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'Women on Board' provides a roadmap for high-performing women leaders to join high-performing boards. It is a must-read for every sitting board director, man or woman, and for everyone who aspires to a corporate board seat.
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Everyone
#Man
#Sitting
#Woman
#Women
When I was not working, when our children were little, our life was all about our kids and our relationship. We didn't spend tons of time going off and spending time with friends and going on vacations alone.
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Alone
#Friends
#Life
#Relationship
#Time
Anyone who ends up being a leader of a large complicated organization, whether you're a male or a female, you're working an immense amount of hours, and you can't do everything. You can't have complete work/life balance.
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Balance
#Everything
#Organization
#Who
As a woman, this is one of these areas where you have to walk a fine line: the classic, 'Are you soft and squishy, and you hug everybody, and you're a cheerleader?' versus, 'Are you the hard-nosed you-know-what female dog?'
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Dog
#Hug
#Soft
#Walk
#Woman
Men don't quite know how to read women if they're not used to seeing them in a business environment.
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Business
#Know
#Men
#Seeing
#Women
I consciously make an effort to get to know some of the women who may be in the middle of the organization - they're not at senior management levels - and try to figure out whether there's a new opportunity they can take on that enables them to shine and succeed in a way they may not have in the past.
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Effort
#Opportunity
#Past
#Way
#Women
I don't believe in management by fear. I also won't sacrifice the future of a company for a quarter.
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Also
#Believe
#Fear
#Future
#Sacrifice
I don't compromise at all on how people lead and manage other people. I don't want to work in an environment where people are belittled and berated.
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Compromise
#Environment
#People
#Work
I am very comfortable not being the expert and actually putting people who work for me forward. I don't need to know all the answers, and I don't need to be the one who's out there up front.
- Sandra E. Peterson
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#I Am
#Me
#People
#Work
If you look at my career, I've taken on a lot of risky roles.
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Career
#Look
#Lot
#Risky
#Taken
When I walk into a new organization and I don't know the industry or the people, which has always been the case, I do a few things. One is I think about the business from the outside in.
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Business
#Know
#New
#Organization
#Walk
Most women I know who have been successful in business, it's because they've been willing to take on the risky challenge that other people would say, 'Oh, I'm not sure I want to do that.'
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Business
#Challenge
#Know
#People
#Women
There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Band
#Behavior
#Men
#Still
#Women
One of the things I've learned is people are smart, and they understand what should be done. They understand what the challenges are, but they're not always able to have their voices heard.
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Challenges
#People
#Smart
#Understand
Agility is fundamental to leading a team through times of change.
- Sandra E. Peterson
#Agility
#Change
#Team
#Through
#Times
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