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

It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.

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.

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.

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.