You’re Chasing Strategic Breakthroughs in the Wrong Place w/ ex-Boeing VP Pat Shanahan

Podcast Spotlights

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When companies are not hitting their business objectives or have poor customer satisfaction, a common comment to this is, “We need a new strategy.” So after the Corporate Strategy Leader or Management Consultant completes the strategic assessment, many times what comes back is, “The Process.”

 

As my first guest, Pat Shanahan, pointed out, strategy is not a process. Pat brings decades of experience:

- Former President/CEO of Spirit AeroSystems

- Former Senior VP at Boeing

- Deputy Sec of Defense and Acting Sec of Defense (2019)

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So how do you make your strategy come to life, create engagement in large, multi-functional organizations, and hit your strategic objectives?

 

What You’ll Discover In This Episode

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- The leadership secret to get the highest levels of engagement from your key people

- How to turn naysayers into champions

- The overlooked advantage of the American worker and how to leverage it

- One thing you MUST know before you set goals

- One tactic to get your people to take immediate problem-solving action

- The first steps Pat recommends leaders take to put a strategic change into action

- The one question Pat asked in meetings that drives deeper thinking and better performance

- The biggest pitfall leaders fall into when looking for a 'strategy' breakthrough

- How to build new strategic initiatives into your 'management system' to ensure that everyone owns their piece

- How the tipping point of 1000 employees affects your change management and your chances of hitting new strategic objectives

- How to make your strategy come to life

- The key to reshoring that works

- How the old model of ‘blue collar vs white collar work' no longer applies

 

Guest Bio

 

Pat Shanahan is an experienced global business and government leader, most recently serving as President and CEO of Spirit AeroSystems. Pat spent three decades with Boeing, with VP roles in Commercial Airplane Programs, Missile Defense Systems, and Rotorcraft Systems. In government, Pat served as the 33rd Deputy Secretary of Defense, as well as Acting Secretary of Defense (2019).