Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action

2.8. CASE STUDY: INTERVIEW WITH BILL DAVIDSON, CONNOISSEUR OF TALENT

In my line of work, I meet a lot of senior executives. Some are incredibly talented, some are just average, and a rare few are truly great leaders. Bill Davidson is perhaps one of the finest leaders I've ever had the opportunity to work with. He has an uncanny ability to find and attract highly talented people and build strong, high-performance teams that become intensely loyal to him. I met Bill in the early 1990s when he was a young executive director at Bell Atlantic Mobile and I was asked to assist in delivering some sales training for his team. A few years later, Bill had moved to GE Capital, where I worked on another project with him. Today Bill is the senior vice president ...