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Electronics industry CEO reflects on lessons from early job detasseling corn

A CEO in the electronics sector recounts working as a teenager detasseling corn in Illinois for $1.50 an hour, a job that involved manually removing tassels from corn plants in the field. The CEO says that experience still informs their approach to leadership and business today, including conversations with leaders about trade policy.