"okay well thank you very much thank you Brett for that very nice and generous introduction you know I figure over the past 10 years I have introduced and listened to probably about a hundred views fro..."

"privilege I thought as a view from the top it seemed logical to address these two questions what's the top and what's the view like here's my definition of the top look it's any position where you tak..."

"become a group of other managers who in turn have their own teams or your group may be a group of a business function or corporate function like HR or strategy or finance it may be a business where yo..."

"same thing in common you're responsible for a group of people with a mission to fulfill and you're trying to change that group for the better now what I should say at the outset is that just because y..."

"implied by an organization chart that puts your job at the top because here's the reason it's all about responsibility when you're at the top it's not about power or fame or fortune it's about respons..."

"responsibility for the group with what abrams ales nick called an imp Elling need to do better so what about the view what's it like well let me say four things about the view first of all since you'r..."

"went to Australia in 1993 as Brett mentioned I saw a very troubled institution had suffered the biggest loss in Australian corporate history and they had tried to be Australia's world bank but it's a ..."

"having a vision or a view if you can't make it happen you've got to turn turn that vision into reality and there are a couple of ways that you can help yourself do that you can push the group along th..."

"their role in the firm it's no good talking about being a great school if it's to Jenner to general and not giving people some sense of direction it's better to talk about the three C's of a new curri..."

"why do we do it that way or I can recall going into a very very large group of managers in my early days at Westpac it was entirely filled with middle-aged men and I said where are all the women it wa..."

"change it falls behind and the last thing I'd say about the view is you have to be the view and this is perhaps the most surprising thing to people this is the second thing you can't delegate because ..."

"about the welfare of the leader this was really brought home to me by a very sad incident in Australia when one of our staff members in New Zealand a member of our branch in a little branch outside of..."

"have imagined I only really came to see it years later when after 9/11 I was reading Rudy Giuliani's book on leadership and I came to chapter 11 and the title of chapter 11 is weddings discretionary f..."

"Gardner used to remind me that leadership is not a science it's an art and it's a performing art and in this performing art he said you are the instrument and you need to know how to play that instrum..."

"you when you're at the top well that's my view from the top and what it's like but what about you and yours to come because there's not a doubt in my mind that you will be at tops in your life you wil..."

"description that you'll then acquire the expertise that can only come from experience the experience of actually assuming that top or that leadership responsibility you know the Chinese have a wonderf..."

"with more skill that's the great thing about life you can continually learn by listening and practice and learning from mistakes and trying new behaviors this is all made even more powerful if you're ..."

"achieves a better future I can tell you that and I hope you have an opportunity to experience that after all if not you who else and if not now or soon after you leave this place when one of the great..."

"really going well and he told me about how he and a couple partners had bought a few companies small and medium sized companies that had turned them around revitalized them were really creating value ..."

"possible and that you can indeed play that kind of role after all it's your life that's the one changed by coming here that's what we're talking about in this slogan you're a different person when you..."

"remember but remember I do and I understand you will only really understand if you do it if you get involved in the doing not talking analyzing thinking about consulting about investing but doing take..."

"it that I think you see in this young pitcher I can tell you because I know him well and I watch him often that he's not just putting his mind and body into this he's putting his heart and soul into t..."

"so I'd be happy if you have any questions in the time we have about 15 minutes I'd be delighted to take any questions inside stuff about the GSB well my plans are to figure out what I'm going to do fo..."

"I'm more the coach the consultant the advisor I'm involved with several boards I'm going to teach my seminar in the fall that I've been teaching in the second year seminar series and I love doing that..."

"ones that are so emotional where you have to gather and develop that emotional strength to make a change to make a call as you see it because you think it's the right thing for the group even though i..."

"change the place in exciting ways because it's going to be the most exciting place to be at Stanford University it's where people want to come and gather and I think there's unlimited opportunities fo..."

"and say how could we do that better because that's where we can help you I think even more you pay some pretty formal formable tasks as a leader I just wonder if you've ever doubted yourself in Heidi ..."

"for the group not for you not for your personal stake for the group as long as you're trying that you're still you'll doubt a lot is it going to happen what's going to happen if it doesn't go right bu..."

"you have to try the best you can we're all imperfect human beings we don't get it right but as long as you're trying and you're aware of the need for balance I think that's the key from an organizatio..."

"really enjoyed your talk one of the things I was wondering with the picture of thinking maybe your grandson [Music] okay he's a good guy so that's Adam I'm wondering you know when you were in business..."

"terms of the work I saw it it felt good to me it was right for me it was work I thought I could do well if I made the investment in a commitment and a key part of that was the investment I made in com..."

"it so I think that was one very real example I mean obviously you know deciding to get on a plane and go to Australia and take on a big bank that I knew nothing about was was won and you know I can go..."

"strategy I think that's one we would hear over and over again so looking at your background seems that you worked in three very different types of environments in the in the public sector as a White H..."

"it and my time in government was very young and at an early stage in my career I mean to me I learned there it's more what I learned than what I saw that the power of doing meaningful work is very str..."