Episode #5: Billy Taylor on “My Favorite Mistake” in Manufacturing Operations Leadership

Mark Graban Posted on September 27, 2020 Posted in My Favorite Mistake

My guest for Episode #5 is Billy Ray Taylor, a retired Goodyear executive and now the founder and CEO of his firm, LinkedXL.

In today's episode, Billy talks about his “favorite mistake” in which he was “compromising on the standard” early in his career as a leader. “What were the standards for leadership?” he asks. How did mentors and his leaders help him learn the importance of maintaining standards? He then transitioned from being the student to being the teacher.

“What you accept, you cannot change. What you tolerate, you can never change.”
Billy Taylor

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Quotes:

"What you accept, you cannot change. What you tolerate, you can never change."

"Celebrate the process, embrace the individual, because I don't want heroes."

"Celebrate the red. And so at that point, create a cultural, psychological safety where it's safe to bring things to my attention, because I don't expect perfection because perfection doesn't exist. But what I do expect is transparency."

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