Sam’s Club CEO Latriece Watkins says she feels most powerful watching the people she’s invested in succeed
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Latriece Watkins says helping others succeed has been mutually beneficial, and advises business leaders to set aside time to get leadership clarity.
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Sam’s Club CEO Latriece Watkins has a career resume that most workers would gawk at, working her way up from an intern at Walmart all the way to leader of one of America’s biggest grocery retailers. But it isn’t the executive titles or career milestones that makes her feel powerful: The greatest source of power comes from watching the peers she’s helped ultimately succeed. “When I feel most powerful is when I see the people I’ve invested in make moves,” Watkins told Most Powerful Women Editor Emma Hinchliffe onstage at Fortune’s annual MPW Summit in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Tuesday. “When I see them get promoted, I see all of their faces running across memory from very early in my career, or very early in their careers, to where they’ve moved now.” Solely focusing on one’s own career could leave opportunities for greater impact on the table, according to the Fortune 500 executive. Watkins has made many strides in her own career, becoming the first woman and person of color to serve…