Leadership

Brant Cooper was a vanguard. As one of the originators of the Lean Startup movement, more than 15 years ago, he had a vision he boldly pursued through thought leadership, community engagement, and entrepreneurship. His body of work serves as an atlas for exploring bold ideas. Starting with “ The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development,”  then the NYT bestseller "The Lean Entrepreneur," and most recently, the thought-provoking “Disruption Proof,” his writing is permeated with his values of integrity, candor, and illustrates his belief in the individual.

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One of the most powerful aspects of delegating outcomes is that it creates accountability. By entrusting team members with achieving objectives that impact the greater organization, leaders create a sense of ownership. Teams and their leaders should collaborate to define their missions, outcomes, and metrics that measure progress toward the desired result. In order to establish sustained growth check out our 3 principles and proven coaching behaviors to delegate work effectively.

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Companies not hitting their targets or attempting to achieve some type of transformation, such as cultural, digital, or agile, are all potential reasons for reorganizing portions of the company. Whatever the reason, the method is often NOT geared towards achieving the desired outcomes. The reality is that the re-org of today tend to focus on cost-cutting and “efficiency” instead of asking the more serious question: “what structure will facilitate and incentivize the behavior we need?”

It should be seen as a chance to re-think and re-align the company’s structure, culture, and mission. In this way, it makes for an amazing work environment where people will be happy to contribute, leading to increased retention and more engaged employees. which in turn will generate the results the organization is hoping for.

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Brant Cooper NYT bestselling author and founder of Moves The Needle talks about what it truly means to be Disruption Proof. To him, disruption means much more than the ideology of startups eating away at the market share of large businesses. What we will focus on are the ongoing disruptions we're seeing at a rapid pace e.g. war, pandemic, global supply chain, ransomware attacks, inflation, shortages, and the list goes on. Brant will show you how to properly organize your teams and business to make sure you can not only survive in this new digital world, but thrive in it.

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What does it mean to be agile and how do you scale it within your organization? In a truly agile environment, individual performance must be tied to team performance relative to its mission. Of course, the devil is in the details. What is a mission?

Brant Cooper, NYT bestselling author and founder of Moves The Needle dives into all of this and more.

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The goal of the book Disruption Proof is to help leaders and founders of companies to create what I call RAD companies, which stands for being resilient, aware, and dynamic. RAD requires new behaviors and skills for all, while also establishing new systems, processes, and structure to deal with an increasingly complex and uncertain world.

RAD companies are necessary to survive and thrive in the Digital Age. Many of the trends we see in business–increasing diversity, agile practices, developing empathy, running experiments–are in response to the complexity and uncertainty in our sociopolitical, economic, and working environments.

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In this episode, Jocelyn Mangan, CEO of Him for Her, joins us to discuss how her social impact enterprise is building the boardroom of the future by addressing the gender gap in for-profit boardrooms to increase diversity. Him for Her’s unique approach overcomes the networking gap responsible for the sparsity of women in the boardroom by engaging business luminaries such as Stacy Brown-Philpot, Reid Hoffman, Jeff Weiner, Eric Yuan, and many more to connect the world’s most talented “hers” to board service.

Being a leader embodies so many skills and mindsets that you have to pay attention to. You need to empower your employees and help them unleash the power they already have. It is crucial to communicate and help teach employees how to become A-Players to help build your company from the ground up. Keep in mind that it is up to you to find the best role for each individual in your company instead of grouping them all together. If you can execute these qualities, then you have what it takes to create success.

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Recent studies suggest that enterprise leaders are struggling to find parallels between corporate and innovation strategy. This article explains how executives can play a bigger role in communicating strategy, setting expectations and goals for innovation, and ensuring those efforts are headed in the right direction.