Dan Hesse

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1,215 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 11 Apr

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The Mentors Radio Show · 469. Good Leaders Get Their Hands Dirty, with Guest Mentors Nelson Repenning and Don Keiffer · 21 Mar 2026 podcast

care, sales, everything, so customer service went to hell.

But again, these situations you look at, and I see it more and more common, where the leaders don't really know the business.

Sometimes they were career lawyers and all of a sudden they're CEOs.

Is what you're describing, does it have implications for career paths and career development to effective leadership?

Because that's what really came through in the book to me is the effective leaders.

Boy, they got their hands dirty and they really knew how the sausage was made.

I couldn't agree with you more.

We'll be back in a few minutes discussing how dynamic work design should influence leadership education and development with MIT teachers, Nelson Repenning and Don Kiefer.

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This is Dan Hesse, and this is The Mentors Radio.

Welcome back.

This is Dan Hessian.

We're learning about MIT's Leadership Center with Nelson Repenning and Don Kiefer.

So before I get there, let me ask each of you, what is your definition of success?

That's a good one.

So what's your definition of happiness?

So talking about impact, you lead, Nelson, the MIT Leadership Center.

What's the objective there?

Why does it exist?

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