Yesterday, if you were unaware, was International Women’s Day. While women, companies and other outlets marked the day in various fashions, General Motors CEO, Mary Barra, took to LinkedIn to pen her thoughts.
Specifically, in honor of the day, she described five things the next generation of female CEOs and leaders need to know, stemming from not only her but from other prominent women executives at GM.
The five blurbs of wisdom stem from Barra, Alicia Boler-Davis, Joanne Krell, Victoria McInnis and Julia Steyn, each holding very different, but important, titles at GM.
She also reiterated her hope to one day have women CEOs and the norm, not the exception, as Barra taps females for critical roles across GM’s global operations.
Barra’s piece of advice from the article states the following:
My mom grew up during the Great Depression. She taught my brother and me two lessons: There is no substitute for hard work. And work before you play.
Now that’s some sound advice everyone can learn from.
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“There is no substitute for hard work. And work before you play.”
Pretty much. Things taste sweeter once you’ve worked a sweat to get it.
Great to see her working with President Trump.
Like President Trump said, Females will make as much money if they work as hard. This means not gravitating to lower-paying retail and baby care jobs, and pushing the maths and sciences or business education. No more excuses and whining…just saddle up and do and women will succeed.
Most women I speak too wish they didn’t have to work and are not happy that their mothers and grandmother’s of the past pushed women’s liberation on the country forcing all women today to be in the work force. A family can’t make it on 1 salary and it’s been that way for 30 or 40 year’s!
Hard work is a funny thing to think about, most of the time the person who works the hardest gets shafted by all the other people who drag their feet and management will not do anything to these low life’s for fear they will sue the company for firing them!
I am a hard worker always pride myself in out working all the people in my work group, but this is not the way to move up in the corporate world. Sadly the most important thing you can do is establish relationships within the company. Translation kiss as much ass as possible! The term brown noser didn’t come from nowhere.
I always had to much pride to be one of these guys or gals which is why I am still a working slug.
Hard work just gets you more work from one of your lazy Co workers!
Great to see Miss Barra inspire future female CEOs. We need more. I agree 1 billion percent with her quote “There is no substitute for hard work. And work before you play.” I think she’s saying you must work hard to be successful. She should have also said something like there will be bumps in the road but you shouldn’t let them put you down.
I am sure she kissed plenty of backsides along with that hard work! Don’t fool yourself hard work has nothing to do with it. If the people you work for like you then you will go places and be promoted. If they don’t then you will continue to get passed over time and time again!
I am so glad I didn’t choose this type of profession where your success is great determined by weather or not the people you work with like you!
Being promoted should be based on who is truly the hardest worker and best at his or her job.