Leadership Transitions: The Watkins Collection (4 Items)

The Realignment

7 Challenge

if stefan eisenberg knew anything, it was how to

manage in times of crisis. After all, he’d overseen a relatively quick

and successful turnaround of European manufacturing operations

at Careco Devices, a multinational medical devices company. He

was less sure, however, that this sort of approach would be effec-

tive in his new role at the firm.

Before joining Careco, Stefan, a hard-driving, no-nonsense

executive, had spent fourteen years moving up the ranks in man-

ufacturing at a leading automaker headquartered in southern

Germany—starting as a productivity analyst and ending up as the

general manager of the firm’s largest assembly plant. Senior-level

slots at the car company were in short supply, and Stefan didn’t

want to work ...