Great morning, Broadsheet subscribers!
– What’s upward at UPS. We are finishing our unofficial Fortune Most Successful Girls week using a meeting with an executive that formerly appeared on our standing as CFO of Home Depot: Carol Tomé, that had been appointed CEO of UPS at June.
Tomé (No. 5 this season ’s record ) informs our colleague Aaron Pressman that she had planned on paying this season gardening after benefitting from Home Depot at 2019. However, UPS’s board{} she is served as 2003–had different programs. So instead of simply pass 2020 minding her perennials, Tomé was directing UPS via a large pandemic-fueled spike in need, in addition to narrowing the corporation’s attention and invisibly within an advancement in {} performance.
There is a whole lot to unpack in that their Q+A, however, one swap actually jumped out to me. Aaron asked roughly Tomé about her attempts to produce the business”better not larger”–and also the way the firm had completed the reverse before. The CEO remembered an {} exercise she did with all the leadership group:
“[W]e place all up our initiatives on the wall across the conference area. I gave everyone 10 green dots along with 10 reddish dots. Green were for all those initiatives which we believed were wildly significant. Red were for people we ought to quit doing.
Each of the green dots went. No reddish dots. I said:” You must. We went, and everyone used the red dots, that is extremely useful, since it enabled us to state this isn’t significant, right? We could place that on the shelf at the moment.
It enabled us to narrow our attention. It is therefore critically important. You know, what’s Lewis Carroll’s expression? ‘in case you do not understand where you’re going, any road will get {} . ’ That is efficiently where we had been.”
I guess many in corporate America could relate! Beneath Tomé’s view, the delivery giant is currently now resetting its headquarters and picking its route with caution. Read the entire interview here.
Kristen Bellstrom
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