November 22, 2023

S9-Ep49: The Rationale of Irrationality

42 minutes

Guest: Greg Moran

When your competitor’s (or CEO’s) decisions don’t make sense, pause: there’s something to learn there. What do they know that you don’t?

That’s just one insight guest Greg Moran offers about dealing with the irrational in your organization. Sometimes a decision is just bad; but more often than not, it’s been made from a perspective or with information you don’t see. And that perspective might just be the missing key to your success!

Here's what Greg and Maureen cover:

The impact of rational and irrational decision-making on your organization’s success;

How your company’s structural incentives might be the cause of some of the worst decisions your peers (and maybe you!) make; and

The changing dynamics of the employer-employee relationship as society changes.

Enjoy your own Moran-athon with:

Working Together: Leading a Hybrid AI-Human Workforce with Greg Moran

What Leaders Won’t Talk About (When Scaling their Business) with Greg Moran

What Your Team REALLY Thinks with Greg Moran

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RESOURCES:

The book on competitive intelligence Greg mentions at the beginning of the show is Inside the Competitor’s Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success by John Horn. It’s on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3sHtutS. You can contact Greg at https://zed2a.com.

Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.

She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & Hot to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al

The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez

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OUR PODCAST TEAM:

Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf

Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko

Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko

Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli

So Rational We Think They Might Be Undercover Vulcans: Jenna Reik & Connor Carson

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About Our Guest:

Greg Moran is a C-level digital, strategy and change leadership executive with extensive global operations experience. He led corporate strategy for Ford and designed the plan that Alan Mullaly used to turn around the company. Greg held C-level IT positions in app dev, infrastructure, and core banking applications at Ford, Nationwide Insurance, and Bank One/JPMC, respectively. He began his career in consulting with Arthur Andersen Accenture, working across industries with 100 companies over the course of a decade. He is passionate about leadership and culture, and teaches part-time on the topic at Ohio University.

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