Fortune’s inaugural list of the 100 Most Powerful People in Business includes agile disruptors, name brand titans, Fortune 500 CEOs, and behind the scenes power players. They span 40 industries and 17 countries, and together represent the world’s most influential business leaders.
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00:00The words that I used with them was only, if not us, then who?
00:12It's our destiny to try to make the difference.
00:28I was telling some of my mother's stories in the green room, which were hilarious, but
00:32I think in work, her number one lesson was make myself indispensable.
00:35She always said, make it so you couldn't lose your job, that everyone would want to work
00:39with you.
00:41There's this notion that power is zero-sum.
00:43Either I have the power or the employees have the power.
00:46There's a scenario where we're all powerless.
00:48It's called a lot of fortune 500 companies.
00:51There's also a scenario where I have power and I give that power to you.
00:54It's not zero-sum.
00:55You know, it's important as leadership teams to be able to both zoom out and zoom in, in
01:01the sense of both what you're going to drive today, but how you think about the future.
01:08Today it's about authenticity.
01:10If you aren't in touch with the people that you're leading, you don't deserve to leave
01:14them.
01:15You haven't earned the right.
01:18It's easy to talk about your values when everything's going well.
01:21If you truly demonstrate them as you go through a crisis, that's when your employee base knows,
01:26hey, they mean this.
01:27And one of the things I talk about all the time is we're going to do the right thing
01:30even when it's hard.
01:31For Apple, we've always been about changing the world.
01:35It became clear to me some number of years ago that you don't do that by staying quiet.
01:42Trump is very enthusiastic about deregulation, which is not to say we don't want any regulation.
01:48We just want sensible regulations.
01:49I feel like America is like Gulliver, tied down by a million little strings, and we need
01:55to cut those strings and free the giant.