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513: Mark Fogel - Becoming a Great Follower, Running World-Class Debriefs, Building A Healthy Culture, & Why Fighter Squadrons Are The Best Teams On Earth
20 februari 2023 · 56 min
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Mark Fogel is a former US Air Force fighter pilot and current squadron commander in the Ohio Air National Guard. He's A graduate of the US Air Force Academy and the Harvard Kennedy School, he is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Dayton, and his TEDx Talk called The Culture of a Fighter Squadron is one of the best I've seen.
Notes:
American Fighter Sqaudrons are the most effective teams on the planet. Cockiness is unacceptable. Humility is a critical quality and skill to be part of the team.
The subculture is you check your rank at the door. When you lead a mission, you're in charge of the debrief. I love building a culture where feedback is regularly given both ways. And the trust created amongst the team to be able to do this with psychological safety.
The real training and learning take place in the debrief…Spending hours pouring over video, computer graphic reenactments, radio calls, everything… To diagnose exactly what went right and what didn't and why. The debriefs can last multiple days to describe 10 minutes of action.
The person who leads the debrief is the flight leader. That person is not necessarily the most experienced member of the team. Fighter squadrons share the leadership and followership duties constantly. You might have a situation where it's a 24-year-old lieutenant telling a 2-star General in front of the entire room, "You screwed up and this is why we failed the mission because of it." This creates a mixture of perfectionism and humility.
Building a culture takes time. Trust is built from character and competence.
How do you reward and incentivize behavior?
You're modeling what you want others to do.
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512: Dan Martell - The Art Of The Cold Email, Hosting World-Class Leadership Retreats, & How To Buy Back Your Time
13 februari 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
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Dan Martell is an entrepreneur, investor and best-selling author of the book Buy Back Your Time. He founded, scaled, and exited three technology companies within a ten-year period. In 2012 he was named Canada's top angel investor, having invested in more than 50 start-ups, such as Intercom, Udemy, and Unbounce. In 2016, Martell founded the SaaS Academy and grew it to become one of the largest coaching companies in the world. He's also an Ironman athlete, philanthropist, husband, and father of two boys.
The 3 keys to a world-class leadership retreat:
Do something physically hard together (hike up a mountain, Wim Hof ice bath)
Do the strengths and weaknesses exercise. Be honest, vulnerable, and open. It builds trust.
Be very intentional about the seating chart (in meetings, at meals, and rooming assignments)
Send cold emails: Dan sent hundreds of cold emails when he moved to San Francisco
Paul Graham responded and said, "Do marketing. Every startup needs help with that." It changed how Dan introduced himself to founders moving forward.
Read Tim Sanders' book, Love Is The Killer App
Acquire knowledge for your customer
Your network is your net worth. Build relationships.
Love cat -- Nice guys finish first. Be a kind person.
When Dan went to jail, he met a guard named Brian. Brian pulled Dan aside and said, "What are you doing? You don't belong here."
As a leader, use your power for good. Help people believe they can do more.
Dan has hired a family coach and had her live with his family to help them have deeper relationships.
"I want to have an epic marriage."
Intentional Family Actions Dan takes:
A quarterly retreat with his wi…
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511: Brian Kight - Creating Confidence, Building Daily Discipline, Handling Imposter Syndrome, Goal Setting Systems, & Writing Your Culture Playbook
6 februari 2023 · 1 uur 13 min
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Brian Kight is the founder of Daily Discipline. He writes essays on how to pursue your most meaningful objectives with intention, purpose, and skill. His work is read by millions of people all over the world. Brian (known as BK) personally works with leaders in business and in sports on how to align teams and accelerate results.
Notes:
What mistakes do leaders make when trying to change the culture?
They are too fuzzy with their language. It's plain.
They separate culture from execution. In reality, execution is the strongest indicator of culture.
"The testing of my beliefs is the discipline of my actions."
Learning Happens through Depth: People now place too much emphasis on learning fast and not enough on learning deeply. The consequence is a false equivalence of consumption with learning and a false confidence that what gets consumed is understood.
Learning occurs through immersion, not cheat codes. No one cares how many books you've read or podcasts you've heard. These are not marks of success, achievement, or wisdom. Success is applying the lessons of one book in a manner so disciplined that it transforms your life or at least impacts it in a meaningful fashion.
To learn, transform, or build something of lasting capability, merit, and value, immerse yourself in the learning experience. If you want a change, fully engage.
Shed volume for depth. Swap variety for rigor. Don't minimize your effort through hacks or cheapen your experience with cheat codes.
Are you trying to feel good for a while or improve yourself forever?
Leaders create the culture that drives the behavior that produces results…
E + R = O
Event + (Your) Response = Outcome
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510: Ramit Sethi - How To Think About Money: Saving, Investing, Spending, & Living Your Rich Life
30 januari 2023 · 1 uur 7 min
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Ramit Sethi is the New York Times best-selling author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich. Millions of people read his work every month which focuses on personal finances, money in relationships, and he shares how you can define your rich life. His team has created online programs on making more money, finding your Dream Job, starting an online business, and mastering your inner psychology.
Notes:
If you have a partner, "create your journey together." Money is not something to be delegated to one or the other. Both should be involved.
Ramit's book-buying rule: If you've even considered buying a book for one second, then BUY THE BOOK. If you learn just one new thing, it is worth it. The return on your investment is through the roof. When in doubt, buy the book. And Read the book.
Ramit describes every detail of the conversation he had with his wife about signing a pre-nuptial agreement before they got married.
"You should focus on $30,000 questions, not $3 questions."
Top 5 Lessons from one year of interviewing couples about money
Ramit shares how to get started with your money:
automation, investing, and the other Big Wins of money.
How to manage your money
Fixed costs: 50%-60%
Savings: 5%-10%
Investments: 5%-10%
Guilt-free spending: 20%-30%
How to invest your money
Target date fund - Vanguard
Index funds
Ramit advises that you do not pay a financial advisor based on AUM (Assets Under Management). Pay an hourly rate or a fixed cost. This will save you hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars over the course of 30-50 years.
Decide what you want to spend your money on... What is your rich life?
Create your money rules:
For example, Ramit has …
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509: Dr. Marc Schulz - Lessons From The World's Longest Scientific Study Of Happiness (The Good Life)
23 januari 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
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Dr. Marc Schulz is the Associate Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development and an award-winning professor at Bryn Mawr College, where he directs the Data Science Program and is the Sue Kardas Ph.D. 1971 Chair in Psychology. He completed his BA at Amherst College and his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness.
Notes:
"Relationships are at the core of human flourishing."
Friendships - Map out your social universe. Are the connections uplifting or depleting? Ask, "what do I value about the person?" Be intentional about your relationships and how you invest in them.
The quality of the relationship you have with your partner will determine how long you will live.
As we get older, we tend to get happier. We accumulate emotional wisdom. We should focus more on relationships that give us emotional sustenance.
This work is built on a bedrock of scientific research. At its heart, the Harvard Study of Adult Development. An extraordinary scientific endeavor that began in 1938, is still going Bob is the 4th director of the study, and Marc is its associate director.
"Generativity" – In psychology, expanding our concerns and efforts beyond our own lives is called generativity and it's a key to unlocking the vibrancy and excitement of midlife.
When asked at the end of their lives, "What do you wish you'd done less of? And more of?" The study participants often referenced their middle years and regretted having spent so much time worrying and so little time acting in a way that made them feel alive.
The story of John Marsden an…
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508: Richard Reeves - How To Be A Great Role Model, The Secret To A Fulfilling Career, And Why The Modern Male Is Struggling & What To Do About It
16 januari 2023 · 1 uur 13 min
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Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Dream Hoarders (2017), and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. His latest book has made waves worldwide … It's called OF BOYS AND MEN: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It.
Notes:
How to be a great mom and/or dad?
Model the right behavior.
Children believe their eyes more than their ears.
It's our responsibility to be that positive role model for children.
"The secret to life is to take your work seriously, but not yourself."
Create a conversation with your team where all ideas are valued equally.
"Communication just moves stuff around. Conversations make something new happen.
"Boys are behind girls in education all over. College is now 60-40 women."
"In the education system and in terms of many aspects of mental health, boys are really struggling. That isn't to say that girls aren't also struggling but in different ways. In terms of the education system, girls and young women have blown right past boys and men. There's actually a bigger gender gap in education today than there was 50 years ago."
"Boys develop later than girls. They should go to school one year later than girls."
"The pre-frontal cortex is the CEO of the brain. This develops later in boys than in girls. It's on us to recognize the facts and act accordingly. In this case, Richard is an advocate for starting boys in school one year later than girls."
Richard's goal:
"To create men who are acceptable at a dance and available in a shipwreck."
What are the differences between men …
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507: Jesse Cole - How To Build Your Idea Muscle, Create Unforgettable Experiences, & Earn Fans For Life
9 januari 2023 · 54 min
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Jesse Cole is the founder of Fans First Entertainment and the owner of the Savannah Bananas. He's fanatic about fandom and launched the Savannah Bananas with one mission: to spark a fan-focused movement. The Bananas have sold out every game since their first season and have a waitlist for tickets in the thousands. They have entertained millions of fans in Savannah and at ballparks all over their country on their Banana Ball Tour.
Notes:
"So many business owners are focused on short-term profits. We are focused on long-term fans."
"If you're not getting criticized, then you're playing it too safe." - When is the last time you were criticized for pushing it too far?
Ideas are about quantity. Jesse writes down ten new ideas in his "idea journal" every morning. Most of them aren't that good. You have to get through the quantity to get to the quality. It's a numbers game.
Send handwritten thank you notes to people. Tell them about the impact they've made on you. Jesse has done this for me multiple times and it always makes me feel good.
Customers are transactional... Create fans for life.
"Do for one what you wish you could do for many." Create special moments for people. One at a time.
Do an energy audit: What activities give you energy? How can you do more of those?
We learn who we are in practice, not in theory. We learn best through actual trial. Move from idea to execution quickly. If it doesn't work, move on.
"I'm not afraid to be embarrassed. My biggest fear is being irrelevant."
Jesse focuses a ton of effort on understanding his teammates (both players and everyone else who works for him)
The love language assessment... He learned that the majority of…
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506: Buzz Williams - The 9 Daily Disciplines, Constant Improvement, Loving The Process, & Being on Team Bus One
2 januari 2023 · 1 uur 19 min
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My Guest: Buzz Williams is the head Men's Basketball Coach at Texas A&M University. He's coached his teams to eight NCAA Tournament appearances in 13 years as a head coach. In 2020, Buzz was named the SEC "Coach of the Year." His teams have won 20 or more games in five of the last seven seasons. Buzz's teams have four Sweet Sixteen appearances. Buzz is known as a coach who helps his players on and off the court. He teaches regular life development sessions to his players called "Get Better 101."
Notes:
Buzz has nine daily disciplines. "Your decisions reveal your priority."
Train body at 5:30, get steps at 7:30, write 2 thank you notes per day, write children a note on their favorite color note card every day, read a book a week, weekly date night with his wife, and on non-gamedays is 7 meaningful texts.
"You can be whatever you earn the right to be."
Team Bus 1 - The core group of people that make up the team. Those that sit on the bench and play in the games.
In order to climb the ladder, you must go one step at a time. You can't skip steps. There are no hacks, no shortcuts. Being able to delay gratification is a superpower and creates the opportunity to make a big impact. It's the ability to show up each day and take one step at a time.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."
"History rarely remembers the critics. It remembers the contributors. So contribute!"
"Energized leaders can evoke energy from within others. But when the leader lets up a little, followers tend to let up a lot."
"The reward for passing the test is earning the next test."
"Being a boss is a job. Being a leader is some…
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505: Yung Pueblo - How To Let Go of The Past, Connect With The Present, & Expand Your Future (Lighter)
26 december 2022 · 57 min
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Diego Perez is a New York Times bestselling author who is widely known on Instagram and various social media networks through his pen name Yung Pueblo. Online he has an audience of over 2.7 million people. His writing focuses on the power of self-healing, creating healthy relationships, and the wisdom that comes when we truly work on knowing ourselves. His two books, Inward and Clarity & Connection were both instant bestsellers. Diego's third book, Lighter, debuted as a #1 New York Times best seller.
Notes:
Using a pseudonym - Yung Pueblo means "Young People." The pseudonym reflects a social commentary that points to humanity's coming growth and maturation. The name signals a time when we will collectively transition from being ruled by shortsightedness and self-centeredness to having an elevated appreciation of our interconnectedness, which normalizes treating each other with a new and considerate gentleness.
Immigrants – Diego to the United States when he was 4 from Ecuador. His parents' bravery, how much they had to sacrifice, and how hard they worked to give him, his brother, and his little sister a better life in the United States. His mom cleaned houses and his dad worked at a supermarket.
"For the first decade and a half, we felt the intense pressure of poverty."
"I am less interested in debating and more interested in considering a topic collectively. Let's peacefully share what we know with each other. When we arrive at diverging points of view, let's focus on questions. How did you arrive to this point? Help me understand what you mean."
"Saying less is incredibly helpful. Every thought is not valuable. Every feeling does not need to be voiced. Wh…
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504: Jeff Shesol - Moonshot Goals, Driver vs. Passenger Mentality, & Creating Your Own Fate
19 december 2022 · 1 uur
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Jeff Shesol is a multi-hyphenate leader. He's a Rhodes Scholar, a historian, a presidential speech writer, and a 3-time best-selling author. He also had a comic strip called thatch that was nationally syndicated from 1994–1998 when it appeared daily in more than 150 newspapers.
Notes:
If you're going to set moonshot goals for your team, you must relentlessly communicate them to all involved. The what, why, how, and when… Relentlessly communicate with vivid clarity.
Focus, Purpose, Urgency… This was what was lacking before President Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson helped take fragmented groups and bring them all together. Focus, Purpose, and Urgency. How can you do this for your organization?
John Glenn – A leader of action. He didn't let fate determine the outcome of his life. He went after what he wanted. He had a bias for action. In a world of drivers and passengers, John Glenn was a driver and that's what led to him leaving his mark in the world.
John Glenn – "Friendship 7—designed to fly itself—had begun drifting to the right, like a car with its front wheels out of alignment. Glenn took the control stick—not without satisfaction. He was a pilot, by training and temperament, and pilots take control."
Press conference to introduce astronauts… John Glenn said, "I was brought up believing that you are placed on earth… with sort of a fifty-fifty proposition. We are placed here with certain talents and capabilities. It is up to each one of us to use those talents and capabilities as best as we can. A higher power will certainly see that I am taken care of if I do my part of the bargain."
The space program may be the profession that requires the highest risk tol…
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503: Sherri Coale - Choosing The Hard Path, The Art of Asking, Learning From Shakespeare, & Winning On & Off The Court (Lessons From a Hall of Fame Coach)
12 december 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
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The Hard Makes It Good - A league of their own — Tom Hanks — when Geena Davis (Dottie Henson quit saying it just got too hard). " "Of course it's hard. If it wasn't everybody would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."
Writing - A writing life may seem to lie somewhere on the other side of the moon from a life in athletics, but the two are scary similar in the things that they require. They're both ridiculously hard, even if they sometimes look easy. And the reward for either isn't what you get at the end, it's what you go through to get there. The process in both is the prize.
Great teachers — "Great teachers crack open a door and cue the siren's song that lures you in. Once inside, they give you hard. And then they let you decide what to do about it. I live indebted to them for the view."
The art of asking — Dr. Darryl Tippens — a Shakspere class... "I admired all he knew, but I admired what he did with it even more."
"His questioning and blatant unwillingness to give us the answers made us work for our conclusions. The process and the product stayed with us. We learned that what we strain for, sticks."
The job — "if a leader's primary job is to be a dealer of hope, Whitney Hand was a leader of rare air."
It's not about the trophy - After winning the state championship, on the bus ride home with the team, Sherri noticed that she had left the trophy behind accidentally. And she said,"it so had never been about what you get in the end."
Confidence is self-governed. Nobody can give it to you and nobody can take it away. I've found that regularly doing hard things helps me earn more confidence.
The makeup of a great point guard:
An outward perspective. They care more about setting their teammates up than thems…
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502: Vitaliy Katsenelson - The Art of a Meaningful Life (Soul In The Game)
5 december 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
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VItaliy Katsenelson was born in Murmansk, USSR, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1991. After joining Denver-based value investment firm IMA in 1997, Vitaliy became Chief Investment Officer in 2007, and CEO in 2012. Vitaliy has written two books on investing and is an award-winning writer. Known for his uncommon common sense, Forbes Magazine called him "The New Benjamin Graham."
"I guess I was born in Russia but made for America."
The two ways to look at life.
Like an airport… Where you rush to get through it.
Or an art museum. Where you take time to enjoy your surroundings. I think we should treat more days like they're an art museum.
"When you love what you do, your work stops being work and becomes a craft. And no matter what it is, you do it with pride, love, and care."
"In our relationships, we should set a goal, not for someone to love us, but to behave according to our values (to be worth loving) and to be a good, caring partner. We cannot control whether people will love us, but we can control our actions and our behavior."
"I'm perpetually in beta. This in beta attitude is liberating, as it gives you the chance to constantly improve yourself; to learn and grow. This doesn't mean you need to be buried in self-help books. You just need to have this in beta attitude."
"The best way to guard ourselves against our ego is by thinking of ourselves as evergreen students."
Albert Einstein said, "As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it." We should welcome the circumference of darkness wholeheartedly.
How Zeno, the founder of Stoicism approached his students: "He did not claim to be a physician-- he saw himself as a patient describing …
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501: Paul Smith - How To Tell Stories That Inspire Change and Produce Results
28 november 2022 · 58 min
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Paul Smith is one of the world's leading experts on organizational storytelling. He's the author of multiple best-selling books including Lead with a Story (which is now in its 11th printing, and published in 7 languages around the world), Sell with a Story, and The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell.
Notes:
"Decide what values you want your organization to have. Then find and capture stories that illustrate them. Remember, if you don't have strong company value stories, you probably don't have strong company values."
Fill your story with surprises to pique your audience's interest and memory.
Often the best way to spread a company's values and culture are through stories.
Use stories to forge strong relationships between diverse team members.
Stories can be used to inspire employees, even when times are tough. – You could spout nonsensical motivational phrases about "giving it 110 percent" – or you could tell an inspiring story.
A successful story is comprised of only three ingredients — you need context, action, and the result (CAR).
As NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt observes, "The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor."
Your job is to help the other person make a decision. To do that, they need to rely on both logic AND emotion.
"Your first objective in a sales call should be to get buyers to tell you their stories, not the other way around."
The James Watt story – Keep 1 or 2 small vital pieces of the story and save them for the end. The aha moment. The surprise makes it more memorable for your audience.
Asking better questions… Instead of saying, "What keeps you up at night?" Ask… "Tell me about a moment…" You can also use t…
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500: AJ Hawk, Keith Hawk, & Pat McAfee - Influential Leaders, Keys To A Great Partnership, Living Life As A Movie, & Celebrating 500 Episodes!
21 november 2022 · 1 uur 24 min
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Notes:
AJ Hawk is the all-time leading tackler in Green Bay Packers history. He won a National Champion at Ohio State University and was voted captain of the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl-winning team (2010-20110 He was inducted into the Ohio State University Hall of Fame in 2019. Currently, he is a co-host on The Pat McAfee Show which airs weekdays on YouTube. (AJ is my younger brother)
Keith Hawk spent 30+ years as a sales leader. At one point, more than 1,000 people were in his charge. Keith now regularly speaks around the world on such topics as Leadership, Principled Negotiation, Consultative Selling, and Building Thriving Corporate Cultures. He is the co-author of two popular business books, Get-Real Selling, and Terrific – Five Star Customer Service. (Keith AKA "Pistol" is my dad)
Pat McAfee is a future billionaire and the founder/CEO of Pat McAfee Industries. He's the host of "The Pat McAfee Show" which airs weekdays on YouTube from 12:00-3:00. Pat recently agreed to a deal with FanDuel which has them spending more than $140 million to be the title sponsor of his YouTube progrum. Prior to launching his media career, Pat was named the "punter of the decade" from his time booming balls for the Indianapolis Colts. Pat is also a WWE color commentator, professional wrestler (he once wrestled Stone Cold Steve Austin), and analyst on ESPN's College GameDay. In WWE, fans and critics often deem Pat as one of the greatest color commentators of all time for his humorous comments, his energy, and his charisma.
"When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the wa…
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499: Cody Keenan - Working With The Most Powerful Person In The World, Taking Big Risks, & The Art Of Speechwriting
14 november 2022 · 55 min
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Cody Keenan has written with President Barack Obama since 2007, working his way up to chief speechwriter. He's been named the "Springsteen" of the Obama White House, even though he can't play an instrument, and Obama calls him "Hemingway." His first book, Grace, became an instant New York Times Bestseller.
Notes:
The use of productive paranoia. Cody said, "I was so afraid to fail that I would do anything to succeed." – We can use fear as fuel…
Storytelling – As a speaker, it is our job to help the people in the audience see themselves in the place of the hero in the story. When you're preparing for your next team meeting or town hall address, think about that and how you tell the stories that you do.
Singing at the Eulogy in Charleston - If you want an A+ performance, you have to choose to go for it. You can get a B by playing it safe, but you won't perform with excellence unless you have the courage to go for it.
In less than 10 years, Cody went from mailroom intern in Congress to chief speechwriter in the White House.
My goal is to "write a speech that sings."
'In less than 10 years, I went from mailroom intern in Congress to chief speechwriter in the White House,'
President Obama said he relied "on Cody not just to share my vision, but to help tell America's story." "He's a brilliant writer. He's relentless."
The first speech Cody wrote was for Senator Ted Kennedy. Right after President Obama's 2004 Democratic convention speech that put him on the map. You write: "To see someone else speak words I'd written sent electricity right up my spine and out my hair."
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498: Ted Rath - "Do Your Habits Today Align With Your Goals Of Tomorrow?" (VP of Player Performance For The Philadelphia Eagles)
7 november 2022 · 1 uur 12 min
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Ted Rath the VP of Player Performance for the Philadelphia Eagles. Prior to coming to Philadelphia, Ted spent three seasons (2017-19) with the Los Angeles Rams as the head strength and conditioning coach. In 2017, Ted was named the Strength Coach of the Year by the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association, an award voted on by the league's strength and conditioning coaches. Los Angeles finished as the healthiest team in the NFL based on adjusted games lost due to injury. *At the time of this recording, the Philadelphia Eagles are currently the only undefeated team in the NFL.
Notes:
Do your habits today align with your goals of tomorrow? What is your daily process? If you set big goals, what actions are you taking to get closer to achieving them each day?
The greatest players LOVED being coached. They demand it and are seeking it. Do you? Are you seeking out a coach? Are you asking for it? What processes do you have in place to get feedback, learn, and get better?
How to Lead Others:
Most of us want 3 things
To feel APPRECIATED in their environment.
To feel PROTECTED by those in charge of them.
To feel that they are a part of something BIGGER than themselves.
Do this through connecting. To connect, you must have trust. To build trust, you must be vulnerable. Once you allow yourself to be vulnerable, you can earn trust.
Be an active listener. Listen to connect instead of listening to reply.
The greatness of quarterback, Jalen Hurts:
Sets high standards for himself: The standard is the standard
Loves being coached
Constantly works on his craft
Stoic: He's calm, consistent, and poised.
Ted was part of the decision-making team when deciding the next head coach for The Eagles:
Nick S…
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497: Julian Treasure - How To Speak So That People Will Want To Listen
31 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
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Julian Treasure is a sound and communication expert. His TED Talk, "How to speak so that people want to listen" is in the top 10 TED talks of all time and collectively, his 5 TED talks have been listened to more than 100 million times! He is also the best-selling author of How to be Heard and Sound Business.
Notes:
"I was taught this exercise many years ago by a wise old friend named Charlie. I was bemoaning someone being in my way and Charlie put his hand on my arm. "You know, resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die," he said. When we're unconsciously in the habit of judging and blaming others, it can have a huge impact on our well-being."
You can't judge and love at the same time. Being judgemental is the opposite of being curious. "Being judgemental comes from ego and from darkness in the soul."
Julian's values: Write them down. Be clear. They help you make decisions...
Faith - A decision that all will be well
Love - Wish people well
Acceptance - Go with the flow
Gratitude - Be focused on the half-full bit of the glass
There are 4 foundations that we can stand on if we want our speech to be powerful and make change in the world
HAIL - To greet or acclaim enthusiastically
H - Honesty - Be clear and straight
A - Authenticity - Be yourself
I - Integrity - Do what you say. Be your word.
L - Love - Wish them well. "If you're really wishing someone well, it's hard to judge them at the same time."
7 deadly sins of speaking
Gossip
Judging
Negativity
Complaining
Excuses
Exaggeration
Dogmatism
Listening is a skill. Hearing is a capability. Listening is making meaning from sound. You can practice it and master it. As leaders, we need to continue working on this skill…
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496: Donald Miller - Be The Hero, Add Value To Others, & Don't Trust Fate To Write Your Story (LIVE! In Nashville)
24 oktober 2022 · 50 min
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Donald Miller is the Founder/CEO of Storybrand, a marketing company. He is also the Founder/CEO of Business Made Simple, an online platform that teaches business professionals everything they need to know to grow a business and enhance their personal value on the open market. He is the author of several books including the bestseller "Building a StoryBrand." We recorded this podcast in front of a live audience at my 2022 Growth Summit in Nashville, TN.
"I don't think any of us should trust fate to write the story of our lives. Fate is a terrible writer." – It's on us to take ownership of our lives and write our own stories.
The 4 Roles We Play In Life:
The Victim - The character who feels they have no way out
The Villian - The character who makes others small
The Hero - They accept their own agency. They know what they want. They face their challenges and transform.
The Guide - The character who helps the hero
How do most value-driven people see themselves? They see themselves as an Economic Product on the Open Market -- (be a good investment to attract further investment) "They are obsessed with getting people a strong return on the investment made in them. People who are obsessed with being a good investment attract further investment and get to enjoy more personal economic value. When you offer greater economic value within the economic ecosystem, you are paid more, given more responsibility and promotions, and are sought after by customers looking for value. In business, your boss may really like you, but in large part, they see you as an economic investment. There is nothing wrong with that. So how do we become ridiculously successful? By making other people absurdly successful."
They are relentle…
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495: Julia Boorstin - Interviewing Powerful CEOs, Building Confidence, & Becoming A Talent Magnet (When Women Lead)
17 oktober 2022 · 54 min
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Julia Boorstin is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent. She covers media with a special focus on the intersection of media and technology. In 2013, Julia created and launched the CNBC Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees, highlighting the private companies transforming the economy and challenging companies in established industries. She's the author of a new book called, "When Women Lead - What they achieve, why they succeed, how we can learn from them."
Julia's parents inspired her to pursue hard things and instilled in her a love of asking questions. As parents, we should do the same.
Asking questions is a sign of respect and that you care. We should ask more questions than we answer both at work and at home. Approach people with curiosity. It's how we show that we care.
Julia found a unique way to add value to her employer: Creating the Disruptor 50 list. It's important for us to find unique ways to add value to our company and do work that inspires us at the same time. It's evident that Julia loves it and because of that, both CNBC and Julia win.
She has taken an entrepreneurial approach to her career at CNBC and has come up with and championed many ideas that have been impactful and built her career. She shares how you can do that too…
Julia shares her preparation process for interviewing a powerful leader like Sheryl Sandberg or Bob Iger.
"I didn't have a background in business. I had to over-prepare."
How to become a talent magnet and attract effective leaders to want to work for you...
She shares the biggest takeaway that you learned from interviewing thousands of CEOs and executives including Katrina Lake, Gwyneth Paltrow, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Jennifer Hyman, and more.
Advice Julia got from her dad:
"The road is always better than the inn." Enjoy the process.
"The best way out is always…
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494: Mayor Eric Adams - Authenticity, Honesty, & Changing From Within... A Conversation With The Mayor Of New York City
10 oktober 2022 · 34 min
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Mayor Eric Adams has served the people of New York City as an NYPD officer, State Senator, Brooklyn Borough President, and now as the 110th Mayor of the City of New York.
Notes:
When Eric was 15, he was beaten by a police officer.
"Instead of saying woe is me, I said why not me?" He became a police officer...
Mentor, Reverend, and Civil Rights Leader, Herbert Daughtry, encouraged him to change the system from within.
If you have a problem with a system, try to change it from within. Instead of complaining about it, do something about it. Take action.
A mindset shift: "There is something I'm supposed to learn from this." – Shifting our minds from blaming and complaining to asking ourselves, "What can I learn from this?"
Mayor Adams became President of a Black officers association before founding his own group, 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care.
The New York Times has called Mayor Adams, "The mayor who never sleeps." - He's known to be up early working and go out late at night… Including going to clubs like Zero Bond (a private club) and not being afraid to take pictures with fellow New Yorkers while holding a vodka/soda in hand…
Being perfectly imperfect. Authenticity, being genuine. Mayor Adams goes out to clubs and drinks with his fellow New Yorkers. He doesn't hide it. So many politicians put up a facade. An image that isn't real. Part of his appeal is that he's real, he's human… We all want that.
Cleaning up his diet – After 9/11, he relied on comfort food (quarter pounder or a bucket of KFC). One day in 2016, he woke up blind in his left eye and suffered nerve damage in his feed, which could have led to amputation. His diabetes was killing him. He switched to a plant-based diet and lost 35 pounds. (and wrote a book about it)
"I would rather be a person that is authentic and make mistakes than …
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493: Patrick Lencioni - Becoming More Humble, Leading With Curiosity, & Understanding Your Working Genius
3 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
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My guest: Patrick Lencioni has written 14 books on business management, particularly in relation to team management. He is best known as the author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, a popular business fable that explores work team dynamics and offers solutions to help teams perform better. He's also written The Ideal Team Player, The Advantage, The Motive, and his latest book is called The Six Types of Working Genius.
Notes:
Pat loves The Pat McAfee Show because of their candor, humor, and authenticity.
"Humility is a virtue. You can practice it."
"Seek first to understand prior to trying to be understood."
Be curious. "If we don't understand them, we judge them." The opposite of judgment is curiosity.
When you're humble, there is no sense of entitlement.
Good teammates?
"They take ownership of their mistakes and work to correct them." Must take ownership of it to improve.
The Ideal Team Player -- Humble, Hungry, Smart.
The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team:
Absence of trust - unwilling to be vulnerable within the group
Fear of conflict - seeking artificial harmony over constructive passionate debate
Lack of commitment - feigning buy-in for group decisions creates ambiguity throughout the organization
Avoidance of accountability - ducking the responsibility to call peers on counterproductive behavior which sets low standards
Inattention to results - focusing on personal success, status, and ego before team success
The Six Types of Working Genius:
Wonder – People with this genius can't help but question whether things could be better in the world around them. They are troubled whenever they see unmet potential, and they are constantly curious and…
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492: Scott Galloway - Finding What You're Good At, Handling Criticism, & What It Means To Be A Man
26 september 2022 · 40 min
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Scott Galloway is a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, where he teaches brand strategy and digital marketing to second-year MBA students. A serial entrepreneur, he has founded nine firms, including L2, Red Envelope, Prophet, and Section4. In 2012, he was named one of the "World's 50 Best Business School Professors" by Poets & Quants. He's the author of multiple best-selling books including The Algebra of Happiness, The Four, and Adrift.
Notes:
Leaders who sustain excellence:
Demonstrate excellence in what they do. "People want to follow people who are excellent at their job."
They hold people accountable
"Excellent leaders are generally kind to others and establish goodwill with many people."
"Your job is to find something you're good at, and after ten thousand hours of practice, get great at it. The emotional and economic rewards that accompany being great at something will make you passionate about whatever "it" is."
"I tell my students that nothing wonderful, I'm talking really fantastic, will happen without taking a risk and subjecting yourself to rejection. Serendipity is a function of courage."
"If you don't get criticism it means you aren't saying anything."
What does it mean to be a man? "Being a responsible head of household that provides for your family and is a real partner with someone and raising kids and checking that instinctive box — being a good father, being a good husband … raising responsible, civic-minded kids. It's also realizing that if your partner is better at being the head of household and being the provider you get out of the way and support them to do it."
"The most dangerous person in the world is a broke and alone male, and we are producing too man…
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491: Matthew Dixon - Overcoming Indecision, Managing Risk, & Taking Control Of The Conversation (The Challenger Sale)
19 september 2022 · 1 uur
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Notes:
Matthew Dixon's first book, The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation, was a #1 Amazon as well as Wall Street Journal best seller. He is also the co-author of the customer experience bestseller The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty and the sequel to the Challenger Sale, The Challenger Customer: Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results. His new book is called The Jolt Effect.
The paradox of choice is real – People don't want more options. They want someone who can confidently advise them on what to do.
A challenger ultimately teaches someone something new and adds value to their life. A challenger is not afraid to take control of the conversation and has the confidence to show how what they're offering will make someone else's life better.
Think outside the box whenever possible. Be a bit skeptical. Ask why. Question things… That's how we grow and learn and potentially find a better way.
The Challenger: As a Challenger, you offer a new perspective to your prospect and don't shy away from conversations about money. You understand what brings them value and leverage that information to deliver an irresistible pitch — and to tactfully pressure them. Remember the three T's: You teach them something valuable, tailor the sales pitch, and take control over the conversation.
The Hard Worker: The Hard Worker strives to get better in their role but doesn't necessarily focus on the customer's value drivers.
The Lone Wolf: The Lone Wolf is a high performer but not necessarily a team player. Confident in their selling skills, they exceed quotas but are difficult to deal with interpersonal.
The Relationship Builder: When you t…
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490: Dandapani - Becoming More Self-Reflective, Having A Purpose, & Creating Unwavering Focus
16 september 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
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Dandapani is a Hindu priest and a former monk of 10 years. He originally got a degree in Electrical Engineering, then left it all behind and spent a decade studying under the guidance of one of Hinduism's foremost spiritual leaders. He gave a TEDx talk that has been viewed over 5.6 million times and his GoalCast videos have been watched more than 75 million times. He's also written a book called, The Power of Unwavering Focus
Notes:
We need a core purpose in life. Your purpose defines your priorities. It's worth it to do the work to understand this. Self-reflection needs to become part of your routine.
Excellence = Clarity of purpose, a burning desire, and understanding WHO is aligned with your purpose and developing those relationships fully.
Remember, life is finite. It will end. Let's make the most of it.
You'll often hear parents say to their kids, "we just want you to be happy." Happiness should never be pursued. Rather, one should pursue a lifestyle where the byproduct of living that lifestyle is happiness.
We generally think of concentration as a skill we're born with, rather than a skill we need to be taught and then cultivate by practicing over time. Would you expect to be an expert piano player naturally? Of course not - you would seek instruction, and then practice for years in order to grow your skill.
Concentration, in short, is the ability to keep awareness on one thing until you consciously choose to move it to something else. Distraction, on the other hand, is awareness being controlled by your environment (the people and things around you) without conscious choice.
We are what we practice. The reality is that most people are not conscious of the fact that they are practicing distraction al…
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489: Todd Henry - Asking Uncomfortable Questions, Solving Big Problems, & Casting Your Vision
12 september 2022 · 1 uur 12 min
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Todd Henry is an international speaker and best-selling author of 6 books including, The Accidental Creative, Herding Tigers, Die Empty, and his latest book is called The Daily Creative.
Notes:
The mantra Todd tells himself before going on stage is, "Be Present. Be Yourself."
This is a reminder to be in the room, and pay attention to the nuance... And don't try to be someone you're not.
Don't apologize for your existence.
Authenticity shows that you have skin in the game. I am putting my actions where my mouth is.
We crave real experiences:
We do business with human beings. The most valuable thing we can do is make genuine connections with people. Make people feel seen and known.
Creativity is problem-solving. If you solve problems every day, you're creative.
Have a BIG VISION. Walt Disney started as a cartoonist. Todd has Disney's business plan from 1967 hanging up on his wall. All arrows point to the creative output of the film team.
Do the "What would blow your mind?" Exercise. Write a list of things that would blow your mind if you accomplished them in the next 10-15 years.
What did you do? Who did you do it with? What impact did it have on others?
Our greatest work will be accomplished in the community of others.
Todd intends to influence 28 million people. That is roughly 17% of working Americans in his field. That ambition points his mind in a direction.
Where do good ideas come from?
Adjacent possibilities.
"I'm not trying to build a business. I'm trying to grow a life."
It's important for your kids to see you doing work.
You must grow comfortable with Asking Uncomfortable Questions – Brilliant, effective creative professionals are willing to ask inconvenient and uncomfortable questions.
Difficult Conversations …
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488: Cassie Holmes - How To Expand Your Time, Focus On What Matters Most, & Live A Happier Life
5 september 2022 · 52 min
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Cassie Holmes is a Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Cassie is an expert on time and happiness. Cassie is the author of the book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, which is based on her wildly popular MBA course, "Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design."
Notes:
What do the happiest people do?
They have strong, supportive relationships
They feel a sense of belonging
They feel safe and healthy
"We have control over what we do and how we spend our time."
Turn routines into rituals - Cassie does this for her Thursday morning coffee dates with her daughter. I do the same going to the pool with my daughter.
Time poverty is prevalent for 50% of Americans.
How to handle back to back to back meetings?
It's unsustainable. Your team needs you to be full. Over time, you will not perform at an optimal level if you don't give yourself time to think, reflect, analyze the situation, and make a decision.
Do a time tracking exercise and analyze what is the best use of your time.
Block time on your calendar each day for yourself. And hold to it.
Learning from admired elders – Ask, 'what is your greatest source of pride?' 'what is your greatest regret?' - Invest the time to learn from someone who is older than you that you admire.
How to be happier? Unhappy activities can be made less painful by reframing them (bundling them with something fun or remembering its purpose–why you're doing it)
Reflect back on your last two weeks. When did you feel the most joy? A weekly coffee date with your daughter? Swimming together? Whatever it is… How can you intentionally create more moments of joy for yourself?
If you have less than two hours of free t…
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487: Governor Charlie Baker - A Conversation With The Most Popular Governor In America
29 augustus 2022 · 48 min
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My guest: Charlie Baker is Governor of Massachusetts. He has also served as CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a top-performing healthcare insurance provider. According to a Morning Consult poll, he has a 74% approval rating which makes him the most popular Governor in America. He is the author of the new book, Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done.
Notes:
Your receiver is more important than your transmitter." "You have two ears and one mouth." Charlie learned at a young age the importance of being a good listener.
What he learned when he lost his first race: "Charlie, you spend too much time with your customers and not enough time with your prospects." We all would benefit from talking with people who disagree with us…
In the fall of 2014, Charlie was struggling to find a secretary of transportation… This is a huge job within an administration. Charlie said he was looking for a 50% player – someone who thought you had real issues and wasn't interested in making things just 5% better, but dramatically better. A friend recommended "Stephanie Pollack." She was a well-known, well-respected liberal Democrat…
Charlie's work embraces openness and accountability. In the words, again, of John F. Kennedy, "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
He grew up the son of a moderate Republican father (who worked in the Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan administrations) and a liberal Democrat mother (a fierce advocate for education and services to support the most vulnerable in your community). His parents expected him and his brothers to participate in d…
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486: Brent Beshore - Growth Without Goals, Continuous Improvement, & The Art Of Sales
22 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
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Brent Beshore is the Founder and CEO of Permanent Equity, a Midwestern-based private equity firm. They take a long-term approach to private equity, investing "permanent equity" in small to midsize privately held companies throughout North America. He's also the best-selling author of The Messy Marketplace.
Notes:
Growth without goals – Listed as one of Brent's foundations. "We believe the best path to sturdy growth is not a plan, but a posture." It's a belief in continuous improvement, optimism shining through some thick scars, and a healthy dose of humility.
Growth comes from what you know you don't know. (which feels terrible). The harm comes from what you think you know or what you don't know you don't know. (which feels great or oblivious)
Progress isn't made by sweeping proclamation or grand strategy. It's built by unglamorous daily activities that are often overlooked and under-appreciated.
In March 2016, Brent wrote a medium post about how to sell… "Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust." — Zig Ziglar
You have 30 minutes one-on-one with someone you know nothing about other than they are wildly successful personally and professionally. What questions do you ask to understand their life, tease out their life philosophy, and get advice?
Great questions are the key that unlocks everything. Stop talking about yourself and be a student of others.
No matter how important you think relationships are, they're more important.
Reliability is a superpower. Do what you say you would when you said you'd do it, for the price you said you'd do it for. Every single time.
If you're ever more focused on other people's shortcomings …
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485: Ryan Holiday - The Power Of Self Control, Loving The Process, & Building Endurance (Discipline Is Destiny)
15 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 7 min
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Ryan Holiday is the best selling author of 11 books including The Obstacle Is the Way, The Daily Stoic, Ego Is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key which has sold millions of copies and been translated into thirty languages. His latest book is called Discipline is Destiny - The Power of Self Control.
Notes:
We must be in command of ourselves. We have to conquer ourselves before others.
Self Discipline - Freedom is the opportunity for self-discipline.
The trivial - The people who sustain excellence fall in love with the process. They don't cheat it.
Choose to see obstacles as opportunities.
Dr. Drew recommended to Ryan that he should read books about stoicism when he was 19. This was a pivotal moment.
Carry The Load For Others – General Jim Mattis. "The privilege of command is command. You don't get a bigger tent. "Being the boss is a job. Being a leader is something you earn."
Seek Discomfort – Seneca was a rich man. He inherited estates from his father. He invested well. Yet every so often, for a few days, he would eat only the scantest fare and wear his coarest clothing. He would actively seek out discomfort, mimicking abject poverty and harsher life conditions.
Having a full calendar - "That doesn't seem like a rich life."
Just show up — Consistency. Thomas Edison said "I've got no imagination. Thank never dream. I've created nothing." The genius hangs around his laboratory day and night."
Your Why must be intrinsic.
Just work - in Ancient Greece, there was a word to describe a ceaseless work ethic — philoponia (about the author Joyce Carol Oates). She published a ton over the course of decades.
Work out -- "Obviously the philosopher's life should be well prepared for physical activity." — the Stoic Gaius M…
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484: Bill George - Becoming An Authentic Leader By Discovering Your True North (Former CEO of Medtronic)
8 augustus 2022 · 1 uur
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Bill George is a senior fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has taught leadership since 2004. He is the author of Discover Your True North, Authentic Leadership, and 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis. Bill is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic. He joined Medtronic in 1989 as president and chief operating officer, was the CEO from 1991-2001, and board chair from 1996-2002. Earlier in his career, he was a senior executive with Honeywell and Litton Industries and served in the U.S. Department of Defense.
Sustained excellence =
Authentic, real, and vulnerable
They know how to bring people together and inspire them
They challenge, help, and coach people
People do not want the Jack Welch style today.
How did Bill earn the CEO role at Medtronic?
Team building - "I continued to develop leaders."
"Do your current job exceptionally well, develop others, and don't think about your promotion."
Give people an opportunity and a sense of purpose
Your True North
Make the shift from what you are to who you are
Process your life story and the significant events
The difficult times make you who you are
What do you want them to say at your funeral?
The "Coach" Acronym
Care
Organize
Align
Challenge
Help
"You must be a constant learner if you want to be a leader."
Leadership Crucibles:
Leadership is about relationships
What Bill has learned teaching at Harvard
It's a mistake to chase external expectations
You need to be fulfilled by your work
Keys to a great marriage:
Communicate all the time
You need to grow together
Keys to being a great dad:
Be there, be present
Listen
Bill shares what it's like leading through today's challenges, creating inclusive cultures, and how to lead through crises.
Bill shar…
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483: Colin O'Brady - Doing The Impossible, Changing Your Mindset, & Crossing Antarctica Alone
1 augustus 2022 · 59 min
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Colin O'Brady 10-time World Record Holder. New York Times bestselling author of The Impossible First. Colin's highly publicized expeditions have been followed by millions and his work has been featured in the New York Times, The Tonight Show, the BBC, The Joe Rogan Experience, and NBC's Today. His feats include the world's first solo, unsupported, and fully human-powered crossing of Antarctica; speed records for the Explorers Grand Slam and the Seven Summits; and the world's first human-powered ocean row across the Drake Passage. His new book is called The 12 Hour Walk.
Notes:
What's your Everest - The question he asked all the rich bankers that night that none had an answer to? What's your answer? What are you doing to turn that into a reality?
Limiting beliefs - "We are the stories we tell ourselves." What story are you telling yourself about… Yourself?
Life is on a scale of 1 to 10. Most people live most days around a 5 or 6. They don't have any 1s and they don't have any 10s. What can you do to change that? How can you live a life that has some 1s and 10s?
Mantra: "Colin! You are strong. You are capable."
The most important muscle is the brain.
The possible mindset:
See the optimism in all opportunities.
Colin's mom told him he could achieve anything that he set his mind to.
Colin had an accident and caught on fire while jumping a flaming jump rope...
His doctor told him that he would probably never walk again.
At that moment, Colin set the goal to complete a triathlon.
A year later, he WON the Chicago triathlon.
With Colin as your guide, The 12-Hour Walk asks you to invest one day in yourself. The goal? Conquering your mind and becoming your best self. By walking alone, unplugging, listening to …
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482: Neal Foard - Becoming More Persuasive, Telling Better Stories, & Changing Your Mind...
25 juli 2022 · 1 uur 11 min
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Neal Foard has spent more than 20 years creating award-winning ad campaigns for clients on four continents. From the experience of thousands of presentations to clients all over the world, Neal has created The Passionate Logic Project™ to help business leaders sell their agendas more persuasively. He has been a featured speaker at TED and is recently known for his TikTok videos which have been viewed millions of times over the past few months.
"There's nothing wrong with us that can't be fixed by what's right with us."
The EQ of the gym bro – When someone is new on your team, ask them to help you out. Find a way to include them. Get them an early win. Make them feel part of the team as soon as possible.
The element of mystery – Have an aha moment. Don't spoil the punchline. Save the reveal for the end… Remember the Whitney Houston story?
Your first words of a presentation or a meeting are the most valuable real estate you have. Don't waste them. Be thoughtful. Practice. Don't tell them "I'm so excited to be here…" Launch with intrigue, with movement, with a story…
How To Use Power – "The thing that gave him more joy than anything was using power to make life more amazing for his team, make you feel like you mattered to him." – "All business is personal. The best business is very personal." - Rick Lenz
Data is a tool - Our first use of it should be to make people smile. – Your family trip to Disney World… What happened?
The Physics of a Bright Smile – The most important decision you can make is to be in a good mood. - Voltaire
What Motivates people: Lillian Moore shares a quick story that reveals what really motivates people: "A few months a…
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481: Eric Barker - The Surprising Science About Building Excellent Relationships (Plays Well With Others)
18 juli 2022 · 50 min
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Eric Barker is the author of The Wall Street Journal bestseller "Barking Up the Wrong Tree," which has sold over half a million copies and been translated into 19 languages. It was even the subject of a question on "Jeopardy!" Over 500,000 people have subscribed to his weekly newsletter. His work has been covered by The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Financial Times, and others. Eric is also a sought-after speaker, having given talks at MIT, Yale, Google, the United States Military Central Command (CENTCOM), and the Olympic Training Center. His latest book is called "Plays Well with Others."
Love – Casanova said, "love is three-quarters curiosity." That curiosity creates deep knowledge… And that helps you build what researcher John Gottman calls, a "love map." "Everyone asks how you got together; nobody asks how you stayed together. And it's the latter that is often the real achievement to be proud of."
Your WHO: Take your health, for example. The Framingham study showed that drinking, smoking, and obesity are all quite contagious. If someone you consider a friend becomes obese, your likelihood of obesity increases by 53%. And if the friendship is mutual, the number rises to 171%.
"Friends are only there because you want them to be."
"Friends make us happier than any other relationship."
How to build deeper relationships with friends?
Time
Be vulnerable -- "Relationships move at the speed of vulnerability."
How to make your relationship with your partner better?
Do exciting things together - Be proactive
Leverage emotional contagion - Associate feelings with events
Bill Perkins - "Create memory dividends."
You need to learn and grow together
John Gottman asks couples to tell their stories...
The…
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480: Seth Godin - Becoming A Great Storyteller, Fixing PowerPoint Presentations, & Defining Leadership
11 juli 2022 · 52 min
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Leaders have nothing in common. They don't share gender or income level or geography. There's no gene, no schooling, no parentage, no profession. In other words, leaders aren't born with it. Actually, they do have one thing in common. "Every tribe leader I've ever met shares one thing: the decision to lead. Leadership is a choice."
Great Stories – Great stories are rarely aimed at everyone. Average people are good at ignoring you. Average people have too many different points of view about life and average people are by and large satisfied. If you need to water down your story to appeal to everyone, it will appeal to no one. The most effective stories match the world view of a tiny audience—and then that tiny audience spreads the story.
Really Bad PowerPoint - Powerpoint could be the most powerful tool on your computer. But it's not. Countless innovations fail because their champions use PowerPoint the way Microsoft wants them to, instead of the right way. Communication is the transfer of emotion. make slides that reinforce your words, not repeat them. Create slides that demonstrate, with emotional proof, that what you're saying is true not just accurate. Talking about pollution in Houston? Instead of giving me four bullet points of EPA data, why not read me the stats but show me a photo of a bunch of dead birds, some smog, and even a diseased lung? This is cheating! It's unfair! It works.
Define Brand – Seth's definition: A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stories, and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.
Linchpin — the combination of passion and art is w…
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479: David Rubenstein - Interviewing Billionaires, Using Humor To Connect, & The Future Of America
4 juli 2022 · 1 uur
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Guest: David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $325 billion from 26 offices around the world. David is the host of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and PBS and Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein on Bloomberg TV; and the author of The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians, a book published by Simon & Schuster in 2019, How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers, a book published in 2020, and The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream, a book published in 2021.
Notes:
How David defines success - "Other people tell you that what you've done is useful. They admire you. And you help people."
David's goals:
Don't do anything to get in public trouble
Give away the bulk of his money
4 Key Decisions David made that helped him:
Going to law school
Working in the Carter White House
Starting the Carlyle Group
Becoming a philanthropist
Why The Carlyle Group?
"I fell in love with building something from scratch."
"Great ideas don't come from people who are busy."
Why does David enjoy interviewing leaders?
It gives him an opportunity to follow his intellectual curiosity
How does he prepare for his interviews?
Reads their books
Gets help from a research assistant
Digests all the material
Writes questions
Looks for humor opportunities
Humor breaks the tension and produces a common bond
"John Kennedy had a great sense of humor."
David has lent his home in Nantucket to President Biden.
Benjamin Franklin sai…
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478: Susan Cain - Using Pain To Be More Creative, Finding The Right Life Partner, & A New Way To Think About Death
27 juni 2022 · 58 min
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Susan Cain is the #1 bestselling author of Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, which spent eight years on The New York Times best-seller list, and has been translated into 40 languages. Susan's TED talks have been viewed over 40 million times. LinkedIn named her the Top 6th Influencer in the World, just behind Richard Branson and Melinda French Gates. Susan partners with Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, and Dan Pink to curate the Next Big Idea Book Club.
Notes:
"Compassion means to suffer together."
How to use sadness? "Make the pain your creative offering."
To suffer with other beings brings people together.
When people are grieving the loss of a loved one, they often want to talk about that person.
Aristotle wondered why the great poets, philosophers, artists, and politicians often have melancholic personalities… his question was based on the ancient belief that the human body contains 4 humors: each corresponding to a different temperament - melancholic (sad), sanguine (happy), choleric (aggressive), and phlegmatic (calm).
Joseph Campbell said, "We should strive to participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world."
Connecting with what matters and taking committed action—moves us from bitter to sweet, from loss to love." Everyone experiences loss. It is part of the human condition. How have you moved "from bitter to sweet, from loss to love"? Are there coping strategies you recommend?
The bittersweet quiz — 1-10. If you scored between 5.8 and 10, you're a true connoisseur of bittersweetness: the place where light and dark meet.
Questions: Do you tear up easi…
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477: Steve Holmes - Finding Your Purpose (Ikigai), Bouncing Back From Failure, & Using Your Working Genius
20 juni 2022 · 59 min
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Steve Holmes founded Springfree Trampoline in 2003 and has overseen its growth to almost 400 employees globally. He is responsible for strategic business development and leads growth initiatives worldwide. Springfree® Trampoline, the World's Safest Trampoline™, was introduced in 2003, and available in Australia in 2004. Dr. Keith Alexander re-designed the trampoline from the ground up to invent Springfree Trampoline, over fifteen years of research and development.
Notes:
"I hope that customers describe Springfree as a company which has integrity, honesty, great character, and deals with its customers in a way that values their experience with the brand and the product, and delivers on the promises they make.
Living in the tension of competing priorities. This is the job of the leader. It's happening at all times both at work and at home. We must be aware of and understand how to live in that tension.
Your working genius - Jim has learned that his sense of wonder and invention is what brings him the most joy. We have to know what lights us up in order to sustain excellence over time.
Responding to losing the Costco account. Steve called the Jim Sinegal and worked out how the relationship would end and then immediately planned for the future to keep his company in business.
"The greatest piece of marketing is our customers."
How to find your purpose: Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means your 'reason for being. ' 'Iki' in Japanese means 'life,' and 'gai' describes value or worth. Your ikigai is your life purpose or your bliss. It's what brings you joy and inspires you to get out of bed every day.
Life is about giving so that others will ben…
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476: Kat Cole - Pragmatic Optimism, Reflection Questions, Humble Confidence, Building Trust, & The Hot Shot Rule
13 juni 2022 · 1 uur 15 min
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Kat Cole is the President, COO, and board member at Athletic Greens. She was previously President and COO at Focus Brands, the parent company of Cinnabon, Auntie Anne's, Moe's, Schlotzsky's, McAllister's, Carvel, Seattle's Best Coffee International, and Jamba. She oversaw all businesses, their 6,000 operations globally, and the multi-brand licensing and CPG business with 90,000+ points of retail distribution. She has more than 20 years of operational, brand, and executive leadership experience and has an MBA from Georgia State University and an honorary Doctorate from Johnson and Wales University. This episode was recorded at the Insight Global Headquarters in Atlanta, GA as part of the Women's Leadership Council "Raise Your Hand, Raise Your Voice" event.
Notes:
A pragmatic optimist: When Kat was 9 years old, Kat's mom decided to leave her dad. Her dad was an alcoholic. Kat has two younger sisters. Kat was in multiple car accidents with her dad while he was driving drunk. At the age of 9, Kat looked at her mom and said, "What took you so long?"
She learned that "the people who are closest to the action know what to do long before the senior leaders do. But they lack the language to articulate the problem and the solution. And they lack the authority to do something about it."
"I learned to stay incredibly close to the people who are close to the action from that moment."
"With all that he did, my mother never spoke ill of my father. I remember in all of those years, we were super poor. Taking meat scraps from the butcher. I remember one holiday season we were driving around looking at holiday lights. We went through the fancy neighborhoods and she said, 'is…
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475: Chandler Bolt - The Life Changing Process Of Writing A Book... (How You Can Do It Right Now)
6 juni 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
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Chandler Bolt is an investor, advisor, the CEO of Self-Publishing School & SelfPublishing.com, and the author of 6 bestselling books including his most recent book titled "Published.". Self Publishing School is an INC 5000 company the last 3 years in a row as one of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the US. He's currently spending his time scaling Self Publishing School, a company he's built from 0 to $20M+ in 5.5 years.
Notes:
Thinking of your topic – What are the broken record conversations you continue to have? What questions do others ask you on a regular basis? The market will help you understand where you add value…
Hiring others-- An hour is an hour. A simple metric… Your take-home pay is divided by 2,080. That is your hourly rate. Hire others to do work if it's cheaper than your hourly rate. This is hard to do but appears to be a wise investment long term
The 4 P's of writing – Person, pain, promise, price. Write to one person… just like you're responding to an email.
"A book is a $15 mentor"
Writing process:
Mind map
Outline
Rough draft
"People who pay, pay attention."
"Go from I want to, to I am doing it."
The root word of authority is author
Revenue = Vanity
Profit = Sanity
Cash = King
Designing the life you want first... Michael Hyatt has helped him schedule his time off first.
"Valuing freedom above all else; entrepreneurs work harder to create future freedom, which directly takes away from their freedom in the present."
"The truth is, you'll never "find the time" to write a book. You have to make it."
"Don't be the person who misses out on opportunities in life because you take too long to accomplish you…
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474: Jeffrey Pfeffer - How To Gain Power, Break The Rules, & Advance Your Career
30 mei 2022 · 1 uur 8 min
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Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University where he has taught since 1979. He is the author or co-author of 15 books including Leadership B.S.: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time; Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't; The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First; Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management.
Notes:
"The two fundamental dimensions that distinguish people who rise to great heights and accomplish amazing things are will, the drive to take on big challenges, and skill, the capabilities required to turn ambition into accomplishment. The three personal qualities embodied are ambition, energy, and focus. The four skills useful in acquiring power are self-knowledge and a reflective mindset, confidence and the ability to project self-assurance, the ability to read others and empathize with their point of view, and a capacity to tolerate conflict."
"Being memorable equals getting picked."
"Measuring the wrong thing is often worse than measuring nothing because you do get what you measure."
"People are seduced by and attracted to narcissists and despots and wind up voting for or working for them, frequently with bad outcomes."
Break the rules — in one test, the rule breaker dropped cigarette ashes on the floor and spoke rudely to the waiter. That person was perceived to be 29% more powerful than the person who was more polite.
"I completely reject the idea that working adults need to be treated like infants or worse and not told the realities, harsh or not, about the world of work."
Build a powerful brand — in late 2020, Laura…
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473: Ed Mylett - Building Confidence, Asking The Right Questions, & Maxing Out Your Life (The Power Of One More)
23 mei 2022 · 53 min
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Ed Mylett is a globally recognized entrepreneur, coach, and speaker. He started in the financial services industry, eventually earning a spot on the Forbes 50 Wealthiest Under 50 List. Since then, he has spearheaded a range of ventures, spanning technology, real estate, health, nutrition, and more. Ed is the best-selling author of #MaxOut Your Life, and the new book The Power of One More. He has grown his online audience to more than 3 million followers in just four years. Ed also regularly inspires audiences ranging from small gatherings to mega-venues of 50,000+ attendees, and online audiences in the hundreds of thousands.
Notes:
Self-confidence is about keeping promises to yourself. And surrounding yourself with people who live at a higher temperature. You become what they are. You think differently, act differently, and will achieve different results based on your inner circle.
"Link your confidence to your intention."
Excellence = high standards. People who sustain excellence expect more from themselves. They're prepared for big moments. Their habits, routines, and rituals enable them to perform at a high level each day. And they keep raising their standards. Isn't that the type of person we want to be?
Definition of leadership – "As I define it, you are a One More leader if you help people do things they would not otherwise accomplish without your presence." - Ed Mylett
The six basic needs that drive people: Certainty, Uncertainty and Variety, Significance, Love & Connection, Growth, and Contribution.
Many people think they've got to make several huge changes to improve their lives and achieve their goals. This common m…
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472: Jimmy Soni - An Indispensable Guide To Innovation, Curiosity, & Leadership (The Founders)
16 mei 2022 · 1 uur 11 min
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Jimmy Soni is an award-winning author. His book, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age, won the 2017 Neumann Prize, awarded by the British Society for the History of Mathematics for the best book on the history of mathematics for a general audience, and the Middleton Prize by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. His book, Jane's Carousel, completed with the late Jane Walentas, captured one woman's remarkable twenty-five-year journey to restore a beloved carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Jimmy's most recent book is called, The Founders - The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley.
Notes:
"Your life will be shaped by the things you create, and the people you make them with. We tend to sweat the former. We don't worry enough about the latter."
The founders and earliest employees of PayPal pushed and prodded and demanded better of one another.
Instead of "Acknowledgements" to end his book, Jimmy titled the section "Debts"
"A debt is deeper than an Acknowledgement."
Envy the optimist, not the genius. There's real power in optimism. The world is built by optimists. Look for the silver things. Have belief. Be the type of person that believes in themselves and others… Optimism builds confidence in yourself and others. Be an optimist.
Phil Jackson and Michael Jordan – The fact that Phil told the best player in the world… "We aren't going to win a championship if you keep playing that way. You have to buy into the triangle offense." It shows the value of a friend (or a coach) telling you the truth in order to help you (and the team) get better.
"Walter Isaacson made me believe in its (the book) importance and potential. At the very end, he provided the kind of advice that ca…
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471: Steve Magness - Why We Get Resilience Wrong & The Surprising Science Of Real Toughness (Do Hard Things)
9 mei 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
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Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on performance, co-author of Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success and The Passion Paradox: A Guide to Going All In, Finding Success, and Discovering the Benefits of an Unbalanced Life, and the author of The Science of Running: How to Find Your Limit and Train to Maximize Your Performance. His new book is called Do Hard Things.
Notes:
"The best aren't concerned with being the best. They're concerned with being the best at getting better."
Confidence: Confidence needs evidence. Acting with bravado we haven't earned only works on easy things. It backfires on anything truly challenging. Doing difficult things, even if you don't quite succeed at them, is how you develop real confidence.
How do you find a good mentor? Do interesting things. Be open to learning and guidance. Be motivated, driven, and curious about something. Put your ego aside. Do good, quality work.
The difference between real and fake toughness. Fake toughness is easy to identify. It's Bobby Knight losing control and throwing tantrums in the name of "discipline." It's the appearance of power without substance behind it.
Researchers out of Eastern Washington set out to explore the relationship between leadership style and the development of toughness. After conducting research on nearly two hundred basketball players and their coaches, they concluded, "The results of this study seem to suggest that the 'keys' to promoting mental toughness do not lie in this autocratic, authoritarian, or oppressive style. It appears to lie, paradoxically, with the coach's ability to produce an environment, which emphasizes trust and inclusion, humility, and service.
Sustained Excellence: Observatio…
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470: Daniel Coyle - Building Your Culture, Solving Hard Problems, & Winning The Learning Contest
2 mei 2022 · 1 uur 15 min
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Daniel Coyle is the New York Times bestselling author of The Culture Code, which was named Best Business Book of the Year by Bloomberg, BookPal, and Business Insider. Coyle has served as an advisor to many high-performing organizations, including the Navy SEALs, Microsoft, Google, and the Cleveland Guardians. His other books include The Talent Code, The Secret Race, The Little Book of Talent, and Hardball: A Season in the Projects, which was made into a movie starring Keanu Reeves. Coyle was raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and now lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, during the school year and in Homer, Alaska, during the summer with his wife Jenny, and their four children.
Notes:
Purpose isn't about tapping into some mystical internal drive but rather about creating simple beacons that focus attention and engagement on the shared goal. Successful cultures do this by relentlessly seeking ways to tell and retell their story. To do this, they build what you call "high-purpose environments." High-purpose environments are filled with small, vivid signals designed to create a link between the present moment and a future ideal. They provide 2 simple locators that every navigation process requires: Here is where we are and Here is where we want to go.
"The world we live in is a learning contest."
Deep fun = Solving hard problems with people you admire.
Schedule regular team "tune-ups" to place an explicit spotlight on the team's inner workings and create conversations that surface and improve team dynamics
Foster strong culture in remote working scenarios. It doesn't take much physical togetherness to build strong teams. Encourage remote teams meet up in person twice a year
Create belonging: every group knows diversity, equity, and inclusion matter, but w…
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469 - Jim Weber - Outpacing Goliath, Impressing Warren Buffet, & Leading With Purpose
25 april 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
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Jim Weber joined Brooks Running Company as CEO in 2001 and is credited for the Seattle-based running company's aggressive turnaround story. The business and brand success caught the attention of Warren Buffett, who declared Brooks a standalone subsidiary company of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in 2012. He's the author of a new book called, "Running With Purpose, How Brooks Outpaced Goliath Competitors to lead the pack."
Notes:
A purpose is a forever cause that can permeate everything from the business to the brand to the culture. It is a choice, not an outcome.
The secret to success is "constancy of purpose" - Instead of a mission statement, Jim decided that a purpose was preferable to a mission. A purpose is a forever cause that can permeate everything from the business to the brand to the culture.
The riskiest path is to look like your competitors. You can't just chase trends.
They have distinct points of view:
Focus
Excellence in execution
Trust: Charlie Munger has often spoken about the "seamless web of deserved trust" as a life pursuit.
The Berkshire culture is built on trust
Brooks is completely empowered
Brooks is completely accountable
There are no required meetings
People choose to self-select into it
"You're an outcome of your journey."
What Jim looks for when hiring a leader:
Competitive
Culture driven - "Cultures are behaviors in action."
Likes being part of a team
Functional excellence
Values:
Word is bond
Be active
Authenticity
The process Jim has in place to continue learning:
He was involved in YPO in the early years
His wife Mary Ellen
A board of advisors - It's 6 former CEOs
The one-page strategy that you relentlessly message to your team – Jim made the decision to walk away from non-premium runnin…
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468 - Vanessa Van Edwards - The Secret Language To Charismatic Communication (Cues)
18 april 2022 · 53 min
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Vanessa Van Edwards is the Lead Investigator at Science of People. She is the bestselling author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People, translated into 16 languages. More than 50 million people watch her engaging YouTube tutorials and TEDx Talk. Vanessa works with entrepreneurs, growing businesses, and trillion-dollar companies; and has been featured on CNN, BBC, CBS Mornings, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, USA Today, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Today Show, and many more. Her latest book is called Cues: Master The Secret Language of Charismatic Communication.
Notes:
Cues - It's about warmth and competence. Can I trust you? Can I rely on you? – How are you showing others warmth and competence?
Dr. Kofi Essel - His non-verbal protocol for warmth:
Fronting - He angles his toes, torso, and head towards the person. Be in alignment with the patient.
Non-Verbal bridges - Slowly warm someone up. Lean in.
In your 1 on 1 meetings, remove all barriers between you and the person. Show them 100% focus.
If you see someone gazing over your head, look where they're looking. It will help make them aware of what they're doing.
Question Inflection - From the Ring founder when he pitched on Shark Tank. This is something that a lot of us mess up. When stating a fact, SAY IT, don't ask it.
The 4 modes of communication:
Nonverbal
Verbal - Syntax
Vocal
Imagery
Touch – A group of researchers at UC Berkeley watched the first 3 games of the NBA finals in the 2008-2009 season and counted every single time players were seen touching on camera. They found the team that touched the most, won the most games. Touches = higher trust
Speed dating research – Followed 144-speed dates and found that postural expansiveness was the most romantically a…
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467: Marcus Buckingham - How To Find Love In Your Work, Designing The Future Of Education, & Breaking All The Rules
11 april 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
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Marcus Buckingham is best selling author of 10 books, including his international hit, "First, Break All The Rules," He's been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, The Today Show, and by Oprah. Marcus spent two decades studying excellence at the Gallup Organization and co-creating the StrengthsFinder tool. His latest book is called Love + Work.
Notes:
"When you see someone do something with excellence, there is always love in it– loveless excellence is an oxymoron."
Fear versus Love – "The evolutionary purpose of fear is to narrow your focus to a few clear choices, fight or flight, the point of love is to create in you such feelings of safety and connection that you broaden your outlook and build your strengths."
If you're feeling fear, there's something you're passionate about
Excellence =
They take their love seriously
They are confident that their love is worth paying attention to
They are vivid in what they're drawn to
Consistent
They value mastery
"We aren't short on time, but on energy."
How Marcus would design a school:
Teach self-awareness and self-mastery curriculum
Get rid of the SAT, ACT, and GPA
Your fullest life is one where your loves and your work flow in an infinite loop. The energy of the one fuels the energy of the other. Thus, the only way you'll make a lasting contribution in life is to deeply understand what it is that you love.
Goals: "Goals are tricky. They are one of the most common characteristics of your working world, and yet they're also one of the least loving. They don't have to be loveless."
The Red Thread questionnaire. It's full of "When was the last time…" questions: "You lost track of time…" "You surprised yourself by how well you did…" "you…
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466: Liz Fosslien - How To Deal With Uncertainty, Build Your Career, & Embrace Your Emotions At Work
4 april 2022 · 1 uur
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Liz Fosslien is the co-author and illustrator of the book Big Feelings and the Wall Street Journal best-seller No Hard Feelings. Liz is an expert on how to make work better. She regularly leads interactive, scientifically-backed workshops about how to build resilience, help remote workers avoid burnout, and effectively harness emotion as a leader. Her work has been featured by TED, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Economist, and NPR.
Ask yourself… When you look back at your career and think of your best boss and your worst boss… What behaviors did each of them have? How can we embody more of the best boss behavior?
Set up a regular cadence of not-urgent, developmental meetings with the people you're leading. Show them and prove to them how much you care about them and their career.
What have you enjoyed most?
What have you not enjoyed?
What have you learned?
What do you want for your next job?
Use envy to reveal what you value. But remember, ask yourself if you'd want that person's entire life. Not just the cool part you see on Instagram. The Gretchen Rubin story of feeling envy over seeing someone else publish a book. She used that as fuel.
Anger is a signal that something occurred that you didn't like. Acknowledge what you're feeling.
She met her co-author, Molly West Duffy, on a blind friend date!
How to deal with uncertainty?
Over-communicate - Be transparent
Switch from "I need to have this all figured out" to "I'm a person learning to become a manager"
Pixar recruited animators that were frustrated at their current place of work...
Liz's research process:
Read a lot
Talk with academics
Learn from practitioners who are applying it
Work-life balance?
It's well-intentioned... but a very individual thing
Some peop…
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465: Michael Easter - Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Healthy, Happy Self (The Comfort Crisis)
28 maart 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
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"We are wired for laziness. It takes conscious thought to do the harder thing."
What Micheal learned from The Pope... If you have a question, go directly to the source.
The science-backed ways to slow down time?
Learn and do new things. Get off "auto-pilot" mode.
Benefits of thinking about death?
Michael learned in Bhutan why we should think about death...
In the United States, we rarely think about death—especially our own death. And when we do, it tends to make us sad and uncomfortable. But there are powerful benefits to regularly contemplating the fact that our time in this world will eventually come to an end. The shift in perspective can be profound and lead to a kind of deeply felt and enduring appreciation for life.
Michael's love for his mom: "My mom got sober when my dad was in rehab. That's how my favorite story I've ever written starts. It's about my mom, a single parent who taught me everything I need to know about being a man. As I was writing that story five years ago, my mom was battling cancer. She'd just finished chemotherapy and was undergoing radiation. Doctors officially deemed my mom "cured" from cancer. In the story I wrote, "Have you ever played tug-of-war with a pit bull? It'll pull until you quit or it dies. That's Lynda Easter."
How Michael dealt with alcohol - "I saw a choice. Option 1, do nothing. Cling to complacency and the numbing lifestyle that would ultimately end badly but allow me to keep drinking. Or option 2. Get uncomfortable. Ditch my liquid comfort blanket. I hadn't a clue where this second option would take me or if I could even pull it off. And I was terrified."
Take The Stairs: A mantra I try to live by when traveling – "Take the stairs." When there is an escalator a…
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464: Polina Pompliano - Profiles Of The World's Greatest Performers, Makers vs. Managers, & Building Trust Through Consistency
21 maart 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
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Polina Pompliano is studying the world's most interesting people & companies. She is the Founder & Author of The Profile. Polina is a former writer at Fortune. Some of the people she's written a profile on are: Martha Stewart, Keanu Reeves, and The Rock. I am a paid subscriber and love her work.
Notes:
Sustained excellence comes from being obsessively curious about what you do… And knowing that failure is part of the process. It's how you choose to respond that matters. Examples: Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, Martha Stewart.
The advice she received from David Perell (also a previous podcast guest). He said, "Everything you put into the world is a vehicle for serendipity." Polina wrote a profile on The Rock. She had no idea he would share it four times on all platforms.
Create your own personal board of advisors. Listen to criticism, but only from people who want you to win. Only from people who care about you doing well. Not from trolls online.
"Consistency is the best way to earn trust. – Name a relationship in your life where you trust someone who is inconsistent. You can't. That's because we don't trust people — whether it's in work, business, or relationships — who constantly break their promises. Since I started The Profile three years ago, I have never missed a single week."
Criticism: "I once heard Kat Cole say that one of the biggest lessons she has learned after years of business experience is to put your ego aside and improve from criticism. She said, "Anytime you're criticized, assume first that it's correct." The act of simply considering that a fraction of the criticism may be accurate will keep you learning, unlearning, fixing, and ultimately, gaining respect."
How to Find Ideas: "It's about being obsessed with the details. A great idea typically masquerades as a question in a friend's text message, a quote i…