Bryan Ungard: Designing organizations around purpose

This episode is a conversation with Bryan Ungard, the Chief Purpose Officer of Decurion. He is accountable for the ways in which Decurion operates its businesses so there is no tradeoff between excellent business and human flourishing. Bryan joined Decurion as its Chief Information Officer. He received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Hiram College and his Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan. Bryan holds a 2nd Dan black belt in Aikido. In our conversation we dive deep into how an organization's purpose can dictate a much more meaningful culture & structure than is often found. Show notes: -3:13 Bryan explains how he got into aikido and a fun story of a tiny person throwing around a huge one. -5:55 Bryan describes his lifelong curiosity -6:47 Bryan describes Decurion, a business that runs movie theaters, elder care homes and more. He describes how it has a different culture, a deliberately developmental culture, that has led to its success and attracted media attention. -7:59 Despite being interesting in developing people, Decurion and other organizations should start by getting clear on their largest purpose -9:04 Bryan describes an example of how Decurion operates differently, not trying to have an employee do something repeatable forever but more about where the employee is heading in life. -13:11 Bryan describes 2 main challenges to making organizations like Decurion -19:30 Making organizational values & culture feel alive requires constant reinvention, there's no easy playbook -21:17 Bryan shares about how he shifted from running an IT business into seeking more Purpose, eventually ending up at Decurion. -31:37 How big dreams often miss the capacity building work required to make them possible Thank you to the following artists for the music we sampled in this episode: Computer, by State Shirt (licensed under creative commons)

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This episode is 35:44 long.

This episode was published on Dec 10, 2018.

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