BU BÖLÜM HAKKINDA
Today on the Servant Leadership Podcast for our 100th episode, we welcome my dad, Bill Lesner. Bill is a retired General Motors executive and longtime corporate board director. Over a 37-year career at General Motors spanning the United States, Japan, Australia, and Germany, Bill helped lead the team that won Cadillac the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award — the country's highest quality honor, presented by President George H.W. Bush. Since retiring, he's served on multiple corporate boards, mentored more than a thousand students, and spent the last decade helping build PWI behind the scenes. Join us for this special 100th episode where Bill talks about the calling that took our family to Japan, the three questions he uses to help people find what he calls their perfect place, and the lessons his own father taught him about putting faith, family, and friends first.
Timestamps:
00:00 Opening
00:39 Bill Lesner Intro
01:45 Welcome Bill Lesner
02:21 Bill's Journey - Early Years In Table Tennis
03:46 Beginnings At General Motors
06:37 Table Tennis At The Highest Level
09:50 The Great Comeback And The Waxed Floor
12:18 27-Year-Old Thrown Into Leadership
15:24 Being In Over Your Head
17:29 The Baldrige National Quality Award
21:02 Servant Leadership - Going Against The Grain
22:59 Expert On All Things Quality
26:14 The Japan Position
32:50 A Nightmarish Accident And Doubts
37:48 Servant Leadership - Being Called To Something
41:24 A Note To Change A Life
45:33 Leadership Abroad
48:33 Moving To Australia
56:28 Being Pushed To Move To Germany
1:02:02 Early Retirement And "What's Next"
1:07:53 Evolution Of Servant Leadership Over The Decades
1:09:48 The Birth Of PWI
1:17:08 Finding Your Perfect Place
1:21:57 The 3 Questions To Find Your Perfect Place
1:29:31 Father-Son Relationships
1:34:42 Focusing On The Whole Rather Than The Holes
1:38:50 Leadership Lessons For The Next Generations
1:44:42 Ten Rapid-Fire Questions
1:54:09 Importance Of A Servant Leadership Podcast
1:56:27 Closing
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