The Problem with Reorgs and How to Do Better, with Phil Le-Brun

Dave Stachowiak· Host0:00

Most of us have gone through some version of a reorg. A lot of leaders have also implemented their own reorgs. Sometimes they work. Many times they don't. In this episode, what goes wrong with reorgs and how we can do better. This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 786. [upbeat music] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential. [upbeat music] Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stachowiak. Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show helps leaders thrive at key inflection points. An inflection point that comes up all the time in organizations is the reorg. So many of us have been through reorgs. We have led them. We have been part of them. We have had them done to us many, many times. And the reorg is one of those things that we love to hate. Uh, some organizations do it really well, some organizations not so much. And yet, we don't often think about the big picture behind reorgs. Today, what tends to go wrong and also how we can do just a bit better. I'm so pleased to welcome Phil Le-Brun to the show. He's an executive in residence at Amazon Web Services and a former corporate VP and international CIO at the McDonald's Corporation. He is a sought-after speaker and has been featured in The Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian. He is the co-author, along with Jana Werner, of The Octopus