Verne Harnish about finding and keeping A-Players, old corporate structures and OKR’s

Purpose is the pitch Episode N° 23 with Jeff Rosen and Konstantin Schimert.

Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 16,000 members worldwide. He’s the author of the bestseller „Mastering the Rockefeller Habits“ and wrote „Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)“ which has been translated into 22 languages and has won eight major international book awards.

Verne also chairs the annual ScaleUp Summits and serves on several boards. He also privately invests in many scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

📌 Link to the Caggle: https://www.kaggle.com/
📚 Link to Verne’s latest Book: https://scalingup.com/book/
📌 Link to the Jim Clifton Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU7hsXb9ddI
📚 Link to the Book „The Goal“: https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1024469461

In this episode, we discussed the following topics, among others:

00:00 Intro
00:31 Why Verne founded ScaleUp
04:10 How much magic do magicians really use?
07:59 Why the business of ScaleUp is booming in 2022
10:37 How can a company find and keep A-players
18:24 What are the differences between European and American companies?
22:04 How can europe become a pioneer in digital business?
26:49 Verne on outdated views of corporate structures
35:48 Is a large or small team better for strategic planning?
40:23 How we should use OKR’s correctly
45:16 Whats one thing, Verne would like to know
46:24 If you could choose, who would you like to meet?
49:08 If you could change one thing in the world, what would you change?
56:45 Verne’s Book and Podcast recommendation