Chuck McGraw - Chief of Operations at TLDR Capital-The Importance of Centralized Planning and Decentralized Execution in the Corporate World
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Having had a 20-year career as a US Navy Seal, Chuck McGraw brings invaluable qualities and insights to his role as Chief of Operations at TLDR Capital, a company that focuses on advisory services in the blockchain industry and fields of cyber and physical security. While managing the day-to-day operations carried out by the globally distributed and decentralized team at TLDR Capital, McGraw focuses on identifying and implementing procedures and processes that are agile and resilient enough to withstand an ever-changing external environment, which is something that his training as a Navy Seal well-equipped him to do.
Decentralization is a concept that's increasingly being applied to real-world operations, but what does it really mean? What's the difference between a team in the traditional sense and a decentralized team, and what are the benefits of the latter? McGraw explains it with a simple phrase: "centralized planning, decentralized execution." While centralized planning involves all members of a team coming together to develop a plan under a shared understanding of the vision, mission, and objectives of the company, decentralized execution involves allowing individual members of a team the authority to make autonomous decisions in order to carry out that plan.
Among other topics, McGraw discusses the problems that hinder corporate growth and the productivity of decentralized teams and lends advice to entrepreneurs looking to form their own companies. Tune in for the full conversation, reach out to McGraw through his LinkedIn page, and visit tldr.capital to learn more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | I've got a really great guest today, Chuck McGraw. He has the experience with the US Navy SEALs. He's currently a partner at |
| 0:37.1 | TLDR Capital. I'm going to be talking about some key takeaways he has from his experience with the US Navy SEALs. |
| 0:43.4 | We've been talking about distributed teams, so I'll let Chuck take it from here, but Chuck, |
| 0:48.7 | how you doing? |
| 0:49.7 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:50.7 | Thanks Richard for having me on. |
| 0:52.0 | I really appreciate it, looking forward to chat with you today. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah, excellent. |
| 0:56.3 | So tell me about your background, your experience with the Navy SEALs. |
| 0:59.7 | That's a rare thing that, you know, that it's an amazing accomplishment. So yeah, tell me about that and then we'll segue into how that's helped you with your current work in TLDR. |
| 1:09.0 | Absolutely. Well, a little bit about me, I was born and raised in New York came from upstate a place called Watertown. It's one of, is known as the Snowtown USA. It's one of the coldest, snowiest place that exists in the country. |
| 1:23.4 | I think that's a good thing. |
| 1:24.4 | It probably helped me through my fuel training |
| 1:26.2 | just a little bit managing with a cold, |
| 1:28.0 | but born and raised in upstate New York. |
| 1:31.3 | Right around when I was 17, I decided to join the Navy and it was to the point where my mom had |
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