Denise Morrison Quotes

#1. Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.

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#2. The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment.

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#3. Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative.

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#4. I can cite numerous sponsors at different places in my career that made a huge difference for me just in terms of pulling me aside and giving me a tip or some coaching, or just watching what I was doing and not being afraid to tell me the truth about it.

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#5. My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

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#6. I was so results-oriented.

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#7. Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

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#8. The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.

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#9. If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.

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#10. It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth

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#11. Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation ... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of your life, how you integrate them is how you find true happiness.

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#12. I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

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#13. I do think the position I play is a powerful position.

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#14. I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

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#15. I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.

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