How Top Leaders Handle Setbacks and Criticism

Mulally admits that when Boeing passed him over for the CEO job, he was briefly devastated. But he quickly recovered because, he says, "a bad attitude simply erases everyone else's memory of the incredible progress achieved." He did not want to tarnish all "the great progress we had made" by becoming that bitter guy. He chose, instead, to remain a proud and gifted leader - albeit one who had suffered a professional setback. He was promptly recruited by Ford to re-ignite another iconic American manufacturer.
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