Setting the Virtuous Flywheel in Motion: Understanding the Critical Role of Great Leaders in Realizing the Potential of Their People

By: Justin Menkes

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Synopsis: Your identity as an executive-level leader is dependent on the environment you create within your organization: you can't separate out your success or failure from the people you lead or the culture you've engendered. In this chapter, Justin Menkes, a noted expert in executive assessment, profiles a maestro CEO--Dave Dillon, head of supermarket giant Kroger--showing how Dillon's organization exemplifies the ongoing interactive system great leaders cocreate with their people. In his leadership, Dillon demonstrates the three attributes necessary to a great leader and how they have transformed both his organization and Dillon himself: realizing potential, subservience to purpose, and finding order in chaos. These are the attributes you need to succeed as a great leader in the high-pressure global economy of the twenty-first century. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 8 of "Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others."