Leadership Means Finding Your True Voice ; It's not enough just to have something to say. You have to have the strength to say it out loud.

It's unusual for a man to sing in America. It's not at all unusual in Scotland, where I grew up in the 1950s and '60s. Back there, you went to a house party, and there came a time when everyone gathered in a semicircle around the fire. Everybody had a turn, and you sang or told stories. Whatever it is you did, whatever your little part, you just kind of learned to do it. And when you were asked to perform, you were ready.

So I'm accustomed to being the performer, coming in as a new executive to turn something around. On Day One, I know I have a clean slate, and have to start proving myself from scratch. You don't know me, I don't know you. What I did before means nothing. If …