Oct 16
Michael Dell Put a Glass Wall Between Himself and His COO. Here's Why It Worked
Nate Bennett has spent twenty years studying the COO role. His book Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO, co-written with Stephen Miles, is now in its third edition from Stanford Business Books. In this conversation: why the right question is what makes a great CEO and COO pair, n ... Show More
26m 31s
Oct 7
How to Scale a Service Business to 2,500 People | Jim Weiss | Strategy & Leadership Podcast
Jim Weiss built Real Chemistry from one person to 2,500 employees by refusing to do marketing work that didn't move a number the client's CEO cared about. Media impressions were never the measure. Patients on therapy, revenue and stock price were. Jim is the founder and chairman ... Show More
25m 52s
Oct 1
AI Everywhere, Strategy Nowhere (with Former Accenture Leader John Rudd)
Eighty percent of your people using Copilot does not make you an AI company. In a lot of mid-market organizations it means AI is everywhere and strategy is nowhere. John Rudd built SolutionsIQ into North America's largest Agile consultancy, sold it to Accenture, and went on to ru ... Show More
29m 20s
Aug 2023
369: World leading expert on perfectionism, Thomas Curran — The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough
<p dir="ltr">Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 369, an interview with the author of <em>The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough</em>, Thomas Curran. In his book, Thomas calls for both introspection and broader, societal change. He shows what we can do as individu ... Show More
53m 19s
Aug 2023
606: The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough (with world leading expert on perfectionism, Thomas Curran)
Welcome to an interview with the author of The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough, Thomas Curran. In his book, Thomas calls for both introspection and broader, societal change. He shows what we can do as individuals to resist the modern-day pressure to be perfect ... Show More
42m 32s
In a world driven by intense competition, it can be so easy to lose ourselves in that pursuit of perfection. And when it becomes a dangerous obsession, it will cost you more than you know and even notice. In this episode, Thomas Curran, the world’s foremost expert on perfectionism, takes us deep into his book, The Perfection Trap, which looks at the dangers ... Show More
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