Rapid Response: Rally a team in turmoil, w/NFL Raiders president Sandra Douglass Morgan
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As a new leader, how do you honor an established brand while trying to shepherd it into the next era? Las Vegas Raiders’ president Sandra Douglass Morgan took the helm amid a front office scandal and a team new to the desert. Morgan talks about prioritizing customers over all else, taking risks at the beginning of a new venture, and why to bet on yourself from the moment you apply for a job.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, this is Chris Gotier, I'm one of the producers of Masters of Scale. |
| 0:04.8 | I want to tell you about a show from our friends at Harvard Business Review that might help you better understand the world of business. |
| 0:11.0 | It's called HBR IdeaCast. |
| 0:14.0 | Each week, Harvard Business Review editors bring you the world's leading business and management experts. |
| 0:19.3 | But it isn't just another business podcast. |
| 0:21.8 | We think you will find so many connections from IdeaCast to how we hear at Masters of Scale think about scaling our business. |
| 0:29.6 | For instance, they often approach business challenges from contrarian points of view, telling surprising stories, |
| 0:35.5 | like, what can we learn from NASA about managing high-risk projects? |
| 0:40.1 | And what can a comedian teach us about using humor to lead a team? |
| 0:44.8 | Subscribe to HBR IdeaCast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:50.1 | Now on to the show. |
| 0:52.1 | When people say it's your dream job, it wasn't even in my realm of possibility to dream about. |
| 1:01.1 | You have to have some faith in yourself, be willing to take a chance, take a risk. |
| 1:05.1 | My second week, I was in the stadium, and there was a gentleman that had a family and he said, |
| 1:11.1 | we were seasoned ticket holders in Oakland and we came to Las Vegas. |
| 1:14.1 | When we announced you, my daughter said, hey dad, I can be the president and then you may know my brother from play for the team. |
| 1:19.1 | And even though he'd been a seasoned ticket holder for so long, that was his first time his daughter said something like that. |
| 1:23.6 | And that really resonated with me and I realized this is bigger than me. |
| 1:27.6 | And if it can help inspire anyone, really not just even limited to women and girls, then I'm off for it. |
| 1:37.1 | That Sandra Douglas Morgan, president of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders. |
| 1:42.1 | When she took over the $5 billion franchise last summer, |
| 1:45.1 | she became the first black woman in the history of the league to run a team. |
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