TIAA’s CEO shares her advice for separating your personal identity from your title

For executives with C-suite ambitions, the question is often how to earn the title. TIAA CEO Thasunda Duckett argues the more consequential challenge is ensuring the title never becomes the center of your identity.
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For executives with C-suite ambitions, the question is often how to earn the title. TIAA CEO Thasunda Duckett argues the more consequential challenge is ensuring the title never becomes the center of your identity. I own my character,” Duckett recently told Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell, noting that there will come a day when she is no longer CEO of TIAA. What belongs to her, Duckett says, are the qualities she believes no board can confer or take away: “I own my intellectual curiosity.
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