Alignment Management Podcast

Why do some startups seem to succeed while others fail? How come serial founders are more likely to be successful than first-time founders? Certainly, luck plays a role, but operational maturity may play a bigger role. In this episode, Ryan and Ethan dive into the challenges that startups face and how leaders can navigate them to build a successful company.

What makes the hottest companies of 2019 so successful? It's simple: they aligned their people around creating value for customers. In this episode, Ryan and Ethan discuss how organizations can implement customer-centric alignment strategies and then they go through a case study about Drift, a company that is rewriting the rules of how the builders of their organization (their engineers) interact with their customers.

Do you know the difference beteween an important and urgent priority? As leaders of organizations, prioritization is the hardest thing we do everyday. How do we know we're prioritizing the right things?

Too often leaders substitute good strategic planning with vision statements and goals. While these are useful tools for alignment, they miss the mark on guiding people towards a successful outcome based on a deep understanding of the reality a business is in. In this episode, Ryan and Ethan dive into what makes a good strategy and how it fits into the overall alignment management framework.

Objectives and Key Results are a popular goal setting framework that has recently gotten a lot of attention. But what exactly is it and how can your company benefit? And how does it all fit into an overall alignment management strategy? In this episode, Ryan and Ethan dive deep into this topic and share insights into the world of OKRs.

Learn what north star alignment is and how you can get your team working together towards a common goal with this strategy.

Ryan and Ethan share insights into creating and aligning around an organizational thesis.

Ryan and Ethan discuss the importance of clearly defining your company's purpose and how to align action around that purpose.

Learn how you can start to shift your team's focus from just executing tasks to driving greater business impact.

Learn what "Alignment Management" is all about and why it's critical for modern companies that want to stay competitive.