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Hosted by Sarah Wilson and Penny Cook · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 23 episodes
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We’re two fractional COOs who have spent our careers inside growing, complex businesses helping founders and leadership teams turn strategy into execution. While we share the same seat, we bring very different operating lenses, including different instincts, backgrounds, and approaches to solving the same problems. Alongside candid conversations between the two of us, we interview operations leaders, founders, and practitioners who live in the execution layer of business. This is a space for thoughtful, real-world discussions about how the work gets done right.
Sarah Wilson and Penny Cook hosts Operating on PURPOSE, a business show with 23 episodes published.
The conversation delves into the complexities of the pricing function in business, exploring the challenges, strategies, and key considerations for effective pricing. It emphasizes the need for a clear owner, logical rul
The conversation delves into the challenges of managing cash flow and inventory, emphasizing the importance of understanding inventory turns, leveraging business size, and owning the number. It also highlights the narrat
In this conversation, Penny Cook and Sarah Wilson discuss the challenges of overdelivering and the importance of launching a minimum viable product (MVP). They provide insights on defining the scope, avoiding feature ove
The conversation explores the impact of silence during periods of uncertainty, emphasizing the need for early and transparent communication. It delves into the fear of losing control, the burden of leadership, and the im
The conversation explores the challenges of operations within growing companies and provides three key questions for ops leaders to ask regularly. These questions focus on system adaptability, information capture, and co
The conversation delves into the critical factors for ERP project success, emphasizing the importance of scope management, change management, and resource protection. It highlights the role of leaders in making key decis
The conversation explores the essential prerequisites for leveraging AI in business operations. It emphasizes the importance of providing context to AI, using AI for high-leverage tasks, and maintaining human oversight i
The conversation explores the concept of a 'try harder' culture and its impact on organizations. It delves into the identification of this culture, reframing errors as system signals, and designing operations at the righ
The conversation explores the transition from managing individual contributors to managing managers, highlighting the challenges, one-on-one check-ins, cultural check-ins, and performance check-ins as key aspects of effe
The conversation delves into the connection between culture and performance, emphasizing the importance of teaching the number before chasing the number, making recognition bigger than the reward, and building a rhythm f
The conversation highlights the critical role of project sponsorship and the impact it has on project success. It emphasizes the need for sponsors to define and protect the project mission, know when to step in and when
Penny Cook and Sarah Wilson, fractional COOs, share insights into their backgrounds, philosophies, and operational superpowers. They also reveal surprising facts about themselves and discuss their childhood business expe
The conversation explores the limitations of annual surveys and the need for real-time feedback. It delves into the implementation of pulse surveys and the utilization of AI for feedback analysis, emphasizing the importa
The conversation explores the challenge of using metrics effectively in decision-making, emphasizing the importance of choosing the right metrics, understanding lagging and leading indicators, setting thresholds for metr
The conversation explores the challenges of the accountability conversation in businesses and provides practical moves to address the root cause of accountability issues. It emphasizes the systemic nature of accountabili
The conversation provides insights on navigating the AI landscape, asking the right questions, understanding AI training and industry relevance, evaluating fit with workflows, managing the pressure to adopt AI, evaluatin
The conversation explores the challenges of managing change in business and provides actionable steps to effectively manage change. It emphasizes the importance of communication, identifying change champions, and empower
The conversation explores the challenges of managing vendor relationships and provides actionable advice on evaluating, negotiating, and measuring vendor success. It emphasizes the importance of intentional and purposefu
The conversation explores the importance of data visibility and the challenges of balancing data with execution in organizations. It delves into the data trap, the limitations of dashboards, and the significance of opera
The conversation delves into the operational blind spots that quietly erode margin in growing companies. It explores hidden complexity, decisions made without the right data, and misalignment between teams as key themes
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