On August 27, 2009
The Unexpected Lesson of Ted Kennedy’s Success
Today’s managers are taught to identify and groom “high-potential” leaders. By doing so they would have missed Ted Kennedy early in his career. You already know Kennedy’s personal story, marred by tragedy and recklessness. Even when he ran for president in 1979, he fumbled reporter Roger Mudd’s question about why he wanted the job and shortly dropped out of the race. But the rest is history. Starting in his late 40s, Kennedy reinvented himself and became one of the greatest U.S. senators in history. In an excellent post on Harvard Business Publishing, Sarah Green takes comfort in this lesson. “Ted Kennedy’s life is a reminder that much can be achieved by late bloomers; that you don’t have to have your…
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