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Leading with Emotional Intelligence: Hands-On ... - always yours

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ARE YOU A STAR PERFORMER OR JUST AVERAGE? 47<br />

Derailers<br />

• Possibly overused confidence and optimism<br />

EI Ratings: Pete Carroll<br />

PERSONAL<br />

SOCIAL<br />

Understanding Self Others<br />

✭<br />

✭<br />

Managing Self Others<br />

✭<br />

✭<br />

MEG WHITMAN<br />

Meg Whitman resigned as CEO of eBay in 2007. Her leadership<br />

skills turned to teaching as she stayed at eBay through 2008 in<br />

order to advise the new CEO, John Donahoe. By the end of that year<br />

she was officially recognized for her leadership aptitude by being<br />

inducted into the U.S. Business Hall of Fame. In her decade at the<br />

helm she took eBay from a start-up to an $8 billion global powerhouse,<br />

revolutionizing the way goods are bought and sold online.<br />

As a matter of fact, eBay has been the “fastest growing company in<br />

history, faster than Microsoft, Dell, or any company during the first<br />

eight years of its existence.” 64 Fortune magazine twice named her<br />

the most powerful woman in business. Whitman is running to be<br />

the first woman governor of California in 2010. 65<br />

<strong>On</strong>e of the first things that attracted Whitman to eBay, then<br />

a two-year-old start-up in 1998, were the company’s values that<br />

people are basically good, everyone has something to contribute,<br />

people should be treated respectfully, and an honest, open environment<br />

can bring out the best in people. The second thing she was<br />

impressed <strong>with</strong>, as a business executive, was the growth at 70%<br />

per month and costs so low that their profits were 85% of revenue.<br />

She saw that eBay is a company of the future, <strong>with</strong> no factories or

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