Podcasts about functionary

This is the final episode of the Let's Think Digital podcast in its current form. I've been thinking a lot about transitions recently. Last month, I had the honour of being asked to serve as Vice President of Learning and Leadership at the Institute of Governance. The IOG is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization that I've worked with for a number of years that does important work to advance good public governance. Its mission is needed now more than ever as governments are under increased expectations to modernize and evolve to meet the moment. I'm excited to take on this challenge and bring my work from Think Digital under IOG's banner.With this change, it seemed like the right time to think about the future of this podcast as well. It has been a really amazing experience hosting the podcast these past three seasons and I'm very proud of what we've been able to produce and share with our broader community through it. The goal was always to help spark greater awareness and more conversations about what it means to have a modern, effective government in a digital world. I feel like we've been able to help move this discussion forward. I'm also heartened that increasingly others are raising these issues and adding their voices to the mix. However for me personally, this felt like the right time to bring this particular iteration of the podcast to a close for now.So on this final episode, I wanted to share my thoughts about transitions. Not just for me personally, but also about the transition that institutions and society are facing in this current moment of uncertainty and change we are all in. And of course, I wanted to take the time to thank all of you for joining us on this journey over the last few years. It's been an absolute joy and pleasure to bring you these conversations and I'm so grateful for our growing audience of thousands of people from across Canada and dozens of countries around the world. Please stay subscribed and engaged, as I do hope that we will continue to be able to bring you content and perspective from time to time from myself and our colleagues in the digital government ecosystem.Finally my sincere thanks to our team and everyone who has contributed to building and producing Let's Think Digital over the past few years. In particular I want to thank our producer (and my friend) Wayne Chu, as without his hard work and dedication none of this would have happened.My sincerest thanks again, and as always, let's keep thinking digital!-Ryan Androsoff, Host of Let's Think DigitalWatch on YouTubehttps://youtu.be/bSuHinHC4Ps?si=Apa0EuQcQudH-isbRelated LinksRyan on CBC Radio's The Current with Matt Galloway talking about Estonia's digital transformation and lessons for CanadaRyan on Derek Alton's Civic Punks talking about why Canada has declined in international rankings around digital governmentRyan on the GovMaker podcast with Nick Scott and Jason Pearman talking about his career journey and advice on how to innovate in governmentKathryn May's The Functionary newsletter

  Aaron Good and Max Arvo interrogate the absurdly suspicious life and times of Jack Ruby—the "pimp for all seasons" who assassinated Lee Oswald, the most politically important prisoner in US history. Over the years, many people have come to find it suspicious that a mob-connected figure could murder Oswald in a room full of armed policemen whose one job at the time was to effect an orderly transfer of prisoner Lee Oswald. Rather than looking exhaustively at the assassination here, we explore what Ruby represents. From that, we may discern why the plotters would have utilized someone like Ruby--given that he was situated within so many sensitive parapolitical networks within the American deep political system. Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art! Music: "Hawks Can Go" by Mock Orange

In the German concentration camps, including Auschwitz, there was a group of so-called ‘functionary' prisoners, responsible for supervising other prisoners.  They were mainly in charge of supervising the work committees, keeping order in the blocks or barracks, but also distributing food among the prisoners. Being a lageraeltester, a block leader, or a kapo meant almost unlimited power over the prisoners. Sometimes the functionary prisoner became the master of life and death. Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, the head of the Auschwitz Muzeum Research Centre, talks about the complex history of this group of prisoners at Auschwitz.

We're used to looking at a screen and seeing dodgy creatures attacking a pair of plucky adventurers. With Carnival of Monsters, you can watch other folk doing the same thing. It's like Gogglebox with grey aliens. Can a chota peg really solve any behemoth-based problem? How easy is it to drug-mule a set of skeleton keys? How many seconds were spent making the Functionary masks and how much change did they get out of a pound note? And were Jim and Martin amused by the miniscope or did it leave them colder than an Inter Minor welcome? Listen to find out!  This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible and all other podcatchers (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon (but we've exited X - far too Musky for our tastes these days). Thanks for listening!

Functionary vs fiduciary. A functionary leader is one who is in a specific task relationship with his team - he simply does the job. While a fiduciary is one who not only does the tasks of the job, but goes the extra mile. Efrosyni deep dives into how this applies in direct sales, and how you can adapt to be a fiduciary leader and becoming irreplaceable. P.S: For the first time, ever our incredible mentor Marc Accetta opens a world-renowned event: A VIEW FROM THE EDGE,  to the general public. A one of a kind, THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE event where theatrical skits unfold before you. You will engage in a unique, entertaining learning experience that transforms your mindset and business effortlessly. This March 22nd - 24th in Croatia, Marc Accetta will share top business-building strategies, hilarious scenes, and family-like connections in a way most individuals have never previously felt. You'll leave this event feeling confident and enthusiastic about your financial future, equipped with leadership skills and team-building strategies to make your business more profitable than ever. Freedom Creators will be Attending The Greatest Show next year. Join us Now (Apply "FreedomCreators" for your discount code.)   Subscribe! Subscribe to our podcast and leave a review on social media to help us boost this and give value to more people. STEP 1: Listen to this episode. STEP 2: Subscribe to our Freedom Creators Podcast (if you haven't already) and leave a review. STEP 3: Share our podcast on Instagram and tag 5 of your friends in comments and also us: @freedomcreatorsclub OR Share it on Facebook and tag any of us (Melanie, Efrosyni, Freedom Creators Club) We will announce our winner on the Facebook Group. *Subscribe to our newsletter also for golden nuggets sent to your inbox every week! Click HERE!

Mark W. Smith is a constitutional attorney, member of the US Supreme Court Bar, a Presidential Scholar at the King's College, and host of The Four Boxes Diner on YouTube - focusing on understanding and defending constitutional rights including the right to keep and bear arms. What if you could go to church only if you could prove to a government functionary that you had something important to pray for?

Show Month and Year: October, 2020 Hosted by Russ McClellan, founder of Frontline Real Estate fueled by Keller Williams.   A little introduction about Nate Woods   It's another great Home Sweet Home with Russ McClellan and friends, with today's guest, Nate Woods, who's a native of Tri-City, Washington, and a Realtor who recently joined our Keller Williams NCW family. In this episode, they talked about his perspective in the space and how excited he is to bring a great level of expertise, passion, and drive to his future clients.   Key Topics Covered: Learning base mentality Don't be in sales if you don't know what your selling Fiduciary vs Functionary Nate's take in Real Estate during this pandemic 25 ways to kill the toxic ego that will ruin your life by Ryan Holiday The timeframe of closing in relation to lending and appraisal   Mentioned Resources and Links: https://www.primelending.com/ https://www.kw.com/

Think BIGGER Real Estate Show is Facebook Live event where Justin Stoddart shares ideas and methods for real estate professionals to help them build, grow and scale their brand and business. Justin is real estate and marketing entrepreneur.  He started in real estate as a custom home builder.  Since then he realized his passion was building people rather than buildings.  Today he works with real estate agents as a representative at Old Republic Title in Lake Oswego, OR.  So many real estate professionals are caught up in the daily grind that must be performed to get the work done, that they have no time to think about, let alone execute, creating a brand and growing beyond the transaction mode.  There are multiple opportunities to spend money on different tech platforms to advertise and get leads.  But at the end of the day, is a client you work with from Zillow your client or Zillow’s client? Zillow is working to become the Amazon for residential real estate.  They draw the attention of the prospective buyers, agents pay to be seen on Zillow, and it works.  But will the client remember you, the agent when they are ready to buy again? Unless the agent has distinguished themself as something special, the customer will likely go back to Zillow, not the agent. In order for an agent to avoid being displaced by tech platforms like Zillow, they need to create value and position themselves as a brand.  If the consumer sees no value in the service provided by an agent, why would the customer look past a tech platform? Think BIGGER Real Estate Justin recognized that real estate agents need help to grow their business and their brand.  To help his clients, real estate agents, he created theThink BIGGER Real Estate Show. It is both a resource and an example for his agent clients on how they can bring value, and stay relevant in the eyes of their clients and prospects. The Future of Real Estate The future of real estate is certain to change.  Real estate investors and home owners will continue to buy properties.  Presumably, as technology advances and AI is more fully adopted, the division between Fiduciary & Functionary tasks will become more defined.  Fiduciary tasks: Decisions made by the real estate agent on behalf of the client that put the clients interest ahead of the agent.  Functionary task: The many task which are necessary to complete a real estate transaction such as filling out a form. Over time, these lower level task will be transferred to tech platforms.   Ideally, by transferring the lower level Functionary Tasks to a tech platform the real estate agent will be able to work more on the Fiduciary Tasks, to better serve their clients.   Time previously spent doing the functionary task, will give the agent time to spend educating oneself on where the market is going, engaging the client.   This higher level will not be for all of your clients, but you will be able to provide this for a small group of your clients & prospects.  When you ask better questions you get better answers. The more you listen and learn your clients wants and needs, the better you are able to serve them.  Ultimately, this better experience will provide a happier client who is likely to refer more clients to the professional agent.   BIGGEST RISK  Each week I ask my guest, “What is the Biggest Risk Real Estate Investors face?”   BIGGEST RISK: I think actually interviewed a gal yesterday and she said. I asked her the question which is kind of my signature question get on my shows which is, "what do you do to intentionally think bigger? And I 'think it's a great response actually for your question. She said I work too. I work really hard to avoid complacency. And I think the biggest risk that all of us face in a world that's rapidly innovating and rapidly moving forward is to get complacent with our own personal growth in our own personal network. And I'm going to put up a plug for you. You didn't ask for this but to have somebody who's whose business is insurance. But goes about adding value to their clients really modeling media. Modeling marketing at its highest form. I think it's it's brilliant on your part because you're becoming a much more, even if nobody listens to this. I know that's not ture, we had this conversation before. You've got a great audience. That just affect the person that you're becoming by having these conversations. Just makes you when you show up with a customer you're so much more valuable to them than had you just been going about as a typical insurance agent. And so I would encourage anybody who's listening that the biggest risk that you have is to not surround yourself with partners like Darrin and knowledge that's helping you grow and your business grow. Because we can't really complain and say, "Oh I've had such and such for so many years and you know they're you know they've done fine". Which I'm all about loyalty, don't get me wrong. Like I'm not. But what I am saying is all of us need to be aggressively seeking out how to grow ourselves and grow the value to our customers. And sometimes that entails actually taking a look at our partnerships instead of these people becoming somebody that can lead me? Are these people the growing network that can be a value to me and my customers as the competition stiffens. So not growing and being complacent I think is the biggest risk.  For more go to: www.ThinkBigger.Realestate

Many years ago, when I first read “The Millionaire Real Estate Agent” by Gary Keller, I was introduced to these terms, but I skimmed right over them. Now I know that it’s important to know the difference between them, because that difference is vast.  Functionary means you’re doing just enough to get your clients to the closing table and collect your commission check. Fiduciary, on the other hand, means putting all of your clients’ needs before your own. Being a fiduciary agent means you must care about your clients and make it your goal to help them achieve all of their real estate goals. That’s why we do what we do, and that’s what sets us apart from all the other real estate agents out there—we care about our clients. “Our clients are trusting us with one of the biggest transactions of their lives, and our needs shouldn’t interfere with theirs.” Have you ever witnessed a real estate transaction where the agent is pushing, pushing, pushing to get things to move faster than they need to move, and all the while they’re creating unnecessary stress? Or, has that ever been you? I know I’ve been there before. There have been times in my career where I was desperate for a closing to happen. Either because I needed to pay bills or there were other debts I had to pay off, I needed a commission check, and that created a sense of urgency. Pushing through the process because of a sense of urgency is not a good place to come from. It’s not an ethical place to come from, either. Our clients are trusting us with one of the biggest transactions of their lives, and our needs shouldn’t interfere with theirs.  So, what’s the best way to be a fiduciary agent? Generate leads. When you have a pipeline of future buyers and sellers you can look forward to helping, you won’t have to be anxious or stressed while doing business, and that stress won’t affect your clients. Lead generating enables you to step back and truly examine how you can help them through each transaction. You’ll also have happier, healthier relationships with other agents and vendors.  If you’d like to talk more about how you can be a fiduciary agent instead of a functionary one or you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to me. I’d love to speak with you. 

Wall Street and venture backed tech companies are betting on a future with more tech and less agents. This is drawing attention to the value proposition that a real estate agent offers to the transaction. By becoming more professional, acting more than a real estate sales person, but more of a CEO, disruption in a real estate agent's individual business can be disrupted. Chris Suarez shares strategies on how to do this.

“My Thai-ness or sense of Thai identity is not up for anyone else to quantify based on how white I seem.” Tricia Heuring talks about being "racially ambiguous" and "automatically American." She shares her culture shock from arriving in the US at 18 having learned about her own American culture largely through television and American cultural items she had access to growing up in Egypt, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia. And Tricia shares how her lived experiences have given her a unique perspective as a curator and community organizer.  Tricia Heuring is a curator, arts organizer, and educator living in Minneapolis. A mixed-race, multi-cultural American, she was born in Thailand and spent formidable years in Hawaii, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. While setting down roots in the Twin Cities over the past 15 + years, she’s instigated various platforms for cultural production and creative communities. Since finding her forte in visual art, she has become an advocate for curatorial practices that re-frame the role of the gatekeeper to instead, facilitate equity and inclusivity in the art world. She practices this philosophy at Public Functionary, a Northeast Minneapolis based alternative art space she co-founded in 2012. Public Functionary has been called “a fantastic gift to a great art city” by New York Magazine’s senior art critic, Jerry Saltz and “a beacon of hope for the local indie art scene” by the Star Tribune. Heuring holds a B.A from Macalester College and an M.A. from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. She currently teaches arts leaders as an adjunct in the arts management graduate program at St. Mary’s. Heuring serves on board of the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council and was recognized with a “40 under 40” award from the Twin Cities Business Journal.

0:55: What’s the first thing you do when making your character? 2:50: The Idea Man, the guy who comes to the table with an idea of what he wants to play. 11:20: The Window Shopper, the person who looks through the book until he sees a picture he likes. 19:15: The Functionary, a.k.a. that dude... Read More