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Sophia. Relationships, Mentors, Role Models and Heroes

I asked Sophia to tell me about the experiences in her early life which she believes had the greatest impact on her work life and career. She replied it was her parents who had the most significant impact on her work life and career. She explained that she believes that she is successful because she works very hard and she thinks she got her work ethic from her parents. I asked her to tell me about the milestones and roadblocks in her career which stand out when she looks back and what she learned from them. Sophia said when she graduated with her MBA in 1982, it was the time of the last major recession and prior to that time when you ...

Lauren. Accomplishments, Success and Significance

I asked Lauren what she considered to be her proudest accomplishments at work. She said they were threefold. The first one was a project in Africa which she described as the most meaningful work she has ever done. I believe her own words allow you to hear the emotion I heard in her voice: “Really. I mean when you think of being able to work directly with the governor of a bank and his people, well educated, University of Chicago PhD’s, trying to fix their country. Where the governor said to me, every cent that goes down the drain on that crappy bank doesn’t go into education, health care, and everything else, so we’ve got to fix that bank. That ...