Interview - Vocabulary - & Questions to ponder:

He Wants Subjects, Verbs and Objects
Interview of Richard Anderson, chief executive of Delta Air Lines
Vocabulary
squelches
insight
trajectory
Rubik’s cube
intangibles
avocations
adaptability
proliferate
stoic
BlackBerrys
uncollegial
violation
uncollegial
daunting
Moleskine

Questions to ponder:
1. How did the interviewer select the title for this interview?
2. Summarize in three words, the essence of the first answers to the interviewer first three questions.
3. What are the “intangibles” Mr. Anderson is looking for when he interviews a potential vice president?
4. When he asks questions about family, what is he really looking for?
5. Ten years ago, this may not have been as important as it is today, what is it?
6. Explain “operational awareness” in your own words.
7. If you understand what’s right culturally, both in your company and globally, it is called ____________.
8. He gives 6 time management skills, list them and discuss the one most important to you.
9. Could you run a meeting using the 5 points he discusses? What are they?
10. What does he say about PowerPoint and how is his style different?

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