55. How to Overcome Ego & Win Culture of Leadership
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- Management
Andrew Bartlow has 25 years of HR and organizational management experience. He is passionate about helping leaders identify their strengths and weaknesses and he has an empathetic approach to helping them improve the way they run their businesses and manage their employees. Andrew discusses a wide range of topics from his new book, Scaling for Success – where the focus is on people being the priority when working on scaling your business.
Andrew and I have very similar views on the use of personality assessment tools when making hiring decisions- that it’s a very poor way of identifying a good fit in an organization. We also go into quite a bit of detail around Andrew’s theory around the two founder archetypes – Mule-drivers and Prophets – both coming with their specific strengths and weaknesses. Andrew breaks down his process of working with each of these founder-types to help them understand their role in the successes and failures of their organizations. He works with these founders to improve their weaknesses or hire someone with strengths that complement their weaknesses. If you are a founder and not sure why there may be frustrations in your organization, listen up, you may just get the insight you need from today’s episode.
Discussion Points
All about ego
The Ego traps
The Mule-driver vs Prophet archetype founders
Impact of people in a “Prophet-founded” organization
How Andrew approaches these founders
RACI – tool
HR in a Mule-driver organization
Tools for founders (spoiler – the tool doesn’t matter)
Making decisions using tools are dangerous
Developing trust in teams
Advice for prophet founders
Advice to mule-driver founders
The greatest impact in Andrew’s leadership journey
Resources
Brendan Rogers Website
Brendan Rogers LinkedIn
The Culture of Leadership Podcast Website
The Culture of Leadership LinkedIn
The Culture of Leadership Facebook Page
The Culture of Leadership YouTube Channel
The Culture of Leadership Instagram
Andrew Bartlow LinkedIn
People Leader Accelerator
Series B Consulting
Speak on Podcasts – Andrew Bartlow
Daniel Pink – Drive
5 Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni
RACI – tool
Myers-Briggs indicator
Predictive index
Scaling for Success – Book
If you have any questions for Brendan around this episode or generally around culture, leadership or teamwork, feel free to contact him here.
Andrew Bartlow has 25 years of HR and organizational management experience. He is passionate about helping leaders identify their strengths and weaknesses and he has an empathetic approach to helping them improve the way they run their businesses and manage their employees. Andrew discusses a wide range of topics from his new book, Scaling for Success – where the focus is on people being the priority when working on scaling your business.
Andrew and I have very similar views on the use of personality assessment tools when making hiring decisions- that it’s a very poor way of identifying a good fit in an organization. We also go into quite a bit of detail around Andrew’s theory around the two founder archetypes – Mule-drivers and Prophets – both coming with their specific strengths and weaknesses. Andrew breaks down his process of working with each of these founder-types to help them understand their role in the successes and failures of their organizations. He works with these founders to improve their weaknesses or hire someone with strengths that complement their weaknesses. If you are a founder and not sure why there may be frustrations in your organization, listen up, you may just get the insight you need from today’s episode.
Discussion Points
All about ego
The Ego traps
The Mule-driver vs Prophet archetype founders
Impact of people in a “Prophet-founded” organization
How Andrew approaches these founders
RACI – tool
HR in a Mule-driver organization
Tools for founders (spoiler – the tool doesn’t matter)
Making decisions using tools are dangerous
Developing trust in teams
Advice for prophet founders
Advice to mule-driver founders
The greatest impact in Andrew’s leadership journey
Resources
Brendan Rogers Website
Brendan Rogers LinkedIn
The Culture of Leadership Podcast Website
The Culture of Leadership LinkedIn
The Culture of Leadership Facebook Page
The Culture of Leadership YouTube Channel
The Culture of Leadership Instagram
Andrew Bartlow LinkedIn
People Leader Accelerator
Series B Consulting
Speak on Podcasts – Andrew Bartlow
Daniel Pink – Drive
5 Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni
RACI – tool
Myers-Briggs indicator
Predictive index
Scaling for Success – Book
If you have any questions for Brendan around this episode or generally around culture, leadership or teamwork, feel free to contact him here.