“involved with Microsoft, switched, made the, made the jump from mainframes to laptops, then decided to get out of international business machines forever, but out of it. The most dangerous time in an organization is two...”
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“One of the most pivotal parts of my career has been working with Monsanto, a really progressive organization leading their U.S. commercial business. We had grown rapidly through a series of acquisitions, 17, 18 acquisiti...”
“Courtney, how do you approach scaling people alongside business growth and what strategies have you found most effective in building organizational capabilities?”
“that I took when I came in is let's assess where we're at. Let's assess the stuff that's adding value. And if it doesn't add value, let's kill it. We, in a lot of cases, probably over-engineered. We had policy for policy...”
“the company's financials. Ask them what's driving growth, ask them where the pain points are. If they say a term or a concept you don't understand, ask. You'll earn so much more respect if you ask questions versus preten...”
“Courtney, what are some of the key elements of building business acumen within a people leadership team and how does that contribute to effective organizational partnerships?”
“I really went back to my plan of, okay, I'm going to go back and get an MBA, get the JD, kind of look at those pieces. There was a new opportunity. I did a lot of M&A early on, a lot of travel from an international stand...”
“Joe, you have a lot of experience in business transformation. What are the critical elements of successfully modernizing established organizations while also preserving their core strengths?”
“business as an HR business partner. And that really started my journey over the next 7 years supporting business leaders and helping them grow their teams. And ultimately lining their teams up and talent strategies to de...”
“business. At Atlassian, the PR, if you know much about Atlassian product-led growth, the founders of that motion, but I realized very quickly that given that our buyers were individuals and teams, they really cared about...”
“Company growth. It's been fantastic. We've just closed our Series D. We'd hardly touched our Series C. The growth customer-wise, revenue-wise, all of those things are fantastic. But I'm focused on trying to keep the comp...”
“survey limited participation to only major oil and gas companies, and the other was exclusive to independents. And because of some legacy exceptions, the company for which I worked was permitted to participate in both su...”