KEY 1Leverage

LLEVERAGE

Leadership RoleEngineer: Build It

DevelopmentOpportunityTalent/Resources

When I was a kid, my younger brother Paul—who later graduated from college with a degree in mechanical engineering—taught me how using a lever could make building a snowman easier.

My father is a retired Air Force colonel. I grew up on the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, so I’m used to snow and lots of it. I remember one particularly big snowstorm that closed school and delivered perfect snowball-making snow. Paul and I naturally decided to make an enormous snowman.

We started with a huge base. Then we rolled a middle snowball nearly as large, and quickly discovered it was so heavy we couldn’t lift it. So my clever brother grabbed our Radio ...

Get Execution IS the Strategy now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.