????萬豪國際(Marriott International)執行副總裁兼全球首席傳訊與公共事務官凱瑟琳?馬修斯每年都會在《財富》雜志(Fortune)-美國國務院的全球女性領袖輔導計劃中對未來的女性領袖發表講話。馬修斯的講話總是會贏得很多共鳴，但今年的講話真正改變了來自尼日利亞一位商界女性的想法。

????聆聽馬修斯談論領導力，尼日利亞Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Ltd.公司政府關系專員佛羅倫斯?奧佐被深深吸引，并由此走到臺前，推動領導了一場尋找被博科圣地恐怖團體綁架的尼日利亞女孩的公眾運動。上周一，奧佐在《財富》雜志Postcards專欄中刊登的嘉賓文章充滿感情地講述了她學習公眾領導力的故事。

????馬修斯告訴奧佐及其他22位《財富》雜志-美國國務院計劃的參與者，任何領導人要想取得長期成功，要做的不只是抓住時機：你必須在整個職業生涯中不斷適應，不斷改變。馬修斯在加入萬豪前曾在哥倫比亞特區當了25年電視記者，她正是這樣身體力行的。經她允許，我將她的經驗寫下來與讀者分享。下面是馬修斯給出的三個持續成功的基本準則：

????1.排除恐懼，為了不斷成長，主動擁抱改變。太多女性以穩妥為重，不愿突破自己的舒適區。

????2.誰都不希望大材小用，變成一棵圉于某一個花盆的植物。要想綻放，就需要不斷地“換花盆”。

????3.當你真的換到更大的花盆時，請一直關注你的接班人。這樣，你就可以留下寶貴的財富，提供機會，做到薪火相傳。

????我在干了電視新聞25年后，在50歲那年改變了職業軌跡，成了一家國際酒店公司的企業傳訊和公關事務經理。這是我做過的最嚇人的一件事，也是最明智的一件事。（財富中文網）

????Kathleen Matthews, the EVP & Chief Global Communications & Public Affairs Officer at Marriott International (MAR), speaks every year to the rising-star women in the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women's Mentoringprogram. Matthews' message always resonates, but this year it literally transformed the thinking of one businesswoman from Nigeria.

????Listening to Matthews talk about leadership, Florence Ozor, a government relations specialist at Nigeria's Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Ltd., was riveted enough to come out of her shell and help lead the public campaign to find the Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the Boko Haram terrorist group. In a Guest Post on Postcards Monday, Ozor told her emotional story about learning to lead publicly.

????For any leader to succeed long-term, Matthews told Ozor and her 22 fellow mentees in theFortune-State Department program, you have to do more than seize the moment: You have to adapt and make changes throughout your career. Matthews, who spent 25 years as a TV reporter in Washington, DC., before she moved to Marriott, followed her own advice and allowed me to share it with you here. Here are Matthews' three basic rules for success that lasts:

????1. Push past fear and embrace change in order to keep growing. Too often women play it safe, rather than stretch past their comfort zone.

????2. You don't want to be a plant with a root system that has outgrown your pot. To flower and bloom, you need to keep "re-potting."

????3. Always be on the lookout for people to replace you when you do move into that bigger pot. This enables you to create a legacy, provide opportunity and pay it forward.

????After 25 years in TV news, I made a career change at age 50 to a corporate communications and public affairs role at a global hospitality company. It was the scariest thing I ever did, and the smartest.