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“director. He's all set. And I had no idea what that meant. I'll be perfectly honest with you. I had no idea. I just showed up one day and started listening to people talk about the business. And I loved the fact that as...”

“Joe, you work for a really cool company. I know many people listening to this episode know Reed Hastings. Who is, uh, one of the owners of, of Powder Mountain, uh, as the, uh, founder or CEO of, uh, Netflix. Uh, I'm— you...”

“scope of a tobacco giant really transforming as a company to do something new in pursuit of positive outcomes for public health. It's a pretty amazing journey that we're on as a company. Reason 2 was the opportunity to h...”

“Sure. First of all, thanks for having me. Excited to be part of the podcast. My career journey, I think I always like to point out what might be a little different in people's journeys. I think for me, there's probably t...”

“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?”

“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...”

“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...”

“was running. The finance was to make sure that we had the money to do everything that we had to do, and the people could be cast to the side. But I said, no, if we don't have the right people, if we don't have the right...”

“partnering team. I then took a sabbatical. I was ready for a break and recently joined a new company here in Dallas. I moved. I was a mover, one of the many people that moved from the West Coast to another state. And I'm...”

“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...”

“Such a great question. Yeah, I'm— like I said, those formative years starting at GE, I joined GE in the early 2000s, just after the Jack Welch era. Jeff Immelt had become the CEO, but Jack Welch had really created some o...”