5 May 04 @ 2:13 pm
Leadership at Fast Company
Fast Company Editor-in-Chief John Byrnes discusses his approach to leading the magazine through turnaround in this Knowledge @ Wharton interview. On his first leadership challenge:
My very first experience was to be brought up to Boston, to stand in front of everyone and be introduced as the new leader, and to give bad news immediately. It was that we would be moving the editorial operations from Boston to New York. I said, “Look, I’m really excited to have this job, and to help try to engineer a turnaround of the magazine. But at the same time, I’m also genuinely sad because many of the people [here] are [not] going to be on that journey with me.”
I think they appreciated the honesty immediately.
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