Hindsight

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Bob Redd is CEO of 4 businesses to which he brings deep expertise and operational competence: strategic consultancy and holding company FatSpan Inc., technology solution provider DC WebTech LLC, Credit Union digital marketing specialist Get Digital CU, and senior home exchange platform Senior Home Xchange. To learn more about each company, visit them online:

·     DC Webtech - www.GetDigitalCU.com

·     Get Digital CU - www.DCWebTech.com

·     Senior Home Xchange - www.SeniorHomeXchange.com

[00:45] Bob's seminal business and leadership experiences

[13:00] Strategies and tactics employed as a GM at Schlumberger

[21:10] Offloading underperforming business units

[25:21] Restructuring as a catalyst to improving company culture

[35:55] Hard lessons as new business owner

[39:45] How shared objectives resulting in relationships which transcended union contract

[41:18] Using data to unravel operational chaos

[42:25] What successful transformation looks

[46:15] Reflecting on the importance of fit

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