Food world icon Ruth Reichl on figuring it out

Food world icon Ruth Reichl on figuring it out | P&G exec Mindy Sherwood on early leadership lessons | Ex-CEO: Know where your "red line" is and don't cross it Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( June 20, 2024 CONNECT WITH NEXTUP  [LinkedIn]( [Facebook]( [X]( €‰€‰[Tik tok]( [NEW SmartBrief]( Gender equity news from NextUp, Advancing All Women in Business [SIGN UP]( â‹… [SHARE]( [] Top of the week [] [Food world icon Ruth Reichl on figuring it out]( [Food world icon Ruth Reichl on figuring it out]( Ruth Reichl (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images) The 2024 James Beard Award winners shared valuable lessons learned from their failures during the awards ceremony. "The only way to stay young in life is to always do things you don't know how to do," said Lifetime Achievement Award winner Ruth Reichl. "And doing things you don't know how to do means you're going to fail, but you'll figure it out eventually." Full Story: [Plate]( (6/13) [LinkedIn]( [X]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Today's leadership [] [P&G exec Mindy Sherwood on early leadership lessons]( Progressive Grocer has announced the winners of its annual Top Women In Grocery Awards, which illustrate the vast achievements of 425 women in the grocery industry, a list that includes Procter & Gamble's Mindy Sherwood. "My biggest mentor in my early years was Lee Ann Terhune, a P&G sales leader in the same territory I was selling," Sherwood says. "She taught me the importance of operating discipline to get the job done while making sure I had the right level of balance in my life and did not get all consumed with the job." 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Barriers like the "glass cliff" and "broken rung" that make women feel they need to take on greater risk to move ahead will need to be addressed to achieve gender parity by 2045, Elting writes. Full Story: [Forbes (tiered subscription model)]( (6/15) [LinkedIn]( [X]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [Strategies to make better decisions under pressure]( CEOs often struggle with balancing intuition and data, managing stress and handling stakeholder interests when it comes to high-stakes decision-making, according to a study of 111 CEOs. Experienced leaders turn to coping strategies to help them make more confident and effective decisions under pressure, including maintaining a work-life balance, creating an open feedback culture and consulting trusted advisers. Full Story: [INSEAD Knowledge]( (6/13) [LinkedIn]( [X]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [Build your leadership muscles with these 6 expressions]( [Build your leadership muscles with these 6 expressions]( (OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images) Getting in the habit of using six phrases -- including, "I'm enough," "What's the cost of indecision?" and "I don't have to do this; I get to do this," can help build your mental toughness and confidence as a leader, writes Scott Mautz, an author and a former senior executive of Procter & Gamble. "The only question that's truly important is whether or not you're growing," Mautz notes. 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