434: Building People and Killing Policies with Guy Pierce Bell
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 3 May 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Turnaround artist Guy Bell shares hard-won wisdom on why and how to establish the right number of rules for teams.
You’ll Learn:
1) How modern businesses value processes over people
2) The problem with budgets
3) Guy’s process for people building
About Guy
Guy Bell is an executive with decades of experience turning around struggling businesses. He’s also started up new businesses, acquired and on-boarded companies and led green field growth. He has held leadership roles in a wide variety of organizations, including equity-backed investments, public-traded companies and family-owned businesses.
In each of these situations, Guy challenged himself with one simple question: “How can I empower my team to meet their full potential?”
Guy is the author of Unlearning Leadership, which was named one of 10 leadership books that should be on your radar in 2019 by Inc Magazine.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Sponsored Message: ZipRecruiter is the smartest way to hire
- Guy’s website: guypbell.com
- Guy’s book: Unlearning Leadership
- Guy’s email: guypiercebell1@gmail.com
- Concept: Four Rules of Flight
- Concept: Day 1, Day 2
- Book: The Innovation Blindspot
- Book: Utopia for Realists
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us. |
| 0:20.0 | Here for episode 434 with Guy Bell. |
| 0:22.0 | Guy is a cool guy who... joining us here for episode 434 with Guy Bell. |
| 0:22.6 | Guy is a cool guy who really walks his talk |
| 0:26.1 | when it comes to improving organizations |
| 0:28.2 | he's been called upon to turn around many organizations |
| 0:31.0 | and he has a great philosophy that can make a transformative difference. |
| 0:35.5 | So I think you'll really dig this one. |
| 0:37.1 | You'll learn one how modern businesses value processes over people. |
| 0:41.2 | Two, the problem with budgets and three, guys process for people building. |
| 0:45.2 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced |
| 0:48.4 | here, you'll find it on over at awesome at your job.com. F-434. |
| 0:53.0 | And while at Awesome at your Job.com, |
| 0:55.0 | you can also search the full-text transcripts of all |
| 0:57.7 | 434 episodes in that magnifying glass in the top right. |
| 1:02.0 | So cool stuff over at awesome at your job. |
| 1:04.0 | Here is Guy's story. Guy Bell is an executive with decades of experience turning around |
| 1:08.3 | struggling businesses. He's also started up new businesses acquired and |
| 1:12.1 | on board at companies and led |
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