Overview
On this episode of Build Your Network, Host Travis Chappell interviews Ron Carucci, co-founder and managing partner at Navalent with a 30-year track record of helping some of the world’s most most influential executives tackle strategy, organization, and leaderships.
Topics Discussed:
- About Ron Carucci:
- Regular contributor to HBR, Forbes, featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Business Insider, MSNBC, Inc., Businessweek, Smart Business, and Thought Leaders.
- What are you most excited about?
- Personally – they have a brand new dog.
- Professionally-
- He’s doing research again.
- When you first got started, was it on purpose?
- It was a random discovery.
- He began his career in the arts, working in NYC.
- He got bored easily in his first career and left NY to live in the middle east with a touring company.
- That began a multiple year shift into organizational behavior and behavioral science.
- What got him in trouble inside organizations made him a lot of money outside of them.
- Did you go back to school for behavior and human development?
- He did go back and get his master’s.
- It was paid for by his employer.
- He loved that a bunch of people could do something together than an individual can’t do.
- Where did your mindset come from?
- He realized he could have impact, it was just harder to do within a company.
- He felt like he owed the people who were relying on him the truth.
- How did you get people to arrive at a certain way of thinking?
- He started by screwing up a lot.
- He began to realize that people weren’t ready to hear what he was saying.
- Talk to us about the ten year study on executive transition you did?
- An investigation in one case began the ten year study.
- More than half of leaders who take on broader roles fail in 18 months.
- The data was incredibly rich and revealing.
- With all the landmines organizations put in front of people, it’s a wonder any leaders succeed.
- Talk about your book Rising to Power.
- The book talks about what does ascent look like, and what do you do when you come to power.
- The patterns we identify as success factors are widely received and recognized as things that ascending leaders do.
- Do you believe that what you know or who you know is more important, and why?
- Finding out how to apply what you know to you you know is vital.
- If you’re introverted, the idea of networking is not appealing.
- We don’t often teach people what it means to have a connection with someone.
- What is the number one way to get better at reading people?
- Go to a therapist and learn the basics of your own wiring.
- Never assume that you know.
- Practice and get other people to give you feedback.
- If you claim that you believe that relationship building is vital to your success, but leave it up to chance, then you’re belying that you believe in relationships.
The Random Round:
- What profession other than your own do you think it would be fun to attempt?
- Restauranteering
- If you could sit on a park bench with anyone for an hour who would it be, and why?
- Alvin Toffler the futurist
- How do you like to consume content?
- Videos, blogs, books.
- Give us a piece of content you’d recommend?
- Barking Up the Wrong Tree blog
- The Culture Code book
- Give us a glimpse of your morning routine?
- He picks a coffee mug and is grateful for the experience behind it.
- What is your go-to pump up song?
- Live Like That by Sidewalk Prophets
- What is something that you are not very good at?
- Ironing
- Organizing piles of paper.
- What is one place where we can find you the most?
- Navalent.com
- On social @roncarucci
Tweetable Quotes:
- What got him in trouble inside organizations made him a lot of money outside of them.
- With all the landmines organizations put in front of people, it’s a wonder any leaders succeed.
- Trust is a currency.
Resources Mentioned:
Buildyournetwork.co – Podcast website
BYN.media/fb – Facebook Group
Rising to Power – book by Ron Carucci
Barking up the Wrong Tree blog
The Culture Code book by Daniel Coyle
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