I wonder what Stankey's podcast series will be like?
https://sigman.wtamu.edu/
As a celebration of his legacy, the Stan Sigman Business Leadership and Innovation Series emphasizes Stan Sigman’s leadership style. Those who knew Stan Sigman well knew him as a visionary whose leadership style encouraged, unleashed, and revealed innovation in others. Stan Sigman built successful teams of strong leaders who were given the freedom to make decisions and accountability for results.
Sigman was a loser. Steve Jobs met with him and other SBC execs, they thought they had the upper hand in negotiating the exclusive IPhone deal. Jobs set them strait right away, Sigman and his counterparts returned to SBC with their tails between their legs! Funniest thing I ever saw, hard to believe they ever thought at&t could ever Trump Apple! AT&T accepted the IPhone deal on Steve Jobs terms!
I remember when Stan eliminated flex time and free coffee at Cingular to "Grow the Business". This was a time when the job market was booming and Cingular was already experiencing a retention problem. Within 2 weeks 4 of our best people in the department left Cingular. Stan only grew the business by getting out of his own way for Apple to create the iPhone.
Heck no, make Handy Randy & Stink walk the plank. Push them OUT.
Enough already.
I’ll say this about Stan the Man. He would get up in front of any crowd and grumble about pushing a broom on the shop floor and then exclaim, “Grow the Business”. There was no culture pillars, no purpose, no leader model, no brand palette 152/52/157 blue, no DDI testing. Just grow the business. And 2-3 times a year, you’d have an ops review to show how you grew the business and if you didn’t or made it up, you were asked to wait out front for a super shuttle to the airport and sent packing. Randy and Stank never grew the business. Wish the board would have ordered them an Uber a long time ago…