Rick Drumm (his actual name), once a teen drumming competition winner, is confronting the most promising, but also the most ambitious, career transition in his career as a supervisor and a leader. While a second year MBA student in a fast track program, and operational as the President of Vic Firth Inc, a $20 million-sales drumstick manufacturer, he is being recruited to turn into president of J. D'Addario & Co., the biggest maker of musical accessories in the US.
Having endured a series of interviews - by diverse Board members, the headhunter, and the Chairman of D'Addario - he's notified that he has to be interviewed by Jack Welch, the well-known CEO of General Electric, as the ultimate step in his choice procedure. Rick has to decide the way to prepare for this interview, how to approach this final evaluation of his qualifications to assume the direction of a substantially larger and more complicated organization. The (B) instance describes the actual interview process, and supplies Rick's reflections on this interview, the surprises he encountered, in addition to the avowals that he found in Welch's observations about handling a family-owned company.
Rick Drumm (B) case study solution
PUBLICATION DATE: September 17, 2008 PRODUCT #: BAB142-PDF-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about LEADERSHIP & MANAGING PEOPLE
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