Never Forget Your First (Leader) with Jeff Mulock
I started my first corporate job as a sales coordinator in June 1993. I often reflect on how different my life would have been had I not had someone persuade me to reconsider, when I turned the offer down at first. The reason it was such a defining period was because of Jeff Mulock. He had just been promoted to the role of General Manager of Sales of the industrial & commercial lubricants division and I was his first hire. I didn't know the term until many years later, but he was my first example of embracing a 'growth mindset'. He intentionally put himself into positions of career challenge and succeeded by leaning into the fact that he needed to learn from others before he could make an impact. Interestingly, it was just that process of learning that made the greatest impact on others. As the team watched him learn, experiment and make mistakes with intention, he set an example of courage and vulnerability that many leaders are still trying to master 30 years later. In this conversation I get a chance to share with him some of the lessons I learned from watching him and pick his brain on his approach to leadership.
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I started my first corporate job as a sales coordinator in June 1993. I often reflect on how different my life would have been had I not had someone persuade me to reconsider, when I turned the offer down at first. The reason it was such a defining period was because of Jeff Mulock. He had just been promoted to the role of General Manager of Sales of the industrial & commercial lubricants division and I was his first hire. I didn't know the term until many years later, but he was my first example of embracing a 'growth mindset'. He intentionally put himself into positions of career challenge and succeeded by leaning into the fact that he needed to learn from others before he could make an impact. Interestingly, it was just that process of learning that made the greatest impact on others. As the team watched him learn, experiment and make mistakes with intention, he set an example of courage and vulnerability that many leaders are still trying to master 30 years later. In this conversation I get a chance to share with him some of the lessons I learned from watching him and pick his brain on his approach to leadership.
Send me a message - https://anchor.fm/shakeel-bharmal/message
