JUDGMENT: HOW WINNING LEADERS MAKE GREAT CALLS

摘要

When Jim McNerney became CEO of Boeing in 2005, the company was in crisis. He was Boeing's third chief executive in three years. Two years earlier, Phil Condit had been forced to resign the job as a result of various ethical violations alleged to have taken place under his watch. Next, a widely respected former Boeing president, Harry Stonecipher, had been called back to the CEO post by the corporation's board, only to be edged out himself after revelations of a liaison with a female Boeing executive. The improper behavior that surrounded Condit's ouster, purportedly including the acquisition of thousands of pages of proprietary documents from rival Lockheed Martin that were used to help Boeing win contract work from the government, had prompted a Justice Dept. investigation. Boeing's senior ranks were demoralized, and employees throughout the organization were frustrated and embarrassed.