I recently had the great pleasure of being on The Changemaker Mindset Podcast with Greg Satell and Royfield Brown.
We talked about a number of cool topics, including goal-setting (I’m against it), optimizing organizational processes (been there, and it negatively impacted a lot of people), and innovation (most companies do it wrong).
Here are the official show notes (their words, not mine):
Stephen Shapiro was a superstar. With an Ivy League degree and a hot job at a big consulting form, he spent most days jet-setting around the world, re-engineering business processes to help firms become more productive and efficient.
He liked the work, and he was good at it. Then one day a news story changed his path. A project he had worked on had resulted in 10,000 layoffs and there, on the TV, he saw first-hand how the executives’ lives were still shattered a year later.
Steve was devastated. He took a 6-month leave of absence during which he made a decision: He would no longer help companies shrink, he would help them grow.
It was a fun podcast. One that I think can impact a lot of people if they take it to heart.
Here’s a small snippet: