Leadership: Management
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Using Gallup StrengthsFinder to develop yourself and your team
Bill Gallagher
February 24, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
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Management
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Identity & self-belief
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- Hire to fill your gaps, not to fix your weaknesses
- Every strength has a shadow side that can derail a team
- Map team strengths across four categories before your next hire
Four core ways to work more effectively with millennials
Bill Gallagher
December 30, 2016
Management
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Hiring & recruitment
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- Millennial 'disloyalty' is a rational response to companies that abandoned loyalty first
- Silence reads as failure — millennials need constant directional reinforcement
- Purpose must connect individual contribution to the organisation's deeper impact
Building great teams by investing in people's growth
Bill Gallagher
December 30, 2016
Culture building
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Management
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Processes & SOPs
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- Overlooked candidates outperform star hires when given the right environment.
- Annual performance reviews are actively detrimental — here's what replaces them.
- Treating people as resources guarantees you extract far less than their potential.
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Hiring A-players without reading resumes: a structured process
Bill Gallagher
December 30, 2016
Hiring & recruitment
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Management
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- Only 1 in 4 hires performs well — structured scoring fixes this.
- Validated assessments predict success better than interviews every time.
- A bad executive hire costs up to 15 times their salary.
How to discover, embed, and activate company purpose
Bill Gallagher
December 30, 2016
Management
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Vision & mission
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Communication
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- Purpose only creates leverage when embedded in planning and daily rituals
- A BHAG unlocks itself once founders are energised by genuine purpose
- Personal purpose alignment is an under-used retention and hiring multiplier
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Topgrading: How to hire A players and build a high-performing team
Bill Gallagher
December 30, 2016
Hiring & recruitment
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Management
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- Traditional interviews succeed only 25% of the time — topgrading fixes that.
- Every step is a filter: career history form, chronological interview, TORC.
- C players drag the whole team down; act fast before the cascade hits.
The four stages of business growth: how leaders must evolve
Bill Gallagher
December 30, 2016
Management
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Business operating systems
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Hiring & recruitment
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- The founder is always the first bottleneck — not the market.
- Most CEOs are stuck in stage 3 because moving on requires humility.
- A great early employee is often the wrong fit at scale.
Building rapport through dignity, protocol, and deliberate connection
Bill Gallagher
December 30, 2016
Management
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Resilience & grit
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- Rapport is an intentional act, not a byproduct of doing business.
- Protocol is a decision framework — know the rule before you break it.
- Onboarding and first impressions set the ceiling for every relationship that follows.
How a stuck $18M company grew from 7% to 28% revenue growth
Bill Gallagher
December 30, 2016
Management
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Business operating systems
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Processes & SOPs
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- One external VP hire tripled growth rate without firing anyone
- Simple measures — even counting customer 'wow' moments — change behaviour
- Real turnarounds take three years; sequencing steps matters more than speed
Why COOs need a peer group separate from their CEO
Cameron Herold
October 18, 2016
Management
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Community building
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- CEOs have communities built for them — COOs have none
- Peer groups give COOs tools to distinguish healthy from unhealthy growth
- Confidential COO-only settings reveal your problems are widely shared