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Rethinking Leadership: Culture, Feedback, and Boundaries in Modern Organizations with Scott Burgmeyer

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Scott Bergmeier reveals how to overcome invisible barriers to performance and blend operational with human perspectives in leadership.

Minter Dial hosts Scott Bergmeier, co-CEO of the Become More group, in episode 649 of the Minter Dialogue podcast. Scott introduces his company, which focuses on helping individuals and organizations level up over its 33-year history. He discusses his background in chemistry and how it informs his problem-solving approach to human and operational issues. The conversation delves into Scott's experience co-writing five books with his business partner Tammy Rogers, highlighting the importance of setting ego aside and blending perspectives. Scott explains the thinking model from his book 'Think the Road Less Traveled,' which addresses cognitive biases through characters like All-Knowing Albert. He shares a personal anecdote about being wrong on a business strategy and learning to let data override beliefs. The discussion turns to leadership challenges, such as identifying bored employees with untapped capacity by building genuine relationships and understanding aspirations. Scott emphasizes the role of feedback in managing performance, noting that volume can decrease during personal crises but quality must not. He addresses navigating personal topics like politics at work, balancing openness with professional boundaries to avoid influencing employees. Scott introduces the equation performance equals potential minus interference, pointing to self-limiting beliefs as common invisible barriers. He describes using questions to help clients recognize their own interferences rather than directly confronting them. The episode concludes with thoughts on deep thinking versus deep conversation and the potential role of a Chief Optimization Officer in pushing organizational change.

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Leadership gets sharper when feedback, employee aspirations, and unused capacity become connected organizational questions.

Leadership becomes tangible when a leader has to decide what to do with an employee who seems bored, underused, or quietly holding back. Rethinking Leadership follows Scott Bergmeier, co-CEO of the Become More group, from chemistry into organizational development, using that…

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When a capable employee is coasting, you get a candid nudge to look past performance labels and examine the relationship around the work.

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