04. The Importance of People-Powered Leadership with Bob Azelby

😇 Insightful moments during Liam’s help in bringing Bob’s cross-functional team together. 01:32

🤩 Two the Zone Way learnings Bob still carries with him. 02:26

🗽 Bob’s accents are from NY, Boston, and Philadelphia. 04:28

🤓 Different cultures in the USA: he thought to fit the northern New Jersey style into the Southern California style. 05:09

🧦 Getting to a meeting with one sock. 06:05

🎯 Bob’s unique approach to leadership: “You need everybody's insights.” 07:47

🔬 He left a 6 billion dollar organization for a small biotech company with the newest approach to fighting cancer. 09:58

😎 Bob wanted to be the CEO of a publicly-traded company. 12:26

🆙 Gearing the company up for launch and then getting acquired.13:38

💜 Making decisions with heart and head: Building trust and being vulnerable.14:36

🧪 News in medical science: A new agent in the testing process might change issues with chronic pain. 16:31

🧫 Innovation and drug testing is a long and expensive process. 18:40

🤔 In a large company, you get excellent training but narrow focus, and in small biotech, you get to solve setbacks. 20:40

👔 Bob likes a combination of experience and resilience when hiring someone. 22:06

🙌 Tools Liam taught Bob: what spending time together with your teammates means. 24:23

🌂 Liam loves Seattle. 26:09

🙃 Amazing business with a great purpose. 27:01

🎯 Connect with Liam: www.thezone.co

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