Is it your people or your process? The Ready CEO Rodney Evans on fixing how work gets done.

919. When your team keeps missing its goals, is it a people problem or a process problem? Most leaders assume it’s the people. After 20 years inside organizations, Rodney Evans rarely buys it. The CEO of The Ready joins host Rachel Cooke to explain why people respond rationally to the systems they work in, and why leaders can hire heroes to overcome a broken system only until those heroes burn out and leave. Rodney and Rachel dig into why leaders dismiss day-to-day fixes as too small to matter, how Rodney gets CEOs to pay attention to meetings and who gets to decide what, and why debates like whether remote work is real are still going a decade later. Plus, she offers advice for anyone feeling stuck, starting with finding out what their real constraints are.

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