When Jeff Immelt was growing up, his father worked at GE Aircraft Engine. In an interview Immelt gave to Fast Company in 2005, he said that he never knew who the CEO of GE was. But he always knew his dad’s boss. The interviewer asked him if his dad’s boss had an impact on home life. Here’s what Jeff Immelt said:
“Yeah. He came home in a bad mood, uncertain about the future. And when he had a good boss, he was pumped.”
You can read a lot of statistics about the influence of a person’s immediate boss on productivity and morale. Those are insightful, but everything you need to know about the effect of leadership is contained in that quote.
When you accept the position of leadership, you will touch lives. That is leadership’s sacred trust. You are called to care for those lives and try to improve them.
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