Impact !

Most businesses confuse motion with progress. They're busy, committed, exhausted, and going nowhere. IMPACT: What Actually Moves a Business Forward is your blueprint for breaking free. Hosted by strategist Maverick Ryder, this series reveals what separates high-performing organizations from those just spinning their wheels. Learn why effort doesn't equal outcome, how decisions create change before execution begins, what metrics actually matter, and how to build systems where impact compounds over time. No fluff, no theory, just operational intelligence delivered with precision. If you're tired of working hard while competitors outpace you, this series shows you what they're doing differently. Subscribe now.This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

Most companies measure everything and improve nothing. Maverick dissects why businesses obsessively track the wrong things, how to distinguish between vanity metrics that feel good and traction metrics that reveal truth, and what it takes to build measurement systems that drive compounding improvement. He explores leading versus lagging indicators, the importance of measuring customer behavior rather than just outcomes, and how to build an impact scorecard that creates strategic clarity. Through diagnostic analysis and real cases, Maverick reveals how measurement discipline separates organizations that improve systematically from those that improve accidentally, and why getting this right creates competitive advantages that compound over time.Click here to browse handpicked Amazon finds inspired by this podcast series!https://amzn.to/4jW0IKwThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

Impact doesn't begin at execution. It begins the moment a decision is made. Maverick breaks down why decision quality determines what's even possible, how most organizations rush to action while underinvesting in getting choices right, and what separates high-leverage decisions from low-leverage ones. He explores the components of decision excellence including clarity about objectives, understanding leverage points, building information architecture, and designing clarity across teams. Through frameworks and real examples, Maverick shows how the best organizations treat decision-making as a core competency that multiplies execution effectiveness, and why speed without precision is just expensive.Click here to browse handpicked Amazon finds inspired by this podcast series!https://amzn.to/4jW0IKwThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

Most businesses are excellent at being busy and terrible at producing results. Maverick opens the series by exploring why companies confuse motion with progress, how teams get addicted to activity because it feels productive even when it accomplishes nothing, and why effort and outcome are not the same thing. Through psychology, real case studies, and strategic analysis, he reveals how high-impact organizations define progress differently, how incentives create traps that reward busyness over results, and why opportunity cost is the hidden killer of performance. The episode challenges listeners to distinguish between work that feels productive and work that actually moves the business forward.Click here to browse handpicked Amazon finds inspired by this podcast series!https://www.amazon.com/s?k=finance+books&crid=1D7XC7770FVFA&sprefix=finance%2Caps%2C135&ref=nb_sb_ss_p13n-pd-dpltr-ranker_1_7This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI