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Did You Hold The Job You Now Manage?
Cool interview with Jack and Suzy Welch on Wharton’s website here. If you’re unfamiliar, Jack ran GE for about 21 years. (Big deal.) Suzy was an editor of Harvard Business Review. (Also a big deal to many.) Now they have a school they’re working with — shifting the model of who can get MBA-type educations, essentially — and some books and a book tour and all that. They’re basically very rich, and probably doing the weekend in Mexico all the time, but in between they’re trying to pay it forward in terms of business education, and that’s cool and valuable. People need that, because we’re pretty far off the rails in terms of how we think about business these days.
The whole article is very interesting (there’s a podcast embedded there too), and this might be the most interesting section (to me, at least):
But in the last 10 years, there’s been three different kinds of worker groups that have really emerged. And geniuses — what we mean by that is people whose work you don’t understand. I mean, it used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of…
