In this podcast, Greg Voisen sits down with Karina Mangu-Ward, author of Teams That Meet the Moment: 9 Practices for Unlocking Performance and Growth in Uncertain Times, to challenge everything you thought you knew about organizational success. What if the three biggest corporate mantras—having the right strategy, hiring superstar talent, and simply grinding harder—are actually holding your team back? Karina reveals why even a $1 million strategic plan falls flat without strong everyday teamwork, and uncovers how shifting your mindset from perfection to dynamic experimentation can revolutionize how your team operates.

🎯 What Listeners Will Learn
- Dismantling Corporate Myths: Why strategy, superstars, and sheer effort aren't enough to save a struggling team in unpredictable environments.
- The Power of "Even Overs": How to frame tough tradeoffs (like speed even over inclusion) to clarify priorities, prevent endless manager escalations, and align your team.
- Building a Living Team Charter: How to establish clear decision rights and roles so authority defaults to the working team, bypassing rigid hierarchy friction.
- De-risking Big Ambitions: Practical ways to break massive goals down into the smallest possible experiments—like simply "building the button"—to test assumptions fast.
- Establishing a Winning Rhythm: Why mastering a weekly sprint cadence (action, collaboration, demo) beats working in private and revealing work at the very end.

Our Guest, Karina Mangu-Ward :
➥ Book: Teams That Meet the Moment: 9 Practices for Unlocking Performance and Growth in Uncertain Times
➥ Buy Now: https://a.co/0akU13y4
https://www.aug.co/
➡️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karina-mangu-ward-276a558/

Learn more about your Inside Personal Growth host, Greg Voisen:
➥ gregvoisen.com
➡️Instagram: www.instagram.com/insidepersonalgrowth/
➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InsidePersonalGrowth/
➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gregvoisen/