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How do you turn a group of people into a high-performing, interdependent team that can make rapid and sustained progress?
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In this episode, Will and Rich's guest is Lawrence K. Fish, former Chairman and CEO of Citizens Financial Group, someone with a remarkable record of leadership in business, philanthropy, arts, education and more.
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Daisuke Utagawa credits his time as a dishwasher for setting him on the path to world-renowned restauranteur. Why?
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Authors Brian Moran and Michael Lennington explore the concept of accountability in their book Uncommon Accountability. They suggest it's time to move beyond the idea of "holding people accountable." Instead, they recommend a different perspective: “hold people capable.”
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Creating strategic clarity about the things that matter most is what drives progress.
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In this episode, Will and Rich's guest is Mike Erwin, founder and Executive Director of Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB) and co-author of LEAD YOURSELF FIRST by Bloomsbury Press (2017).
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Drawing lessons from the Army’s “Shoot, Move, Communicate”
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What a modern business can learn from a flock of starlings.
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Three ways Alignd helps modern companies accelerate towards their goals.
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This week, Will and Rich's guest is Gary Rieschel, a legend in the venture capital world and Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners, one of China's premier VC firms.
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In the past month, the dev team has been en fuego bringing new features and enhancements to Alignd. We’re excited to highlight a few of the biggies.
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This week, Will and Rich's guest is Marc Pierce, Co-Founder and “head dreamer” of Warm Springs Productions, a Montana-based production company with over 30 years of award-winning for the History Channel, Travel Channel, Discovery, ESPN2 and more.
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Welcome to Alignd, if you’re an admin and are setting up your team’s instance of the platform,...this video will give you some tips on how to get started.
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Alignd makes it easy to see where the focus of the organization is flowing in real-time. Team Week provides visibility to the key priorities of each team and current status of those weekly team intentions. In this video, I’ll show you how it works.
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Within Alignd, it’s possible to follow specific individuals and teams making it easier to have visibility to where their strategic focus is flowing. In this video, I’ll show you how.
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Within Alignd, it’s possible to integrate with your calendar, giving you a digital meeting briefing.
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When you first come on to Alignd, there are some default settings for notifications that may wish to configure. Here’s how to do that.
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Alignd was built to make it easier to focus your daily and weekly strategic energy. Where focus goes,...energy flows.
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Alignd makes it easier to surface the talent that exists within your organization. Knowing how to find the the latent skills, past professional experiences, even passions and interests isn’t just convenient it can can prevent over-hiring to fill perceived gaps in the business.
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Welcome, you’ve been invited to join Alignd to enhance your team’s coordinated agility. This is a quick video to get you started.
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This week, Will and Rich's guest is Mark Gainey, co-founder and chairman of Strava, the social fitness company used by more than 100 million athletes in over 195 countries.
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A guide to improve team performance through a lens of clarity, commitment, capability, consistency and capacity.
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Anthony Soohoo is the rare business leader who has led startups and driven industry-changing digital transformation at Fortune 500 companies. As EVP at Walmart, he led one of the largest digital transformations in history, generating billions in incremental revenue and record profits. At CBS, Anthony launched the company's first over-the-top streaming service, catapulting CBS.com into the largest television network site in the industry in the late 2000's. Anthony is currently a board member at Spryker Systems, Venture Advisor with AI Fund, and an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Harvard Business School.
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Once leaders have done the work of developing the strategy, success is in the hands of middle management and frontline team members. But is that where strategy goes to die?
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Any transformational leader must manage the pace of change, holding true to what is essential about the organization while re-imagining a bold and innovative future. Will and Rich's guest is the Reverend Dr Malcolm Young, Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, where he is leading its mission to serve with joy and reimagine church in the 21st century.
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Closing the gap between strategy and implementation is the key to future success.
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In episode 10 of Inspired By Example, Rich and Will talk to Frédérique Campagne Irwin, President and CEO of the National Women's History Museum. Fred shares some of the core values, influences and lessons learned that have shaped and guided her own leadership style through a career that has taken her from consulting, impact-based entrepreneurship, to now reimagining how non-profits plan and build for the future. Inspired By Example is presented by InspireHQ and Next Frontier Capital, and each episode explores the traits and values of transformational leadership. Past guests include Tony James (former President of Blackstone), Steve Burke (former CEO of NBCUniversal), Steve Abbot (retired 4-star Admiral), Waded Cruzado (President of Montana State University-Bozeman) and more.
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In episode 9 of our podcast on leadership, Rich and Will talk to President Waded Cruzado (Montana State University). Waded shares the "five traits of leaders at their best" and a powerful metaphor for the value of lessons learned through challenging times, inspired by Maurice Hilleman (the greatest innovator of modern vaccines — and, by the way, a graduate of MSU). Waded also discusses the fraught environment on university and college campuses and the opportunity it presents.
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This week, Will and Rich's guest is Zebulon Scoville, Lead Flight Director of NASA's Mission Control. Zeb shares the lessons from his remarkable career at NASA, which includes leading the International Space Station from the console at Mission Control, creating "return to flight" safety protocols following the Columbia shuttle disaster and collaborating with commercial partners like SpaceX to accelerate the possibilities of future space exploration. Zeb is now Lead Flight Director for the Artemis mission, NASA's first piloted mission to the moon in more than 50 years. It's a fascinating conversation on leadership from within one of the most innovative organizations in humankind.
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Tony James is one of the most accomplished business leaders of the past 40 years. In this episode, Tony discusses the lessons of leadership built over a remarkable career leading at DLJ and as president of the global asset management firm Blackstone. We think this episode is a master class on leadership from someone who has, undoubtedly, led by example. As Tony says "stay calm, stay positive, and never give up." This podcast is presented by InspireHQ and Next Frontier Capital.
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Dan talks about his meteoric rise to become one of IBM's youngest ever partners in its global consultancy, the lessons he brought with him to Veeva (that transformed the life sciences industry on its way to a $30B market cap with 35% annual growth), Instructure (which he led to a $2B public to private exit) and his current role as CEO of Tendo.
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This is Alignd. An AI enabled strategy alignment app in service of how progress really happens. A tool that enables you to clarify your organization's vision and priorities, focus actions to strategy and create asynchronous awareness of the energy and talent within your company. This is how it works.
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We seek (and find) inspiration everywhere, and a recent example is Gen McChrystal's "Team of Teams," on leadership, teamwork and adaptability in a complex world.
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David talks about about some of the valuable lessons he's learned along the way from people like Mac McQuown (former innovator at Wells Fargo), Tom Clausen (former CEO of B of A), Dan Case (former CEO of Hambrecht & Quist) and Farnam Jahanian (President of Carnegie Mellon University) and through his own remarkable career that includes positions of leadership at some of the world’s most iconic financial institutions, including as the Chairman and CEO of Bank of America, Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase and Managing Director of Warburg Pincus.
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On how "speed of play" depends on the happy marriage of autonomy and alignment.
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Mitchell recently retired as Managing Director of Hummer Winblad, and before that was CEO of private and public companies for over 30 years, including Powersoft, Sybase and Liberate Technologies.
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On a key to becoming a "learning organization."
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Steve's remarkable life has included being a Rhodes Scholar, combat fighter pilot, Bronze Medal recipient, test pilot of the F-18, Commanding Officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt during Operation Desert Storm, four-star admiral and, following his 34-year naval career, Deputy Homeland Security Senior Advisor.
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Steve Burke talks about his career (from running Walt Disney Europe to president of ABC, from CEO of NBC Universal to the "third act" of his life), his mentors and friends (which include legends like Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett) and some of the lessons that have shaped his remarkable life.
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From an international childhood, to a "traditional" path of Harvard, Morgan Stanley and Bay Area tech, to a life in the mountains of Montana, transforming the landscape of innovation throughout the Rocky Mountains, Will has "inspired by example."
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Vitamin, painkiller or cure? We get asked: Which is your tool? We think InspireHQ is actually different altogether.
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A daily dose of (aligning to) strategy is nourishment that is critical to the health and vigor of your organization.
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Why companies are turning to digital tools to help accelerate productivity and engagement.
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When I talk about values, I’m not referring to the buzzwords neatly framed in your lobby or painted on a wall.
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Achieving extraordinary results isn’t about doing more—it’s about doing what truly matters. In The One Thing, Gary Keller and Jay Papasan lay out a powerful principle: your ability to focus on the most important thing every day is what drives remarkable outcomes.
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Strategy isn’t about creating a plan—it’s about sharpening your organization’s direction and focus. To keep strategy alive and impactful, you need to ask the right questions. These five questions spark the kind of strategic conversations that can realign your team and drive powerful results.
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On the equation that results in "harmony."
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On two types of strategic misalignment, "the silent killer" vs. "the wobble."
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On the practice of clarifying the most important thing to do
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Enabling individuals and teams to break down silos, build greater transparency, empathy and context.
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