John Hennessy has been the President of the Stanford University for 16 years, besides being the Board Chairman at Google, now Alphabet. He is also the Founder of MIPS Computing Systems. There is one skill he has identified as being critical for great leaders to possess. That is the art of storytelling. He feels this is particularly important from the managerial level onwards because as one moves higher up the hierarchy, the technical skills matter less, but people skills more so. Storytelling is a great way of talent management, as people feel inspired by the idea central to any new entrepreneurship or product development. Hennessy has outlined all and more in his latest book titled Leading Matters. The scholarship programme initiated by him at Stanford won a massive US$ 400 million grant from Nike. He feels that this endowment could one day aspire to be at the level of the Rhodes Scholarship endowment.

Source:https://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2018/09/20/googles-board-chairman-reveals-one-powerful-skill-that-makes-great-leaders-irresistible/#2646ce456c39

Uploaded Date:27 September 2018