What will you do to make a difference? Bill George

Don't be a victim. Go out and focus on winning. Everything is changing... So what will you do to make a difference? Bill George keynote speaker at World Business Forum, 2009

"We need to support small companies," George advises. These will grow up to be great job creators and wealth creators.



Some ideas presented by Bill George about leadership.

"What are you doing to follow your True North? Some make money though their clients go downhill. Some were at the top for 30 years, but things have changed."

You have two choices as leaders. Will you get out and tell your story and be truthful?

When things are going down...INVEST! If you don't invest in downturn, you won't be ready when upturn comes... you won't be ready. You need to go on defense and offense simultaneously.

You need to develop rigorous execution plan so you're ready when opportunity comes.

Each of us need to make a difference in our own environments as well as the world.

Crisis may be your defining moment.

Coming home to a place I'd never been. When Bill George first walked through the door of Medtronics this is how he felt.