Nike's next CEO learned 2 important leadership lessons from a summer job unloading beer. (via CNBCMakeIt)
"So the job had potential risks, but it also had definite perks," according to Donahoe. When a driver noticed the future CEO was uncomfortable on one delivery trip, he cracked open a couple of beers for them to share to break the tension. "I was 18 years old, it was seven in the morning and I was thinking, 'This is the greatest job ever.' ," wrote Donahoe.
In other words, that experience taught Donahoe to never write someone off just because they might seem different from him. Donahoe might have been on his way to study economics at Dartmouth and earn an MBA at Stanford Business School, but he still had plenty to learn from his fellow warehouse workers, whose guidance and patience he relied on in order to survive his summer job.
The second leadership lesson Donahoe learned that summer came following a dangerous incident where a driver let Donahoe drive a delivery truck into the warehouse. The teenager made a bad turn and smashed into the doorway, causing "thousands of dollars of damage." However, the driver covered for Donahoe and smoothed things over with the warehouse chief, who told him not to worry about it.
In 2013, Donahoe wrote that the second lesson still inspired him to use a leadership principle he called "Presume Trust."
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