Via LinkedIn, outgoing Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts has penned a post entitled “Why a Successful Transition is a Great Legacy.” As Ahrendts moves to a leadership role at Apple, she stresses the need to “following your intuition.”
As you’ll know from my earlier posts, I firmly believe in following your intuition, especially in relation to the most important decisions in your life. When I joined Burberry in 2006, it was not without a lot of reflection – I had an incredible role and a fantastic team in New York, and family life was finally beginning to show some semblance of balance. The idea of uprooting our lives to move to London demanded a lot of soul searching and over months of consideration I thought it over so much I realized I was in danger of losing touch with how I truly felt about the opportunity. In the final analysis I realized my truest guide would be my intuition – which told me I would have the greatest partner in Christopher Bailey and that together we could build the company we always dreamed of working for. My instincts didn’t let me down, and my time as CEO of Burberry has without question been the most rewarding period of my professional life. – Read more
