Mike Dougherty carries a unique perspective from his background in large, non-Evergreen companies prior to joining Maddox Industrial Transformer, where he currently serves as CFO. In this Tugboat Institute® talk, Mike reflects on his experience at Amazon to illustrate how some of the best practices of excellent, non-Evergreen companies can be brought into service at Evergreen® ones.

Mike shares how effective planning and high-velocity decision-making can prevent the complacency that often threatens multi-generational businesses. By selectively adopting Amazon principles such as Customer Obsession, Scaled Leadership, Bias for Action, and Disagree & Commit, he demonstrates how his Evergreen company has greatly benefited from the introduction of those practices and encouraged others to do the same.