“This is my first day…”
According to an article published by Knowledge@Wharton, the Wharton School’s online research and business analysis journal, Paul learned an important lesson while working at GE under former CEO Jack Welch.
Welch loved international trips," Paul told his audience at the Wharton conference. "Whenever he came back from one, he told people he would get out of the elevator at the office and say to himself: ‘This is my first day at GE as CEO. The previous guy was a real dud. So how can I do better than he did?’ He understood that as a leader you always have to be reinventing yourself; you have to have some tool that helps you abandon past behavior and look with fresh eyes at your task."
This is an excerpt from Leadership Wired, John Maxwell’s newsletter…
I am going to try that this Tuesday… "This is my first day as Children’s Pastor of Hillsong Church… The previous guy was a real dud. So how can I do better than he did?"
Wow… I can already think of a couple of things [grins]
