Cohesion. But weve always had people who have understood how to overcome those differences. And so to kind of reflect on this question about what does enable us to overcome the distinctions in any kind of free society, we are delighted today to be joined by oscar munoz. He was appointed in 2015. He is a true american success story. And well talk about that a little bit. Growing up with eight siblings in california. First member of his family to go to college. Hes had a number of rather remarkable leadership roles, worked at at t, cocacola, pepsico prior to joining united, president of the cxx corporation which moves a lot of heavy stuff around the country. But the focus of this discussion will be oscars focus on people. As i prepared for this discussion, the consistency with which the descriptions of your leadership have been kind of just anchored in both your employees and your passengers as really kind of shone through. And i think, you know, im particularly interested in a field tha
Arts, advocates, to understand the circumstances and characteristics that enable some people to overcome real differences and lead. Our imagination at the Bipartisan Policy Center is not 200 yearscountry was of cohesion. But we have always had people who understood how to overcome those differences. So to reflect on this question about what does enable us to overcome the inherent distinctions in any kind of free society, we are delighted today to be joined by oscar munoz. Oscar was appointed president and ceo of United Airlines in september 2015. He is a true american success story. Growing up with eight siblings in california, first member of his family to go to college, he has had a number of rather remarkable leadership roles with at t, cocacola, pepsi co. , prior to joining united as the president and ceo of the csx corporation, which moves a lot of heavy stuff around the country. This discussion is going to be a lot about oscars focus on people. As a prepared for this discussion,
The sense that theres not enough of it is something that is wildly shared among many of us in washington, and the ambition for this series is to call on leaders from national and local politics and business leaders, folks from education, arts, advocates, to try to understand what are the circumstances and the characteristics that enable some people to overcome real differences and lead. Our imagination at the Bipartisan Policy Center is not that the it was passive cohesion. Democracy is not a gentle game, but weve always had people who have understood how to overcome those differences to kind of reflect on this question on what does enable us to overcome the inherent distinctions in any kind of free society, we are delighted today to be joined by oscar m oscar munoz. He was ceo of united airlines. He is a true american success story, and were going to talk about that a little bit, but growing up with eight siblings in california. First member of his family to go to college. He has had
With the question of the characteristics and circumstances that allow some people to leadership and what allow some of us to struggle to overcome the obstacles and the diverse interests that are part of any dynamic and true democracy. We are extremely fortunate to have our firstthat live this question every day. We are very proud to name the series in honor of the Extraordinary Service of bob and olivia stole. Elizabeth dole. Showing the confidence and creativity to signify differences as you note as we enter the discussion that when senator dole joined others to help found there were a few ideas and animated the ambition for a little bit of text. We are aggressively bipartisan, not nonpartisan or postpartisan, but actually recognize that this is not been classic cohesion. The a of bipartisanship is creating the resilience that allows us to have consistent policy going forward. The second idea we talked about a little bit in the room is that they wanted to make sure we are in the arena
Welcome, everyone, to what i was informed is the 11th installment of our series on leadership. I think some of you have been with us before, and i think as youve seen from some of these sessions, the meaning of leadership, lots of people have different interpretations, but the sense that theres not enough of it is something that is wildly shared among many of us in washington, and the ambition for this series is to call on leaders from national and local politics and business leaders, folks from education, arts, advocates, to try to understand what are the circumstances and the characteristics that enable some people to overcome real differences and lead. Our imagination at the Bipartisan Policy Center is not that the it was passive cohesion. Democracy is not a gentle game, but weve always had people who have understood how to overcome those differences to kind of reflect on this question on what does enable us to overcome the inherent distinctions in any kind of free society, we are d