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📖 Good to Great REMIX: Conversation with Gladys Reed

Episode Summary
What makes a leader worth following — and how do you build a team that gets the right things done, day after day? In this REMIX episode — The Conversation After the Book — we revisit Good to Great with our friend and fellow leader Gladys Reed, the career banker who first put this book in our hands. Recorded from the usual commute (I-95 doing its thing), we get into why Jim Collins' principles still land decades later, and where we still respectfully disagree with him.

In This Episode

• Why Good to Great still holds up: the right people on the bus, confronting the brutal facts, the hedgehog concept, and the flywheel
• The debate we can't let go of: can you find the right people before you have a strategy? Yanet pushes back, Vanessa and Gladys make their case
• Hiring for the intangibles — spark, chispa, ganas — and the soft skills you just can't train
• Gladys' "would I buy from this person?" test for anyone in a client-facing role
• The free-ice-cream interview story — and why authenticity wins in the room
• Three interview questions worth stealing: "Paint your perfect job," "What drives you?" and "What have I not asked that you want me to know?"
• The biggest struggle in leadership: complainers vs. solution-owners — and why the same rule works at home
• Venting vs. problem-solving — and knowing the difference
• Monday-morning advice: lead by example, treat people how you'd want to be treated, and embrace that great people do it differently
• The one thing in life with no solution (Gladys' mother was right)

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