1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something we are doing at PCI in our quest to earn a spot of Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For.
This week we’ve been exploring the idea of “keystone habits.” How changing one key habit can set off a cascade … continue reading
1: “You can’t order people to change. That’s not how the brain works,” Paul O’Neill reflected.
As the new CEO, his goal was audacious: to transform Alcoa, the Aluminum Corporation of America, a Fortune 500 company that has existed for more than 100 years.
His predecessor had tried to mandate improvements. That didn’t go so well. Fifteen thousand associates had gone on strike, bringing dummies to company parking lots, dressing … continue reading
1: The telephone rang in the middle of the night. Paul O’Neill awoke in an instant. He was the new CEO of Alcoa, the largest…
A plant manager in Arizona was calling.
“A young man who had joined the company a few weeks earlier, eager for the job because it offered health care for his pregnant wife—had tried a repair,” Charles Duhigg writes in The Power of Habit. “He … continue reading
1: A group of Wall Street investors and stock analysts gathered in the ballroom of a swanky New York City hotel. “They were there to meet the new CEO of the Aluminum Company of America—or Alcoa, as it was known—a corporation that, for nearly a century, had manufactured everything from the foil that wraps Hershey’s Kisses and the metal in Coca-Cola cans to the bolts that hold satellites together,” writes … continue reading
