Ten years ago I was invited to teach a course on “Innovation and Business Growth” at GE’s Crotonville Management Development Center for 75 high potential, business superstars of the future.
The GE executive who hired me was a very savvy guy with the unenviable task of orienting new adjunct faculty members to GE’s high standards and often harsher reality.
My client’s intelligence was exceeded only by his candor as he proceeded to tell me, in no uncertain terms, that GE gave “new instructors” two shots at making the grade — explaining, with a wry smile, that most outside consultants were intimidated the first time they taught at GE and weren’t necessarily at the top of their game.
I’m not sure how you say it in Esperanto, but in English what he said translates as “The heat is on, big time.”
