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A compelling, bestselling memoir from the former CEO of IBM that will inspire you to reach higher—for yourself and others.
With candor and depth, Ginni Rometty shares experiences that defined her life and work, while redefining power as a way to drive meaningful change in positive ways—a concept she calls good power.
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About Good Power
Ginni Rometty led one of the world’s most iconic companies, and in her debut bestseller, Good Power, she recounts her groundbreaking path from a challenging childhood to becoming the CEO of IBM and one of the world’s most influential leaders.
Rometty’s memoir with purpose combines stories with actionable advice to highlight lessons for how we can all advance our careers, inspire our teams, improve our companies, and create healthier societies.
With heart, humility, and conviction, Good Power offers an inspiring, compelling guide to create meaningful change in our lives.
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About Ginni Rometty
Ginni Rometty was the ninth Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of IBM. Under her leadership, the 100-year-old company reinvented 50 percent of its portfolio, built a $25 billion hybrid cloud business, and established leadership in AI and quantum computing. Rometty also drove record results in diversity and inclusion and supported the explosive growth of an innovative high school program to prepare the workforce of the future in over twenty-seven countries.
Through her work with the Business Roundtable, Rometty helped redefine the purpose of the corporation. She has been named Fortune’s #1 Most Powerful Woman three years in a row, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and has been honored with the designation of Officier in the French Légion d’Honneur.
Ginni grew up outside Chicago, the eldest of four children. She helped her mother raise her siblings, and became one of the first in her family to attend college. She graduated Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences, and joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981. In 2012, she became the first woman CEO in IBM’s one hundred year history. She retired from the company in 2020.
Today, Rometty serves on multiple boards and cochairs OneTen, a coalition committed to upskilling, hiring, and promoting one million Black Americans by 2030 into family-sustaining jobs and careers. She is married to Mark Rometty.
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The New-Collar Workforce
A skills-first approach will yield the greatest benefit if organizations extend it beyond hiring and make it core to how they think about cultivating and retaining talent.
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Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty on career, new book and the state of technology
Rometty joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss her new book, "Good Power: Leading Positive Change In Our Lives, Work, and World," and speaks about the impact of the recent exodus of women from the tech industry.
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Ginni Rometty Learned How to Use ‘Good Power’
The former IBM chief says some of the most important lessons in her career were about how not to lead.
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Ginni Rometty on how to ensure more women work in tech
Ginni Rometty provides perspective on how to ensure more women work in tech. She notes firms should remove degree requirements from more roles.
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IBM’s Ginni Rometty on Skill-Building and Success
For years, employers have used university degrees as a major requirement for hiring. But, for many jobs, success depends more on skills — and the ability to adapt and learn — than on piece-of-paper credentials. Ginni Rometty, former chairman and CEO of IBM, realized this early on — first by watching her mother and other female relatives support their families and later by seeing what it took to rise to the top in her own career.
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50% of good jobs are over-credentialed, says Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty
Mad Money host Jim Cramer is joined by former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty to discuss her new book, ‘Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work and World.’
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Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty on ‘Good Power’
Ginni Rometty, IBM’s former chair and CEO, has written a new book about her life, her career and how “good power” can transform businesses and individuals.
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3 rules of persuasion for empathic leaders
In her book Good Power, former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty challenges the negative connotations often associated with the concept of power. She argues that power can be a force for good, and that “building belief” is at the heart of good power.
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Embrace tension
Hard challenges demand that we embrace tension. Former CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty argues that, right now, business has a responsibility to deploy what her new book calls Good Power — from putting skills first in hiring, as a way to close systemic opportunity gaps, to thoughtfully erecting guardrails around new technology.
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Ginni Rometty: Reflections on a Career by the First Female CEO of IBM
In this episode of Remarkable People, I'm talking to Ginni Rometty. She is the first woman to ever head IBM as its Chairman, President, and CEO.
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‘That’s not right’: Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty on how she protected trans workers after 2016
One night back in 2016, I was four years into my CEO tenure when I received an email from a trans employee who told me she didn't feel comfortable taking a business trip to North Carolina because a new state law discriminated against the LGBTQ community. I called my head of legislative affairs, Chris Padilla...
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Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity
Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty joins Lex Fridman on his podcast to discuss Leadership, Power, and Adversity.
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The former IBM CEO on diversity and the discomfort of good ideas
Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty knows the value of active listening and the importance of a diverse set of minds for idea generation.
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Forbes 50 Over 50: Entrepreneurs
Forbes names Former Chairman and CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty one of their 50 Over 50 Entrepreneurs.
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Student debt: Is a degree worth the financial strain?
Ginni appeared with Ken Frazier of OneTen on CBS Sunday Morning to discuss student debt.
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