It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.