John Hennessey, who is a former president of the Stanford University, has penned down a book where he shares his key leadership experiences. The book has been titled as Inside the Mind of the CEO. Hennessey currently also sits on the chair at Alphabet. In this book, he confirms that his educational leadership position, was more by accident. He instead loved being a professor. What truly changed his career, was when he took up the position of Provost. One of the anomalies about the entire area of education leadership, is that unfortunately there is little formal management training for this field. This is in spite of some universities having massive budgets. Stanford alone has a budget of around five billion US dollars. Hennessey also recalls some of his earlier writings, such as about the dichotomy between age and experience, that is key at universities and on which he had written earlier in Leading Matters. One key difference highlighted between academia and the corporate world is on the ‘carrot and stick’ culture. It is a little more of the stick in the corporates in comparison to how it is in academia. Hennessey also speaks about how humility needs to be an essential trait for leadership, as he has experienced at both Google and at Stanford.

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