The Evolution to Our “Working Together”™ Stakeholder Centered Leadership, Management, and Coaching

The authors, Mulally (former CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Ford Motor Company), McArthur ( Leader to Leader editor‐in‐chief), and Goldsmith (pioneer of executive coaching), begin their article by reflecting on the leadership wisdom of the publication's founder, Frances Hesselbein. They also review Mulally's Our “Working Together”™ Stakeholder Centered Leadership, Management, and Coaching, and Goldsmith's Stakeholder Centered Coaching™ process. Within the former, they write that “Coaching is embedded in the system, especially in the Business Plan Review (BPR), where leaders and teams come together weekly to review progress, identify challenges, and support one another.” As they survey the present and possibilities for the future, they observe that “the need for ‘Working Together’ stakeholder centered leadership and coaching will continue to grow. The complexity of our world and the diversity of our stakeholders require it, and the opportunity to create value and growth for all of the stakeholders and the greater good of humanity depends on it.”