Episode 004 - Paul Butler and the Power of Strategic Thinking: $100k+ Insights

Meet Paul Butler. Paul is one of the world’s most accomplished and in-demand leadership coaches/advisors and facilitators. With a client list that is a who’s who, he can see how the world’s most effective managers lead. He is known as one of those rare people with dual capability in organizational excellence and strategic decision making. He is also known for using his vast network to connect people who help each other make the world a better place.

Chapters

00:00 Sabir Welcomes Paul Butler

12:58 Why It’s Important to Define Success

15:34 Why Your Assumptions are Holding You Back

19:28 Change Your Assumptions Now

20:56 What You Can Learn from Keurig’s Growth

22:46 It’s All About Scope

29:07 Data is the Backbone of Business

27:33 What Does it Mean to be Number 1?

34:55 The Vital Few Rule

38:53 Working Collectively as a Business

41:30 The Biases That Could be Hurting Your Business

46:00 Paul Butler on “Hiring the Pizzaman”

47:20 The Questions You Need to Ask Yourself

51:40 Don’t Let the Loudest Person in the Room Dictate Your Meetings

58:12 The Ultimate Growth Hack from Paul Butler



After a successful career in senior management roles in sales/marketing and HR with Pfizer and Procter & Gamble (Gillette), where he led large organizations, he founded GlobalEdg, a firm dedicated to providing value to organizations. Working with organizations of all sizes from start-ups to large corporations, he has helped thousands of employees in more than 50 different organizations. There are over 3,000 alumni in his internationally known STAR (Strategic Thinking - Action - Results) program.



Paul is the co-author of Think to Win, Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking as well as many articles on strategic leadership. He can also be found interviewing some of the world’s most successful leaders on the Association of Talent Development Leadership Diary Podcast series.



A sampling of clients includes Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Green Mountain-Keurig, Jamba Juice, Mead-Johnson, Staples, Cardinal Health, Metro AG, Hanes Europe, and Johnson and Johnson. Non-Profit work consists of The Sandy Hook Promise, CECP (the CEO Force for Good), and National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management.



He is the founder of the Career Transition Ministry, a non-denomination group dedicated to helping people in their job search.



Paul is also the founder of The HR Leadership Forum, Exclusively for Senior-Level HR Leaders who are professionally dedicated and committed to pushing the boundaries in HR Functional Excellence.



He is a board member of Arts Escape and served as an officer of the Society for Sales and Marketing Training.



In conjunction with his consulting business, he regularly participates in the public discussion via conferences and published articles.



Paul is an “empty nester” and lives in Connecticut with his wife, Becky. He is an avid runner and a frustrated golfer.

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