"There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?"

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Source : "Avon CEO Andrea Jung's advice: Reinvent yourself". ABC NEWS interview, abcnews.go.com. June 14, 2009.

Andrea Jung

#Friday Quotes #Monday Quotes #Morning Quotes

“Don't put a question mark where God has put a period.”
“We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimatesâ€™ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.”
“There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.”
“I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.”
“You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then theyâ€™ll turn out to be right.”
“No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.”
“Silence is essential for deep transformation. It allows the practice of conscious breathing to become deep and effective. Like still water that reflects things as they are, the calming silence helps us to see things more clearly, and therefore, to be in deeper contact with ourselves and those around us.”

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