The Kurty D Show
060 - Smaller is Better with Brady Brim-DeForest
Episode Summary
We chatted with my dear friend Brady Brim-DeForest, CEO of Formula.Monks, the tech services division of Media Monks, and the first-time author of the book “Smaller is Better.” In this episode, Brady and I discussed his new book and its revolutionary approach: empowering small, autonomous teams to spearhead targeted missions. Drawing on his personal experiences, Brady offers a practical roadmap for dismantling complex problems and achieving breakthrough solutions. Get ready to hear inspiring insights on reframing failure as a launchpad for success. And how, as leaders and innovators, we must champion this mindset and create spaces where our teams are not just allowed to fail but supported and encouraged to do so.
Episode Notes
Episode Highlights:
- Small is Better: How small, autonomous teams can spearhead targeted missions.
- The Paradox of Failure and Success
- Breaking the Fear of Failure: A New Mindset for Organizations
- How to be adaptable and nimble in taking risks
- The need to change mindsets within organizations
- Taking risks in many different places in the organization
Tweetable Quotes:
- “Time is linear. Knowledge is exponential. And a book is a great way to memorialize that knowledge and make it accessible.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
- “Vulnerability is such a powerful medicine.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
- “Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
- “I think the nest real value in cross-functional is that you have unbounded thinking, and it encourages first principle reasoning too. ” — Brady Brim-DeForest
- “The closer you are to the higher density information, the more efficient your decision will be.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
- “Large organizations tend to concentrate on resources, human resources, and capital, but they are also the breeding ground for innovation.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
- “Autonomy doesn’t just mean at the edge; it is a way of efficiency and decision making.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
- “None of us can accurately predict the outcomes of any hypotheses we’re testing. So, the only way to proceed is to take the risk.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
- “Risk comes along with failure.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
- “Increasing the speed at which you fail is the critical path and requirement to succeed.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
- “We see failure as a negative thing and must change our mindset and the organization we work to embrace failure. ” — Brady Brim-DeForest
- “You will never reach the upside if you don’t stumble along the way.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
- “Waste is the byproduct of experimentation.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
- “People have the freedom to fail because that’s where sort of improvisation in the ensemble happens.” — Kurt Daradics
- “We all could be looking at the exact same information and come to totally different conclusions, but that only happens if we are looking at the same set of data.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
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