Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Nissan & You Better Be Obsessed with Greatness 2-27-25
Thu, 27 Feb 2025
In this episode, Scott Becker discusses Nissan’s decline and the crucial lesson businesses must learn—an unwavering obsession with greatness.
Chapter 1: What is the key issue with Nissan's current status?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity Business Podcast. Today's discussion is a short episode on Nissan and you better obsess with greatness. So Nissan was recently caught, the junk on status, credit in the tanks. doing horribly on every level. I don't think they've come up with a new car that's exciting in a very, very long time.
Chapter 2: What lessons can businesses learn from Nissan's decline?
Chapter 3: Why is constant improvement essential for success?
So here's the lesson in this, whatever business you're in, and I give Jessica Cole, our CEO of Becker's Healthcare, huge credit. You better constantly obsess with greatness, constantly at your core, constantly keep on trying to get better. Jess has done a remarkable job of that, and it never stops. It never stops, and she has just done an amazing job of this.
Reminds me of the old anti-growth sentiment from Intel, only the paranoid survive. You better constantly be obsessed with greatness in everything you do if you want to succeed for the long run. Jess does that. A lot of companies do it. Nissan failed at this. A lot of companies failed at this, and it is hard over a long period of time.
It means constantly sticking to your core, constantly bringing in great people, constantly trying to be great. And it is a lot of work. And again, my shout out today goes to Jess Cole at Becker's Healthcare for doing so much of this leadership. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Thank you very, very much.