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Dive into discussions that cover a broad range of topics essential to business growth and sustainability. From strategic planning and preparation to understanding the cycles of business ownership, the podcast provides invaluable insights into evaluating, enhancing, and exiting business ownership. Listeners can expect practical advice on scaling businesses, managing finances, and creating a culture that aligns with company goals. What sets this podcast apart is its focus on actionable strategies combined with real-world experiences. The conversations often delve into the importance of providing more value than the dollars earned and the necessity of adaptability in a rapidly changing business landscape. 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Most are wrong and the gap between what they believe and what's actually true is where talent exits, projects stall, and money quietly disappears. Polly Watt and Mike Vos are the co-founders of WattNext.ai and the creators of ViVo Pulse, an AI-powered organizational diagnostic tool that interviews your entire team in the time it takes a consultant to talk to eight people. What comes out the other side is something most business owners have never had: the actual truth about what is working, what is broken, and who is holding things together or quietly tearing them apart. In this episode, David Carr sits down with Polly and Mike to break down why most leaders are solving the wrong problems, what organizational friction is really costing companies, and how AI is making deep organizational diagnostics accessible to businesses that could never afford traditional consulting. In this episode: Why leaders consistently overestimate their organization's health and what the perception gap between executives and frontline staff actually looks like How ViVo Pulse interviews up to 60 people an hour with full anonymity and turns those conversations into 134 scored data points The four most common breakdowns in growing companies: systems, processes, leadership, and knowledge management Why the cost of unresolved organizational friction almost always dwarfs the cost of diagnosing it How private equity, VCs, and banks are using organizational diagnostics as part of due diligence Who this tool is built for and the minimum company size that makes it work About Polly Watt and Mike Vos: Polly Watt is the CEO and co-founder of WattNext.ai, with a background in global learning and development spanning Microsoft, LinkedIn…","meta_description":"Most leaders think they know what's happening inside their organization. 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