Brandi Olson Of Real Work Done On How To Take Your Company From Good To Great

An Interview With Ben Ari

What are we learning and how fast can we adapt to do better? Given the reality that change is always with us, the only lasting competitive advantage is how fast we can learn to do better. Great companies need to design themselves to respond to change. The speed of learning and adapting is what enables some companies to sustain high performance over time and other companies to be blindsided by change.

As part of my series about the “How To Take Your Company From Good To Great”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Brandi Olson.

Brandi Olson believes that you shouldn’t have to choose between doing good, important work, and your own humanity. She knows that the best way to solve big problems, to innovate, and to deliver out-of-this-world value is through teams who are deeply engaged, high performing, and actually happy. And that the quickest route for leaders to cultivate engaged teams who are doing great work is not by adding free frozen yogurt in the lobby, but…