I started to talk to him about that, that looks like maybe four years, being in a role, a professional role, eight...
Oct 3, 2023
[00:00:00] Arthur Satterwhite: If I could leave your audience with one thing it would be: If you wanted to do one thing that would help you to begin this journey of diversity, equity and belonging in your context, but also in your personal life proximity, who are you proximate to? Does your circle look like you? Do the...