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A collection of 8 issues

Week 19: Alan Mulally - the RIGHT leader

🔖This Week's Lesson: American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce G. Hoffman (Chapters 15-21) This week, I finished American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company. In reflecting on how I might distill the lessons from the

Weeks 17 & 18: It's all about the strategy!

🔖This Week's Lesson: Your Strategy Needs a Strategy by Martin Reeves, Claire Love, and Philipp Tillmanns (Harvard Business Review article) American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce G. Hoffman (Chapters 10-14) I was getting bored. Mulally had done such a great

Week 16: Autonomy Needed

An old friend contacted me out of the blue this week. She’s in the Army reserves and has been deployed overseas for a few months and is expected to stay for another year. Unexpectedly, however, she’d returned back to the United States on emergency leave because both of

Week 15: How to Fight the Enemies of Trust

🔖This Week's Lesson: The Enemies of Trust by Robert M. Galford and Anne Seibold Drapeau (Harvard Business Review article) This week, I reread The Enemies of Trust from which I think there are two main takeaways. First, the article defines three different kinds of trust that exist in

Week 14: Being the change you want to see might have an unexpected meaning

🔖This Week's Lesson: American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce Hoffman Chapters 7-9 Ok so before I tell this story, I’m going to admit to you that I’m not exactly proud of how I handled the situation. I’m

Week 13: Alan Mulally had the Courage to be Different

🔖This Week's Lesson: American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce Hoffman Chapters 5&6 The biggest takeaway from this week’s lesson is to have the courage to be different! When it was first announced that Alan Mulally would take

Week 12: Alan Mulally takes on Ford

🔖This Week’s Lesson: American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce Hoffman Chapters 3&4 My mind is kinda spinning… At the end of last week, we learned of the tragic state in which the Ford Motor Company found itself when Bill

Week 11: It was the worst of times...at Ford

🔖This Week's Lesson American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce Hoffman Chapters 1&2 This week, I started reading American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company. Ok, so for full transparency, this is not my