People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it.

One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help #‎ LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.