Speech by Mary Anne Gale--success, what does it take?

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Mary Anne Gale, who is VP Product Supply Pan Asia of P&G, is a great business female leader at present. Yesterday, she gave a wonderful speech about how to be a successful career manager in the international meeting hall in our university. I am so glad to have this opportunity to listen to her insight and idea about the career development and the relationship between work and family, which really enlighten me greatly. What is more, I get much closer the culture of P&G before I step into the international and honorable company.

First of all, Mary started her presentation about her family. Who is she? She is not only a business woman, but also a perfect wife and mother. She is so pond of her marriage, because they have a long distance marriage more than 20 years. In her opinion, her family is more important than her working in P&G. That is why she could balance the relationship between family and work. If there are some conflicts, they always sit down to have a discuss. They hold a belief that they are partners during the marriage. It is not related with who earns more. Actually in the beginning, she used to earn more money than his husband, who was a basketball coach, but they never quarrelled about this. It is not a problem for them. If the same situation happened on a couple in China, I bet there would be conflict between them.

Here is a family photo Mary loves very much.


Then, she pointed out the definitions of success. What is the culture value of P&G? What is the exact meaning of leadership? What are the essential characters for a person who is willing to success? And what will cultivate a person to lead a group to realize their goal? The followings are the main points.















She is my career idol at present. I hope I could have other opportunity to meet her in Beijing P&G in the future.




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