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Hi everybody and welcome to In Good Company. I'm Nicola Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian Wealth Fund.

And today I'm speaking with Zach Brown, the CEO of McLaren Racing, one of the most remarkable turnarounds Formula One has ever seen. Well, I would

argue is one of the most remarkable turnarrels I've ever seen anywhere. Sack has transformed McLaren

from a struggling meatpack team into a champion leader and you are currently dominating the F1

season. Well done. So let's just dive straight in. Why are you winning everything this year?

People. If I had to give, of course, it's not a simple answer, and it's never quite as simple as one thing.

But it's our people and specifically our culture. What we've been able to do here, you know, if I take a step back,

where the second most successful Formula One team

of all time, second most historic next to Ferrari, which is a good company. And we certainly have won

a lot of races and world championships over the years, but we really started to struggle, you know,

10, 15 years ago and lost our way for a variety

of reasons, but probably the biggest impact being we lost our way as a team, teamwork,

and that culture.

And so, of course, we've had great investment.

We've got great drivers. We have new

wind tunnels, all the things that people are the tools that they need to be able to get back

to the front. But the way we've been able to unlock the performance of our people through a great

culture of transparency, hard work, incremental improvement,

real talks, park your feelings at the doors, all those things have just made everyone row

in the same direction when you get 1,400 people row in the same direction can be pretty

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