Keep calm and carry on...

Quando eu nasci, a minha avó tinha 70 anos. Sem dúvida alguma, a minha avó foi a figura mais influente da minha vida, apesar de ela ter morrido aos 79.

Hoje, uma das pessoas mais influentes do mundo é Janet Yellen, que ocupa o primeiro lugar na lista da Bloomberg. Yellen tem 69 anos e, apesar de se parecer com uma avó, não tem netos; mas tem um filho, Robert Akerlof, do seu casamento com George Akerlof. Vale a pena ler este perfil dela e dos seus desafios:

On the bookshelf behind the sofa in Janet Yellen’s spacious office at 20th Street and Constitution Avenue in Washington sits a framed photograph her staff gave her when she was changing jobs five years ago. In it, she’s posed next to a poster she kept on her wall when she was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. It’s that poster, the now ubiquitous World War II slogan in plain type under a small British crown.

“Keep Calm and Carry On”—of course that’s Yellen’s motto. What’s more befitting a Fed chair who has yet to flinch in the face of withering criticism from right and left and especially from Congress, who is almost never off message, and who deftly manages an at times deeply divided policy-making committee?

Fonte: Bloomberg