351 Jon Darbyshire - Hire Great People and Great Things Will Happen

When it comes to the success of the company, the employees we bring on play a significant part in the journey toward those goals. In this episode, Jon Darbyshire discusses how recruiting talented individuals will not only assist us in putting our visions for the company into action but will also contribute to the development of a culture that values achievement. In 2021, Jon Darbyshire and his team launched SmartSuite, the work management platform that manages any process, from any industry, on one platform. Now, SmartSuite unites essential elements used to get work done, regardless of company size or type. In the year 2000, Jon founded Archer Technologies, an enterprise governance, risk and compliance software, giving business users—not developers—the ability to adapt software to their unique business requirements. Jon and the Archer team built a flexible, award winning platform and solution suite that became the mainstay of governance, risk and compliance teams for some of the world’s most powerful organizations, including 1 in 3 of the Fortune 100. Archer Technologies was purchased by EMC Corporation in 2010. Throughout his career, Jon has been dedicated to automating everyday, essential business tasks to create smarter, more efficient organizations, no matter what the industry. Prior to Archer Technologies, Jon held leadership positions at both EY and Price Waterhouse, honing his skills in understanding the need to automate and simplify work for the enterprise.  In this episode:Jon shares about the beginnings of the Smart Suite and Archer TechnologiesUnderstanding the services that an organization wanted to offer and productizing those servicesAs established leaders, we have a responsibility to aid in the education and motivation of future generations to assume leadership rolesIncorporating family members of employees into workplace activities to foster an inclusive and transparent cultureJon discusses how technology will be important for leaders going forwardThere are different types of leaders and companies, and a leader must focus on hiring the right people in order for the company to be successful Key Takeaways:Train people to be potential leadersCreate a culture where families of employees can be involvedSuccess is not only dependent on the leaders but also the people we leadRemote work is not going go awayExecuting a vision requires selling the vision to people who want to do them   Tweetable Quotes: “It's not as much about the vision of what they have, it's about the execution of the vision that's been in place for some period of time already. And how to sell that execution to the people on the teams,.” - Jon Darbyshire “Most employees, when they would ask questions, it wasn't about changing the vision or the objectives for the quarter. It was about why did you make that decision? Why is that the goal that we have? They just want to hear you explain that to them in a way that they can understand, even if they don't agree, they wanna know, how did you get to that place?” - Jon Darbyshire Connect with Mark on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and check out his website.Email: [email protected]: