GTM Made Simple
GTM Made Simple
Sangram Vajre
546. How a Leader Brings About Change and Gets Everyone on Board
36 minutes Posted Feb 18, 2020 at 3:04 pm.
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A lack of consistency in the marketing community seems to be the only consistency. Change is constantly being thrust upon us and yet we’re still surprised when it shows up at our door. 

But Ruth Rowan has a different experience with change. She embraces it; she’s a biologist by academic training, started her career in banking, then wound up in publishing until she fell into marketing. Lots of change, and she welcomes it. She also introduces change as the global CMO at Dimension Data. I guess you could call it a dream job. 

Digital transformation and change in general in any organization is difficult. But Ruth has seldom experienced resistance when leading the charge. Why? Well, that’s exactly it. She starts with why. 

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