Globalization has created an era of growth and interconnectedness among economies that drives progress around the world in areas such as transportation, healthcare and communications. As the world has grown “smaller,” new partnerships have been formed, new wealth was created, and new opportunities emerged for both developed and developing nations.
SunBiz sat down with General Electric Malaysia CEO Datuk Mark Rozario to get his thoughts and views on what leadership means to him.
The Sun (TS): How has your life experience made you the leader you are today?
When it established its Crotonville campus in 1956, GE wanted to make itself the “best-managed company” in the world. Such hubris was par for the course (there was a lot of golf, too) in that Mad Men era, when leadership was about command and control. The GE advanced managers’ course ran for 12 weeks—unthinkably long today—coaching old-school bosses on how to lead for such aims as scaling up manufacturing processes.
In September 2016, Mumm, 39, and a group of GE employees traveled to the Himalayas to help install a solar microgrid in a far-flung village that had never had electricity. “We literally drove as far as we could, until we came to this rickety, Indiana Jones-style bridge,” Mumm says. “That’s where we met up with the 80 yaks.”