What causes companies to experience rapid top-line revenue growth? Philippe Bouissou, PhD, provides the answer in this impactful conversation. His framework is brilliantly simple. Identify the four possible areas of misalignment between the company and the customer, then make changes to create alignment.

Philippe outlines the four areas and provides concrete examples of each. He also describes one of the world’s most successful companies that excels in aligning all four.

Philippe has been in Silicon Valley for 33 years. He launched and scaled Apple’s eCommerce business from zero to $350 million, working closely with Steve Jobs. Since leaving Apple, he’s had success as a CEO, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist, and he’s served on the board of 23 companies. He is a growth expert, a TEDx speaker with over one million views, and the author of the bestseller book Aligning the Dots.

Today, Philippe is Managing Partner at Blue Dots Partners LLC, a Palo Alto-based advisory firm he founded. The firm is dedicated to solving one problem: helping companies grow faster.

If you’re responsible for any part of top-line revenue growth in your company, this episode is a must-listen. And you’ll want to pick up a copy of Aligning the Dots, too!

You’ll discover

• Why Philippe said Steve Jobs was the best leader he ever worked with
• Key lessons Philippe has learned in his leadership journey
• The one question he asks CEOs about their business (and it’s not, “What do you do?”)
• The four axes of alignment required to grow a business
• Why there’s a 5^th axis that determines the execution of the other four

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Blue Dots Partners

Book

Aligning the Dots: The New Paradigm to Grow Any Business

TED Talk

The Secret to Grow Any Business

If you’ve ever wondered what’s involved in a company being named one of the best places to work, this episode’s guest Angie Redmon pulls back the curtain and reveals key elements. She also explains the commitment and alignment required to build a culture that’s worthy of being recognized. If you’d like to uplevel the culture of your team or entire organization, you’ll gain valuable insights from this conversation.

Angie Redmon has invested more than two decades learning what makes good companies great, and it always comes back to the same thing: Companies who care about their people as much as they care about their bottom line are more likely to recruit and retain outstanding employees. Through her dedication to workplace culture and employee engagement, Angie has developed and led HR teams with multiple companies in diverse industries.

Now, Angie is the President and Founder of striveHR, LLC, an organization focused on guiding aspirational companies through the process of pursuing a best workplace distinction. She channels her work into helping organizations develop their people strategies and guiding HR professionals to develop in their careers through her coaching and mentorship. Angie has an impressive track record of helping organizations uncover employee engagement challenges and guiding organizations to achieve an award-winning workplace culture.

You’ll discover:

• What it takes to be an award-winning workplace
• The most common issue that gets in the way of creating a positive culture
• The steps a company can take before applying for an award
• How an award can help you with recruitment and retention of the best talent
• What needs to be done to sustain the progress after winning an award

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striveHR

Book

Culture Impact: Strategies to Create World-changing Workplaces (contributing author)

What role does mindset play in achieving your greatest work and personal goals? It’s the foundation for everything! In this inspiring and valuable conversation, Sohee Jun, Ph.D., explains why that is true. We discuss several key ideas from Sohee’s latest book, The Aligned Mindset: Secrets of High-Achieving Women for Navigating Work and Life.

Sohee is a premier leadership coach for women, mindset expert, bestselling author, corporate leadership facilitator, TEDx keynote speaker, and thought leader and contributor to the Forbes Coaches Council.

The Aligned Mindset is the result of her two decades of transforming the lives and work of high-performing executive women at top companies such as Netflix, Fox, Disney, and others. Sohee shares the secrets of how highly successful women have created a winning mindset—conquering imposter syndrome, silencing inner critics, and empowering them to prioritize their own version of success.

You’ll discover:

• The role of awareness in achieving greater alignment
• How you can reframe the way you view situations or people
• Micro-actions that reduce self-doubt and build self-confidence
• How finding your North Star can guide your decisions about success
• Why Sohee refers to mentors as your “Tribe of Advocates”

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Sohee Jun, PhD

Book

The Aligned Mindset: Secrets of High-Achieving Women for Navigating Work and Life

The best leaders not only recognize and leverage their own unique abilities, they also do the same with everyone on their team. Mark Murphy has focused on both areas, with excellent results. This commitment has helped his company create “wow” experiences for their clients. Our conversation is packed with insights and strategies that you can incorporate into your own life.

Mark is the CEO of Northeast Sequoia Private Client Group, a national financial planning and wealth management firm. He is passionate about empowering entrepreneurs to achieve multigenerational wealth by providing personalized strategies that focus on emotional fitness, wealth accumulation, and a plan that can work under all circumstances. His unwavering commitment to delivering a “wow” experience has earned him a reputation as a trusted expert in the industry.

Mark has been ranked #1 in New Jersey and #3 in the nation on the 2023 Forbes America’s Top Financial Security Professionals List. He’s the host of The Hero of The Hour Podcast and the author of 3 books including his latest, The Ultimate Investment: A Roadmap to Grow Your Business and Build Multigenerational Wealth. It’s a must-read for every business leader.

You’ll discover:

• How leaders can identify and use their unique abilities
• What Mark does to identify whether or not job candidates are aligned with his company’s core values
• The 4 types of intelligence and the one Mark values most when hiring
• The distinction Mark makes between differentiation and competition
• The question he poses to someone who’s experienced a loss, disappointment, or setback

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Website

Northeast Sequoia Private Client Group

Book

The Ultimate Investment: A Roadmap to Grow Your Business and Build Multigenerational Wealth

Podcast

The Hero of the Hour

Jeremy has been CTO, COO, CEO and VC investor. As a leader, he has managed teams of teams of people. He is currently building the world’s largest investor and founder network. He created his company Rocket Mindset to rapidly uplevel the skills of founders and leaders.

Jeremy is unique among the guests on this show because of the size of the positive impact he intends to have. Everything Jeremy does is to impact 3 billion people…and have a lot of fun while doing it. To achieve this audacious goal, Jeremy is working with his global team of investors and founders to run, invest in, and advise a ton of companies with the intention of growing them and the humans inside them rapidly.

His favorite things are to find and create high quality, highly evolved humans.

You’ll discover:

• What you should learn during the interview process to ensure you hire the right person
• How to make an effective pitch, no matter what idea you’re trying to sell
• A winning approach when you want to help two people resolve a conflict
• Why daily stand-ups with your team create greater clarity, focus, and productivity
• The kinds of questions to ask that help your team become autonomous

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Jeremy’s Websites

Rocket Mindset

Montelier Capital

Do you expend energy trying to make others wrong so you can be right? Rich Habets is a master of facilitating powerful discussions 1-1 and with teams by asking questions and not making anyone wrong. In this conversation, he shares what he does to guide clients to look within and listen for the gold in what others say.

Rich is the founder and lead coach at Insight, Inc. Over the past 14 years, he’s dedicated himself to empowering more than 6,000 individuals and collaborating with more than 30 world-class companies, helping them break through barriers and achieve unparalleled performance.

What’s interesting is that Rich’s clients are already a force to be reckoned with, but his expertise serves as the catalyst that propels them to even greater heights. He’s operated behind the scenes for years as a silent but powerful ally in their journeys.

His mission is to help others harness their untapped potential so they transform their lives into a beacon of success, growth, and personal accomplishment. 

You’ll discover:

• The benefits of being open and vulnerable with others
• Why Rich focuses on who he is BEING when he works with clients
• How Rich helps leaders raise their awareness about their own behaviors
• The powerful questions Rich uses to help leaders discover the blind spots and gaps
• Ways to make meetings more productive

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Richard Habets

Have you ever gone on a Listening Tour? That’s what Hillary Miller did in her first 3 months at Penn State Health in her role as Chief Learning Officer. What she learned in her conversations with hundreds of people allowed her and her team to design programs that were relevant and well received.

Hillary has also set up a Learning Council across the organization that enables people in all types of positions to have a voice. You will love the types of questions Hillary shares throughout this conversation that encourage people to speak openly and build strong trust.

You’ll discover:

• The 4 questions Hillary asked each person she met with during your listening tour
• What Hillary has done to build trust and high performance with her own team
• The weekly Development Sessions Hillary and her team have…and how she’s expanding them to other parts of the organization
• The growth she went through to make it easy for her to say “I’m not perfect” and “I made a mistake”
• Why Hillary is a big believer in humor and laughter

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Penn State Health

How can you take a fresh look at your work so you and your team continue to innovate and adapt to change? Katharine Halpin founded her firm The Halpin Companies 25 years ago to fill a void she saw in her CPA career. Katharine has helped leadership and management teams increase their effectiveness in engaging each other and their colleagues, her clients tend to grow 2-3x because of the innovation that gets ignited from the new work environment. She’s the author of Alignment for Success, and we discuss key ideas from this book. Come prepared to take notes from all the nuggets Katharine shares!

You’ll discover:

• The areas in work and life that need to be aligned in order to achieve lasting success
• Suggestions for being productive in a remote work environment
• How to create a safe environment that encourages people to come up with innovative ideas
• Three self-care actions you can take in order to work at your best
• How to create Strategic Think Time to ensure you’re focused on the right actions

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Katharine’s Website

Halpin Company

Katharine’s ebook

Alignment for Success