Accenture’s CEO manages her work-life balance by making sure she has no “regrets”

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Accenture CEO ⁠Julie Sweet is one of the most powerful executives in the world, overseeing a 770,000–person workforce at consulting giant Accenture. ⁠  In an interview with Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell for Fortune’s new vodcast Fortune 500: Titans and Disruptors of Industry, Sweet said she manages her work-life balance by making sure she has “no regrets.”

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00:00And a month later, I found out I had breast cancer.

00:02Oh, my gosh.

00:03There must be something so clarifying and distilling about getting a diagnosis like that.

00:09And I'm curious how, and you've battled it now twice, including recently, and I'm so

00:16glad that your treatment has passed.

00:17And I hope you're doing well.

00:19I'm doing great.

00:20So thank you.

00:20And I've had so much support.

00:22It's been amazing.

00:24I'm curious how it's changed you as a person.

00:27And I'm sure it brings empathy with it, but also clarity of how do I want to be spending

00:31my time?

00:32Am I doing the thing that I really want to be doing?

00:34When I go back to 2014, I had young kids.

00:37I were six and seven, which is always scary.

00:39And at the time, I felt good about how I'd been living my life because I said, do I have

00:46any regrets?

00:47And I actually felt like I'd struck the right balance with the given that obviously I'd

00:53chosen a career that I was going to work a lot.

00:55So it's not that I was, you know, like that was just, that was a choice.

00:59But within that choice, I felt good about the choices that I had made in terms of time.

01:04And in the intervening years, I've used that as kind of a litmus test because, I mean, you

01:09know, like, I know your job is crazy.

01:11So I know you relate to this, right?

01:13You can get sucked into different times being really busy.

01:16And so I would stop and ask myself, like, if, you know, something happened to me tomorrow,

01:22would I still feel like I didn't have any regrets?

01:24And sometimes I'd be like, no, I would be regretful and I'd have to adjust.

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