CHAPTER16Career Challenges

You, more than any other person, are responsible for the welfare of all. You have this collection of responsibilities that make you different than other people.

—Mark Leslie

Pressures come when you get to flying high and it changes your world so dramatically.

—Brenda Rhodes

How you handle it when things are going well doesn’t matter. It’s when things aren’t going well—that’s when it matters how you handle it.

—Rick Wallace

Being CEO is 100 percent of your life. Eighty percent of it is crap, but the other 20 percent is so much fun it makes it worth it. It has a life cost.

—Ginger Graham

Our executives “opened the kimono” when asked what advice they would give to those aspiring to top-level positions. They shared the ...

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