Unlike corporate chiefs who favor an inaccessible, imperial style, Ahrendts seems comfortable with dissent; her executives joke easily with her, and aren't afraid to press their points. "She wouldn't know how to be undermining, "EVP Stacey Cartwright says.
"She gets people to work harder than they ever have just by letting them know how important they are, how much the team relies on them", says Supply Chain VP Andy Janowski.
"It's easy to run a company while the economy is expanding, and easy to get lazy," says Ahrendts. "A sharp downturn tends to focus the mind. I was taught never to waste a good recession," she says.
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