AGL 265: James Wetrich on Where Leaders Go Wrong

About Jim

stifledJames G. Wetrich, LFACHE is the CEO of The Wetrich Group of Companies and the author of Stifled: Where Good Leaders Go Wrong. His writing has also appeared in the 2021 anthology series Quitless: The Power of Persistence in Business and Life, a USA Today and WSJ best seller. Having led teams in three continents over more than 40 years and consulted with over 100 companies, Jim has seen great leaders who have thrived and ones that have failed. A noted expert in leadership, Jim’s leadership lessons are as highly sought after by today’s business students as they are Baby Boomers. From 2006 to 2014, Jim built a team at Molnlycke Health Care that grew the revenue over 7 times and the EBITDA over 20 times creating over $1BN growth in enterprise value and taking the US business from number 5 to number 1 in the served market with an employee satisfaction index over 95%. Jim is passionate about diversity and inclusion and hosted a two-day meeting for all women in the organization (not just high potentials) to discuss their unique challenges. As the founder and CEO of The Wetrich Group of Companies, Jim focuses now on coaching and mentorship and spreading his leadership lessons to help individuals become better leaders and organizations create great leaders and managers.

Today We Talked About

  • Jim’s background
  • Leadership issues that we face
  • Where Leaders go wrong
  • Letting go
  • Ego
  • Training
  • Demotivating your team
  • Not all interactions should be transactional
  • “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care” – John Maxwell
  • Celebrate our Successes
  • Work-life Balance
  • Expectations
  • Self-awareness
  • 360 Reviews
  • Remote Work
  • Retrospective
  • Being Vulnerable

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