Leadership Skills that Inspire Results

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The Art of Acknowledging and Inspiring

One of the best ways to inspire a leader to achieve great success is to tell him or her what they have done especially well so that they are energized to repeat what they did. If you are a keen observer (i.e., you pay attention), there will be many opportunities to do exactly that.

Andy Pearson was a McKinsey managing director, president and Chief Operating Officer at PepsiCo for fifteen years, a Harvard Business School professor, and the founding CEO and chairman of Yum Brands. (Tri-con Global was the restaurant business owned by PepsiCo and, after it was spun off, it became Yum Brands— one of the world's largest restaurant companies.) At PepsiCo, before Yum Brands, Pearson was known as a leader who inspired ...