As every company has its own flavor of nonsense, it is the management's responsibility first to pick the right team to do the job and, second, to remove all the noise from corporate politics so that team can focus on the important and not the urgent. Our guest, Mark Sanders, believes that his job as CFO is as simple as building a team of smart people, helping them set clear goals, and then just letting them do their job.

Mark Sanders is the CFO at Linksys. He is an entrepreneurial and adaptive corporate leader with vast accounting and public company experience. Mark assessed and directed new tactics and KPIs to drive growth in product and service areas, promoted culture transformation, reorganized leadership teams, and led all financial aspects of successful client proposals for multiple Top 20 Us advertisers. He also developed alternative client revenue streams and served as agency executive lead and decision-maker in a relocation project to 3 World Trade Center of a 4,200 person and 700,000 square foot project.

In this episode, our conversation spins around the idea of inspiring leadership, granting our teams freedom to create and act. We talk about the courage to jump into the unknown, the power of resilience to come back from mistakes and errors, and how being organized and setting clear expectations can determine a project's success. Mark also shared peak moments in his career and the uncomfortable feeling of making massive mistakes with the potential to cause devastating effects on his career and the company he was representing.

Tune in and listen to episode 11 and learn about Mark's unique approach to management, team building, and how we can use curiosity as a powerful ally to grow and expand our leadership skills.

Some Questions I Ask:

Every leader has their own management style for success. What's yours? (2:20)

What story can you share about a peak accomplishment in your career that inspires you? (4:04)

What story can you share? That was a disappointment? And how did your resilience overcome it? (10:10)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

Every company has its own flavor of nonsense. How should leaders deal with it (3:03)

The courage needed to jump into the unknown (7:08)

How being organized and helping people organize themselves helped Mark hugely during his career (20:35)

Brilliant ideas are contextual. Although brilliancy is always welcomed, we must confirm those ideas fit our company's needs and context (21:41)

About the power hidden in mastering patience (27:18)

Mark shares some words of wisdom on how to build a successful career (30:27)

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An Inquisitive and Protective Approach To Leadership with Mark Sanders

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