Dive into a riveting tale with William Roche, CEO of S. Clyde Weaver, as he unfolds the challenges and triumphs of steering a 104-year-old family business through modernization. Discover how defining core values, fostering innovation, and crafting a culture of ownership transformed internal dynamics and customer relations. This episode is a must-listen for leaders wrestling with change and tradition!
Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of Better People Podcast:
- First non-family CEO in 104 years.
- Opened books for transparent trust-building.
- Created actionable core values.
- Performance reviews aligned with core values.
- Emphasis on hiring for cultural fit.
Resources:
Connect with William Roche:
Connect with our hosts:
Quotables
- 11:14 – Take ownership. It’s not just ownership generally, it’s take ownership. You need to act like an owner. You need to honor your commitments. You need to own up to your failures. You need to act with integrity. So those are just some examples of how we, we took this idea of values, core values and found a way to apply it or to make it actionable.
- 18:02 – That might be the most important thing is avoid hiring the wrong people because it’s so much more work and energy if you hire the wrong person. But if you do happen to do, so having a set of core values as a framework to course correct makes it so much easier…
- 26:06 – We did, we had some turnover over the years with change. And you’re going to have that with any organization. There’s gonna be those that just don’t wanna participate…
- 27:15 – To really figure out what are your values and two, what it is so important to do. And it’s so important that you really put thought into it…
- 31:12 – And I would just go back to kind of what I said at the beginning about communication. It is so important to communicate, build trust, to frequently be seen, and be connected with those that you’re working with…
