The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik

0:00In my mind, what ego is, you think that you're so good at something that you stop learning.

0:10How does a software engineer end up as the CEO of one of the largest trucking companies in the world?

0:19Well, I think engineering gives you a very good roadmap and a very good framework of solving problems.

0:28I have young kids and I always tell them whenever we have something that gets broken or something we want to build, I always tell them, what do engineers do?

0:35We say they build things and they fix things.

0:38And I think in the world of business, you're dealing every day with either problems or goals you want to accomplish.

0:44And an engineering mindset gives you a framework of how to solve for these problems.

0:48If you think of the engineering design process, it's based on one, identifying a problem or a goal.

0:54Then it's about collecting a lot of data around that particular problem or goal, then defining your requirements, then designing and building a solution, and then eventually testing it for what the outcome would look like.