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Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Ep. 255 – Miller Kaplan COO, Paul J. Zdunek

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.9225 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is Paul J. Zdunek, author, speaker, conductor, Grey Leadership expert and COO of Miller Kaplan Paul has over 20 years of experience providing business leadership and advisory services for both nonprofit and for-profit organizations. He has been a Chief Restructuring Officer, Business Transformation Advisor, Change Management Leader, and Interim Executive for institutions […]

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the people that you're working with are your strength and you know those who try to go out

0:06.4

it alone or you know take that spotlight that you're talking about it I just you know it's it's not

0:11.6

authentic and people can feel that.

0:14.1

If you have the right team, which I'm a big believer in,

0:17.0

you know, having sort of this racehorse team where you're not pushing them,

0:20.4

you're not prodding them.

0:21.2

They're like, they're going on their own. All you're doing prodding them they're like they're going on their own all you're doing is making

0:23.6

adjustments and making them the best they can be it's interesting because when I did

0:27.9

first start my non-music career as an executive I thought that I had to do everything.

0:33.0

And that actually was created the opposite effect.

0:35.4

It created, you know, a disengaged team because they felt that I was micromanaging

0:40.7

when really what I was trying to do I thought was give them bandwidth

0:43.8

because you know you know the buck stops with me and you know I should take on all

0:47.8

their burden it was an early lesson that I still have to remind myself up you know

0:52.3

that people want to feel engaged they want to feel part of the solution, and you have produced by the COO Alliance and brought to

1:11.2

its founder Cameron Herald.

1:13.0

In the second in command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies, and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

1:22.0

And now, here's your host, that made him the chief behind the chief.

1:23.0

And now here's your host, Cameron Harold.

1:27.0

All right, so you're going to love this episode today. This is the only time that I've ever had a conductor of an orchestra now C.O. on the podcast, super cool. You're actually going to get some really good insights as to how you can take the skills of being an

1:43.2

orchestra conductor for seven or eight years and bring that into the business world into the CEO.

1:47.6

We're all talking about leaders of leaders, heart-centered leadership.

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