In this episode, I chatted with CEO David Woods about his career in business here in Oklahoma City. A career that has taken him all over the world. David’s current role is CEO of Magellan Executive Partners. As CEO, David is passionate about helping CEOs and owners grow their organizations, their leaders, and […]
In their upcoming book, “The Insignificant CEO: The Art & Science of Transformational Leadership,” David Woods and Brent Douglas explain what it takes to become significant through a heart for insignificance.Woods is the CEO of GiANT Partners and has over 30 years’ experience building high-growth companies. Also the former CEO of Ditch Witch Construction Equipment, […]
Accomplishment always trumps activity. It doesn’t matter if you and your team are really busy – if you’re not really executing on your strategy, you will never be successful. In this video, David Woods and Brent Douglas, Strategists at Magellan, provide the 3 keys to making sure your team is ‘moving the needle’.
The world moves pretty fast. One of the biggest challenges executives face is keeping their team focused on what’s important in the face of all the changing realities around us. In this video, David Woods, Strategist at Magellan provides some tips for helping your team adjust to change.
As the father of teenage boys, I’m always telling them to ‘make good choices’. We’ve been very blessed, largely because we made sure they had a good framework (morals, work ethic, discipline, etc.) with which to make those decisions. At work, however, I always struggled with how to get my team to where I could be […]
The pareto principal tells us that 20% of our activity yields 80% of our results, and we’ve found this to be very true. Typically, 20% of your customers generate 80% of your profit; 20% of your products generate 80% of your volume – you get the idea. One of the biggest challenges executives face is […]
One of the hardest challenges Executives face is getting their team aligned and on the same page. In this video Brent Douglas, strategist and President of Magellan Executive Partners, discusses the skill of ‘Teaching the Organization to Think’ as part of your overall strategy.
