Resource -- Watch: The Coaching Habit: Knowledge Workers & Alan Mulally - Working Together (2 videos here)
Video Summary: "Today leaders manage knowledge workers - people who know more about what they are doing than their boss does. In this interview, Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, Michael Bungay Stanier and I (Marshall Goldsmith)talk about how to manage knowledge workers successfully."
Video #2 Summary: "This video is about Alan Mulally"
After reading the chapter and watching both videos, challenge yourself to see if you can answer these questions:
- What are some tips which Coach Goldsmith shared in the video which could help you as a leader or manager of knowledge workers?
- What lessons came out of this interview with respect to the experience of former Ford CEO Allan Mulally?
- In the presentation given by Alan Mulally himself as he explains in his own words some of the key principles that guided his leadership of Ford during a time with multi-billion-dollar losses. What takeaways did you learn?