The 8am Standup

Today's podcast continues to present passages from my new book "The Compass." Today's leadership point on the leadership compass is something you will have heard mesay at the end of every podcast.   What matters most is what you do next. Enjoy - Subscribe - New Episodes Monday -Friday at, you guessed it: 8am EST

Good Day. Perhaps the most critical aspect of leadership and the one "make or break" characteristic of great leaders is theirfocus on helping their people become the best version of themselves.   Great leaders are always accountable for their people'ssuccess. From the moment they make the decision to bring someone onto their team, leaders are entrusted with that person's developm...

Time, it seems, is important. Especially important given today's leadership lesson from "The Compass"  is about the relationship of time to delivering value.   Today, the subject is Dietrich's Law of Program Delivery. While Dietrich's Law grew from delivering technology programs, and was the North Star for the 24 Hour Delivery model, the law applies to any venture that you ar...

Good Day. Today's podcast is from my new book "The Compass." Like yesterday's podcast, the topic is one of the critical leadership compass points. This one taken from the "achieve results" quadrant. More on that in the podcast. Enjoy. Have a great day. MM

Happy New Year. It's been a minute. This standup podcast is from "The Compass" - my new book. The podcast contains one of the points on my leadership compass. Never Confuse Kindness with Weakness. This is an important point on my leadership compass and you can't be a great leader if you confuse kindness with weakness. Kindness is a leadership strength. Remember, what matters most...

I recently read an interesting article from Oracle. The Article is titled, "5 Actions CFOs Can Take Now to Fuel Growth and Profitability" and the article focuses on the actions CFOs can take to prepare for the end of economic uncertainty that will enable their company to leap ahead and outperform their competitors. Today's podcast addresses the topics in the article, from an action p...

Today's topic comes from a conversation I had with a new friend of mine. In our conversation, she told me that we have moved on from the period of the great resignation and today, we are in the period of The Great Reflection.  She was speaking to her observation that people are stopping to take account of their careers, perhaps even their lives and redefining their life to reflect what makes t...

As you embark on your journey to implement your next technology platform, you will face a number of important decisions.  Selecting the right technology is a big decision, but selecting a partner or partners to work with you through the implementation is just as important.  While you will be living with the new technology for years, likely decades, your implementation partner may be around for mor...

Today's topic reintroduces Jim Collin's book "Good to Great", and expands on the necessary elements to make the leap from good to great, introducing new critical metrics that are necessary for those working inside organizations making the leap from good to great. The podcast also introduces other new concepts, including the Transformation Blueprint. As you may have noticed, all p...

Over the past several months, the 8am Standup has focused on two main themes: Level-5 leadership and Value Driven Delivery. In this podcast, hear how these are critical to your good-to-great transformation and learn more about Value Driven Delivery, the Transformation Blueprint and what's next. Remember, what matters most is what you do next. MM

The key to moving fast and achieving execution bias is to always maintain situational awareness. In normal day-to-day, the standards, processes and procedures you use to maintain situational awareness change infrequently. However, in times of rapidly evolving technology, market changes and especially in transformations, companies lose situational awareness and slow down or stop, creating a drag on...

Today, people, communities and companies must face the fact and realized that the pace of technology change is not going to slow. We can see things we have never seen before. Our unstructured data, the images, excel files, documents, PDF's, PowerPoint, video calls, TEAM's Chats, policies, procedures, standards and all those things that identify us as people and communities and companies ar...

This is McLaughlin Moore. Never let a good crisis go to waste. This podcast talks about the three key lessons and remedies for CEO's and Boards to consider to take back control. CrowdStrike outage was not unthinkable, it was inevitable. Learn how to use the opportunity to leap forward.

Happy Memorial Day weekend.  To my fellow veterans and those still serving in our armed forces, thank you for your sacrifices. Wait, did you think I said that wrong, shouldn't I be saying "thank you for your service"?  No, I think we have that part wrong.  Service members serve, but we should be thanking them for the many sacrifices that they have made and are making every day for al...

Good day. This is McLaughlin Moore. Today's podcast is about how to deal with a common blocker to strategic programs and transformations. When you find that accountability and authority are misaligned and that you are struggling with the HOW to deal with issues when they arise, establish Rules of Engagement. Thanks for listening.

General George Patton once said, "If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." This podcast is about the trouble with group think and how it can be masking a dangerous leadership issue in your organization. In this podcast you will hear the story of how group think and steering committees were leveraged to derail a global transformation. You can't make this up.

"To a Hammer, everything is a Nail." People exhibit a cognitive bias to cling to familiar tools. This cognitive bias is called the Law of the Instrument. Unchecked, this law is derailing your use of new technologies and it will certainly obstruct your attempt to introduce Gen Ai or create new ways of working. This podcast may help you overcome this cognitive bias. Enjoy.

The past is a good predictor of the future if nothing changes: Everything Changes. Ever struggle on how to deal with those conversations that start with "we've always done it this way' or "we tried that before"? Well, invest 3 minutes on learning how to overcome this common transformation obstacle. Enjoy.

"When you think you've tried everything, you haven't" - Thomas Edison. Edison was relentless, he was indefatigable. He was also one of the greatest innovators. His genius was in his determination to find solutions. Edison would not quit until he had succeeded - no matter how many times he failed. Edison considered failure as just steps in the process. If you are leading innovatio...

"You can't build your reputation on what you are going to do" Henry Ford. Today's podcast is about reputation. In business and in life, your reputation is sometimes the only thing you have - so, you need to protect it. But how do you build your reputation? That is what today's podcast is about. It's a short podcast, but an important lesson. Too many people spend their tim...

The two variables in physics that govern acceleration are Mass and Force.  If you add Mass, you have to increase Force to achieve acceleration.  If you have less mass, you need less force to achieve acceleration. Mass and Force. So, why the physics refresher?  Listen and see.

You have heard of the idea that their are seven deadly sins. They are meant to convey a warning and they are countered by seven virtues. Things you should avoid and things you should focus on. In Business, there may be be 7 deadly sins, but in my experience, there is only one fatal flaw.  That flaw is confusing kindness with weakness. For people who confuse kindness with weakness, their fate seems...

Last week I talked about ABC traits and how the "A" traits are different when you take on a leadership role. A friend of mine called me after the podcast and asked me if I was holding back one that I had spoken about in the past.  I was. I left it out, focusing instead on the leadership qualities of being approachable, affable and accountable. However, my friend my right, there is anothe...

The number of women in technology remains shockingly low, diversity in organizations is a work in progress but we can leverage transformations to accelerate increasing the number of women in technology, drive diversity and inclusion. This Podcast may help you see how to use transformations as a way to "level the playing field."

Behind my desk on the wall is a sign that says "Meetings aren't work."  It isn't to remind me but to be a reminder, perhaps a warning to everyone else.  The time spent in meetings has tripled since 2020. We are robbing our knowledge workers of the one thing we can't give them back - Time. There are ways to fight back. Here are a few things to consider.