Episode 248: Where You Sit Shapes What You See

I was thinking quite a bit about, because occasionally I hear from former CEOs and I've heard from a couple recently.

And we talk about some of the bold work That we did.

And then we talked to someone.

I said, why did you ever let us do that? And first of all, the response was we didn't let you because you tended, meaning us, those of us in OD, to understand the business.

Yes.

Before you made a suggestion or that we could amplify it or minimize whatever needed.

We could tailor make an intervention.

I loved working internally because you could go out with your basket and pick up vibes or needs for the business.

And you have to love the business to do it.

I love supermarket business.

I'm a supermarket kind of gal.

Yeah.

And of course, when you've got good people, it helps.

And the companies we work with knew how to hire good people.

And that's the number one thing.

You can't do anything without that.

And I'm thinking then, too, of the external OD people who usually have an approach or a product that they are really good in.

It's their keynote address or whatever, however you want to put it.

And that we need to be careful with bringing into fits with the organization and not just buy a product.

And I've known good results from that and I've known bad results from that.

What I love about OD interventions, we can talk more about that, is it grows the internal talent.