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Drawing on the wisdom of Peter Drucker, AG Lafley led Procter & Gamble out of a death spiral by focusing on key customers and core brands Baseando-se na sabedoria de Peter Drucker, AG Lafley levou a Procter & Gamble de uma espiral de morte concentrando-se em clientes-chave e principais marcas
AG Lafley assumiu as rédeas da Procter & Gamble ( PG ), durante uma crise, em junho de 2000. John Pepper, the chairman of the board, called up Lafley, who was then running P&G's beauty care division from San Francisco, and told Lafley to get on the company plane that night as he was to be named CEO the next morning. John Pepper, presidente do conselho, convocados Lafley, que era então o comando da divisão da P & G de beleza de São Francisco, e disse Lafley para entrar no avião da empresa que a noite enquanto ele estava a ser nomeado CEO na manhã seguinte. Durk Jager, Lafley's predecessor as CEO, was being ousted after 17 months for missing a series of earnings projections and failing to revive the company's competitiveness in key markets. Durk Jager, antecessor Lafley como CEO, estava sendo derrubado depois de 17 meses para a falta de uma série de projeções de lucro e não para reavivar a competitividade da empresa em mercados-chave.
It was not an auspicious start for Lafley. Não foi um começo auspicioso para Lafley. P&G stock dropped $7, from $28.50, during the first week of his tenure. ações da P & G caíram US $ 7, a partir de $ 28,50, durante a primeira semana de seu mandato. By the end of 2000 the company had lost $85 billion in market capitalization vs. the prior year. Até o final de 2000, a companhia havia perdido US $ 85 bilhões em capitalização de mercado em relação ao ano anterior. Lafley quickly realized that P&G's intense inward focus on plant and operations was why the company was in crisis, and that he had to get his team focused on the consumer or it would never get out of its