Mitchells featured in PBS documentary “Leading With Kindness”

We are humbled that clips from Mitchells and Richards stores and interviews with associates have been chosen to be part of the PBS documentary film that includes interviews with executives of Google, Eileen Fisher, Pitney Bowes, and Julliard called LEADING WITH KINDNESS, which premieres Sunday, October 19 at 10 p.m. on WLIW21 New York and Sunday, November 23 at 10 p.m. on Thirteen/WNET New York.

Some of you had the pleasure of working with Gino Del Guercio and his film crew while they were in the stores. Thank you for your effort to make them feel right at home… here’s what Gino has to say about his experience: http://www.thirteen.org/leadingwithkindness/blog/our-crew-catches-the-fever. And here’s the link to the Mitchells segment on the film’s website:

http://www.thirteen.org/leadingwithkindness/profile/profile-mitchells.

Thanks and hugs to all!
Jack

FROM THE PRESS RELEASE:

Hosted by Bill Baker, LEADING WITH KINDNESS provides an inside look at successful organizations and their leaders.  Through a series of interviews, company profiles and expert commentary provided by O’Malley, the program presents how leadership traits and business practices common among top executives have led to their company’s growth and success.  LEADING WITH KINDNESS speaks with executives who have proven to maximize the output of their employees with kindness.  The program also features employees who describe in their own words what they think make their companies so successful.

Executive interviewees include Tim Armstrong, President of North American sales for Google; Murray Martin, CEO of Pitney Bowes; Eileen Fisher, Founder of Eileen Fisher company; Joseph Polisi, President of the Juilliard School; Robert Rubin, former Chairman of CitiGroup and Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton and Jack Mitchell, CEO of Mitchells and author of the best selling business book Hug Your Customers.

Bill Baker is President Emeritus of Thirteen/WNET and Executive in Residence at Columbia University Business School.  Michael O’Malley is Senior Editor for Business, Economics, and Law at Yale University Press and adjunct professor at Columbia University Business School.

Major funding for LEADING WITH KINDNESS is provided by Abby and George O’Neill, Lise Strickler, and Mark Gallogly.

LEADING WITH KINDNESS is a presentation of WLIW21 New York and produced with the assistance of AMACOM, a publishing division of the American Management Association.  Gino Del Guercio of Boston Science Communications, Inc. is producer and director.

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