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July 24, 2015 / 31:51

This episode features Randy Street and Alan Foster discussing their book, Power Score, which presents a unified theory of leadership based on three key factors: priorities, who, and relationships.

Randy explains that after interviewing over 15,000 executives, they identified these three factors as critical to successful leadership. The concept of the power score is introduced, which quantifies a leader's effectiveness by multiplying scores for each of the three factors.

Alan elaborates on how the power score is calculated and the importance of each factor, noting that many leaders excel in only one or two areas, leading to diminished success. He emphasizes that the hardest aspect for leaders is often selecting the right people for their teams.

The discussion includes practical advice for leaders on setting clear priorities, building effective relationships, and making informed hiring decisions. They share examples of leaders who successfully implement these principles to improve team performance.

Overall, the episode provides actionable insights for leaders looking to enhance their effectiveness through a better understanding of the power score framework.

TLDR

Randy Street and Alan Foster discuss their book <i>Power Score</i>, outlining a framework for effective leadership based on priorities, people, and relationships.

Episode

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our guests today are Randy Street and Alan Foster uh and they have just written a book called power score we're
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going to talk to them about that today uh Randy Alan thank you so much for joining us today it's our pleasure it's
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great to be here great Randy I'd probably start with the first question with you uh you describe power score as
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a as a grand United theory of leadership boiled down to a single number what exactly does does that
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mean so we've been on a journey for the last 20 years as a firm and as individuals U thinking about
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leadership um boards and CEOs would call us and say hey we're we're about to make
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a big leadership change or decision of some sort and we need help to figure out how do we get the right people so our
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our day jobs have been interviewing CEO candidates and uh senior leaders for organizations of all different shapes
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and sizes uh and each interview has been a 5H hour interview or so and then 15 hours of analysis around that uh and
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over the course of the last 20 years we've we've interviewed over 15,000
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people and it occurred to us there's there's probably something to learn from
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that in terms of what what do successful leaders really do uh and over the last five years we've been digging deep into
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that data to understand it and what we have found is there are in fact three factors that drive success in leadership
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and we called the Grand unified theory uh very much like uh the way scientists describe the universe so scientists have
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been looking to figure out you know what is the grand unified theory of how the universe universe works and we figured
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if they can describe the universe surely we can describe leadership and in fact we've got these three factors that
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describe what success looks like absolutely so I'll turn to Alan to ask exactly what the power score is and how
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it's calculated and how did you come up with a concept what kind of research did
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you put into it yes so power score power is really an acronym the the P stands for priorities
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the W stands for Who and the r stands for relationships and uh as part of the 15,000 uh executive interviews that
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we've done over the last 20 years we we got a phone call about uh five years ago
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from Professor Steve Kaplan and a colleague of his at the University of Chicago he said aren't you sitting on
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what's probably the world's most valuable database of leadership I've got
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an Army of phds uh who I'd love to pour over it code it and analyze the heck out
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of it I bet we could learn something um are you up for that we said sure and uh and so we did and so they've been
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kicking the tires on on what really makes the difference and we actually had a whole different theory of leadership
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when we started writing the book but it the data the data didn't uh match it it
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didn't pan out so we we really had to say like what do leaders do differently
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and what we found is is they they all go about accomplishing three things they set the right priorities they get the
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right people in the right roles the right who the W and then they make the relationships work um the the the ARA
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relationships and so what we do with our with with the teams and the executives we work with is to say on a scale of 1
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to 10 uh to what extent you have the right priorities give yourself a score out of 10 to what extent do you have the
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right who the right people in the right roles score out of 10 and what extent do
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the relationships work again a score out of 10 and you've got three numbers out
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of 10 multiply them together and you've got yourself a score out of a thousand
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and that's the score we've been calculating with uh thousands of Executives to find out to what extent do
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they run at full power power being priorities who and relationships and what have you found so far of uh uh when
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you talk to Executives do you find that of all the three variables that make up the power acronym uh executives are good
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at all three or are they some that are they are better at than others so all three matter it's it's something like a
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triathlon if if you can't swim you're not going to win the triathlon and the
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same is true with the power score PW andr you have to be able to do all three and most leaders only do one or maybe
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two of those really well uh very few actually think to do all three much less are really good at all three but the
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stati statistics are amazing those who do all three well are easily twice as successful as the average leader and
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they're 20 times more successful than leaders who don't do any of those three
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things which of the three which is the easiest for most leaders to manage and which element of those three do they
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have the most trouble with so the easiest is definitely the r relationships so most leadership
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theories focus on behaviors and traits and how you should show up as a leader and that's all very important in
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leadership of course uh and so about half 47% of the leaders in our data set were reasonably good at
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building the the relationships that make a team function on the flip side uh the
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hardest one is the W the who which is hiring the right people uh removing people shifting people around on your
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team to make sure you've got the right people matched to the right priorities
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only 14% of leaders were excellent at that which means 86% of all leaders are completely ignoring one of the most
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important factors of being a successful leader which is getting that who question right it's funny and uh I was
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uh at a conference last week with about 150 CEOs and we were going through do you have the right priorities the right
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who the right relationships and at the end I say Okay a show of hands if you think about your score in each of those
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Dimensions the score you've given yourself which is the lowest which is pulling your overall score down the most
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and show of hands about 80% of the audience put up their hand for The Who as in like they struggle the most with
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getting the right people in the right roles interesting I i' come back to the
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who but let's let's start with the with the priorities uhan is are priorities the
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same as goals uh what's the difference well uh it's funny we we we had one client and
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and I said I said to the uh Chief Operating Officer um to what extent do you have the right priorities he said
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absolutely we do we we we we set goals I said well how many do you have and he said well I have
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164 and and I said you know that that must keep you quite busy he goes yes we're a very inclusive culture we're
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very bottom up we like people to set their own goals I mean it was a it was a it was a high achieving environment but
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they had no focus at all and so we find the best leaders are very good at setting priorities which actually means
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saying no to things like it's looking at all your potential goals and saying
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which are the three four or five that really matter goals really are what needs to happen and that's great but
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they don't really give you a sense for uh which ones actually tie back to your
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mission and why why they're important or how they relate to one another so you
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can have 164 goals no sense of priority a lot of diffused Focus through the organization so how do you think leaders
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can become better at setting priorities how did this leader go go about it so we
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uh you can obviously hire consultants for uh um millions of dollars and I'm sure they'll come up with a a great
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presentation we we have a slightly simpler way we we encourage leaders and Leadership teams to write what we call a
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scorecard which is to say given the mission and vision of what you're trying
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to do what are the five priorities and how do you talk about them in terms of like uh if you fast forward two or three
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years and you're thrilled with what you've got done what will you have delivered and it forces people to
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talking numbers it forces people to to have trade-offs and then we get a CEO if they've done that to share that with
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their leadership team and then we find everyone has a different point of view and then you just lock the door and you
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don't let them out until they've actually had some of these tough conversations about what are we not
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going to do versus just what we are going to do how how do you think priorities are
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linked with purpose and can you give any examples of leaders who are able to tie
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their priorities to the reason why the organization exist we've been working with a toga one day
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who uh is using a lot of his thinking around the checklist Manifesto uh to apply to um some of the
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most complex diseases and Health Care Health Care issues and uh when we very first spoke to him he said we said like
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why do you exist and he said I am trying to save harm or suffering from More Than
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A Million Lives over the next three years and and he's written about that and he has founded a laboratory an
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innovation lab called ariadne labs and what we find is it's like putting up a
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beacon into the sky like the bat signal and and and surgeons and Medics and professionals flock from all over the
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world um because his his mission uh just resonates with them um and then he then
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goes from that to say what are his three to five priorities but it all links back
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from that sense of purpose his his mission of what he's trying to do um how can you uh decide if your team's
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priorities are clear and and effective so it's one thing to think you've got the right priorities but then
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to make sure that you transmit them through the organization is another challenge I had a client recently share
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with me that he he had a senior team get together and think through priorities and they all padded each other on the
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back and said oh we've got our priorities we all agree and then they had a conversation with the next level
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down in the organization and there was a little more debate what really are our priorities I'm not sure are we aligned
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here and then they took the conversation to the next level down and that group of
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people basically said what priorities uh so there's definitely a challenge in organizations as you go
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through to create Clarity and the first thing that you need to do is limit yourself to that that three to five you
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know five really is the absolute limit of priorities that that we as humans can process and remember uh and the second
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piece is communication so just constantly communicating these are the five things whenever something comes up
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that's outside of those priorities calling it out saying you know what that's interesting that might
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even be important we should look at that but not now it's not part of our priorities I had a client say another
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client say whenever someone comes to her with something that's off the list she
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says make me care if you can show me how that connects to and supports one of our
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five priorities then we should think about doing it but if you can't we're
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not going to do it we're not going to put resources behind it so it's a combination of shortening the list from
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164 down to five and then communicating it constantly throughout the organization got it so now let's come to
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the really difficult part of the the power equation which is the who part how how can a leader select the right people
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for her or his team and make sure that they focused on the right priorities well you've actually begun to
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answer the question right there with that second piece which is make sure they're focused on the right priorities
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so uh the first mistake leaders make when it comes to hiring and thinking about their team is they're haven't even
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thought about their priorities in the first place assuming you actually have thought about your priorities the next
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question should not be how do we accomplish these priorities but rather who should accomplish these priorities
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which is where the the next big mistake comes most leaders don't think that they
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think about about the what questions and the how questions what do we need to do
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how do we need to do it rather than who do we need on the team to do it uh so question two is all about that who once
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you understand the priority who do we need on the team to accomplish it from there it's about following a structured
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process uh most leaders don't because they're not asking the right question in
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the first place uh and because they're distracted with all of the noise and you
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know the meetings and the conference calls and the 200 emails a day and all the other things coming along they don't
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put the actual energy into hiring the right people thinking about mapping their team to the right priorities and
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one of the things I found very interesting is you write in your book that this is
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the aspect of management that gives leaders the most heartburn uh how how can leaders become
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better at selecting the right people so it probably Begins by acknowledging what are all the mistakes
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that they typically make and on average uh nearly all the research proves that leaders are making mistakes about 50% of
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the time so half the time toss of a coin they're getting it wrong uh and they're
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using just a lot of um ill-informed techniques we call them uh uh Voodoo hiring uh uh tricks and uh for example
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uh should I be interviewing someone who is British and baling and has a slightly
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quirky sense of humor I'll probably think you know what they're pretty smart
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yeah I really like I can't put my finger on it but I really like that guy and we
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we tend to project ourselves onto the people that we see and yet we don't realize we have all these unconscious
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biases so the the very first part before you even get to like asking the correct
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questions is to acknowledge what are the mistakes that you're making right now
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but how do you go about removing underperformers and getting a players on your team how how how would you do that
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so first thing is understanding where you've got a B and C players if you want
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to use a sort of a classification system of your team and that goes back to the priorities Allan mentioned a little
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earlier a tool that we call a scorecard which basically just documents your priorities your mission and then the key
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priorities that you're pursuing uh and the best leaders actually take some time
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maybe once a quarter sit down look at the priorities map the team against them and ask the question how comfortable am
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I that these people are going to accomplish these things and if you have any doubt in your mind if there's a if
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you think well maybe it's 5050 that's not very good you're looking for a much
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higher degree of confidence 90% or even 100% degree of confidence that those people will accomplish those priorities
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I'm I'm thinking of uh the our client um Panos who uh who who took ry's advice
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and did exactly that and and he uh he emailed us about a year and a half ago and said uh you know what I've been
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following your advice we like well what advice would that be we can't remember
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and he said well every quarter I sit down and I map out who's my team if I was only allowed to have 50% of my
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people who's on my boat and then he goes okay now if I was allowed 75% of people
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who would I add to the team then he goes to 85% and then at 85% he goes who have
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I not who's not on this team who's not on this boat and he guys at that point I
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need to look in the mirror and ask myself some pretty tough questions about whether or not these are the right
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people moving forward and to make some tough decisions do you have any examples of leaders who do a really good job of
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managing The Who and I would love to know what they do differently than other leaders so from a a process
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perspective uh the best leaders that we work with start by thinking about their team against the priorities uh the
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second thing is they do remove the weaker people and in some cases that means moving them to a different place
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in the company or the organization uh and then third they get very aggressive about hiring um Kristen Russell comes to
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mind she is the uh former uh head of it in the state of Colorado and she had some big jobs at Oracle I believe and a
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couple of big uh big it shops she considers herself a chief recruiting officer she says you know I may be a CIO
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but my real job is cro chief Chief recruiting officer and she's constantly on the hunt for great talent constantly
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sourcing interesting people that she may be able to bring into her organization or maybe refer to other people uh within
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the organization or other organizations for that matter um and then she follows a structured process to actually hire
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those people as well which is the other piece of the magic so it's it's understanding that you need to have
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these people it's putting that Chief recruiter Hat on at all times then following a structured process to to
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hire them against the priorities it's funny when we did the analysis of if you look at every single
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executive we've ever interviewed and met and we look at what's the number one
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risk or regret of that of that executive the thing they wish they' done differently W by far the number one is I
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wish I had moved faster on the people I deep down knew weren't the right people
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on the team but we feel conflicted we feel like well maybe it's my fault they're not performing maybe I should
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give them one more chance maybe it will look bad it will look bad on me and so they we we're very good at justifying
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why tomorrow we'll probably be a different person we'll take action but just for the just for the moment let's
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just keep the team as it is um I wonder if you could since you talk about recruiting uh uh discuss a little bit
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about the interview process and what are some of the most common errors you find
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the voodoo hiring the voodoo hiring that people make and and and how can you eliminate those errors from the from the
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interview process sure so I we can maybe banter back and forth on this because this is this isent of them Rich
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territory one that comes to mind uh that I think is very very common is the hypothetical question we call it the
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fortune teller mol what would you do if you joined our team which right now is a
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little dysfunctional how would you fix it it's it's a forward-looking question
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and the problem is you get hypothetical answers so if you were to ask me you know Randy um I understand that you you
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followed the uh the space shuttle and the Apollo program when you were a kid how would you get to the moon I could
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actually answer that question I know how to get to the Moon how to get to the moon but I couldn't get you to the
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Moon uh and the same is true here you could based on your education based on examples you've seen you could make
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things up and unfortunately that's not really a predictor of how somebody will
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behave their past performance is a predictor but not some projection of the future so don't ask hypothetical
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questions what's another good one Alan another another voodo technique that we see is um what we call the the
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Sutter and this is when you know you've got a good candidate in front of you and
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you feel immense pressure to try and impress them and to somehow make them join your company so you talk and you
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tell them how great it is and why you joined and you you're just trying to sell them and then you get to the end of
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40 minutes and you've forgotten to ask them any questions any difficult and you're like well I I quite liked them
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but I probably should have got a bit deeper um and and and we find that all too often happens again we're trying to
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get the data to understand what's this person really about and does that mean
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they're going to be able to accomplish my priorities or not one last one to mention it's what Allan mentioned about
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that strange attraction he has to the balding men when he's like balding British men I think they're going to be
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really good in the job we tend to be art critics you know you you see the painting on the wall you like it for
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some reason you can't really tell why it's just something you like and so you
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end up hiring that person uh it could be a common interest or common background or something and you end up hiring
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people not based on what they're able to do for you and with your team but based
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on some gut feel that's not substantiated by any real data I had a client last week and and I said well why
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did you give the offer to the CFO and and the CEO said to me say he was reassuringly
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tall that may be true but that's not the same person who can close the books on
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time execute on the m&a or the things you actually need them to get done so let let's turn now to the r part of the
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of of of the power uh score uh how how can leaders develop relationships that actually deliver
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results as you write in your book yeah that's right um we we we find that uh um
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I don't know about your calendar but mine is full of meetings and it always has been and they seem to be getting
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more frequent and longer and um we find that this is true across across uh America and around the world people are
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just putting stuff into my calendar and what we're finding is often the wrong
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people are coming together at the wrong time to talk about the wrong things in an unstructured way and you know
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meetings lack healthy conflict they lack any sense of coordination and forward progress and so one of the number one
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things we do is um having good relationships isn't about just liking one another it's about how do we get
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coordinated here how do we bring the right people together at the right time and probably half your meetings should
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be uh 30 minutes shorter and some of them should be much longer um and most of us our calendars uh look the same as
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they kind of did two years ago and we don't update like who are we talking to
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and when and why so getting coordinated is one of the the key thrust the other two big ones are uh building commitment
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with your team and challenging your team uh and this is where most leadership theories and leadership books and uh
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programs really focus their energy on these two things building commitment is all about building commitment uh Mutual
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commitment with one another uh commitment to the organization and the cause commitment to the leader uh and
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there's obviously a wide range of things that you as a leader can and should do
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chief among those is how you show up as a leader so this is where role modeling comes in and following through on
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commitments and getting things done as a leader uh comes in and how you how you set the stage to enable that team to
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create Mutual commitment and then the challenging piece is how do you challenge the team to be their very best
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this is where motivation and inspiration comes in this is where uh you begin to push people beyond what they think they
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can do on their own and to see what's possible to do when you bring the collective talents together into a group
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so getting coordinated as Allan shared and then working to help the team commit and challenging them those three levers
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really seem to uh be the big ones that that form the relationships where 1 plus 1 equals 5 and you get that multiplier
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effect in terms of results so I mean there are so many meetings that I have attended and I'm sure that you may have
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attended uh simply are about status updates uh C can you suggest some ways that meetings can become more meaningful
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MH yeah so we uh we believe in healthy conflict we think that there needs to be if you're
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not feeling slightly awkward or you know if you can't feel uh you you you leaning
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forward um then then you're probably talking about the wrong things like this
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is not about process updates and and uh and scheduling and the rest of it this is about how do we cut to the thing
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where we fundamentally disagree where reasonably smart people disagree let's
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talk about that and you want to see drama and and if it's not memorable then
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then then you should probably shift the agenda so what a tool gnd who we spoke about earlier did actually threw he blew
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up the status meeting completely threw it out and and basically said to everyone you have to submit a problem
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that we're going to solve and this is going to be a problemsolving meeting rather than a status update and at first
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you know people were very uncomfortable with that over time it has become electrifying for the team I think
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because now they're coming together to actually tackle real issues solve real
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problems not give each other status updates which could be read on an email or shared in another format
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how how important is commitment to a team success and do you think it's inborn or can lead us
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created go ahead Alan yeah yeah so we um let me think um we we believe commitments really
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important uh if you uh if you don't feel like your colleagues have your back then
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you're you're really going to be um FL foundering um you know we we see the
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most committed teams have actually really gone through some pretty tough times so they haven't just been out on a
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Sunday drive with the sun shining they've actually you know been to Helen Back um and as like as Winston Churchill
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said like If You're Going Through Hell keep going and and so um we find the most committed teams have either had
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this incredible like Crucible moment where they've leared to work together but we also find other leaders they try
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and accelerate that process and that discussion and some of the best leaders we know they say at some point this
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project this team it's going to suck it's going to be terrible like it's
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going to be a we don't know what it's going to be now when that happens upon
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what can we rely on in each other and and having that conversation ahead of time almost like rehearsing for the bad
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times uh can really make the difference two two leaders coming to mind one is caperton flood who is actually a former
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colleague of ours at uh banan company and he actually has that conversation upfront when the case team comes
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together what Mutual commitments are we willing to make to each other as we do this project uh and this is when people
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will say well you know what I I prefer not to work past 8:00 pm because I've
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got children and I want to be putting them to bed well what happens if the client calls and there's an urgent
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matter so they actually problem solve that before they even get into the real life scenario so that's the rehearsing
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uh that Allen was sharing and they they drafted up and signed this document this
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is what we're committing to so that's one version another coming to mind is
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John zilmer uh John zilmer uh uh at one point was in in charge of a division of Aramark and when he inherited it his
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boss said hey you know John is taking this on he's going to be the caretaker
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of this business and John thought caretaker I don't want to be a caretaker and it was a poorly performing business
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and he didn't want to caretake this poorly performing business so he took his team his new team offsite and
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basically shared all of the results from the past year which weren't particularly
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good and they said all right I want you to come back tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. and we're going to do something and wear
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your gym shorts and the leaders were thinking gym shorts uh oh they show up the next day in their gym shorts a van
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takes them out to a skip Barber racetrack so this is kind of that classic team building and they have a
00:27:54
wonderful day racing cars together and when they come back John all right looks like you can learn new tricks so what I
00:28:01
want to know is what are you willing to do as a team what's possible here and
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over the next few hours this group of people actually began to challenge one another and they came up with goals that
00:28:12
were actually greater than what John had envisioned and over the course of the year he fostered it so he said all right
00:28:18
here's the deal if we can accomplish these goals we're going to come back
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next year we're do the we'll do the three-day racing course so first quarter they were making
00:28:27
their numbers John sent them racing gloves and a note that said congratulations second quarter they're
00:28:34
still making their numbers he sends them the racing suit with their their names on it third quarter they're making their
00:28:40
numbers he sends them the the helmet and sure enough they make it they they show
00:28:45
up the next year and they did this this wonderful three-day program and it was a
00:28:48
just a wonderful Testament of how a leader almost manufactured commitment in a team that didn't have it by creating a
00:28:56
shared experience and building on that shared experience that they took ownership of and
00:29:02
ultimately delivered the results against so let's as a last question try to put it all together because I think
00:29:10
we could keep talking about this for a long time uh if you look at all the three elements that youve talked about
00:29:17
the P the W and the r how can leaders improve the power score of their teams so what we're finding with our a
00:29:28
lot of our clients is they sit down and they have a conversation with their team
00:29:34
and they said what's our power score to which the team said what on Earth are
00:29:38
you talking about H and and then he explains it said okay everyone get out a piece of paper uh get out of pen and now
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write down a number between 1 and 10 as the answer to these questions to what extent do we have the right priorities
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do we have the right who the right people in the right roles and do the relationships work and then they all
00:29:57
held up their scores multiply them together multiply your three numbers together all the scores
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are different and it's and and it Fosters a lot of curiosity and puzzlement and like really you scored it
00:30:09
a four I scored it of nine that's and then and then it leads to the right discussion and what our best clients do
00:30:16
is they don't just have that as a one-off conversation it becomes something they actually begin to track
00:30:20
monthly or on a quarterly basis once you identify what's what's so the beauty of the power score going back
00:30:27
to the Grand UniFi theory is it does highlight where you have an issue so if your overall power score is
00:30:33
432 uh what are you going to do about it where are you weaker is it the priorities aren't clear is it that the
00:30:40
who aren't right is it the relationships aren't working it very quickly allows
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you as a leader and as a team this is by the way a leader with his or her team exercise not something you do in a
00:30:51
vacuum so the whole team can look at that and say what do we need to do how do we go from 432 to 500 to 600 to 700
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and up uh it becomes an enormously clarifying vehicle for identifying the issues and focusing in on those those
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issues that will drive the results and the beauty of it is the research shows if you can drive the P the W and the r
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you will get results you'll be more successful than the average leader and the average team by orders of magnitude
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and that's where the fund starts great well that's a great note to end on So
00:31:22
Randy Allan thank you so much for speaking with knowledge at Wharton our pleasure thank you
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Episode Highlights

  • The Power Score Explained
    Randy and Alan introduce the concept of Power Score, a metric for leadership success.
    “Power Score is really an acronym: P for priorities, W for Who, R for relationships.”
    @ 02m 02s
    July 24, 2015
  • The Importance of Priorities
    Leaders often struggle with setting the right priorities, impacting their effectiveness.
    “The best leaders are very good at setting priorities, which means saying no to things.”
    @ 06m 53s
    July 24, 2015
  • Hiring the Right People
    Most leaders fail to hire effectively, often ignoring the importance of the 'Who'.
    “The first mistake leaders make is they haven't thought about their priorities.”
    @ 11m 40s
    July 24, 2015
  • Transforming Meetings
    Shifting from status updates to problem-solving can electrify team dynamics.
    “This is going to be a problem-solving meeting rather than a status update.”
    @ 24m 31s
    July 24, 2015
  • The Power of Commitment
    Committed teams thrive through tough times, fostering mutual support and resilience.
    “The most committed teams have really gone through some pretty tough times.”
    @ 25m 32s
    July 24, 2015
  • Measuring Team Effectiveness
    Using a power score helps teams identify strengths and areas for improvement.
    “What’s our power score?”
    @ 29m 34s
    July 24, 2015

Episode Quotes

  • We can describe leadership just like scientists describe the universe.
    Do You Know Your Team's PWR Score?
  • You can have 164 goals, but no sense of priority.
    Do You Know Your Team's PWR Score?
  • I wish I had moved faster on the people I knew weren't the right people.
    Do You Know Your Team's PWR Score?
  • You have to submit a problem that we’re going to solve.
    Do You Know Your Team's PWR Score?
  • If you're going through hell, keep going.
    Do You Know Your Team's PWR Score?
  • What are you willing to do as a team?
    Do You Know Your Team's PWR Score?

Key Moments

  • Introduction of Guests00:02
  • Power Score Concept00:19
  • Leadership Interviews00:54
  • Challenges in Leadership04:25
  • Hiring Mistakes11:40
  • Gut Feel Hiring20:26
  • Healthy Conflict23:51
  • Manufactured Commitment28:50

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