IBM CEO Virginia Rometty #15 of 100 Women Who Run The World (Forbes)

Virginia Rometty, IBM President & CEO (Photo Credit: Forbes)

IBM President and CEO, Virginia Rometty, ranks #15 on Forbes list of 100 Most Powerful Women in the World, 2012.  For nine years,Forbes has ranked the 100 most powerful women in the world.  These include heads of state, CEOs, female entrepreneurs, celebrity role models, philanthropists, and news-makers around the globe.  The 2012 list features eight heads of state, 25 CEOs who control $984 billion in revenues, and 10 celebrities who are also noted philanthropists.  You might recognize some of the names on this list, such as Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Lady Gaga, Queen Elizabeth II, Jennifer Lopez, Ellen Degeneres, to name a few.  Some you may not recognize but are just as important to this list such as Margaret Chan (Director-General World Health Organization), Sonia Ghandi (President Indian National Congress, India), Dilma Rousseff (Brazil President).  It’s Forbes annual snapshot of the women who are impacting the world the most.

Read the full story below:

• (Forbes, 2012) – The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women 2012

You may want to also read the earlier post about Ginni sharing her leadership philosophy at the Most Powerful Women Summit here if you missed it.

–Posted by Julie Yamamoto, Program Manager, The Greater IBM Connection

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The January 2013 theme for The Greater IBM Connection is ”leadership”, and The Greater IBM Connection will be sharing various tips, tools, and resources on this topic.

IBM CEO Virginia Rometty Shares Her Leadership Philosophy

IBM CEO Virginia Rometty at Fortune’s Most Powerful Woman Summit, October 2012 (Photo Credit: Business Insider)

IBM CEO Virginia Rometty shared her leadership philosophy at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in October 2012.  In a world that is changing so quickly and a workforce that is very bright, the idea of strategic belief becomes more important than strategic planning.  She describes the concept like this:

“…in a nutshell, you know, clients would often say to me, ‘What’s your strategy?’  And I would say, ‘Ask me what I believe first, that’s a way more enduring answer.’ And in the world you and I live in now where everything’s changing so quickly, you can’t predict everything, and — and this is probably the most important “and” — and most of us have workforces that are very bright, very intelligent, that want to be engaged in a broad way. This idea of a strategic belief is saying that you can agree amongst the firm for the future, on some really big arcs of change, I would call them.”

Read the full story and watch the interview below:

(Business Insider, 2012) – Fortune’s Most Powerful Woman Shares Her Leadership Philosophy

(Video Credit:  Fortune Magazine YouTube Video Channel)

–Posted by Julie Yamamoto, Program Manager, The Greater IBM Connection

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The January 2013 theme for The Greater IBM Connection is ”leadership”, and The Greater IBM Connection will be sharing various tips, tools, and resources on this topic.

Women in IT: How Deep is the Bench?

IBM’s CEO Ginni Rometty leaves the White House following a meeting of CEOs with President Obama.

Although superstar women today are leading IT at some of the Fortune 500 biggest global corporations – including superstar Ginni Rometty at IBM – the path to the top isn’t at all clear for the next generation.

In this essay, Computerworld.com’s Tracy Mayor examines the progress that’s been made and answers the question: Are we there yet? Her insights, here.