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P&G's Holmes talks to Automation World

Skip Holmes’s thoughts on leadership, best practices, technology development, business language, and licensing partners—all are covered in an exclusive interview in the June issue of Automation World.

Skip Holmes
Skip Holmes

Automation leader E.L. Skip Holmes is the associate director of power, control, and information systems for corporate engineering technologies at Procter & Gamble. Here’s what Holmes had to say:

LEADERSHIP: One of the aspects of leadership is to put together the right blend of skills on your team. In order to grow and stretch your employees, you need to delegate down. I have put together a very talented team of leaders in my department, to the point where sometimes I think they don’t need me anymore. But that’s part of my mission—to work myself out of a job by growing the next generation of leaders. I want to know that I’ve put into place a level of leadership and technical capability that can sustain itself beyond the individual.

BEST PRACTICES: We have moved away from “standards”—that implies policing—and towards a system of best practices. As one of my colleagues says, “Standards should be so compelling that they self-proliferate.” We have proven global practices that we recommend, and we try to get the global P&G community to help us write those, so they’re not all written by corporate engineering.

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