Alan Mulally | Leadership and Working Together Principles
The Jon Gordon Podcast
Jon Gordon
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🗓️ 25 May 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author Jon Gordon talks with former Ford CEO, Alan Mulally about leadership, working together principles and more.
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QUOTEABLES FROM ALAN MULALLY:
- It's all about people. People have to be your priority.
- A compelling vision is imperative for a leader.
- Having a positive, can-do, find a way attitude is important to success.
- Don't manage in secret. Everyone must be included.
- Positive principles just work.
- We all want to be part of something big. We all want to make a difference.
- The most important thing a leader can do is to hold themselves and their team accountable (both the process and expected behaviors).
- Create a safe, accountable environment so people can share problems and create solutions TOGETHER.
- Your actions must demonstrate your words. Consistency matters.
ABOUT ALAN MULALLY:
Alan Mulally is the Former president and chief executive officer of The Ford Motor Company, Former executive vice president of the Boeing Company, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, and president of Boeing information,Space and Defense Systems. Mulally currently serves on the board of directors of Google, Carbon 3D, and the Mayo Clinic.
ABOUT JON GORDON:
Jon Gordon is a speaker and the bestselling author of multiple books including The Energy Bus and The Power of Positive Leadership. http://www.jongordon.com
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| 0:00.0 | All right, it's so great to have you with me. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm glad to be with you, |
| 0:08.0 | Alan, it's so great to have you with me. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm glad to be with you, John. |
| 0:15.0 | Thank you so much for doing this interview. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's start with the fact that you know you're so well known for your service and leadership to Boeing and Ford and your positive leadership, |
| 0:24.6 | the way you build incredible teams, you've achieved amazing and outstanding of |
| 0:29.5 | results. You know, how is your positive leadership style formulated and developed over the years? |
| 0:35.0 | Well, you know, John, I had the fortune to be able to serve at Boeing on the design team of every Boeing airplane. |
| 0:44.0 | So the 707, the 727, the 737, the 747, the 747, the 757, |
| 0:50.0 | and then I was asked to be the chief engineer |
| 0:52.0 | and the leader of the program for the 777. |
| 0:55.0 | And then when I was CEO of Boeing, I helped launch the 787. |
| 0:59.0 | And if you look at all of the seats that are flying around the world. 70% are in Boeing airplanes. So clearly, John, if it's not |
| 1:06.4 | a Boeing airplane, you shouldn't be going. Okay, so a little bit about commercial airplanes. |
| 1:14.0 | An average commercial airplane has around 4 million parts. |
| 1:17.0 | And at the peak of a new airplane program, |
| 1:21.0 | there have hundreds of thousands of people |
| 1:23.2 | talented people that are working on it all around the world and and what's |
| 1:28.5 | really important is that everybody knows what the plan is everybody is |
| 1:31.7 | everybody is included and everybody knows what the situation is, everybody is included, |
| 1:32.8 | and everybody knows what the situation is, |
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