Words matter. These are the best Sandra E. Peterson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you look at my career, I’ve taken on a lot of risky roles.
I always remember what’s the most important thing – my kids.
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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.’
There’s still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.
It’s critically important for Europe to have a different way to think about the role of agriculture in society and the economy here.
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.
Managing through ambiguity can be difficult for even the most experienced leaders. Defining a clear set of goals for your team demonstrates that there is an end in sight. However, it’s crucial during this time to move through the transition in phases.
The signal of the importance of something is whether you’re actually measuring it and you’re holding people accountable to improving those numbers.
I don’t believe in management by fear. I also won’t sacrifice the future of a company for a quarter.
There is value in finding a combination of internal people, stretching them and seeing their potential, then marrying that with someone from the outside.
It’s not about me. It’s about the organization being successful.
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.
Saying you must rotate three crops a year, a certain percentage of your land must be set aside, and some of the other proposals, my sense is that it’s a little anti-technology, and the ability of European farmers to feed Europe is reduced as a result.
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I don’t need to spend hours in meetings, because I can have a two-minute conversation with a colleague who is pretty damn smart and who knows how to get the job done. And, if he needs my help on something, he’ll let me know.
Honestly, my secret is I pick really, really good people around me.
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.
The people inside the company, generally two to three levels down, they know best what’s wrong and how to fix it. It’s just that their voices aren’t being heard. I listen for words, tonality, and language.
It’s hard not to identify with some of what Hillary Clinton is up against.
Agility is fundamental to leading a team through times of change.
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.
