CEO Wendy Gerber is featured this week in WWD joining fellow executives from Ralph Lauren to share great leadership lessons from Peter Strom, Ralph Lauren's former partner.
Leadership lessons Wendy shared:
• A great partnership is founded on trust, not similarity. Peter and Ralph couldn’t have been more different, but those differences created a perfect combination to drive the business forward.
• It takes a creative visionary and a strategic executer to drive exponential business growth. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
• The importance of unity. While I’m sure they occasionally disagreed privately, Peter and Ralph were a united front at the company — to employees, the press and the public.
• Before the words “lean in” were part of our lexicon, Peter was inspiring us to do it. Peter gave people room to grow and “lean in” to drive innovation and growth. And inspired us to do the same with our teams.
• Share your ideas with passion, and make sure you have metrics to back them up.
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