THE SCIENCE OF DOING: Podcast interview with George McMillan, CEO, the Palladium Group

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In 1996, Dr. Robert Kaplan and Dr. David Norton, published a book called The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action, and the book was am immediate hit in the business world. Executives who would map out solid strategies to achieve significant goals were finding that their companies had a tough time executing on those strategies. The Balanced Scorecard showed them a systematic, commonsense way to get all the units in a business, and all the employees, talking the same language, understanding what they need to do to execute on that strategy, and knowing what was each person's place in "the big picture."

Today, Enterpriseleadership.org welcomes George McMillan, CEO of the Palladium Group, which was co-founded by Dr. David Norton. This group believes in the Balanced Scorecard, believes that you can move big corporations to achieve big goals, and that each employee in a corporation can feel like more than just a cog in a wheel. He's joining us to talk about this, about whether too much emphasis on strategy execution in an organization could harm creativity, what he see as some of the greatest challenges (and opportunities) facing global business today, and a lot more. You'll come away from this podcast interview with some powerful, useful information.

Resources

The Palladium Group Web site

Bio

George McMillan is the Chief Executive Officer of Palladium. Prior to joining Palladium, his career includes combined experience in media, direct marketing and professional services, in both financial and business operations. He served as CFO and CEO of CMGI from July 2001 to August 2004. Prior to CMGI, Mr. McMillan served as President and CEO for more than four years at BMG Direct, a unit of Bertelsmann AG. Mr. McMillan also served as COO and CFO of Renaissance Solutions, technology and management consulting firm. Mr. McMillan has served in executive capacities for more than 20 years and has spent the majority of his career leading and driving business growth in professional service firms. Mr. McMillan earned his MBA with distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Business, his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and his AB in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford University.

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Dana Farver, Executive Producer, Communities Editor-in-Chief
Tom Parish, Audio Producer, Show Host
Kimberly Stone, Web Development Manager
Scott Ebner, Web Developer