What clients with over two hundred years of operating history can teach us - Jan Havel, Co-Founder of ACTUM Digital

Wharton Executive Education Podcast

In this episode Jan Havel, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of ACTUM Digital talks about what it is like working with clients that have hundreds of years of history and what he has learned from working with those clients. Jan was also recently featured in Forbes and he has a doctorate from the Prague University of Economics and Business. See the show note below:

1:06 – What does ACTUM Digital do?

3:33 – Serving clients with 50 to 250 years of operating history

8:20 – How to pass on values of the founders

12:40 – Why can values survive in a company but not in a democracy?

23:20 – Hiring expensive people does not mean they are good fit for the company

29:40 – Finding the right people to take your company to the next level

33:45 – The two best questions to ask to determine if someone will be a good leader