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00:00I try to set ambitious goals but which are realistic at the same time as what times you feel like you have the the head in the sky and the stars, but very much grounded at the same time to try to say, okay, you have to manage to manage both. And this is very important to you that actually whatever you say you want to stick to, is that it? Is that because of your personality or is it something that is just required in business? Oh, I won't listen to anyone. This is the way I am probably more than anything. I'm more you know, like let's let's do something together, you know, together with a team. And I would roll up my sleeve myself and go with them and fight the battles we have to fight together. If I feel like we can win it rather than say, okay, you should, and then I go into another route. So it's more probably my style of management as well. I mean, it's interesting because you have an industry that's not considered very sexy and actually it's so crucial to changing our economies. Used to be not very sexy, but I can see we have a lot of incoming calls from people wanting to join the company because they feel like, okay, you in the back part of the good part, again, of trying to deliver a solution. So when you look at 2024, 2025 and beyond, do leaders and CEOs have to have a conscience? Uh, they do have a conscience. So who am I to say they should? Um, I guess the way I would think of it myself will be more I'm the same human being at home than I am when I'm a chief exec of Veolia. This is the same person. So I'm not saying, you know, I have a split Estelle, that's more the way I would say it and I'm proud of what we do. It's tough. I'm a fighter. I think I never give up. Uh, but, uh, but in the end, we are all super proud about what we do. Where did you learn that? To fight or never give up? Um, probably I always had it in me, I guess. But I guess I'm very much when there is a will, there's a way type of lady. I love to be with a to be with a team as well. Uh, so I guess love this, uh, team atmosphere of, you know, everybody has a view and you have a diverse views on things and learn from that. And then you go even beyond what you would even have imagined before. I was appointed two years ago. You know what? It's even better than what I thought. What did you think it'd be like? You never exactly know how it's going to be like, but I guess it's even better. You know, we've achieved stuff I never even could have dreamt to we would have achieved. So we've been able to deal with when you think about the number of crises we've been able to deal with in the last two years and whilst constantly delivering results which are growing quarter after quarter.

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