Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership

Former IBM Chairman and CEO  Ginni Rometty  led one of the most high-stakes corporate transformations in business history. Just as impressive was her personal transformation, having overcome childhood challenges to become one of the world’s most influential business leaders ( Fortune  magazine’s #1 Most Powerful Woman three years in a row).   The catalyst was a mindset she calls “ good power .” The story of how she discovered this touchstone and uses it throughout her life and work, and her advice on how others can, too, is told in her new book  Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World .  “I think the best way to describe what I’ve written is memoir with purpose, because I write about my experiences through the lens of an idea much bigger than me and my life, one that relates to all of us: how we can drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few, “ says Rometty.  D...

Former IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty led one of the most high-stakes corporate transformations in business history. Just as impressive was her personal transformation, having overcome childhood challenges to become one of the world’s most influential business leaders ( Fortune magazine’s #1 Most Powerful Woman three years in a row).   The catalyst was a mindset she calls “ good power .” The story of how she discovered this touchstone and uses it throughout her life and work, and her advice on how others can, too, is told in her new book Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World .  “I think the best way to describe what I’ve written is memoir with purpose, because I write about my experiences through the lens of an idea much bigger than me and my life, one that relates to all of us: how we can drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few, “ says Rometty.  Divided into thre...