IBM appoints their first female CEO

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)’s Virginia “Ginni” Rometty has grown throughout her career by taking on challenges she’s never faced before. Now she’ll tackle something no one has ever done.
Rometty, 54, will become the first female chief executive officer in IBM’s 100-year history.

In an interview, Rometty said she has grown the most in her career through “experiential” learning.

“I learned to always take on things I’d never done before,” she said

This month at Fortune magazine’s Power Women Summit, Rometty said she learned shortly after beginning to work that she needed to take risks to advance.
“Really early, early in my career, I can remember being offered a big job,” she said. “Right away I said, ‘You know what? I’m not ready for this job.’”
That night “as I’m telling my husband about this, he just looked at me and he said, ‘Do you think a man would have ever answered that question that way?’” she said. “What that taught me was you have to be very confident even though you’re so self- critical inside. Growth and comfort do not coexist.”