Episode #22 - CEO LP Building Solutions with Brad Southern

In this episode of The Leadership and Learning Podcast, host Randy Goruk has a conversation with Brad Southern, CEO LP Building Solutions. They discuss career advice for leaders, developing and implementing strategy, the importance of innovation and managing change. You'll also learn: What it takes to prepare to become the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company. The importance of broadening your experience that takes you out of your comfort zone. The importance of delegating responsibility and holding people accountable for achieving goals. Empowerment is more effective than telling people how to do something. The bias for action and the impact of the ripple effect. Learning to be confident around your judgement and experiences is a key leadership development trait. Leadership can set a pace around decision making and action that can turn a team into a high-performance team. The value of having a disciplined, rigorous and quantitative strategic planning process. How to transition areas of 'value destruction' to 'opportunities for value creation'. What to do to address the challenges that come with change. Communication must be transparent, forthright and interesting. How aligning the reward system with strategy implementation can help overcome change resistance. Change for the sake of change doesn't make sense, however constantly looking for ways to improve is important to long term success (and survival). Forget vendor, think true business partner. Why the need for innovation in the industry is so high today. Tips for emerging leaders to achieve leadership success.  You will take home plenty of helpful nuggets, including; "An accelerator to developing good leadership skills is when you are managing in uncomfortable situations or when in areas where you're not the expert."