Microsoft CFO Amy Hood on Purpose and Progression
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2017
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Amy Hood is currently serving as the Chief Financial Officer at Microsoft Corporation — whose corporate mission is: “Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.” This conversation is so good. It’s about so much more than her professional accolades and she’s got them: Harvard MBA, undergraduate degree from Duke in economics, being listed at the #44 spot on the Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list. This conversation is about her commitment to a full life experience, in all of her roles as a woman — as a mom, a wife, a sister, a daughter, a global citizen — and of course as the CFO of one the most influential technology companies in the world, Microsoft. If you’ve ever thought, I’m not sure I can do “that” — whatever “that” is in your life — because you’re too far down the tracks, or you’re not sure how to manage something new — or how to make difficult decisions about work/life engagement — or how to not become consumed with chasing outcomes (while at the same time having world-class outcomes as a by product) — or how to help others grow — I think you’re going to love this conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | I think when you realize how your bias works in life, you then decide. |
| 0:05.0 | First of all, one, I'm going to work really hard to train myself out of it. |
| 0:09.0 | Number two, I'm going to find my purpose. All right, |
| 0:13.0 | welcome back. |
| 0:15.0 | All right, |
| 0:16.0 | welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Michael Jervay. |
| 0:27.0 | And the idea behind these conversations is to learn. |
| 0:30.0 | It's to learn from people who have committed their life efforts to the path of mastery, to unlocking and understanding |
| 0:36.4 | the insights that can only be understood by people who have done the hard yards and gone |
| 0:42.2 | the distance |
| 0:43.3 | and pay deep attention to how, how they've become |
| 0:47.8 | and how they've come to understand their craft. |
| 0:50.7 | And we want to dig to understand their worldview, how they make sense of the world, and we also want to understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft. |
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