Don’t Hide Behind Policy

What are “knee-jerk processes?” When do you step over the line from good policies into being over-processed and damaging your culture and business?

Our guest in this episode answers these questions. Matt Hahne, a Certified EOS Implementer (www.EOSWorldwide.com/Matt-Hahne), is a former U.S. Navy Officer and a Merchant Mariner who created and owned three successful businesses.

Matt teaches using numerous examples from businesses he’s worked with who hid behind processes and clung to calcified ways of doing things that hurt their culture, violated their own closely-held values, and damaged their business.

Here are three great resources we talked about in the interview:

-Matt’s newly released Launching Leaders workshop for supervisors (www.LaunchingLeaders.com)
-Patrick Lencioni’s The Table Group podcast episode called “Principle over Policy:” https://www.tablegroup.com/161-principle-over-policy/
-The famous Netflix culture deck: https://www.peterfisk.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/netflix-culture-deck.pdf

Matt also shares how to turn things around if you’ve focused more on rules and processes and not enough on hiring and inspiring the right people in your organization by leading with “context and not control.”

 

When it’s time to hire REAL Talent

 

When are you ready to  hire “real talent”? What does that even mean? When is it legitimate to use less expensive or less experienced talent? When is it justified to spend the money? How do you overcome self-talk that makes you think you are not ready?

Matt Haney, our guest on this episode of the Win Win Podcast, answers these questions and more.
Matt is a Fractional COO / Integrator on the Wolf’s Edge Consulting team and has served as an interim or fractional COO for over 5 years. He is a long-time COO and operations leaders in manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, construction and other industries. You can learn more about him at: www.WolfsEdgeIntegrators.com/About.
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Do Fractional Integrators Compete With EOS Implementers?

Do Fractional Integrators compete with EOS Implementers®? Do they work at all? What type of business owner should use one? What’s the difference between an Integrator and an Implementer?

In this far-reaching conversation, our host, Ben Wolf, who is the founder of the largest Fractional COO / Integrator firm, Wolf’s Edge Integrators (https://wolfsedgeintegrators.com/), *was interviewed by our guest*, Rachel Lebowitz, who is a Professional EOS Implementer (www.EOSWorldwide.com/Rachel-Lebowitz), about everything related to Integrators, both fractional and full-time, and implementers.

Rachel and her husband bought a Flexible Printing Packaging company and, within three years of implementing EOS, turned it around and grew it from 30 to 100 employees and from $10 to $30 million in revenue. She then went on to become a Professional EOS Implementer herself.

Check out the conversation!

Dangers of Not Building a Banking *Relationship*

Our guest today shares the dangers of not having an actual ongoing relationship with your banker, and how to find the right banker, build your relationships with them, and the options this gives you when you run into the inevitable emergencies and problems in running your business.

 

Trey Weatherill is a VP & Senior Relationship Manager at American Business Bank (www.AmericanBB.bank), a Southern California bank for private, closely held, medium sized businesses with revenues typically between $10-$200M.

Trey explains how to use your network, test out different potential bankers, and find the right banking relationship. He explains what to do if your business is on the smaller side and you’re worried you may not be able to get a banker’s attention, what to do when your banker leaves your bank, and the tradeoffs between working with one of the big banks versus a local or regional bank.