A lot of businesses have their organization’s core values posted up somewhere on a wall in the building, in a corner of their website, and even on employee’s desks! And some organizations have worked hard to get their employees to memorize the core values and be able to tell someone those values at the drop of a hat. My question is, is that approach to company values doing any good for the business?
In today’s episode, I’m talking with Gabe Krajicek, CEO of Kasasa. I’ve experienced first-hand how company values can be useless, and as a previous customer of Kasasa, I’ve seen how values can directly impact customer interactions and the company’s bottom line. Hear exactly how Gabe and his team have worked to build an incredible culture at Kasasa and how you can do the same thing in your organization, too!
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Tune in every quarter to learn how David Simon, a 53-year-old lawyer from the US, navigates the ancient world of Oxford University in pursuit of an MBA. David is a Partner at the white shoe law firm Foley and Lardner, who has dedicated his career to white collar compliance with a heavy international focus. “My practice touches a lot on some of the sanctions and international trade issues that typically come up on international matters,” he says. In A Yank in Oxford, David and host Tom Fox will talk about what inspired his decision to pursue an Executive MBA, and his hopes for where the journey may lead. In this Episode 3, David discusses his academic journey through his second quarter in the Oxford MBA program. Highlights include:
1. Assessment or what we Yanks would call exams. Very open ended but designed to determine if you have done the assignments, participated and most importantly grasped the materials.
2. Analytics and Leadership Fundamentals.
· In my Leadership Fundamentals assessment, David delved into lawyer decision making and team building.
· Lawyers have a lot to learn here:
§ Can improve decision-making quality by building systems to slow down the process and to help recognize and mitigate against cognitive bias
§ Can also really improve the way we advise and otherwise serve our clients by being much more mindful of how we put together and manage our engagement teams
· Don’t be reflexive and just build every team the same
· Think about different functions needed and who can play them.
· Beldin’s 9 roles – partners try to play too many roles.
· Voice of the client?
3. Firms & Markets assessment
· Market analysis of legal industry.
· Industry dynamics are shaped largely by regulatory burdens to entry and other restrictions.
· If and when those restraints loosen (and there are some signs they are starting to), industry is ripe for disruption
§ PE ownership
§ Investment in process and technology
§ Less “super-hero” lawyer based
§ Lower compensation for lawyers (with other trade-offs)
4. He concludes by detailing that the people he has met are really amazing. Faculty and staff have been terrific – responsive, engaged, open. Gotten so much value from my classmates. Smart, experienced, open. Getting to know people better and more people are now able to come in person. Explored Oxford, found a favorite pub – The Rickety Press – in Jericho and is now a member of the EMBA S 21 rowing club, thanks to my classmate Matthew. It is hard!
Richard Lummis and I are back to continue our series of exploring leadership through the study of US Presidents. This episode begins a series on Gilded Age Presidents, now largely forgotten. In this episode, we take up Grover Cleveland, the only non-consecutive US President. Some of the highlights include:
Educational and Professional-background of Grover Cleveland
New York Politician including his term as Mayor of Buffalo and Governor of NY
Election Campaigns, including Rum, Romanism and Rebellion
Presidency including Reform (1st term); the Tariff (1st term); Military Policy (1st term); Labor unrest and Pullman Strike (2nd term) and Foreign affairs (2nd term)
Leadership Issues including
(1) Why tone at the top matters? A Public Office is a Public Trust;
(2) How Cleveland helped to return power to the Executive Branch;
(3) When is the ‘vision thing’ needed? and
(4) Servant Leadership- Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
In this episode we consider the presidency of the 10th President, John Tyler. Tyler was the first president to ascend to the position after the death of President in office, William Henry Harrison. This ascendency, as his presidency was fraught with difficulties and conflict.We explore his Presidency for leadership lessons for the 21st Century business leader in this podcast.
12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. Each year during Oscar season we look at four Best Picture-winning movies and draw leadership lessons from them. It is also a way to watch some great movies and garner some leadership lessons. In this episode, we consider the movie Gladiator. Highlights include:
- Movie Storyline
- Favorites Scenes
- Life Lessons
• Marcus Aurelius’ and Stoicism
• The only constant is change.
• Life isn’t always fair but that is not what matters.
- Business Leadership Lessons
• Lead from the front and walk the walk.
• Inspire great teamwork. Create an atmosphere for success of others.
• There is no losing, only winning and learning.
• Train hard and practice.
- Maximus’ Relationships
• Jubo
• Proximo
Resources
8 Virtues of Gladiator Leadership
5 Powerful Life Lessons from Gladiator
Six Leadership Lessons from Gladiator
Down to Business: Seven leadership lessons from Maximus
Tom Fox and Richard Lummis return to mine leadership lessons from American’s Presidents. In this episode, the consider our fifth President, James Monroe. Monroe is the final founding father to be elected as President. He is also the final Virginian elected to the Presidency. Monroe’s Presidency was unique for several aspects we explore in this episode.
In today’s edition of Sunday Book Review:
- Win from Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage by James Heskett
- Beyond Digital: How Great Leaders Transform Their Organizations and Shape the Future by Paul Leinwand and Mahadeva Matt Mani
- Smart Leadership: Four Simple Choices to Scale Your Impact by Mark Miller
- Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson
- We the Leader: Build a Team of Equals Who All Lead AND Follow to Drive Creativity and Innovation by Jeffrey Spahn
Wondering what it’s going to take to keep your best employees? It’s a valid concern in a world where researchers are shouting that soon there will be a big shift of people out of their current positions and organizations.
So, as a leader, what can you do about it? Can you stop it?
I believe you can. It starts by you getting to know your people better. When you know YOUR EMPLOYEES — not the employees surveyed by researchers — then your employees will give you answers on how to lead them in a way that will make them stay and go all in.
In today’s episode I’m sharing with you a recent episode of a show I do on LinkedIn with Phil Van Hooser. We discuss this topic and I hope you have lots of helpful takeaways for your own leadership journey!
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If you’re looking for tangible action steps and refreshing insights to help ignite the power of your own leadership journey, sign up for my weekly leadership blog HERE.
If your business would benefit from higher-performing leaders, check out more information about the comprehensive leadership development training I do HERE.
If you want to reach out to me directly, email alyson@vanhooser.com.
If you enjoyed this episode, will you please subscribe and leave a review? Your reviews help this show get discovered by more incredible leaders just like you. I’m obsessed with helping leaders ignite their performance results and I’d love to have you help me make an impact! Thank you so much!
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In today’s edition of Sunday Book Review:
- Peril by Bob Woodward.
- The Contrarian by Max Chafkin.
- Humane by Samuel Moyn.
- My Life in Full by Indira Nooyi.
12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. In this episode, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are on a 10-part summer series on leadership lessons from biographies found in Plutarch’s Lives. Each week we will pair an ancient Greek and Roman to learn about their lives, the comparison and contrast between the two men and what leadership lessons with might draw from their lives. In today’s episode we look at the Greek Eumenes and the Roman Sertorius. Highlights include:
· Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work.
· Lives of Eumenes and Sertorius.
· Comparison in the lives of Eumenes and Sertorius.
· Are they really tragic figures?
· The role of prominent citizens outside the capital cities of Athens and Rome.
· What leadership lessons can be drawn from the lives Eumenes and Sertorius.
Resources
Plutarch’s Lives by Bill Thayer
