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:

 

  1. What are some tips which Coach Goldsmith shared in the video which could help you as a leader or manager of knowledge workers? 
  2. What lessons came out of this interview with respect to the experience of former Ford CEO Allan Mulally?  
  3. 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?