LGO/Tauber Leadership Development Program - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Posted Sep 13, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 20, 2026
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Behavioral
Tell me about a time you led a team through a project with a hard deadline. What was your role and what did you actually do day to day?
whether the candidate has real, specific leadership experience rather than a title with no substance behind it
Describe a time you had to manage a supplier or vendor relationship where the technical work wasn't going the way you needed. What did you do?
experience with technical oversight of external parties, not just internal team management
You're leading a cross-functional team where your peers in other functions don't report to you and don't share your priorities. Give me an example of how you got them to move on something you needed.
influence without authority across organizational boundaries
Tell me about a direct report or team member you had to develop or motivate when they were struggling. What did you do and how did it turn out?
genuine people-management skill versus project-management skill mislabeled as leadership
Tell me about a time your priorities changed suddenly and you had to drop something you'd already invested significant time in. How did you handle it and how did you communicate it to your team?
adaptability to shifting priorities, which the posting explicitly flags as a requirement
Why this program specifically, and why Boeing, given that you could take an MBA or engineering leadership role somewhere with a shorter time horizon to running your own P&L?
genuine motivation for the multi-year rotational path versus using it as a generic resume line
Technical
Tell me about a process improvement project you ran. What was broken, what did you change, and how did you know it worked?
whether they can actually execute operational improvement, not just talk about it conceptually
Walk me through a decision where you had to approve or reject a technical approach that wasn't your own area of deep expertise. How did you evaluate it?
judgment on providing technical oversight without being the subject matter expert, which this role explicitly requires
Situational
This program moves you into a new rotation every 12 to 18 months, often into a team and technical area you don't know yet. Walk me through how you'd get up to speed and start earning credibility in the first 90 days.
comfort with repeated resets and how quickly they can build trust without prior domain expertise
Boeing builds physical products at enormous scale, from aircraft to spacecraft. How would you go about learning a value stream you've never touched, say final assembly or supply chain, well enough to lead process improvement work in it?
systems thinking and ability to acquire domain depth quickly rather than relying on generic management theory
Describe a situation where you had to set an operational goal for a team when the resources or headcount weren't guaranteed yet. How did you plan around that uncertainty?
planning discipline under resource ambiguity, a common condition in rotational assignments
If halfway through a rotation you realized the project you were assigned wasn't going to deliver the value the business expected, what would you do?
willingness to escalate and redirect versus quietly running out the clock on a bad assignment
You're going to be one of several LGO or Tauber participants placed across Boeing sites, drawing on an alumni network you haven't met yet. How would you actually use that network rather than just knowing it exists?
whether they proactively build and use relationships or wait for things to come to them
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