#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 116 minutes
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(05:22) - IBM
(15:02) - Hiring
(20:19) - Leadership
(27:02) - Hard work
(32:43) - Adversity
(39:41) - Power
(53:07) - Sacrifice
(58:13) - Taking over as CEO
(1:16:27) - Negotiating
(1:21:34) - Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov
(1:26:52) - IBM Watson
(1:46:45) - Work-life balance
(1:53:49) - Advice for young people
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Jeanne Vermetti, who was a longtime CEO, president, and |
| 0:04.8 | chairman of IBM, and for many years, she was widely considered to be one of the most powerful |
| 0:10.0 | women in the world. |
| 0:12.0 | She's the author of a new book on power, leadership, and her life story called Good Power, |
| 0:18.9 | coming out on March 7th. |
| 0:21.3 | She is an incredible leader and human being, both fearless and compassionate. |
| 0:26.8 | It was a huge honor and pleasure for me to sit down and have this chat with her. |
| 0:32.4 | And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. |
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| 0:53.4 | hiring. |
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