How to Amplify Value and Banish Waste with Path for Growth COO Zack Estes

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Value is what your customer is paying for, and everything else is waste. In this episode, Alex and Path for Growth COO Zack Estes kick off a new series on operationalizing excellence with a conversation about increasing value and reducing waste. Zack explains why it’s so important to make waste reduction and value a central part of your company culture. He also shares some practical examples of how waste can creep up in your business and what you can do about it.

• Today we’re starting a new series on operationalizing excellence (0:57)
• The airplane analogy: Think about the value you deliver and your capacity to sell it (1:37)
• How do you define volume and capacity? (6:48)
• Why is it so important to set standards and values from the beginning? (14:02)
• Value is what the customer pays for; waste is everything else (17:27)
• Make sure you know what the customer is actually paying for (21:05)
• What holds leaders back from reducing waste? (25:07)
• Unintentional vs. intentional waste (30:27)
• What’s the biblical justification for reducing waste? (35:10)

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