Episodes

  • The Power of Cadence

    The Power of Cadence
    Mar 6 2024
    Deidre shares her own operating rhythm including defining strategic ambitions, orchestrating execution, setting the pace, and managing the awkward pauses that drive great performance. Setting OKRs is the easy part, driving the execution drumbeat is the real work and the real win!
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    25 mins
  • Performance vs. Performative Culture

    Performance vs. Performative Culture
    Feb 21 2024
    As the VP of Execution and Transformation in the Office of the CEO at VMWare, Joel Neeb led the operating model transformation with stellar results. In this episode, Joel and Deidre talk about better alignment between CEOs and CHROs and the power of managers in the middle to unlock strategy achievement.
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    38 mins
  • Manager Effectiveness: Are Your Managers Equipped to Execute Strategy Today?

    Manager Effectiveness: Are Your Managers Equipped to Execute Strategy Today?
    Jan 24 2024
    Your CEO wants a performance culture, but are your managers prepared to be effective in a super dynamic world? In this episode, WorkBoard CEO Deidre Paknad shares what’s changed and the signs that your managers may not be prepared to succeed.
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    28 mins
  • Change as Usual with Jonathan Smart

    Change as Usual with Jonathan Smart
    Jan 10 2024
    Sooner Safer Happier author Jonathan Smart joins Deidre to talk new ways of working, minimizing time to learning, and maximizing time to value. Don't miss this excellent discussion on value streams and OKRs and why this pivot is important now. (Learn more in Jonathan's book, Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility.)
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    45 mins
  • Strategy Execution in a Fast-Changing World

    Strategy Execution in a Fast-Changing World
    Dec 27 2023
    Strategy execution is much harder now. The tried-and-true management models that drove your success for the last two decades may not get you where you want to go in the next 5 years. In this episode, WorkBoard CEO Deidre Paknad and VP of Customer Success Sameera Moinpour discuss their learnings about how successful companies executed their strategies and transformations in 2023, and make predictions about what the journey will look like going forward.
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    25 mins
  • Leading & Leaning Forward

    Leading & Leaning Forward
    Dec 13 2023
    3M President Steve Shafer discusses the power of his forward-facing management model and the clarity, urgency, and focus it creates in his Automotive & Aerospace Division. He avoids the reactive trap that backward facing reporting and management cause and creates the conditions for success and simplicity.
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    15 mins
  • Why Focus Makes All the Difference

    Why Focus Makes All the Difference
    Nov 29 2023
    In this episode, John Glander, Senior VP at JP Morgan Chase, and Duncan Hawksbee, Director of Strategic Execution at Trimble, sit down with WorkBoard CEO Deidre Paknad for a conversation before a live audience of strategy execution professionals at the Accelerate 2023 conference. Both share their organizations' very different OKR journeys and the profound insights they've gained on how to improve enterprise strategy execution. Their wide-ranging conversation covers why focus makes all the difference for a successful program, how one CEO's "rule of 3" made focus possible, and why leaders must adopt new strategy execution tactics before asking others to do so.
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    40 mins
  • The Trifecta of High Performance, High Cadence, and High Engagement

    The Trifecta of High Performance, High Cadence, and High Engagement
    Nov 15 2023
    In this episode, WorkBoard CEO Deidre Paknad is joined by Patrick Thompson, former Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer at Albemarle, for a special fireside chat live from Accelerate 2023. Patrick has played a pivotal role in building multiple Fortune 500 companies, most recently contributing to the tripling of revenues from $3B to $9B in just two years.

    If you've refreshed your strategy for the next year, it's time to be highly intentional about strategy execution, and this episode is not to be missed. Patrick shares the keys to the success of the last five Fortune builds, emphasizing the importance of incorporating both lead and lag metrics, along with maintaining alignment with a 52-week cadence to drive accountability.
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    43 mins