Marilyn Gist & Alan Mulally with Gary Heil | Leadership Lessons From The Fastlane

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welcome to leadership lessons from the fast lane brought to you by the washington speakers bureau
in this space we will explore some of the most pressing challenges that leaders face today with
the world's most respected innovative curious and accomplished thought leaders we'd like to welcome
our host best-selling author and co-author of the recently published book choose love not fear a wsb
exclusive speaker for almost 30 years gary heil this is leadership lessons from the fast lane i'm
gary hile today i'm honored and excited to have two extraordinary guests with us they're going to
help us examine the role of leadership humility in building extraordinary teams today with us
dr marilyn gist marilyn literally wrote the book about leadership humility that i've been reading
for the last couple of weeks great book marilyn i really enjoyed it marilyn was a professor emeritus
of seattle university she was formerly the dean of the albert school of business and economics
she was the executive director of the center for leadership formation and she was instrumental in
helping seattle university build an executive mba program that raised the number 11 in the nation
and also with us is a guy who needs no introduction the true american icon
alan mullally was this ceo and president of boeing commercial aircraft where he worked on every
aircraft from the 707 to the 777 and alan you and i may be the only ones that remember the 707.
he was he was also the ceo of one of the most historic transformations in american history
at ford motor company allen has been ranked number three among the world's 50 greatest
leaders by fortune and time has called him one of the 50 most influential people in the world
alan marilyn it's great to see you both again thank you it's great to be here
you know as i read maryland as i read your book over the last couple weeks
uh besides every time i read a chapter i'm going yes yes and then i'm agreeing
with almost everything um actually i can't think of anything i don't agree with in it
um i also noticed something else there was a little voice in the back of my head and it was
alan mulally yelling love them up before you coach them up and your definition maryland of
leadership humility being to feel and display deep regard for others dignity and alan's calling about
loving him up and being respectful he seems to have adopted sort of thomas aquinas view of love
which is meaning good and caring about everybody i kept getting this feeling in every chapter that
really the essence of it for me became if we believed in and respected
and cared about people we would be far more effective leaders did i miss it or
did i get this understanding of what i was supposed to read in the book
no i i would say that that is one of the main points is simply understanding human dignity
and getting back to the roots of everybody has value everyone has value and if we degrade that or
denigrate that we lose their motivation we lose their creativity we lose their uh interest in
even doing a great job for us so as leaders that becomes foundational how we support the dignity of
others in every interaction we have and alan did i get that about right from your point of view
well absolutely and i think that was a really really special summary by maryland because
you think of that everything that's going to be done is going to be about people
working together and not only do you want to put together a talent organization but also
safe organizations and highly motivated organizations where people are being that