When other women ask Christine Lagarde about coping with failureand they often dothe head of the International Monetary Fund doesn’t mince her words.
“Oh get over it. Get over it and move on,” says the fifth most powerful women in the world according to Forbes.
“I’ve failed myself. Twice I tried to enter the National School of Administration in the French system and I failed.”
Legarde might have failed twice, but the 59-year-old is a woman of firsts. She is the first woman to chair the global law firm Baker and McKenzie. The first female finance minister of France. And since 2011, the first woman to lead the IMF.
The mother-of-two’s philosophy is to learn from her failures, adding: “and then you move on.”
“Moving on” is something Lagarde is trying to do now.
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“Of course, there were many knock backs along the way, many people telling me ‘you can’t do these things,'” said Abudu.
“But I think what’s important in life is that you believe in yourself and the things you can do.”
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