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Your Succession Plan Is Probably a Lie
Season 2 Episode 112
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Most succession plans are not succession plans. They're lists. They're decks. They're boxes checked in service of a board calendar. A…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Reason Your CEO Nods and Moves On
Season 2 Episode 111
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Most CHROs are running two businesses at once. The people business and the real business. And the CEO knows it.
This episode is about …
5 months ago
Why Leadership Development Lets Managers Off the Hook
Season 2 Episode 110
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Imagine spending $366 billion globally on a fire suppression system because you never fix the faulty wiring. That is what leadership …
5 months ago
Why Decisions Stall When Nobody Disagrees
Season 2 Episode 109
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McKinsey found that organizations with clear decision rights are 2.3x more likely to achieve above-median financial performance. And …
5 months, 1 week ago
The Orchestration Layer Nobody Designed
Season 2 Episode 108
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92% of companies are investing in AI, but only 7% are generating returns. The gap isn't technology. Organizations are automating brok…
5 months, 1 week ago
Lou Holtz Has Entered Hospice. What He Taught Me.
Season 2 Episode 107
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Lou Holtz stood 5'10" on a generous day. He joked he had a face made for radio and a lisp made for silence. He didn't command a room …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Your Talent Problem Isn't a Talent Problem
Season 2 Episode 106
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W. Edwards Deming said 94% of problems in organizations are system driven. Only 6% are people problems. We all nod when we hear that.…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Capable CHROs Hit an Invisible Ceiling
Season 2 Episode 105
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Watch this happen to exceptionally capable people. CHROs who transformed functions, built credibility, did everything right in the ma…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
How to Close the Strategy Gap Before Month 7
Season 2 Episode 104
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You've diagnosed the problem. Now here's how to fix it.
In Part 1, we unpacked why 31% of first-time CHROs are fired within 18 months …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
They Knew. They Didn't Tell You.
Season 2 Episode 103
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Every organization running a transformation has people who see exactly what's going to fail. Most of them stay silent. Not because th…
5 months, 3 weeks ago