August 2022 Recap

Themes from our?August Third Turn podcasts and blog posts?centered around leading toward clarity, excellence, and continued growth for our organizations and ourselves as leaders.

Recent Podcast Episodes

Noteworthy quote:

"When you have a good board in place you have all of those advisors at your disposal, folks with experience, with history, and expertise that is not your own. If you're the entrepreneur, the CEO heading up an organization, and you can benefit from all that, that's the real joy in having a board at your disposal."

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Noteworthy quote:

‘And there's such a dearth of the kind of leading that is needed to help organizations continue. That's why as we were doing some study on this a couple of months ago, we were learning that out of 100 people that enter the workplace, only 14 are going to lead an organization at some point in their career, and only two of them are going to lead the organization that they lead through to successful succession. Those were paltry numbers, paltry, they are really disappointing to learn.’

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Key Themes

Continuing to lean in?– Perhaps it seems unnecessary to say, but outcomes would indicate otherwise: Continuing to lean into dynamic needs and unfolding opportunities differentiates Maestro-level leaders when other Third Turn leaders might be tempted to downshift.

• Future Value?reminds us that steady, inspirational core leadership continues to build toward long-term value. In Mark’s own words:?‘The best leaders I worked with (I’m sad not to supply a long list of such persons) not only built long-term value for an organization but built up people who care about building long-term value through people who care about long-term value.’
• In?Development Needs of Senior Executives (Third Turn Podcast Episode 53) we share the woeful statistics—that for every 100 people who enter the workplace, on average 14 will end up leading an organization and of those, just two will lead the organization through what is deemed a successful transition. And we share development opportunities to help leaders stay strong, generative, and adaptive.

Excellence all around?– In?Excellence in Corporate Governance (Third Turn Podcast Episode 52), Kendra Fiscelli shares wisdom and insights with us. Pursuit of operational excellence does not necessarily, but should ideally yield similar pursuit of governance excellence; with parallel strategies of recruitment, culture, continuous improvement, and communication—just like on the ops side.

Helpful Concepts

Honey! We’ve Found Clarity!?advocates that while finding and maintaining organizational clarity is not easy, recognizing and facilitating the ways it can emerge—whether deliberatively/formally or serendipitously through moments of insights—and patiently watching for others to grasp it via discourse and collaboration are key.?

Some Inspiration

The importance of setting aside time to think adaptively and generatively—especially as Third Turn leaders—is a?Development Need for Senior Executives that’s critical and foundational to future value.

In Closing...

May we be leaders who continue to grow and develop our own leadership, as well as the organizations we serve. ~ Kristin

Kristin Evenson | Facilitator & Executive Advisor |?Maestro-level leaders

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