Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Sumiko Ito

I read a HBS case (David A. Thomas and Debra A. Woog) regarding Sumiko Ito, the first Japanesse woman to become an investment banker. Her story is inspiring. He pushed the limits of her professional and personal career while keeping the respect for her traditions.

In an interview for an article in the Baltimore Sun, Sumiko, said: "I have more ideas than I have time, but I don't want to be a workaholic because it stifles good ideas to spend all your time in the office". (Rose Ragsdale).

She described her life as having an 'amoeba-like' shape: "This shape is always changing, although there is a nucleus here. It is going forward. Not moving along a line but twisting upward. Probably there are opportunities or obstacles, or these things you have left behind or you spit out. So you never know where you go. But you have instincts and you go upward and probably you become bigger and stronger".

What do you think?

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