Beth Comstock, first female Vice Chair of GE: “Tell me one thing I don’t want to hear.”

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theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Beth Comstock is the first female vice chair of GE. But before that, she built a career in communications at companies like CBS, CNN, and NBCUniversal. At NBC, Beth helped launch one of your favorite binge-ing sites: Hulu. And she kept working her way up the ranks. All the way to becoming the first female Vice Chair of GE. Most recently -- Beth wrote a book about courage, creativity, and making change. It’s called “Imagine it Forward.” On the couch, she talks to us about what a vice chair actually is, why she took the job nobody else wanted, and what it means to be an introverted leader.

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0:31.0	Do you remember the license plate game?
0:32.0	I think you're alone on that one.
0:34.0	Let's just get into today's episode.
0:36.0	To me if I had a business trip and I could just sit in my room and my jammies having room service.
0:45.0	I know it's the best.
0:47.0	It's just like I won the lottery, right?
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0:52.0	And it's interesting, I think as a leader, you do have to overcome those parts of your nature because the team expects you to do that.
1:00.0	I'm Danielle Weisberg, I am Carly Zeke get and we are the co-founder of the Skiff.
1:07.0	You're listening to our podcast Skined from the Couch where we talk to other female entrepreneurs
1:11.1	about what it takes to get to the top and then what it's like along the way.
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