Leadership Advice From One of Silicon Valley's First Female Black CEOs
Feb 12, 2024
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Shellye Archambeau, Executive at IBM and MetricStream's CEO, shares key insights from her book 'Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms.' Topics discussed include work-life integration, balancing work and socializing, building reputation, and being assertive about goals.
Self-assurance and self-determination are essential for success, involving learning new skills and connecting intentionally with others.
Work-life integration emphasizes merging passions and responsibilities, leveraging work time for exercise and combining socializing with networking.
Deep dives
Self-Determination and Success
Self-assurance and self-determination are essential for success. Strengthening psychological areas of competence, autonomy, and relatedness can lead to setting and achieving wise life goals. Developing these areas could involve learning new skills, taking on extra projects, and connecting intentionally with others.
Work-Life Integration
Rather than striving for work-life balance, work-life integration emphasizes the idea that work and life cannot be separated. Integrating passions and responsibilities can lead to a creative and productive approach to managing different aspects of life. Strategies such as combining socializing and networking or leveraging work time for exercise can help achieve work-life integration.
Building Reputation and Advocating for Yourself
Reputation matters in career progression. Building a positive reputation involves strong performance, sharing successes, and effective self-advocacy. Dressing well, doing top-notch work, and communicating accomplishments helps enhance reputation. It is crucial to accept help, delegate tasks, and seek guidance to focus on strengthening strengths rather than trying to master every skill. Communicating goals and intentions openly can increase opportunities and overcome the fear of rejection.
Shellye Archambeau was an executive at IBM, Blockbuster's president, and then MetricStream's CEO. She currently serves on the boards of Verizon and Nordstrom. Today, she shares five key insights from her book "Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms."
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