Was Lee Iacocca A Success Or A Failure

As a mindset coach, I have been tasked with analyzing the mindset of Lee Iacocca. Afterwards, I am to aid Iacocca and give him advice to improve his mindset. Iacocca was a fixed mindset individual who was threatened by the success of others, always wanted to validate himself (prove that he was a somebody), and didn’t respond positively to negative criticism. Financially, Lee Iacocca prospered; however, in other aspects of his life, he failed.
Lee Iacocca, a fixed mindset individual, was always threatened by the success of others. He always wanted to be on top. “His belief in his inherent superiority had blinded him.” An example in his career when he felt threatened by others’ successes, was when “his underlings might [of gotten] credit for
Lee Iacocca, I too was once threatened by the success of others. I would hate losing, and saw this as, they were better than me so I failed, I wasn’t given enough natural talent to begin with, and would come up with other excuses to justify why I didn’t deserve to be the loser. Take John McEnroe for example. He believed that talent was all. He didn’t love to learn, he avoided challenges, and when things got tough, he folded. This prevented him from reaching his full potential. One instance in his life, McEnroe refused to take on his friend because his friend had beat him once. McEnroe did not like to fail and did anything he could to blame external influences as to why others were better than him. McEnroe dwelled in fear. In your case, why did you try to fire your subordinates when you saw that they were formulating great ideas? You can’t let jealousy cloud your thinking. To have a shift from a fixed to a growth mindset, you must find lessons and inspirations in others’ successes rather than feeling threatened by their success. Realize that you’re here to learn. You are not necessarily supposed to have more skill than someone with more years of experience. You’re are here to learn and slowly you will become as experienced as other
I believed that my knowledge was given to me and that that was the reason I was at the top of my class. This fixed mindset constantly had me proving myself over and over again. Eventually I got tired of proving my intelligence to others. In her novel Mindset: The New Psychology of success, Carol S. Dweck, Ph. D. writes, “Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset—creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.” That was true for me. Although I had a shift mindsets, it took a while for me to realize that another type of mindset existed. Once I opened my eyes, I was able to realize that my intelligence can improve at any given time, it simply takes effort to foster change. In your case, you have always believed that you were different, smarter, and luckier than any other person. To change that, once you realize that no one is perfect and that you too can improve in any quality or aspect in your life, you won’t constantly worry about proving yourself. You will become more critical about yourself and look for ways to better yourself. When you only focus on improving yourself, there won’t be room to constantly want to prove yourself to other