The CEO Is the First to Step in Your Back

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This is why I can't listen to a single politician these days because that whatever the moral principle is on Monday, apply to one side of the aisle, it's gone on Wednesday. What I'm saying is to the business leaders, step in your back, do the right thing. Stay true to you who you're back. See, everyone takes the wrong lesson from what happened about Chapik, the Disney with the governor of Florida and all that. You recall that George Floyd was murdered about two and a half miles from where I'm standing right now. And in the CEO in this town that didn't stand up and defend not just their black employees, but people of color, anyone that

ABOUT BILL GEORGE

Bill George is a celebrated leader who served as Chair and CEO of Medtronic, the world's leading medical technology company. He is an executive fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has taught leadership since 2004, and is the bestselling author of many books, including Discover Your True North. Bill also served as a director at Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, Novartis, Target, the Mayo Clinic, and World Economic Forum USA.

In this episode of the Elevate Podcast, Bill joins host Robert Glazer to discuss his leadership career, the importance of purpose-driven leadership, and the challenges Mark Zuckerberg is facing with Meta.

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