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Managing Organizational Complexity (wsg Walt Brown)

Published: April 30, 2020, 3:24 p.m.

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During this episode, You, Me, and Your Top Three host and CGS Advisors CEO, Gregg Garrett, reflects on how we should all consider the journey we are on and how we may find some useful patterns in it. He then welcome Walt Brown, a Certified EOS\\xae Implementer and Founder of Walt Brown Co. Walt speaks about how organizations are getting much more complex and how major change is needed now more than ever. And, of course, he speaks about his \\u2018Top 3\\u2019 ranging from business partners, to his father, to a coach, to visionaries. And you have to hear what he has to say about the power of asking questions and then just listening.

About Walt Brown

\\u201cSeasoned multi-company entrepreneur\\u201d is one label that has been used to describe Walt over the years. Many folks refer to Walt as an entrepreneur, but he insists this is much too generous: \\u201cI don\\u2019t consider myself an entrepreneur. I consider myself someone who is good at seeing existing patterns and pulling them together in logical ways that people are willing to pay for, then I build teams to serve the pattern.\\u201d Walt is seven for seven when it comes to launching and growing new companies. During the last decade, he has helped transform the culture of more than one hundred fifty organizations across the country as an Implementer of an OOS known as the Entrepreneurial Operating System\\xae. It is his greatest pleasure to work with his clients as they think, plan, execute, observe, adjust, and reflect as they master the skills necessary to permanently enjoy the fruits of a Patient Organization.

So you can get a sense of his experience, combined, Walt\\u2019s 50 largest business clients have 8,711 employees, with average sales per employee of $245,786, their average size is $45.5 Million in revenue per year and combined they are doing over $2.2 Billion in sales. Since working together, their employee engagement has consistently risen, employee tenure has increased, and they have doubled their bottom lines and doubled their net free cash flow. Plus they are enjoying life with more freedom. He is typically working with 30 clients across 150 days in a year.

Show Highlights

Segment 1: Overview

0:47\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Have we paused to document the world around us?

3:54\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Activity: Make two lists and then consider them: What is different in your business? Who are you as a leader?

\\xa07:22\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Walt Brown \\u2013 Certified EOS\\xae Implementer - Large and Small Companies

Segment 2: The \\u201cTop Three\\u201d

10:27\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 \\u201cYou know you\\u2019re leading when you see others aligning part of their future to your future.\\u201d

11:38\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Walt\\u2019s \\u2018Top Three\\u2019: Ron Schuler; Walt\\u2019s father \\u2013 early career and life guidance.

13:30\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Walt\\u2019s \\u2018Top Three\\u2019: Alan Cobb \\u2013 wisdom and leadership; the integrator.

16:30\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Walt\\u2019s \\u2018Top Three\\u2019: Greg Walker \\u2013 the coach; strategic thinking.

19:03\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Current org. charts don\\u2019t capture the complexity of today\\u2019s organizations.

22:18\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What drives the complexity? Culture.

24:28\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 The uniqueness of millennials \\u2013 asking the right questions.

Segment 3: Disruption & Transformation

28:51\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 \\u201cAll evil is buried in an organization structure.\\u201d

31:06\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What capabilities are needed in organizations?

Segment 4: Leadership & Wrapping Up

35:04\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Advice for leaders: \\u201cStop thinking out loud.\\u201d

37:22\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Advice for leaders: Stop talking and start listening.

38:27\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Check out Death to the Org Chart. Stay in touch: walt@7q7p.com

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