
Good morning,
Dave Calhoun took on a near impossible job when he became CEO of Boeing in January 2020. Two deadly plane crashes of the Boeing 737 Max, which killed 346 passengers, had cratered the company’s reputation. And his predecessor had flubbed the response.
So how did he begin to pull the company back from the brink? (The job is not yet done.) That’s the question Michal Lev-Ram and I asked him on this week’s episode of our podcast Leadership Next. His answer is a lesson in leadership. But one piece, in particular, resonated with me: