Ginni Rometty

Because if you go for whatever your definition of perfect is, it's either polarization or paralyzation.

I mean, something happens in there.

Versus, no, no, no, I can...

Don't worry about getting to that actual exact endpoint.

If I keep taking a step forward of progress, really tough stuff can get done.

And so my view of that is like, honestly, I hope it can... I said it's like a memoir with purpose.

I'm only...

It was a really hard thing for me to do because I don't actually talk about all these things.

Nobody cares about your scientific description of this.

They want the stories and your life to bring it alive.

So it's a memoir with purpose.

And in the writing of it, it became the power of me, the power of we, and the power of us.

The idea that you build a foundation when you're young.

mostly from my work life, the power of we, which says I kind of, in retrospect, could see five principles on how to really drive change that would be done in a good way.

And then eventually you could scale that, the power really of us, which is what I'm doing about finding better jobs for more people now that I co-chair an organization called 110.

So that essence of

Navigate tensions, do it respectfully, celebrate progress.

And indulge me one more minute.

These sort of, again, it's retrospect that I didn't know this in the moment.

I had to learn it.