What Bedrock Has To Do With Culture and Leadership

If you want to build something big, first, go deep. In every big city, each high-rise building attaches to the bedrock of the earth, far below the ground surface.

Years ago, during the dot-com boom of the late ’90s, I commuted each workday to San Francisco’s SoMa district on the N-Judah line. Day after day, I would peek through the window to watch the crew laying the foundation for the new Gap Inc. headquarters building. During one construction period in particular, I watched as huge drilling rigs bored through layers of topsoil. These shafts…