In the April cover story of Pharmaceutical Executive, Dr. Deborah Dunsire explains how she learned one of her most important lessons in life ... beginning with what she learned from her parents to the illuminating lesson of Nelson Mandela ... she learned to believe that "Nothing is impossible!" And now as CEO of Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, she gets to lead people of a kindred spirit toward their new vision: aspiring to cure cancer.

In her interview, Millennium's CEO cautions readers against one of the most common errors of passivity that impedes progress – the acceptance of boundaries.

Dr. Dunsire makes it clear in her remarks that givens are not the immovable objects the world seems to want you to believe. She encourages readers to be inclined to challenge givens, dogma, and conventional wisdom.

Tracing her parents' daring risks, Dr. Dunsire attributes much of her own adventurous spirit to them, and to people in her career who served a mentoring role in helping her make some of the bold decisions she has.

"My mother always says, 'I've been so many places and I've done so many things that I could never have imagined," says Dunsire. "But in a sense, that only happens to people who don't put boundaries around what could happen and who don't limit themselves."