Bill George says American business needs leaders who "will always put their institution ahead of their self-interests." George, former CEO of Medtronic and author of 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis, teaches management at Harvard Business School. And he finds plenty of future leaders in his classroom, so when he points to a crisis in leadership as one of the causes of the financial crisis, he does not mean to suggest that we have a scarcity of leaders. Rather, there are, in his view, too many leaders with skewed priorities:
Watch the full interview with Bill George at BigThink, here.
Posted
12-31-2009 9:12 AM
by
Graham Griffith