4.4 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks podcast. |
0:08.3 | Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them |
0:13.6 | if they were cast away to a desert island. For right reasons, the music is shorter than the |
0:18.8 | original broadcast. I hope you enjoy listening. |
0:30.4 | Music Radio Music |
0:41.8 | My cast away this week is Dame Helena Morrissey. One of the city of London's leading lights |
0:46.4 | she's globally renowned as a leader and changemaker. As a CEO, she oversaw a £30 billion |
0:52.3 | increase at her investment management company while building a reputation as someone who worked |
0:57.2 | differently. One of her first decisions was to offer everyone working there a four day week. |
1:02.5 | Later she founded the 30% club which recently achieved its titular target, boosting the |
1:07.8 | representation of women on UK boards. Alongside her career and campaigning, her aptitude for figures |
1:14.5 | comes in handy at home. She recently calculated that her family had gone through at least 148 |
1:20.3 | birthday cakes since the eldest of her nine children was born. She says, if anyone had said to me |
1:26.4 | when I was a shy and gorky teenager that one day I would have nine children and be the chief executive |
1:31.9 | of an investment company and work on initiatives to drive gender equality, I would have laughed nervously. |
1:38.6 | Dame Helena Morrissey, welcome to Desert Island Discs. Thank you, Lauren. Thank you for having me. |
1:42.6 | It's a pleasure. So you've written that leaders today need to earn the right to lead, to inspire, |
1:47.7 | not to force. You're regarded as one of the world's top leaders. What is the key to inspiring people? |
1:54.0 | What I think starting with listening and understanding what's important to them and understand |
1:58.8 | that lots of us have aspirations. We want to achieve whatever we can in life. But I think, |
2:04.4 | you know, inspiring people to, that sounds cheesy, be the best version of themselves requires |
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