Women in leadership are my inspiration. So when I read the intriguing article on Francesca Amfitheatrof in the Vanity Fair August 2016 Jewellery Special I was more than interested.
I liked her poise, her intelligent responses but most of all her clear-cut confidence in her own persona, the road ahead as well as her belief in how to lead Tiffany on this path. I like people who are happy and keen on change (like myself). Change is what propels life, business, industry forwards. Most people hate change when being faced with it or going through it.
Only tough visionaries can be quietly (or sometimes not so quietly) confident about change as they know the potential gain at the end of the road.
It takes risk (calculated, not stupid) and a tough skin to lead change as well as to walk through it but I have found -every time I have walked the walk myself- that it is so incredibly rewarding afterwards.
To put this into a more tangible context, imagine having worked extraordinarily hard for a goal which took hours, days, even months to complete. Change is not just something externally, it has this wonderful capacity to change the internal (YOU) too. And that is the rewarding aspect seeing the project finished and hopefully receiving praise as well as seeing the self re-positioned and rewarded by the ego who was ever so critical, ever so negative and ever so passive shouting doubt, the prospect of failure continuously into your ear. It feels rather sweet to have gone past this nagging voice and triumphed as well as risen higher.
Change is good. Embrace it.
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