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Sep 22, 2026
John R. MilesHOST
Thank you for sharing that.
John R. MilesHOST
From my experience from working inside these Fortune 50 companies is that I think the companies that do not practice where I think you're getting at, is diversity of thought, end up creating these bubbles where everyone has groupthink.
John R. MilesHOST
And I always thought the companies I was in that allowed for diversity of thought and other people's opinions on where the company should be going really had better outcomes, and it's probably why when you look at the Fortune 500 from 20 years ago, 50 to 60% of those companies don't even exist anymore-
Alex EdmansGUEST
Mm
John R. MilesHOST
... because I think they have too much groupthink, and they don't keep along with the times and anticipate the future because they become too tied to what's already worked and not what's gonna work in the future.
Jesse KellyHOST
The food you're feeding your baby, that's the economy.
Jesse KellyHOST
The economy is not Fortune 500 companies and the stock market.
Jesse KellyHOST
The economy is every single part of our society that works to provide for people.
Jesse KellyHOST
There are more important things than the economy, life and death.
Ramani DurvasulaHOST
So the next day she leaves work early and she drives to the craft beer place to do what I guess would be, we'd call reconnaissance, right? She calls her friend.
Ramani DurvasulaHOST
And she's on the phone with her and she's like, oh, my gosh, what am I doing? I am like, literally, I work at a Fortune 500 company and I'm sitting in my car playing freaking CSI on a stakeout.
Ramani DurvasulaHOST
What is happening? And she'd saw stuff.
Ramani DurvasulaHOST
It was like it was early, like it was the afternoon and we were getting ready for happy hour.
Darrell Fincher-CruzanGUEST
But I also think the downside of that is that when you give so much of yourself to others, you deplete yourself, you deplete your soul, you deplete your values.
Courtney O'ConnellHOST
I spent two decades as a Fortune 500 head of HR sitting in the rooms where promotions were decided.
Courtney O'ConnellHOST
I'm Courtney O'Connell, and I'm bringing you
Darrell Fincher-CruzanGUEST
Inside the Promotion Room.
Holland MartiniGUEST
Like, I love that challenge.
Holland MartiniGUEST
But I would say sometimes that, you know, that comes with the nature of working with Fortune 500 clients.
Jeff BarrettHOST
Right.
Jeff BarrettHOST
Because I have this thing sometimes like I'll point to these brands that everybody like from the advertising world that they'll be like, this is the most creative brand I've ever seen.
John CarlinHOST
So why am I talking about this? Well, I have always thought that there is value in pushing through something.
John CarlinHOST
And I came from an area in central New York where I grew up, where I had a Fortune 500 president tell me years ago he had a company there.
John CarlinHOST
And I had moved away and found him and was interviewing him on a separate topic.
John CarlinHOST
But when I shared with him that I was from there, he said, those are the hardest working people I have ever seen.
Shane RyanGUEST
So, yeah, answer is I think it should be, you know, like a job, like any normal job interview.
Shane RyanGUEST
What were you what would you do if you were trying to choose a CEO for your Fortune 500 company? Right.
Shane RyanGUEST
Would it be a bunch of people like would it be like three employees and one executive deciding over a phone call without talking to anybody? Like, no, it would be an exhaustive search.
Shane RyanGUEST
So the more the more research you do into that, the more effort you put into it, you're not going to get a captain who doesn't get it.
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Shane RyanGUEST
You know, the captain they pick may be a great one, right? You may get Paul Azinger who really takes it seriously.
Shane RyanGUEST
But if you have a good management structure, it's going to follow from that that they pick a good captain.
Shane RyanGUEST
So it would be like asking, you know – in a fortune 500 company, is it more important to have a good, like, you know, manager of your largest branch, or is it more important to have a strong CEO and executive board? And it's like, obviously the executive board, right? Because they're going to put a good manager in place there anyway.
Shane RyanGUEST
So that's what I would say.
Richard BrooGUEST
More or less.
Richard BrooGUEST
Again, I was raised in a Fortune 500, which everything you did had to be recorded to the Nats, you know what.
Richard BrooGUEST
The small to mids, they really – if I walk into an engineering department and I'm working on, say, a budget overrun and trying to figure that out with them, it's very difficult to extract that financial data from the operations because, again, they don't – the accountability that you talked about, that's what you ultimately need to stay on budget.
Richard BrooGUEST
And also on the schedule.
AaronGUEST
Way ahead of time.
AaronGUEST
What else is he trying to say? It's going to be the Fortune 500 corporations in the media, which are the most liberal and also the most free enterprise.
AaronGUEST
I don't mean free enterprise in like a libertarian context.
AaronGUEST
I mean, like they eat amongst each other.
Matt ThomasGUEST
You know, I'm not surprised, frankly.
Matt ThomasGUEST
You know, with as much money as Houston, Texas has, being one of the biggest cities in the country and all the Fortune 500 companies, we're splitting up time in these parts.
Matt ThomasGUEST
We're splitting it with A&M.
Matt ThomasGUEST
We're splitting it with Texas Tech.
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