Every Sunday in the Business section of New York Times, there is a "Corner Office" columns that publishes an interview with different top executives about their challenge leadership and management skill. Today, it publishs the interview with Jenny Ming, the CED of Charlotte Russes-a clothing chain, who was was the formal President of Old Navy and Gap. I think it is very interested and I want to share it at his blog.
In the interview, Ms. Ming talks about the she likes to look at the company as "start-up" because it makes "you hungry" and you want to prove that "you can do that". It makes her to be prioritize correctly because resources are limited. No matter how big the company is, never "Lose that start-up of Mind" and that is how she has helped Old Navy and Gap to grow. She has learned from her first job that she needs to be honest to her workers and she is willing to listen. It reminds me the secret of successful leadership is "honesty and fair dealing.." (Groucho Marx). Ms. Ming's ideal organizational structure is "flat" because she wants to be in control and make sure that everyone is "all aligned". She also realized from previous job experienced that the different treatment in the company between male and female employees when the promotion opportunity pops up. One other interested points that I am amazed is the way she recruit her staff. She prefers to have conversation with the candidate in the interviews because the best candidate will the one that she can learn from him or her
You can view this article at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/business/17corner.html?ref=business.
Yu Mei Wu
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