The Greg McKeown Podcast

242. Strategic Quotients with Rich Horwath (Part 2)

Oct 26, 2023

Rich Horwath, a strategic planning expert, shares his journey from corporate coaching to applying business frameworks to personal life. He discusses the 'value mining matrix' to enhance communication and observation in relationships. The conversation delves into the importance of empathy, discernment in leadership dialogue, and innovative ways to create value in connections. Rich emphasizes the role of self-reflection and strategic thinking in prioritizing goals, blending skills from business into everyday life for a holistic approach to success.

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Rich Horwath

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Quick takeaways

The value mining matrix helps identify current needs and unmet needs, allowing for the creation of new value.

Delivering value in fresh and inventive ways helps resonate with others on a deeper level and deviate from scripted approaches.

Deep dives

Understanding the Value Mining Matrix

The episode discusses the value mining matrix as a tool to understand current needs and unmet needs in order to create value. It suggests observing others and asking questions to identify their needs and challenges. By understanding these needs, one can bring new value and address unmet needs.

Intro

4min

Understanding and Observing Needs to Create Value

3min

Empowering Dialogue in Leadership

7min

Understanding Through Action in Relationships

5min

Innovative Value Creation in Relationships

9min

The Power of Strategic Thinking and Self-Reflection

4min

In this part two of my interview with Rich Horwath, we dig into how Rich spent years providing strategic planning, coaching, advising, running sessions with corporations and executive teams. But as he was providing executive coaching to one of his clients, they said, "Well, listen, my bosses said I need to be more strategic, but what does it mean?" And that was the beginning of a whole new phase of Rich's life and his career as he started to think, well, really, what does it mean and how can we apply some of these tools and frameworks that have become so useful in the enterprise space and the business environment to help people in their lives? By the end of this episode, you'll have a better insight in not only how to be successful in the life of business, but also in the business of life.

Learn more about Rich here: https://www.strategyskills.com/about/about-rich-horwath/

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