There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.
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Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.
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I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.
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The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.
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I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.
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I've never felt any particular desire to be married.
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Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.
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When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike.
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My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
