Hello, world.

Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 379.

I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his

talents to do work he loves, to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

Steve was tasked with completing a half-billion dollar project, but members of his multidisciplinary

team might just as well have been speaking different languages. Poor group dynamics made

matters worse. He knew he had to find a way to make all the parts work together. But he created a

process that would actually work. Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Steve Garco.

Welcome, Steve. How are you doing today? Thanks very much.

You're welcome. I'm doing great. Thank you very much. Steve, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

Yes, Don. I am. Okay, dokey. We want to hear the whole story. Steve Garco spent 35 years helping his employers improve company strategy, and he learned that without a strategic

decision process as a guide, companies are not very good at formulating strategy.

His recently published book, Stratification, How Strategic Decision Processes, will create

sustainable competitive advantage, makes companies more effective.

Steve's passion is working with companies to improve their strategic decision making.

Well, Steve, that's a pithy summary of your career.

Tell us what you're up to now that has you engaged and excited, if you would.

Sure.

Well, as you already said, I'm helping companies make strategic decisions better.

And this is really important because strategy is really what affects the long-term outcome of a

company. So if you don't focus on that for a company, likely they're going to go away at some

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