Carl J. Cox is the CEO of 40 Strategy, a strategic planning consulting firm where he helps organizations from around the world navigate their internal practices. With over 15 years of executive leadership experience, he remains a trusted advisor to many high-level organizations due to his proven practices in facilitation, navigation, and scenario planning.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
- How Carl J. Cox peeled back the layers of a construction company’s process to reveal savings worth millions
- The benefits of strategic planning that go beyond financial savings
- An overview of the eight-step process Carl J. Cox uses to identify problems and secure big wins for companies
- Why astronauts get depressed after returning to Earth—and how this insight can help you set goals that keep your company from plateauing
- Carl J. Cox explains what he refers to as the Thanksgiving Effect
- The surprising practice that can produce larger results: an efficiency of words
In this episode…
Have you ever wondered how high-level companies find their way to the top? What if you could learn a strategic process that would significantly change your bottom line?
In this episode of the Measure Success Podcast, Carl J. Cox, CEO of 40 Strategy, talks with Dr. Jeremy Weisz of Rise25 about how he was able to help a company save millions by finding game-changing opportunities within their processes. Carl J. Cox walks us through the eight-step process that he uses to help organizations go from determining their core values to achieving their ultimate goals. He even throws in a case study on astronauts and depression—and how it can help you set better goals.
Resources Mentioned in this episode
Sponsor for this episode…
This episode is sponsored by 40 Strategy.
40 Strategy provides strategic planning and consulting to help organizations realize and achieve their dreams by creating and measuring KPIs for success.
Unfortunately, most organizations only spend 2% of their time—or about 40 hours per year—on building an effective strategy.
Increasing the success of those 40 hours is what 40 Strategy does because your success is their passion—and that’s why organizations look to them for guidance.
Not only does 40 Strategy help you craft and implement an effective strategy, but they’ll also work to facilitate teams with proven practices and help with your scenario planning.
Harvard research shows that you can triple your success when you use the right Key Performance Indicators. Who doesn’t want that?
If you have questions, you can reach out through their website or email them at catch@40strategy.com.
Episode Transcript
Intro 0:03
Welcome to the Measure Success Podcast where we feature top leaders on how they measure success in their business and life. Now, let’s learn from their experiences.
Carl J. Cox 0:18
Carl J. Cox here, and I’m the host of Measure Success Podcast where I talk about top leaders about effective strategies that inspire success. I have Dr. Jeremy Weisz with me here of Rise25, who is in 1000s, of interviews with successful CEOs and organizational leaders who flip the script. And he’ll be interviewing me today.
Jeremy Weisz 0:39
Carl J. Cox, thanks for having me. You know, to me, there’s nothing more exciting. And I say this seriously, as metrics and KPIs. Because that’s if you, if you can’t measure it, you can’t grow it right. And so I’m excited about today’s episode, and we’re gonna talk about one of the companies that you’ve worked with, and you’re going to share some of the things you did to make a huge impact on their company and someone listening that will make a huge impact in their company. And before we get into it, this episode is brought to you by 40 Strategy at 40 Strategy. You know, they provide strategic planning, consulting, to help organizations realize and achieve their dreams, basically, Carl J. Cox, we know what that means, right? Your companies create a measure KPIs for success. And unfortunately, most organizations spend only 2% of their time, or about 40 hours per year, I thought you were gonna say, you know, when we started talking about this, way more than that, per year, building an effective strategy, that’s crazy, and at 40 Strategy, why you need to 40 Strategy, your success is their passion. And that’s why organizations call you, it’s not only that you call it with strategy, but you facilitate their teams with proven practices and Harvard research shows, you know, actually, when you use the right, key performance indicators, you can triple your success. And you know, who doesn’t want that? So if you have questions, you can learn more at 40strategy.com or email them at catch@40strategy.com. Carl J. Cox, there’s this company in the construction industry, just talk about one of the biggest impacts that you have with them, and then we can, you know, get into some of the details.
Carl J. Cox 2:17
Thanks, Dr. Jeremy Weisz. And once again, pleasure to talk to you. But the interesting part, what they did, they came to me is they said, Hey, we have to solve this very specific metric. There, they had a specific measurement within their process of how they get things done. They’re like we did, we didn’t get this from a just say, it took us, you know, 20 hours, and they want to get it down to 19 hours. And so that that was their focus, like, Okay, how do we improve this 5%. And so that was that was there. And so I come in, I start learning a little bit more about the business. And I find out that it wasn’t just about this 20 hour thing, it actually took 160 hours to deliver their whole process natural flow. And so the opportunity, what was the difference
Jeremy Weisz 3:05
there? Why was they thought it was 20? But it was 160? What did you when you started peeling back the layers, what did you find?
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