Slowing Down to Speed Up: Purpose-Driven PE with Tracey Abbott
Episode Links:
Leadership Current Website -- https://www.traceyabbott.com/
Your Personal Due Diligence Assessment -- https://tracey-eortr7th.scoreapp.com/
Pearl Dive Assessment (Free) -- https://traceyabbott.com/about
LinkedIn -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracey-abbott-2340362
Summary:
In this episode of The Corvus Effect, I welcome Tracey Abbott, founder of Leadership Current and a strategist who has spent nearly 30 years transforming high-stakes leaders from performance to purpose. With nearly a trillion dollars in assets under management through her private equity work, Tracey describes herself as a thought provocateur helping PE-backed leaders move from doing to becoming. Her brutal wake-up call came during her first Chick-fil-A staff meeting when her team of 21-year-olds asked what the "N" in P&L stands for.
Tracey shares her revolutionary approach to slowing down to multiply what matters in private equity, revealing why intellectual horsepower can create more problems than solutions. She explains her mission-metrics alignment framework and intuition accelerant methodology, drawing from her Kodak experience to share insights about adapting to AI while maintaining human intelligence as the greatest competitive advantage.
Show Notes:
00:32 Meet Tracey Abbott, Founder of Leadership Current
03:07 Tracey's Career Transformation
05:50 The Chick-fil-A Experience
16:39 Intuition Accelerant
21:06 Aligning Mission and Metrics
28:12 Lessons from Kodak: Adapting to Technological Shifts
29:31 AI as a Collaborative Tool
30:46 Marathon Running and AI: Going Slow to Go Fast
33:21 Coaching Leaders for Human-Centric Success
36:27 Building a Legacy Beyond Financial Success
37:28 The Importance of People in Business
41:13 Final Thoughts and Key Takeaways
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