Podcasts about goliath underdogs

What do Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Malcolm Gladwell have in common? Are interesting theories more significant than true ones? And what has been keeping Angela up at night? Plus: an important announcement about the show.  SOURCES:Charles Darwin, 19th-century naturalist and biologist.Murray Davis, cultural sociologist.Malcolm Gladwell, journalist and author.Adam Grant, professor of management and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.B. F. Skinner, 20th-century American psychologist. RESOURCES:Small Fry, by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (2018).Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth (2016)."Why Malcolm Gladwell's Ideas Are So Interesting, Whether or Not They're True," by Adam Grant (Quartz, 2015).David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell (2013).Curious?: Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life, by Todd Kashdan (2009)."Interest — The Curious Emotion," by Paul J. Silvia (2008).Exploring the Psychology of Interest, by Paul J. Silvia (2006)."The Ketchup Conundrum," by Malcolm Gladwell (The New Yorker, 2004)."That's Interesting!: Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology," by Murray S. Davis (Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1971).The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, by Charles Darwin (1872). EXTRAS:"How Do You Identify a Narcissist?" by No Stupid Questions (2024)."Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think?" by Freakonomics Radio (2024)."Abortion and Crime, Revisited (Update)," by Freakonomics Radio (2024).

The division in our world is unsustainable. If we don't do something, we're headed for disaster. Here's what you can do. Show Notes: Why We Got It So Wrong by David Brooks Nonviolence - The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcom Gladwell Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ email newsletter.

On this show, Heather Satterley and Joe Woodard discuss courageous journeys within the accounting profession. Caleb Jenkins: Starting his career in accounting at just 13, Caleb Jenkins began attending conferences early and excelled from a young age. His work expanded into mission trips where he provided accounting aid to organizations in Haiti. Monica Davis: After a demanding corporate accounting job and personal health crisis, Monica courageously shifted to a bookkeeping role, eventually starting her own firm. Despite initial setbacks including job loss due to COVID-19 layoffs, she utilized continuous learning and networking opportunities to successfully build her business. Michelle Mitchell: Michelle shared her journey of returning to the workforce and starting her own firm while managing multiple sclerosis. She chose to keep her condition private while building her practice, demonstrating strength and resilience. Joe and Heather also discussed their regular show segments. TV and Movie Segment: Joe recently watched Dark Matter on Apple TV+. It's a deep sci-fi show for those who are fans. Heather has gone back into the catalog and really enjoyed re-watching The Fellowship of the Ring. Book Segment: Joe discussed "David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants" by Malcolm Gladwell Social Media Segment: Both Joe and Heather talked about ALL of the amazing posts from Scaling New Heights and how many of them are focused on community and contain words of encouragement. Woodard Report Article Recommendation: Heather recommended the "Top 50 Accounting Services Practices" Thank you to our show sponsor! Rightworks — All your accounting apps, unified in the cloud Learn more about the show and our sponsors at Woodard.com/podcast

Gil is joined by David Lucchino, an executive, entrepreneur and investor in the field of biotechnology. David shares insights from his career leading several groundbreaking biotech companies, as well as how he helps children and young adults find their passion for life sciences and how the ability to see around corners has been a key to his success. In this episode: David Lucchino on LinkedIn Landmark College David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice by Howard Gardner

This portion of our series covers the epic story of David and Goliath. The story is so well known, that even people who've never read the Bible reference David's miraculous victory over Goliath. But what if what we've known about this story is wrong? What if, instead of David needing to overcome insurmountable odds in order to defeat Goliath, the story is upside down, and Goliath was the one who didn't stand a chance? This scenario was presented by best selling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. In today's lesson, we'll work through his case for why Goliath was the one who never stood a chance, and why Gladwell is both wrong and right.

Pete Kusiak is the franchise guru who knows how to bring the fun into business. With a track record of success owning and coaching franchises for over 20 years, Pete's innovative strategies have transformed businesses, boosting revenue and workplace happiness. His passion lies in creating organisations that are not only exciting, but also irresistible. By using his Fun First Strategy, Pete motivates teams, improves company culture, and drive sales and operations to new heights.  When he's not busy making work lively, you can find Pete enjoying quality time with his amazing wife and four kids in Charlotte, North Carolina. Oh, and did I forget to mention he's a seasoned marathon runner and a connoisseur of Rum Punch and Mai Tais! Pete has certification in Happiness Coaching and Human Resources Consulting, making him your go-to-guy for all things fun and business.   Questions ·    Now, we always like to give our guests an opportunity for them to share in their own words, a little bit about your journey. How did you get to connecting fun with business? How did that all come about? ·   So, can you tell our listeners a little bit about your book, Drop the F-Bomb in Your Business and maybe two to three overarching themes that the book focuses on, just like what can they expect from the book? ·    Are there any recommendations you could give to our listeners, like if they wanted to make fun part of their culture, what are some things like from a recruitment perspective you would need to kind of identify in the interview process to kind of pick those persons or at least be able to identify that those persons may have those qualities? ·     Could you share with our listeners what's the one online resource, tool, website or app that you absolutely cannot live without in your business? ·      Can you also share with our listeners maybe one or two books that you've read, it could be a book that you read recently, or even one that you read a very long time ago, but it has had a great impact on you. ·      Now, could you also share with our listeners, what's the one thing that's going on in your life right now that you're really excited about? Either something you're working on to develop yourself or your people. ·       Where can listeners find you online? ·     Now, before we wrap our episodes up, we always like to ask our guests, do you have a quote or a saying that during times of adversity or challenge you will tend to revert to this quote if for any reason you get derailed or you get off track, the quote kind of helps to get you back on track. Highlights Pete's Journey Me: Now, we always like to give our guests Pete an opportunity for them to share in their own words, a little bit about your journey. How did you get to connecting fun with business? How did that all come about? Can you tell us?   Pete shared that his journey really started way back when he graduated college. And he linked up with a franchise, children's fitness franchise called The Little Gym and it is all about creating these great fun experiences with kids and teaching them how to enjoy being physically active. So, that really carried with him as he progressed through his years in corporate America, because he had eventually made a name for himself and got linked up with the corporate headquarters of that franchise, did some training and consulting, to eventually owning his own Little Gyms in the Charlotte market.  So, once they built a successful franchise platform in Charlotte, it was time for him to kind of step back from the day to day operations and got more involved in the coaching consulting realm with different brands, mainly in the service industry, but helped build operations, and trainings and coaching and all sorts of good things over the last few years that ultimately led him to sit back and really reflect about why businesses are successful? Why were his businesses successful? What was the commonalities between the businesses that didn't have success versus the ones that did?  And it came down to one thing, it was really easy, the businesses that had the most fun, were the most successful, and he felt that in my businesses, the days or months or years that they were focused on that grind, they were in that mentality of a grind, they weren't as successful as the years they were just enjoying what they were doing and celebrating with their customers, and just creating a culture that was really good. So, the mindset really made a big difference.  So, what he did was he decided, “Hey, if I could put all of these unique theories and these unique methods into a book, it would really make a great business strategy.” So, a couple years ago, he started writing, and came up with what he called the Fun First Strategy, it's really a way to prioritize making fun, the element in which or the catalyst in which you can have business success. So, kind of a long story there. But it's a wide range from his early beginnings of a teacher and working with kids all the way through working with multiple brands and coaching and consulting, but using those strategies to really propel fun as a catalyst.   Pete's Book – Drop the F-Bomb in Your Business Me: So, then you wrote a book called Drop the F-Bomb in Your Business: With The Fun First Strategy. F of course, standing for fun. So, that book was published on January 23 of 2024, correct?   Pete said yes, he was having fun with a wordplay there. Drop the F bomb and what's so neat is that coming from the children's fitness industry, they didn't use foul language, you're working with kids, you don't do that. So, he thought it would kind of be unique to position it as an eye catcher and you get people curious about what he's talking about. So, having a little fun with words. Me: It was, I will have you know that when your profile was presented to me via email, that's what caught my attention in the email. So, I was like drop the F bomb. I said, I wonder what he's talking about. And then I did some more research. And I was like, Oh, this sounds pretty interesting. I'd love to have him on our podcast as a guest. So, can you tell our listeners a little bit about your book, and maybe two to three overarching themes that the book focuses on, just like what can they expect from the book? Is it more like narratives in terms of examples of using fun in different businesses and you give like case studies and examples, or is it more so you talking more from a strategy perspective of using fun as that trigger that will help to navigate that experience   Pete shared that it's really all of the above, because they have to prove that there's a need for fun in business, because a lot of times when you throw that out there, so you need to have more fun in order to be successful in business, people not necessarily agree, everyone for the most part understands that it's important to celebrate the victories, have fun when you win, achieve goals. But his book is really about how you make fun part of the journey, not just the reward, that's a key element. But you really need to know and flip that mindset to, “If we could have fun along the way. If we could build that into our operations, if we could build that into our business environment, our customer service. If we could attract more like minded individuals that want to have fun, and be part of that process, what would that do for your business?”   So, the book really starts with changing the mindset and can convincing through the philosophy that fun does work, it can create opportunities for more, better problem solving, better creative thought, more work engagement, which is ultimately going to lead to higher profits, better customer service, etc. So, they kind of start there. And then as the book progresses, it takes you through what he calls the playbook.  The playbook, or the PLAY book is really important because that's the actual strategy sets, that's one of his theories is called The Principle of PLAY and that stands for Prioritize, Laughter and Youth, so when you can find a commonality amongst your people, your team, your culture, your business culture, you can start to employ these play principles so that you're having more unique experiences and getting to those points where everything else is a lot easier, because you're having fun along the way. And so then, toward the end of the book, they talk about the strategies in experiences. So, he actually have written some real life examples of how the first strategy actually worked in different businesses. So, those will be fun to read as well. Me: All right, that is awesome. So, PLAY you said stands for Prioritize, Laughter and Youth.   Pete stated that's right. So, if you make fun, obviously, the Fun First Strategy, right, prioritize, make it a priority in your business, to make fun part of your culture. And if you can make it number one, great. But laughter, who doesn't want to laugh when you have to work? So, they do that through gameplay in creating opportunities to be a little silly, and youth, youth comes in because he likes to say, consider the things you did as a child, what did you like to do? What games did you play? What activities did you enjoy? Because it's fun to revisit, it's fun to revisit and think about this as you're a child, you're taught through play, you're taught through music, you're taught through song or games and activities. But as we get older, at least here, the education he received was that they had less and less play, they had less and less singing and things like that.  But why? If we're hardwired to do that, if we're doing that from the beginning, what a neat thing that could potentially shape you as an adult as well if you are hardwired to play and be active and want to take that moment of joy, it's going to change your mindset and everything that you do, right. So, it was important for him that they addressed the grind culture, what he calls the grind culture, and the negativity that happens when you get into a grind culture.  So, this book really helps you to one, recognize if you're in that culture, but two, the real, true strategy on how to get out of that. Ultimately, his goal was to create more workplace happiness, the goal in the Fun First Strategy is to create environments that are very engaging and fun and create workplace happiness.   Me: Amazing, when I opened your bio this morning to prepare for the podcast interview, I had to do a TV interview this morning, I was helping out a friend who has a business that focuses on indoor playground experience [YG1]  . So, it's targeted towards children but because we live in a tropical country and a lot of times when you take the kids outside, you're so exhausted from the heat and sun, she decided that she was going to create this indoor playground experience with like, soft play and sensory activities, and ball pits and live characters like the ones you see in TV shows, so you have them right there dressed up in front of the kids. And we did a game with the hosts where they had two baskets and two sets of balls, one red, one green and each person had a balloon.    And the aim was to get as many of your colour balls into the basket without the balloon falling on the ground. But it was so much fun, they had so much fun. Like I was watching the video after I left the TV studio this morning and I was like, they had so much fun, they were like literally back as kids again. And I always say it. I mean, I believe that as adults, we are really big kids, but I find that we get so serious sometimes we take ourselves too seriously, we don't take time to do fun and exciting things that make us laugh, because I do believe that those are things that help to keep you youthful.  Pete agreed, absolutely. And just think about how that made you feel, right. And that's the principle of play at work, when you can put some silliness into your day, going to be a better problem solver, you're going to be more creative and finding your solutions. Because you're just thinking in that manner, thinking in a playful, creative way. Now, not to say that business is all fun, and not work because he believes that you do have to take business seriously and things that you have to do and reaching goals and measuring your business and all the things that make you financially successful, that's important.  But if there was a way to make it more fun, if there was a way to get to those goals that are less stressful, or are less of a grind, you would probably do it. So, that's what this is all about, it's about making sure that you're allowing yourself the opportunities to have some fun at work, because you're going to open the doors to like-minded individuals, people that want to come work for you, customers that want to do business with you because the experience is wonderful. Think about the amount of hours we spent working days, we don't want to be caught up in a lifestyle that just is beaten up. He wants to have more life experience.  Now the key really to this is the common interest, because what's fun for one person may not be fun for the next and in the book he wrote about that, that there are diverse perspectives on fun. And through the strategy and through the book, you can kind of find common interest in there through icebreaker games and different things that you can do at work to find common interest amongst your team, or even with your customers. And then you kind of start to theme things and make things more enjoyable because he likes to run, Yanique had mentioned in his bio that he's a marathon runner, but that's not fun for everybody. But for him, it's a good opportunity for him to express, move his body, express himself and all the good things that come along with running and staying healthy, to him it was fun. He likes to challenge himself but for the next person it may not be so you have to find those common interests and then build upon those interests as you find them.  And then one really big caveat is you have to remember the rule of grandma, so, the rule of grandma means if you wouldn't do it in front of your grandmother, you shouldn't do it at work because he's heard some interesting stories when it comes to fun at work, we don't want to any HR nightmares. So, if you wouldn't do it in front of grandma, don't do it at all.   Me: As you were talking about loving running, and just being able to express yourself, I'm going to tell you a little secret that unfortunately all of my listeners are going to hear now, but I love to dance, right, now, I'm not a good dancer according to some people who dance really well and see me dance, right? But I believe everybody can dance and everybody can sing. I just believe that maybe they're not doing it to the level or at the capacity or competence that Whitney Houston, or Celine Dion can sing, or Shakira can dance, but I believe I can dance. But I feel so good when I dance, even if it's foolishness I'm doing Pete, it feels good.   Pete stated that that is awesome. And he'll tell you that two things come to mind. One is he spent time in Jamaica when they get the chance to vacation and stuff with his family, they absolutely love the culture, because it is full of life and dancing and movement, joy and singing. And he just loves to be around that type of environment, but he doesn't dance. And what's funny is even in his book he wrote about that as a concept, is that t's okay to enjoy things even if you're not participating.  So, don't always judge a book by its cover when you're creating games or activities or experiences that involve fun at work. If somebody's just kind of standing by watching, don't jump to the assumption that they're not having fun because if you were to kind of outside looking in at him watching a group of people dance, you'll say, “Well, how come he is not dancing, he must not be having any fun” but he's having the time of his life just enjoying you expressing your love for dance, that's a great time, it's a lot of fun for him to be in part of that environment but he's just not going to dance.   How to Select the Right Candidates for a Company with a FUN Culture? Me: I get it. So, I have a question for you. The aim is to ensure that you have a fun culture, right? How do you attract people who like to have fun? Are there any recommendations you could give to our listeners, like if they wanted to make fun part of their culture, what are some things like from a recruitment perspective you would need to kind of identify in the interview process to kind of pick those persons or at least be able to identify that those persons may have those qualities?   Pete shared that it's kind of a lot goes into that because one, once you've established that you're a fun culture, it's one thing to write that on a job ad and he thinks that there's a lot of job ads that he's read recently that promote a fun culture. But again, there's diverse perspectives of fun and if it's a core value in your business, or you're promoting a fun culture, you need to live up to the hype, because he'll tell you, when somebody is bought into your job ad, because you wrote about the fun, talked about that as a core value, and then they show up for an interview or they're ready to start their work and they don't see that culture in play, they're not going to stay or they're not going to show up again for another interview.  So, he thinks that you have to kind have to one, establish the fact that you are going to commit to this type of a culture and you're going to live it, you're going to be an embodiment. And what that fun version is for you, as the leader of the organization, the owner of the organization, the managers of the organization, whatever that model of fun is, it's okay for you to own it, because you're going to have people that may be aligned with your version of fun and there may be some people that don't. So, when you write job ads and you promote the job that you're ready to hire, you want to give very specific reasons of what you're doing to provide that fun culture.  So, if you like to do a lot of outings or if you'd like to do a lot of silly themes during your week, there was one company he worked with, they love everything and any cats. So, they talked about, “Hey, we have a silly, fun culture at our business.” And they would talk about this in interviews because we are qyuirky they love everything cat, if you're a cat person, reach out because you'll fit right in. Now again, if he doesn't like cats, okay, but if he thinks that that's an interesting culture for him to want to be a part of, he can maybe align with that. So, he likes to say, one, establish what fun is for you. Give examples of that in your job ads. But embrace the uniqueness, embrace the uniqueness.   One of the biggest mistakes, especially small business owners make is they don't embrace the charm of small business, there's a uniqueness and a charm in small business that you can do things a little bit outside of work. And when people are interviewing, or people are applying for jobs, what they'll do is they'll apply for a lot of different reasons based on the title or the qualifications, things like that. So, as a hiring manager, he's competing with small business, medium business, large business, corporations and he doesn't want his interview, he doesn't want to his job ads, he doesn't want those things to be exactly like everybody else. And too many times he sees small businesses, especially write their job ads, and shake them like a large corporation and that's okay until the individual comes in to see the environment they're working, oh, well, this isn't the 10 story building they interviewed in last week. Instead, embrace what makes you different, embrace that small charm, because he thinks you're going to attract people that are looking for that type of opportunity, or they know what it is going into. Does that make sense?    Me: Yep, it does, perfect sense.    App, Website or Tool that Pete Absolutely Can't Live Without in His Business When asked about an online resource that he cannot live without in his business, Pete stated that in his business, he loves QuickBooks. So, he can't live without QuickBooks, that's how he does all his bookkeeping, all his invoicing and all his administrative. So, QuickBooks is a great online resource for them.    Books that Have Had the Biggest Impact on Pete When asked about books that have had a great impact, Pete shared that he's been thinking about this a lot, because he's read a lot of business books. And one of the reasons he was so interested in writing a business strategy book was because he's had so many that were multiple steps, or the 50 laws or 100 steps to whatever and they're long and they're cumbersome. So, his book is a little bit more about keeping it short. There is a book though that he read a few years ago it's called David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, it's by Malcolm Gladwell. And he thought he was picking up a spiritual book at first, spiritual books and different things as a man of faith, but he thought it was picking a spiritual book and it was to a degree, but it was about all these stories and all these examples of how the underdog isn't always necessarily the underdog, but we perceive the smaller, or the weaker, or whatever, as disadvantaged, sort of like David and Goliath.  But why is it that the underdog always excels? It's because sometimes what's perceived as a disadvantage, could actually be an advantage. And it was so compelling to him and the stories were so compelling that it really made him think about how he was raised, and some things because he wasn't raised very wealthy and things like that, and how he had to problem solve his way to get to things, whether it be to sporting events or practices, different things, and if he wanted new shoes, or different whatever, he had to problem solve that as a young child.  And so, as he became a business owner, a business person later on down the road, he started remembered, “Hey, I can figure out pretty much any problem that comes my way because I practice those skills so early on” and growing up, he thought it was a huge disadvantage, he didn't have the things his friends had, they didn't have as much money, but he used those skills every day of his life now. So, that book is a great example of perceived ideas on disadvantages, they actually may be the things that are strengthening. So, it was a really neat perspective.   What Pete is Really Excited About Now! When asked about something he's excited about, Pete shared like he said, the book is out so he's just celebrating his work, he call it his life's work, his big strategy. It's really taking up a lot of his time and he loves it, he loves being able to spread the word about adding fun into work and creating workplace happiness. He thinks it's a movement for sure and he loves being on the kind of the precipice of this new business ideology that if we can add more fun, engaging experiences we can create workplace happiness for everybody. So, he loves being a part of that, so, that's huge for him. So, spreading the word.    Where Can We Find Pete Online Website  - www.funfirststrategy.com   Quote or Saying that During Times of Adversity Pete Uses  When asked about a quote or saying that he tends to revert to, Pete shared that being a marathon runner, or being somebody that runs, his mantra ever has always been, “Never, never give up.” So, that echoes in his mind a lot as he start a new venture, start a run, especially a long run that he doesn't know if has the energy, just keep moving, keep moving, “And remember to have fun.”    Me: All right, perfect. So, never, never give up. And always remember to have fun. I had fun in this interview.   Pete shared he did as well, he couldn't pass up the chance to chat with somebody from Jamaica. So, love it.    Me: Warm my heart, warm my heart. Thank you so much, Pete, we really appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule. I know you're busy promoting the book and spreading the message. So, taking a good 30 minutes out of your day to sit with us and share all these great insights and nuggets about what you're doing and just how it can help to improve and increase on workplace happiness and just human happiness, to make people just enjoy life more and not take themselves so seriously. But all while getting the job done and achieving the goals that we're all working towards, it was really a fun and productive conversation. Thank you so much.   Please connect with us on Twitter @navigatingcx and also join our Private Facebook Community – Navigating the Customer Experience and listen to our FB Lives weekly with a new guest Links •     Drop the F-Bomb in Your Business: With The Fun First Strategy by Pete Kusiak •     David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell   The ABC's of a Fantastic Customer Experience Grab the Freebie on Our Website – TOP 10 Online Business Resources for Small Business Owners  Do you want to pivot your online customer experience and build loyalty - get a copy of “The ABC's of a Fantastic Customer Experience.” The ABC's of a Fantastic Customer Experience provides 26 easy to follow steps and techniques that helps your business to achieve success and build brand loyalty. This Guide to Limitless, Happy and Loyal Customers will help you to strengthen your service delivery, enhance your knowledge and appreciation of the customer experience and provide tips and practical strategies that you can start implementing immediately! This book will develop your customer service skills and sharpen your attention to detail when serving others. Master your customer experience and develop those knock your socks off techniques that will lead to lifetime customers. Your customers will only want to work with your business and it will be your brand differentiator. It will lead to recruiters to seek you out by providing practical examples on how to deliver a winning customer service experience!  

Kelly Croy, the author of the new book, Unthink Before Bed: A Children's Book on Mindfulness, joins this episode of The Innovator's Mindset Podcast! Croy shares some great thoughts about what innovation means to him and how his current role and work with podcasting is benefitting his district as a whole. Be sure to share your takeaways from this episode in the comments! Quotes: “No matter where I was, I was looking around for ideas I could bring back to my school.” - Kelly Croy “Technology should be woven and embedded in everything…a lot of innovation isn't technology, it is systems, a way of thinking…” - Kelly Croy Links: What Everyone Needs to Know About Bullying (Blog Post) - https://kellycroy.com/what-everyone-needs-to-know-about-bullying/ Unthink Before Bed: A Children's Book on Mindfulness (Book on Amazon) - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DV5G1X1/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=kelcro-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B08DV5G1X1&linkId=76deb7994b90440c371c9d95590353d9 Wired Educator Podcast - https://wirededucator.com/podcast/ David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Book on Amazon) - https://www.amazon.com/David-Goliath-Underdogs-Misfits-Battling/dp/0316204374 Kelly Croy Twitter - https://twitter.com/kellycroy Kelly Croy LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellycroy/ __________________________________________ Please share your thoughts with us on Twitter or Instagram at #InnovatorsMindset. More at georgecouros.ca George Couros on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gcouros George Couros on Instagram: https://instagram.com/gcouros George Couros on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/georgecourosauthor/ George Couros on LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/george-couros-a5146519 For the full audio podcast: https://linktr.ee/gcouros Because of a Teacher - https://www.amazon.com/dp/194833433X?ref=exp_gcouros_dp_vv_d Because of a Teacher 2 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/194833450X?tag=onamzgeorge0f-20&linkCode=ssc&creativeASIN=194833450X&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.2SBTFVTBT0S6X The Innovator's Mindset: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0986155497?ref=exp_gcouros_dp_vv_d Innovate Inside the Box: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1948334127?ref=exp_gcouros_dp_vv_d Music from Bensound - http://bensound.com/

The future of ESG is contested. Despite this, many believe that ESG is an unstoppable train that is picking up speed.   In this episode we talk to Luba Nikulina, Chief Strategy Officer at IFM Investors, and Roger Urwin, Global Head of Investment Content at WTW and Co-founder of the Thinking Ahead Institute, about the current reality; what's on the horizon; the importance of rightsizing your sustainability commitments and how all of this is relevant for investment organisations today.  Resources mentioned: Report: PwC - Asset and wealth management revolution 2022: Exponential expectations for ESG  Book: Malcolm Gladwell - David and Goliath: Underdogs, misfits and the art of battling giants TED Talk: Malcolm Gladwell - The unheard story of David and Goliath Thinking Ahead Institute's 2023 research agenda

Brandon Stallings was successful as a local vending business owner, but when he pivoted to an e-commerce business his revenue soared to 6 figures a month. He explains how to start an e-commerce business with huge growth potential in this episode. SmartBox delivers customized snack boxes packed with healthy, all-natural snacks all around the world. Their combination of convenience, variety, and quality has propelled the business to incredible levels of success since Brandon shifted to an e-commerce business model in 2019. Expanding his potential customer base to the global scale definitely contributed to SmartBox's growth. That wasn't the only reason Brandon's been so successful, though. He also found e-commerce was a better fit for his skills. He'll explain what those key skills are in this interview. We'll also hear how he adjusted his systems and operations from local vending to an e-commerce business model, and how committing to values like sustainability has helped him scale his business. Resources:SmartBox - Use the promo code SNACKTIME to get 10% off your first purchaseHow to Start a $30K/Month Online Business - UpFlip podcast interview with Ron Stefanski on how he started and grew his online businessesUpFlip Hub - Learn how to start and grow a businessDavid and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants -  Book by Malcolm Gladwell about how to reframe setbacks and rethink the world around youConnect with UpFlip On Facebook On Instagram @UpFlipOfficial on Twitter For more insights to start, build, or grow a business, check out the resources on UpFlip.com or head to the UpFlip YouTube channel to see more interviews with business owners and experts. Thanks for listening!

Malcolm Gladwell—author of “Outliers: The Story Of Success” and “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants”—knows a thing or two about good leaders and bad ones. ... The post FHC #90: Malcolm Gladwell on a new kind of healthcare leader appeared first on Fixing Healthcare.

Chris Grimes-Goard began his career as a Chartered Accountant on Canada's west coast and has explored the many avenues of accounting since. He is now based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as the CFO at Ocean Trout Canada. Chris shares insight on the values of making connections, taking on new roles in new provinces (more than once), and the benefits of changing your mind often and seeking new opportunities to find what else you can bring to the table. Good reads mentioned in this episode: - David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell - Grit by Angela Duckworth Connect with Sam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-taylor-64b93558/ or thesamtaylorpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Chris: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cgrimesgoard/ Connect with Bre: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breanne-peltier-322029251/ or Breanne.Peltier@dal.ca

In this episode: the value of time, what are you optimizing for, bold moves, increasing your kid's odds for success, and balancing deprivation. Because we have put so many leaders, members, and experts in our community on the hot seat here at ChooseFI, we figured it was finally time we played fair and put Brad on the hot seat himself! With the assistance of Aaron Lee, a longtime listener, friend, and host of "The Next Generation Leader Podcast," we ask Brad all the burning questions related to his FI journey. If you've ever been curious how Brad discovered FI, what led Brad to begin his FI journey, or what lessons Brad learned along the way, listen along as we re-live the path that helped form this amazing community! Aaron Lee: Website: newgenerationleader.com Podcast: The New Generation Leader Podcast Timestamps: 1:10 - Introduction 3:12 - The Value of Time 8:18 - Balancing Deprivation And The Burden Of FI 11:31 - Brad's Snowball Starter 16:13 - Brad's Childhood FI Vision 22:31 - What Are You Optimizing For? 28:45 - Helping Your Kids Increase Their Odds For Success 40:27 - All Of Us Are Working On Something 46:08 - Brads Bold Move Update 54:40 - What Else Fascinates Brad? 59:29 - Conclusion Resources Mentioned In Today's Episode: Year End Wins 2022 | ChooseFI Ep 417 "Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life" by Bill Perkins The Peter Attia Drive, Episode #237 ‒ Optimizing life for maximum fulfillment | Bill Perkins All The Hacks | Die With Zero: Net Fulfillment Over Net Worth The Tail End "David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants" by Malcolm Gladwell Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters Your Bold Move for 2023 | Dominick Quartuccio | Ep 419 Limitless Peter Attia & Beth Lewis on Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) Subscribe to The FI Weekly! More Helpful Links and Resources: Earn $1,000 in cashback with ChooseFI's 3-card credit card strategy Share FI by sending a friend ChooseFI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence Keep learning or start a new side hustle with one of our educational courses Commission-Free Investing with M1 Finance

An aspect of leadership that often goes overlooked is parenting. In thisepisode, my guest, Jim White, shares insightful and surprising leadershipstrategies that are as applicable at work as they are at home. Listen in tolearn how to truly empower your teenager (or employees) to become thebest version of themselves.Resources:Connect with Jim:Website: familyenrichmentacademy.com/Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067269251803YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC5KxKx0WQAwmz5qKh5sapGA Mentioned in the episode: How To Be the Parent Your Teenager Needs You to Be: Without All Of The Fighting, Frustration, Or Fear Of Doing It Wrong: amazon.com/How-Parent-Your-Teenager-Needs/dp/B09WXKT4VBDavid and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants: amazon.com/David-Goliath-Underdogs-Misfits-Battling/dp/0316204374

In a collection of essays, Malcolm Gladwell explores the relationship between power and prestige on the one hand and weakness and struggle on the other. Two theses run through the essays in David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. The first thesis is that in a contest where one side is obviously superior to the other by conventional standards, the weaker side often has one or more underappreciated advantages. The second thesis is that too much strength can be a bad thing—a phenomenon represented graphically by an inverted-U curve: as strength increases along the horizontal axis, the benefit, on the vertical axis, at first rises but eventually begins to fall. Source: Spark Notes #Malcolm #Gladwell #davidandgoliath #underdogs

George Couros shares that he is recording this episode from Central Florida where he is preparing for hurricane Ian. The anxiety he is feeling because of what Ian will bring, made Couros feel a little more productive. These thoughts connect to the story of David and Goliath and how we can rethink what our strengths and weaknesses truly are. Couros reflects on the benefits of his own struggles and how he is shifting his own thinking to see how, if we utilize our weaknesses, they can be our strengths. Quotes: "What are some things that you perceive as your own weaknesses?" - George Couros "How do you look at those weaknesses and shift our thinking to see how that weakness can be a strength?" - George Couros Links: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (book on Amazon) - https://www.amazon.com/David-Goliath-Underdogs-Misfits-Battling/dp/0316204374 Robin Williams Quote - https://www.quora.com/Why-would-somebody-who-always-tries-to-make-people-laugh-be-depressed __________________________________________ Please share your thoughts with us on Twitter or Instagram at #InnovatorsMindset. More at georgecouros.ca George Couros on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gcouros George Couros on Instagram: https://instagram.com/gcouros George Couros on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/georgecourosauthor/ George Couros on LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/george-couros-a5146519 For the full audio podcast: https://linktr.ee/gcouros Because of a Teacher - https://www.amazon.com/dp/194833433X?ref=exp_gcouros_dp_vv_d Because of a Teacher 2 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/194833450X?tag=onamzgeorge0f-20&linkCode=ssc&creativeASIN=194833450X&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.2SBTFVTBT0S6X The Innovator's Mindset: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0986155497?ref=exp_gcouros_dp_vv_d Innovate Inside the Box: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1948334127?ref=exp_gcouros_dp_vv_d Music from Bensound - http://bensound.com/

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In 2015, Malcom Gladwell wrote his book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. He claims David and Goliath is a lesson on how to handle obstacles, disadvantages, disabilities, and other setbacks in life. Is the story of David and Goliath nothing more than a lesson on how to face hard times and find victory when you are the underdog? Join us in this study as we learn what David and Goliath teach us about God and the confidence we can have in him.

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Welcome to a new episode of our Book Club series, on this episode we look into David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell.We uncover the topics of How advantages in some instances can be disadvantages in circumstances, but also, how disadvantages can be channelled into advantages, culminating in ways to decide the game you play to your own advantage.If you enjoy what your listening to have a check on all other platforms, we're broadening out and will have a new episode with you, as always, same time next week.Stories and Strategies for Public RelationsCommunication is in every facet of our daily business.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Music: Saint-Saens- Symphony n.3[1]https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/32246?lang=bi[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05KfajIOU6g[3] John 6:1–14[4] Brown, Brené. The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings on Authenticity, Connection and. 2012. [5]https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability?language=en[6] Gladwell, Malcolm. David and Goliath: Underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants. Little, Brown, 2013.[7] Frankl, Viktor E. Man's search for meaning. Simon and Schuster, 1985.

In this episode of The Warrior Podcast I speak with Greg Arnold, founder of the Live Bold Christian App for Men, an app with over 100,000 downloads from across the world. In our conversation, Greg and I talk about his life, how men can overcome pornography, the absence of men in the Church, and so much more. Episode Links Books: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - https://amzn.to/3t0tuSX David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants - https://amzn.to/3NepaHh No Short Cuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks - https://amzn.to/3G3VSsF Live Bold Website – www.liveboldapp.com Find the app on your phone by searching Live Bold or Christian Men Join The Warriors' Guild The Warriors' Guild is the official home for listeners of The Warrior Podcast and men who want to strive to be the husbands, fathers, leaders, or simply just the men God wants us to be. Join The Warriors' Guild Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/theguildformen Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: @theguildformen Text the word warrior to 828-307-0007 Show Sponsors Ruddy Man Grooming: www.ruddymangrooming.com Freeman Family Chiropractic: www.freemanfamilychiro.com  

In Episode 82, as part of Mental Health Awareness Month, Brad Miller, Founder of Soccer Resilience, Clinical Psychologist, and former Wake Forest soccer player, talks with Phil and Paul about Soccer Resilience's growth over the past year, preventing and caring for mental health issues, Sports Psychologists vs. Counselors, navigating the coach/sports pysch/counselor relationship, identifying and understanding mental health issues and their root causes, and navigating mental health issues coming out of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Specifically, Brad discusses:   An update on Soccer Resilience since the last time we talked in Episode 19 (2:45) His personal why/life purpose and how he is living it out every day (5:10) How players who don't have the ability to take months off can properly take care of their mental health (10:00) Preventative measures we can use to help our kids mitigate against mental health issues (15:40) Sports Psychologists and Counselors, who they are, why we need both, and how we can use each of them (21:09) How to nurture healthy Coach-Sports Psych/Counselor relationships (25:17) How to deal with coaches who don't believe that mental health issues are legitimate (28:56) How to find and address root issues causing mental health issues when our kids and players might not even know the root causes exist (32:25) Ways that coaches can check in with their players to ensure they are on top of mental health struggles (38:49) How coaches can learn to identify and understand mental health issues in their players (44:34) How we can navigate mental health issues coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic (49:43) Brad's book recommendations (56:08) Resources and Links from this Episode Soccer Resilience website Soccer Resilience YouTube channel Uncut Video of the Episode HSEL Facebook Group Coaching the Bigger Game Program Warrior Way Soccer “Hey, I got brown hair and I have mental health therapy” (article by Cari Roccaro) “12. A Gradient of Katie Meyer | Soccer, She Wrote” (article by Mariah Lee) Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell

Hiring the right person is essential. After all,  your business is only as good as your team.  But how do you hire the right person for your practice?   In this episode, Caleb Larkin of ApplicantPro joins Dino to talk about how to do just that. More importantly, he shares how to get your practice to stand out from the rest of the other practices so people would want to be part of your team.   Caleb is a hiring consultant expert. He is dedicated to providing a hiring solution that is tailored to the unique challenges of today's hiring environment.  For more information on ApplicantPro, you can contact them through:  Website: www.applicantpro.com  Email: caleb@applicantpro.com  Phone: 801-709-4064   REFERENCE:  David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell DINO'S BIO:  Dino Watt is a dynamic, highly sought after keynote speaker, private practice business advisor, best selling author, and certified body language and communication expert. As a business relationship expert, Dino understands that people are the heart of any business. His interactive training style will bring your audience to roaring laughter and move them to tears. Whether he is training on C.O.R.E Culture, Sales and Sales Support, or Making love and business work, your audience will rave about Dino and the energy he brings to every event. Dino has spoken for MKS, American Association of Orthodontists, PCSO, Pitts Progressive Study Group, The Shulman Study Club, Keller Williams, Sotheby's, DentalTown, Ortho2, OrthoVoice, and many others. Out of all the accolades Dino has received, the one he is proudest of is title of PHD, Passionate Husband and Dad. Dino has been married to his wife Shannon for 24 years and together they have raised 3 amazing adults.

Trulioo is a RegTech company. They build and connect digital identity networks around the globe, and this framework of trust empowers businesses to assess the various risks associated with digital identities.They provide a global identity marketplace that services a wide range of industries, including finance, banking, retail, payments, gaming, and online marketplaces — all through a single API integration. Global banks, Fortune 500 enterprises, tech giants, and companies of all sizes use Trulioo GlobalGateway every day to help meet compliance, fraud prevention, and trust and safety requirements.They have built an identity marketplace of over 400 trusted data sources that have been rigorously vetted and deliver the highest standards of privacy and data protection. They continue to expand the types and markets of data in their goal to build the most comprehensive global identity network available. As digital services continue to evolve and expand, digital identities will be crucial in creating fairness and transparency to help build stronger, more resilient organizations, communities and people.Learn more about Trulioo by visiting: www.trulioo.com.Steve's Final 4:Books: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants.Podcast:  Making Sense Podcast with Sam Harris.Best advice: "Time kills all deals."App: Snapchat.Restaurant: AnnaLena Restaurant.For more local news impacting business, visit: www.businessexaminer.ca Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Longevity and mastery over any creative profession require relentless passion, conscious steps to continually reinvent your swing, and a seriousness of purpose, which results from profound self-reflection and introspection.  World-renowned journalist and writer Malcolm Gladwell joins me to dig deep into building an everlasting career as a creative and what it takes to pursue it.  Malcolm is the author of five New York Times bestsellers — The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants and the Founder of Pushkin Industries, which explore all forms of audio art. He also hosts the Revisionist History podcast, which re-examines events, ideas, people, and objects from our past—and explains how they create our present. In his upcoming intimate audio biography titled Miracle and Wonder, Malcolm collaborates with the legendary songwriter Paul Simon to explore lessons from the artist's life and career. Recorded over a series of 30 hours of conversation with Simon and the Broken Record podcast co-host Bruce Headlam, the audiobook reflects Simon's inimitably gifted artistic bent and what it took for him to tap into it.  Here are some things you'll discover in this episode: How to build the confidence to construct your intellectual life the way you want to  How to overcome the “professed” to make way for the “practical.” Why creativity and craft knows no physical or geographical boundaries Why you need to be constantly evolving to build an evergreen career Why relentless perfectionism is key to creating intentional content Why you need to archive your experiences and lessons from the past to be inimitable at your craft The timeless worth of self-reflection: how to develop the willingness to be reflective about your life experiences  Why you need to connect with your work on a more-than-objective level Enjoy! Have a question? Text me 1-206-309-5177
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There has been huge growth in both cloud and SaaS, and with this has come the emergence of new business models and ways of selling. Today we are going to look at these new go to market strategies, and find out what the future of technology sales looks like.Hey everybody, welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast. On the venture capital front, we are seeing a big preference for companies that are breaking with the old sales models, focusing instead on companies that offer self-service, education and community. The role of the sales person is changing drastically. Today we are talking with Brian O'Shea, VP of sales at Clumio, a cloud native data protection SaaS offering that is well positioned for this new kind of go to market. So, we are going to talk with Brian about what that sales transition looks like today, and where it is going tomorrow.Chapters00:00 - Intro01:05 - Brian's Journey02:30 - Clumio's Hybrid Strategy06:20 - Consumption Based pricing and OpEx Models08:00 - The New GTM - Unusual Ventures - AWS Marketplace15:15 - The Role of the Trusted Advisor19:35 - Getting Good Information in a Fast Changing World22:10 - Challenges for Large Enterprise - Rise of Mid Market31:40 - Modern Sales Skills that are needed36:35 - Sales needs to get more technical42:20 - Changing Compensation Models46:15 - Importance of collaboration50:15 - Brian's take on the future of sales52:05 - Sandesh's take on the future of sales55:00 - Chris' take on the future of salesClumio: https://clumio.comDavid and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell (Affiliate Link): https://amzn.to/3ljvFfIUnusual Ventures "Field Guide": https://www.field-guide.unusual.vc/chapters-enterprise/the-modern-go-to-marketFUTRtech focuses on startups, innovation, culture and the business of emerging tech with weekly video podcasts where Chris Brandt and Sandesh Patel talk with Industry leaders and deep thinkers.

Tomas Trajan is a developer from Slovakia living in Switzerland. He talks about his experiences using streams, observables, and RxJS in Angular over the last several years. He gives a few lessons and examples of when and how it should be used in your applications. Panel Armen VardanyanCharles Max WoodSani YusufSubrat Mishra Guest Tomas Trajan Sponsors Dev Influencers AcceleratorRaygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trialPodcastBootcamp.io Links Practical Angular: The Most Impactful RxJs Best Practice Of All TimeOmniboardAngular Workshops and Consulting by Tomas TrajanTomas Trajan - MediumGitHub: Tomas Trajan ( tomastrajan )Twitter: Tomas Trajan ( @tomastrajan ) Picks Charles- Level up | Devchat.tvCharles- Hire a CoachCharles- Training PeaksCharles- Rocket FuelSani- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Subrat- The Courage To Be DislikedTomas- Huberman Lab Podcast Contact Armen: Armen VardanyanArmen Vardanyan - MediumTwitter: Armen Vardanyan ( @Armandotrue ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tvDevChat.tv | FacebookTwitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sani: Angular.TrainingSani YusufSani Yusuf – MediumTwitter: Sani Yusuf ( @saniyusuf )GitHub: Sani Yusuf ( saniyusuf ) Contact Subrat: Fun Of Heuristic – YouTubeGitHub: Fun Of Heuristic ( funOfheuristic )Twitter: Subrat Kumar Mishra ( @subrat_msr ) Special Guest: Tomas Trajan.

Tomas Trajan is a developer from Slovakia living in Switzerland. He talks about his experiences using streams, observables, and RxJS in Angular over the last several years. He gives a few lessons and examples of when and how it should be used in your applications. Panel Armen Vardanyan Charles Max Wood Sani Yusuf Subrat Mishra Guest Tomas Trajan Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial PodcastBootcamp.io Links Practical Angular: The Most Impactful RxJs Best Practice Of All Time Omniboard Angular Workshops and Consulting by Tomas Trajan Tomas Trajan - Medium GitHub: Tomas Trajan ( tomastrajan ) Twitter: Tomas Trajan ( @tomastrajan ) Picks Charles- Level up | Devchat.tv Charles- Hire a Coach Charles- Training Peaks Charles- Rocket Fuel Sani- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants  Subrat- The Courage To Be Disliked Tomas- Huberman Lab Podcast Contact Armen: Armen Vardanyan Armen Vardanyan - Medium Twitter: Armen Vardanyan ( @Armandotrue ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sani: Angular.Training Sani Yusuf Sani Yusuf – Medium Twitter: Sani Yusuf ( @saniyusuf ) GitHub: Sani Yusuf ( saniyusuf ) Contact Subrat: Fun Of Heuristic – YouTube GitHub: Fun Of Heuristic ( funOfheuristic ) Twitter: Subrat Kumar Mishra ( @subrat_msr )

Tomas Trajan is a developer from Slovakia living in Switzerland. He talks about his experiences using streams, observables, and RxJS in Angular over the last several years. He gives a few lessons and examples of when and how it should be used in your applications. Panel Armen Vardanyan Charles Max Wood Sani Yusuf Subrat Mishra Guest Tomas Trajan Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial PodcastBootcamp.io Links Practical Angular: The Most Impactful RxJs Best Practice Of All Time Omniboard Angular Workshops and Consulting by Tomas Trajan Tomas Trajan - Medium GitHub: Tomas Trajan ( tomastrajan ) Twitter: Tomas Trajan ( @tomastrajan ) Picks Charles- Level up | Devchat.tv Charles- Hire a Coach Charles- Training Peaks Charles- Rocket Fuel Sani- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants  Subrat- The Courage To Be Disliked Tomas- Huberman Lab Podcast Contact Armen: Armen Vardanyan Armen Vardanyan - Medium Twitter: Armen Vardanyan ( @Armandotrue ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sani: Angular.Training Sani Yusuf Sani Yusuf – Medium Twitter: Sani Yusuf ( @saniyusuf ) GitHub: Sani Yusuf ( saniyusuf ) Contact Subrat: Fun Of Heuristic – YouTube GitHub: Fun Of Heuristic ( funOfheuristic ) Twitter: Subrat Kumar Mishra ( @subrat_msr )

Tomas Trajan is a developer from Slovakia living in Switzerland. He talks about his experiences using streams, observables, and RxJS in Angular over the last several years. He gives a few lessons and examples of when and how it should be used in your applications. Panel Armen VardanyanCharles Max WoodSani YusufSubrat Mishra Guest Tomas Trajan Sponsors Dev Influencers AcceleratorRaygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trialPodcastBootcamp.io Links Practical Angular: The Most Impactful RxJs Best Practice Of All TimeOmniboardAngular Workshops and Consulting by Tomas TrajanTomas Trajan - MediumGitHub: Tomas Trajan ( tomastrajan )Twitter: Tomas Trajan ( @tomastrajan ) Picks Charles- Level up | Devchat.tvCharles- Hire a CoachCharles- Training PeaksCharles- Rocket FuelSani- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Subrat- The Courage To Be DislikedTomas- Huberman Lab Podcast Contact Armen: Armen VardanyanArmen Vardanyan - MediumTwitter: Armen Vardanyan ( @Armandotrue ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tvDevChat.tv | FacebookTwitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sani: Angular.TrainingSani YusufSani Yusuf – MediumTwitter: Sani Yusuf ( @saniyusuf )GitHub: Sani Yusuf ( saniyusuf ) Contact Subrat: Fun Of Heuristic – YouTubeGitHub: Fun Of Heuristic ( funOfheuristic )Twitter: Subrat Kumar Mishra ( @subrat_msr ) Special Guest: Tomas Trajan.

Tomas Trajan is a developer from Slovakia living in Switzerland. He talks about his experiences using streams, observables, and RxJS in Angular over the last several years. He gives a few lessons and examples of when and how it should be used in your applications. Panel Armen Vardanyan Charles Max Wood Sani Yusuf Subrat Mishra Guest Tomas Trajan Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial PodcastBootcamp.io Links Practical Angular: The Most Impactful RxJs Best Practice Of All Time Omniboard Angular Workshops and Consulting by Tomas Trajan Tomas Trajan - Medium GitHub: Tomas Trajan ( tomastrajan ) Twitter: Tomas Trajan ( @tomastrajan ) Picks Charles- Level up | Devchat.tv Charles- Hire a Coach Charles- Training Peaks Charles- Rocket Fuel Sani- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants  Subrat- The Courage To Be Disliked Tomas- Huberman Lab Podcast Contact Armen: Armen Vardanyan Armen Vardanyan - Medium Twitter: Armen Vardanyan ( @Armandotrue ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sani: Angular.Training Sani Yusuf Sani Yusuf – Medium Twitter: Sani Yusuf ( @saniyusuf ) GitHub: Sani Yusuf ( saniyusuf ) Contact Subrat: Fun Of Heuristic – YouTube GitHub: Fun Of Heuristic ( funOfheuristic ) Twitter: Subrat Kumar Mishra ( @subrat_msr )

David and Goliath : Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

Today's guest is Kara Cuzzetto,   Kara is a Pacific Northwest Native, has been married for 30 years, is blessed with three beautiful children, and is expecting her first grandchild in July. She began her continuous improvement journey in 2001 while working as a Revenue Operations Manager at Virginia Mason Medical Center. In 2014 she took a job at King County in Seattle as a full-time lean practitioner to help the county expand their lean management methodology. Today she manages the lean program for the Finance and Business Operation Division at King County and enjoys coaching and mentoring the 170 team members across FBOD. “Anything is possible when you trust the process.” Humble leadership is the key to it all. Links: Connect with Kara on LinkedIn The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic): 10th Anniversary Edition by David Emerald Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Greeny, et al David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

An open, insightful and vulnerable conversation with the now leader of lifestyle sport governing body - Parkour UK (a sport community which was not sure it needed a Governing Body!) Dan has had a fantastic career in sport and shares many pearls of wisdom that he has picked up on the way. He has faced some great high and some devastating losses and talks openly about these experiences. It's not been a simple and straight forward path and Dan really shows how hard work and perseverance with a clear purpose has helped him do what he always wanted to do.  I am sure much of his story will connect with you in some way or another and may provide you with the insight and inspiration you need!   It is well worth an hour of your time!   If you enjoy the podcast, please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. It only takes a minute and really makes a difference in helping to convince new listeners. Thanks so much it - is much appreciated!! For show notes and past guests, please visit www.sportstories247.com Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Please make contact at: hello@sportstories247.com Follow Sport Stories: Twitter:            twitter.com/sportstories_ Instagram:       Instagram.com/sportstories247 Facebook:        facebook.com/sportstories247 LinkedIn:         https://www.linkedin.com/company/sportstories YouTube:          Sport Stories YouTube Channel Find out more about Dave at: www.thesummitpartnership.com Follow Dave: Twitter:    https://twitter.com/SummitDave LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davelevine3   Success quotes or sayings: “When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realise the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realise that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.”   There is a lot in life when you get told no...get told no again …and you get told no again. Keep going  and use all interactions as feedback. I am always trying to learn and immerse myself in their stories. They tell stories and do not teach lessons. Through the stories we learn lessons. A variety of course and content Look ‘off the beaten path' Learn from all environments and contexts. Being aware of my prejudgements and biases.   Everybody has prejudices and biases! I can only comment on my path. 3 significant losses – lost a child, and mum and mother-in-law within 3 weeks. Looking to understand the whole person really and fully. View things in a positive way. I wasn't depressed I was going through grief. Trying to smile about things that have happened. Looking forward. Look for the next thing that will make you smile. The is a huge amount of this (life) that we are making up as we go along. There are currently 15 Parkour Podcasts on the Market at present. The opportunities and challenges going forward…..Collaboration / Co-production, Shared Services, If you were to put the sport system together now you would probably not make it as it currently is. We are desperately trying not to ‘Reinvent the wheel' Looking through a free lens  – not having to deal with some previous cultures and baggage   The books that you would recommend are? From a non fiction perspective; I enjoy the books by Malcolm Gladwell, Matthew Syed and Michael Lewis   In no particular order and not limited to: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance by Matthew Syed Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking by  Matthew Syed Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis In one sentence – What advice would you give to your teenage version of yourself? Build networks – get others to help you solve your problems and challenges. Who has made a big impact on you? All the people that have offered me a job.   South Yorkshire Sport - Tim Lumb Derbyshire Sport - David Joy Rounders England - Alison Howard Parkour UK - Steve Mitchell   Chris Brindley (former chair of Greater Sport & current chair of the Rugby League World Cup) Simon Ridd (was at Sport England)   Whos' Sport Story would you be really interested in hearing? Anyone really – there are so many!   Perhaps….Yvonne Harrison and Born Barikor amongst many are incredibly inspiring   Coaching questions I would like to pose: 1 Dan talked about his Network – who is in your network, how well do you know them and who or what is missing? 2 What has been one of your greatest losses or rejections and how has it affected you? How could you use this experience to help you positively move on…?   Contact info: Parkour instagram @parkouruk Strategy Development Associates Programme Inclusion partnerships / Inclusive Employers Programme @bocciaengland https://www.bocciaengland.org.uk/ What is boccia?

“If there is a Golaith in front of you, that means there is a David inside of you.” - Carlos Rodriguez This is Entrepreneurs of Faith, a Sunday episode of Monetization Nation. I'm Nathan Gwilliam, your host. In today's episode, we're going to discuss the amazing underdog story of David and Goliath how entrepreneurs can learn from David to conquer their Goliaths.  The Story of David and Goliath 1 Samuel chapter 17 in the Bible tells the story of David's victory over Goliath. In the Valley of Elah during the year 1063 B.C., two armies faced each other. On one side was the army of the Philistines and on the other King Saul's Israelite army. Though the armies were somewhat evenly matched in the number of soldiers and skill, the Philistines had one thing that Saul's army didn't: iron. The Philistines had been able to keep their knowledge of smelting and fashioning iron into formidable weapons of war a secret. Iron was far superior to the brass weapons of King Saul's army. During this time, it was common for champions to challenge others from the opposing forces to single combat. In fact, there had been several battles decided by individual combat. One of the champions of the Philistines was a man named Goliath of Gath. His height was six cubits and a span, which is about nine feet tall. “He had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail . . . And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders. And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.” (KJV 1 Samuel 17:5-7) Needless to say, Goliath was a fearsome man. Twice per day for 40 days, he called out to the armies of Saul, saying, “Choose you a man for you and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.” (KJV 1 Samuel 17:8-9) Saul, the King of Israel, and the Israelite army were afraid and did not accept Goliath's challenge. However, there was one who wasn't afraid. The young shepherd David told Saul he would fight Goliath as he had fought lions and bears that had threatened his flock. Saul offered David his armor, but David refused. David prepared for battle by finding five smooth stones and taking them and his sling with him to meet Goliath. Goliath taunted and mocked David. David said to Goliath, “Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee.” (KJV 1 Samuel 17:45-46) “When the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.” (KJV 1 Samuel 17:48-50) Then, the Philistine army turned and ran. The Israelite army pursued and won the battle.  Force Multipliers Like David facing Goliath, entrepreneurs also constantly face many challenges and obstacles. The Philistine army had leveraged the tectonic shift of iron, which gave them a huge competitive advantage.  I don't have any experience with the military, But, I have been told that when one army has a competitive advantage over the other army, that competitive advantage is often called a “force multiplier.” For example, during the war with Iraq, the U.S. army had many force multipliers, such as superior aircraft, missiles, night vision, and a superior missile defense system. These force multipliers allowed the U.S. army to have a lot more force for each soldier engaged in that battle. Many of these force multipliers, such as advanced missiles and missile defense systems, could probably also be considered tectonic shifts in modern warfare. Because Israel had not leveraged that tectonic shift to iron like the Philistines, they were in a precarious situation.  Compete with Our Strengths Against Their Weaknesses Often entrepreneurs are in a similar situation where one of our competitors has a huge competitive advantage over us. The competitor may have been in business a lot longer. They may have a lot more revenue, a much larger team, a bigger office, more customers, huge trade show booths, etc. They may have even leveraged a tectonic shift before us or may have purchased a competitor who effectively leveraged a tectonic shift. We may look at this competitor and feel that there is no way we can beat them because of their size and resources. That fear is half true. It is true we cannot beat them . . . at their own game. If our competitors have a large advantage, then we should not take them on where they have a competitive advantage. We must find their weakness and figure out how to attack them there. How did David beat Goliath? It is true that Goliath had an enormous competitive advantage in his size and strength and the quality and size of his sword and armor. If David tried to fight him strength against strength, or sword and armor against sword and armor, David's chance of winning would have been very low.  Of course, that is not taking into account the power of God, who can do all things and is the ultimate competitive advantage. God gave David a different idea than fighting strength against strength and sword against sword.  Instead, David realized that Goliah's competitive advantage, his force multiplier of iron, also had a weakness. It was very heavy, especially the amount of armor it takes to cover a nine-foot man. David knew that Goliath would not be able to move quickly and by choosing to wear no armor and to carry no sword, David could have a competitive advantage with speed. David could easily keep his distance from Goliath and sling stones at him, safe from that long iron sword.  By not trying to match up to his weakness against Goliath's strengths, David was able to focus matching up his strengths—speed, a sling, and stones—against Goliath's weakness—his lack of mobility.  Like David, sometimes we need to find unique ways to overcome those obstacles. Like David, it is generally best not to match our weaknesses against the strengths of our opponents. Instead, we need to find the weakness of our competitors and develop a strength we can use to attack them. David's sling and stones might even be seen as his own tectonic shift in warfare, keeping distance from a competitor and shooting projectiles at them. That sounds similar to a strategy that helped the U.S. colonists win the Revolutionary War.  David could not beat Goliath doing the same thing Goliath was doing. David had to find and leverage a different tectonic shift. The same thing is true in business. When we face something like larger competitors with a lot more resources, we often cannot use the same strategies they are using to dominate. If we do, we will probably lose. Instead, we have to find our tectonic shift, something that our competitors aren't doing yet or aren't doing well. Modern Day Davids and Goliaths Malcolm Gladwell has a book about this called David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants.  In an interview about the book, Gladwell said, “This is the classic story of the business world. The very same thing that appears to make a company so formidable—its size, its resources—serves as stumbling blocks when they're forced to respond to a situation where the rules are changing, and where nimbleness, and flexibility, and adaptability are better attributes. Which is the story of David and Goliath, right? David had nimbleness. He changed the rules. He brought in the superior of technology.” Here are a few stories of companies that started out as underdogs, but who were able to succeed through innovation and leveraging tectonic shifts. Apple Apple was started in 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, who sold his share of the company for $800 three months later. Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, was skeptical about the company. He “once said that if he owned Apple he would shut down the company and give shareholders their money back.”  (Source: Investopedia.com) Jobs proved him wrong though. He said, "It's only us and Dell making money. They're making money because they're Walmart, we're making it because we're innovating." (Source: Investopedia.com) Apple found success because they didn't do exactly what Dell was doing. As Jobs said, they innovated, finding and leveraging the tectonic shifts that worked for their company.  “Since 1976, Apple has grown into the multinational technology mogul that we know today. Apple is now the world's largest information technology company by revenue and the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer.” (Source: Medium.com) Netflix Before Netflix dominated the streaming arena, it was a DVD-rental-by-mail company. Its biggest competitor was Blockbuster. “In 2000, Netflix executives met with Blockbuster and offered to sell the company for $50 million, which Blockbuster refused.” (Source: Investopedia.com) Blockbuster has since filed for bankruptcy and shuttered 9,000 stores (Source: Medium.com). Now, Netflix has “193 million paid subscribers in more than 190 countries.” (Source: Investopedia.com) Home Depot Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank were fired from Handy Dan, “one of America's leading home improvement retailer chains.” (Source: Medium.com) They decided to use this as an opportunity to start their own company. They opened Home Depot in 1981, creating “one-stop shopping for the do-it-yourself customer.” (Source: Investopedia.com) Home Depot now has more than 2,200 stores in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico (Source: corporate.homedepot.com). Being Small and Nimble is a Competitive Advantage “The big companies we compete against are like Goliath, large and lumbering, slow to change. Can we be David, quick and noble, willing to think outside the box, and find a new and disruptive way to solve the most important problem.”  (Source: Glenn Tulman in Forbes) Choose an Unconventional Strategy Ian Brookes in From the Lighthouse said, “The political scientist Ivan Arreguín-Toft looked at every war fought in the past 200 years between strong and weak combatants. The Goliaths, he found, won in 71.5% of the cases. That is a remarkable fact, especially when the result is in the context of the sample of conflicts analyzed was where one side was at least ten times as powerful in terms of armed might and population as its opponent – even in those lopsided contests, the underdog won almost a third of the time. Why, what happened? Simply, the underdogs acknowledged their weaknesses and chose an unconventional strategy. In those cases, David's winning percentage went from 28.5% to 63.6%. When underdogs choose not to play by Goliath's rules, they win, Arreguín-Toft concluded.” Key Takeaways Here are some of my key takeaways from this episode: David changed the rules in his battle with Goliath and used the sling and stone as a tectonic shift to give himself a competitive advantage and remove Golaith's advantage. Like David, we can leverage tectonic shifts to give ourselves the advantage over much larger competitors. Don't match our weaknesses up against our competitor's strengths. Instead figure a way to develop strength and use it to attack the competitor's weakness, like David used his nimbleness to compete against the giant's inability to move quickly in the heavy iron armor. David was nimble and could adapt to his surroundings faster than Goliath. Being nimble and moving quickly is often a competitive advantage of small companies. Often small companies can adapt to changes in the world faster than large ones. Don't try to do things the same way as our larger competitors. Find an unconventional way to more effectively accomplish the most important goals.  Join Entrepreneurs of Faith If this episode of Entrepreneurs of Faith resonated with you, please subscribe for FREE to Monetization Nation so you can receive Entrepreneurs of Faith each Sunday. Subscribe to the free Monetization Nation eMagazine. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation YouTube channel. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.  Follow Monetization Nation on Instagram and Twitter. Share Your Story  Have you seen any other examples of leveraging tectonic shifts to defeat modern Goliaths? Please join our private Monetization Nation Facebook group and share your insights with other digital monetizers. Read at: https://monetizationnation.com/blog/87-how-underdog-entrepreneurs-can-learn-from-david-to-conquer-their-goliaths/ 

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As we move from crisis to recovery, many people are keen to make up for lost time. They want to grasp the opportunity and advance their careers, upwards. At the heart of achieving this advancement is amplifying one’s own personal brand. Yet the common challenge I hear is, “I am overwhelmed with my day job and back-to-back Zoom calls, I’ve got no time for networking.” I remember only focusing on the day job myself and not factoring time in my day to be promoted, believing my results would speak for themselves. However, I slowly realised I was sleepwalking through my career. At various points I became bewildered at the unearned advantage of the confident “Old Boy Network”, who gained promotion with ease. After the third time of being overlooked for promotion, (which was allegedly to be on merit), a painful thought struck me - if I do not change my approach and mindset, my career will plateau permanently. The clock was ticking, and I needed to find a new path urgently. I was so frustrated with the situation that I decided to cancel a weekend trip away and got a pencil and paper out to write down my reflections and come up with better options. By Sunday morning I had ‘aha’ moment! I had built a reputation for being fearless at business development. This was mainly due to my attitude – I currently have no relationship with this ‘cold’ prospect, however, if I can create dialogue then I will earn the right to add value to them. I realised this was my ‘unfair advantage’. I could put this learnt skill into action for my own career. In his excellent book ‘David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants’, Malcolm Gladwell highlights how underdogs win more often than expected. There are ‘hidden advantages to being disadvantaged’. I took control of my career by developing a network. I had to build trust to create meaningful dialogue - I add value to others first. In a hectic world, many people do not take the time to create useful connections even within their own company. I connected two Sales directors from a leading SaaS provider - this may sound like no big deal, but they sat 30 metres apart, one on the 4th floor and the other on the 5th of the same building! ...A client of mine became frustrated by the lack of opportunity in his company, so decided to move on. He is someone always looking to support others, connecting people who would benefit from an introduction. When it came to his hour of need, he was given several prompt introductions to key decision makers, which led to four job offers. He is an overachiever, yet ‘the difference that made the difference’ was his attitude. By consistently investing in others, he did not look needy when it came to asking... I have been very fortunate to have been guided by a stellar mentor, Rob Howes, founder of a leading Big Data and Analytics Community with over 450,000 members, and co-creator of Enterprise Sales Club. Networks are hard earned, so Rob is naturally protective of his. I urge you to forget shallow networking, and create meaningful dialogue instead. Do your due diligence and identify a challenge that the other person has in their life. Have the right intention – to create a connection and dialogue. Earn the right to create dialogue by giving value first. Never act with entitlement - be polite with any request. I believe it is worth the risk of creating dialogue when you have everything to gain and nothing to lose… Our purpose at Enterprise Sales Club is to enable SaaS Sales Professionals to achieve their potential through the power of life-enhancing connections, shared experiences, and collaborative learnings. If you have found this article valuable, please like, re-share and pass onto a work colleague or someone within your network whom it could help at this stage of their career. To discover exclusive content for our community, go to https://www.enterprisesalesclub.com.

The accumulation of power seems like a good idea at first. Then we see how deeply insecure some billionaires and leaders of countries can be. What if no amount of power could ever make you feel safe? What if it was just another thing that could be taken away from you? What if being empowered is the key to the only security that truly sets you free?"Power is control over other people and empowered means that you are not looking for control of others. You are just being you despite the consequences."The accumulation of power seems like a good idea at first. Then we see how deeply insecure some billionaires and leaders of countries can be. What if no amount of power could ever make you feel safe? What if it was just another thing that could be taken away from you? What if being empowered is the key to the only security that truly sets you free? Brett: Joe, what makes this distinction so important?Joe: The empowered overpower distinction. I think there's a deep confusion in us as a people and internally between the two and that confusion is what creates the subjugation that we feel both in the relationship to ourselves and the relationship with the outside world. To clarify that confusion, to actually see that we are always a choice and that choice is always empowered, whether we want to admit it or not is a way to set us free from that subjugation.Brett: Power is real. There are people who really do have power over us and there are situations in which we have limited control. That must be partially responsible for our situation.Joe: Yes and no. The thing is, that we're all interdependent, everything is interdependent. It's like a gigantic machine if you will or a gigantic ecosystem. Who has the power, the ants or the mountain lion or the rabbits? If any of them go, the whole system changes. The whole system is dependent on all the other parts of the system. In that way, yes, there are things that have power over us. If you're a deer, deer ticks have power over you and mountain lions have power over you, but if you're a mountain lion, deer have power over you because if the deer disappear, you're screwed, you're not eating. There's a way of looking at it that says, "Oh, wow, everything that I'm interdependent on has power over me." You can look at it that way and it's absolutely true. The other way to look at it is that, our choice is ours. We get to choose and we might not like the consequences. We don't always have control over the consequences. I think when we don't have control over the consequences, that's when the mind wants to say, "Oh, somebody has power over me." But there's nobody on this planet that isn't dependent on somebody else or something else.Take the most powerful person in the world, if people stop buying their product or if people rebel against them or if the price of oil goes to $20 a barrel and all of a sudden, their money to control their society goes away. Everybody has something like that. It's something that I think about oftentimes when I'm thinking about CEOs and my experience in working with them is that they have more bosses than anybody. They have their key employees who they need to keep happy, their customers they need to keep happy, their shareholders they need to keep happy. They have Board of Directors they need to keep happy. There are so many people who they are dependent on or they need their approval or they need them to buy into their vision in some way. There's nobody in this system that isn't dependent on other people. There's nobody in this system that isn't scared to change the system because of consequences. As one person is sitting there and saying, "Hey, if I stand up for myself, I'll lose my job." There's a CEO that says, "Hey, if I don't give my quarterly numbers, I'll lose my job. If I don't get to the quarterly numbers, I'll lose my job." There's a billionaire that's like, "Wow, if I don't keep on finding more oil, I'm going to lose my fortune." There's something everywhere, everybody's got something. In that aspect, absolutely, everybody has somebody who has power over them. I think we often think about the people who diversified, like lots of customers or lots of people as more powerful, meaning that they're not dependent on one person. They're not dependent on one customer. They feel more powerful on our system but, everybody's dependent.Brett: It sounds like what you're pointing at in terms of power, when something has power over us, it's setting the constraints of our environment. If we have power over someone else, we have the power to set the constraints for the system in some way, but that doesn't tell the whole story. There's what we do within the constraints and which constraints we buy into or don't.Joe: That's it. Inside of the constraints, you're completely empowered. The way that you show up inside the constraints, the constraints have to adjust. Meaning, if you are scared of losing your job and you say, "Forget it, I'm going to show up the way that feels right for me and if I get fired, I get fired." You will change the system. There's no way for it not to change, even if you get fired. There's no way for the system not to change. There's no way that the way you interact with the system doesn't affect it.Brett: Even the structure of a company or even the interpersonal relations in your team will change if you're not being the same cog in the ecosystem that was existing before.Joe: That's right. You see this. Working with CEOs and working with billionaires, you see this all the time, that there's a whole bunch of things that they want to affect change on that they can't. They don't know how to or that nobody knows how to or it's just beyond their control. It's not like anybody in any situation doesn't have something that they're not able to affect the change on. There're billionaires that I know that if they could control everything, they would have more billions and there're billionaires I know, that if they could control everything, everybody would have social and economic equality but they can't, just like we can't, you can't, I can't, nobody can. As long as you need to control a situation to feel empowered, then you are subjugated.Brett: That's not real empowerment.Joe: That's right.Brett: Where does this come from? Where does this yearning for power arise from if not empowerment?Joe: Fear. If we're making the distinction between power and empowered and I think that even in our language, oftentimes, when someone says, "I feel powerful," they mean empowered. As far as the semantics we're going to use, that means empowered. Then some people are like, "I feel powerful, meaning I have control over you." People who want to feel powerful control over situations just fear. They are scared. On some level, we all are scared when we are looking to find power. Now, power might come to us and just because I have power doesn't mean I'm scared, but if I'm looking for it, then I'm scared.Brett: How does achieving some sense of power actually satiate or affect that fear, or does it?Joe: It doesn't. It's like any addiction. There's a short-term high that you get and then it's over. I remember when I was in one of my poorest times in my life when I had the least amount of resources and my attitude towards money and power was changing. I was driving in my car and I was thinking, "Oh, I don't have enough." As it turned out at that time, I knew several billionaires and I went through the list and I'm like, "Oh, they're driving around right now thinking they don't have enough either." Like, "Oh my God, I'm a billionaire." My situation, their situation is no different. They can affect some change in a way that I can't, but I can affect some change in the way that they can't.Brett: I could imagine a situation where a billionaire even feels more powerless, because they realize they have all this money and they're actually not able to change the world. So they don't get to believe that money would solve that problem for them.Joe: That's right. That's the thing is, one of the best investors I ever met said that if you see somebody who thinks that money is going to solve their problems, don't invest. They're dead right. Capitalization doesn't solve problems. It makes them bigger often.Brett: You throw money at problems and you end up with bigger problems that require money to sustain.Joe: Yes, that's right. It's like this illusion, once you have the power, then you got to worry about holding on to it. Another billionaire guy told me at one point, he said, “Everybody works, Joe. Everybody works.” If you have a billion dollars, you got to work to maintain it. Everybody works.Brett: If you're going for social capital, you have the billion dollars. You still have to work to maintain social capital and connections.Joe: Yes, or you've got $54 billion and you can't affect an election. One guy with maybe a billion dollars can beat another guy with 54 billion. Both of them can be beaten with somebody with less than a million. Power isn't accumulated by more power. It makes it easier in some forms of power, but sometimes having large amounts of power actually make it harder to accumulate power.Brett: In the current election cycle, trying to get elected as a billionaire takes you down a whole bunch of notches already.Joe: Right, or being a really big shot investor with a lot of power. On some level, there's some benefits to it and on other levels, a lot of people follow you, which creates complications as far as liquidity and other things. It's the same thing with somebody who has the power of leadership in a small community. On one level, there's certain things that they can affect change around that other people can't and in another level, there are certain things they can't.There's a certain balance that is struck in any leadership position and some things can be taken away from you more readily and some things you can't affect change on. It's something that I realized when I was in Boards of Directors. Sometimes in certain Boards of Directors, I had more power being off the board than I did being on the board. Being on the board, I was part of the dynamic and I couldn't help the leadership see through the dynamic. My capacity to help people see through the dynamic was more powerful than having a vote.Brett: Everything unseen and behind the curtain kind of thing.Joe: The way that I define power is, that power is the thing that can be taken away from you. Empowerment can't be taken away from you. Power is control over other people and empowered means that you're not looking for control of others. You're just being you despite the consequences. Power is looking to find safety. It's an expression of fear. Empowered is standing in the face of that fear and being truthful to yourself.If you think about every story that we've ever heard, it's always the story of the person who goes against the consequences for their truth. This is what we long for in ourselves is that, “I'm going to be empowered in a way that I will do the right thing despite the consequences whether I'm saving somebody from a burning building or whether I'm risking my job to be authentic.” That's what empowered is.Brett: Yes, burning building was a good example because, running into a burning building to save somebody, the fire has power over you. There's nothing anybody's going to do to change that, but you are going into the burning building to do your truth, to try to save somebody regardless of the consequences. You're willing to experience and feel the consequences of coming up against something with much greater power than you.Joe: Yes, that's right. There's the material power, like money or gun or fire and then there's also just the power of influence over you or other people. What I noticed is that when people act empowered, eight times out of 10, maybe seven times out of 10, the consequence that they're scared of doesn't come to pass. Even though the moment before they take that action, they're pretty sure it's inevitable. If I'm saying I'm going to be true to my wife even though I might lose her, eight times out of 10, I'm not going to lose her. If I'm saying I'm going to be true to myself even if I might get fired, eight out of 10 times, I don't get fired.If you're actually going into a burning building, I don't know what the odds are. It is not something that I have enough experience with. I will say, the other part of that is that even when you act empowered and things don't go the way you want them to go, they end up going the way you want them to go eventually. Meaning, yes, maybe your wife leaves you but eventually, you get in a relationship that works for you. Meaning that as you act empowered, as you act in your truth, the world that can handle your truth surrounds you and that becomes your reality bubble. We're all in these echo chambers. If I believe one political thing, I'm going to be in an echo chamber of verification of that. If I believe something else, I'll be in an echo chamber that verifies that. It's how our consciousness works and if we're true to ourselves, we end up in an echo chamber that is true to ourselves.Brett: It seems there's a difference between the actual constraints that our environment places on us and then the predictive constraints that we are simulating, that we are actually acting on, which are not exactly the real constraints of the environment. If we start operating in a way that doesn't fit the constraints of our immediate environment, we may end up losing a partnership, we may end up losing a job. If we stick with operating as though the world had the constraints that we want, eventually, we will only end up fitting into a system that fits those constraints.Joe: That's right. You see this in great leadership. I would say that one of the ways that you know that you're empowered is that you're acting in a way as if your reality is already true, that your vision is already true. If you're a civil rights leader, you're acting as if you are already equal and free. You're being that example for everybody to follow and you're assuming that everybody will treat you that way. It starts bending the world into that way of treating you. If you feel like you're less than, then your civil rights movement by its nature will have more friction in it. More people will treat you as you're less than.It's the same with anything-- if you're acting as a leader of a CEO and you're like, “Of course, we're going to be successful,” and you're acting like you're successful. When you're in the negotiations, you're acting like you're successful, then the world wants to bend towards that. It doesn't mean it bends towards it all the time, but it wants to bend towards that. That's what being a visionary is and that is, if you're empowered, then that visionary nature starts becoming more and more obvious to you. It just becomes something that starts happening.Brett: That brings up an interesting subtlety, the idea of acting as though you're already successful. It seems like there could be ways of performing success that are not beneficial, but the actual belief that you are successful. How would you distinguish between those two things?Joe: The way I would distinguish between those two things is, that there's a great story. It was an admiral in the Navy who got into a POW camp in Vietnam and he was asked who made it, who didn't make it? He said, “Well, who didn't make it was easy. That was the optimist.” The interviewer is like, “What do you mean optimist?” He said, “It means that they thought they were going to get out by Christmas or by the next season or whatever it was. They didn't make it, because when that came, that timetable came and left, they became defeated and they didn't make it.” He said, “Well, who did make it?” He said, “Well, that's clear, it's the people who thought that they would get out. The people who maintained that vision of their own freedom.”Brett: In that sense, if we find ourselves performing successfulness and then, signs of failure come, then that can just completely break down and we'll actually just believe our failure and that'll be the end, whereas realizing that this business can entirely fail and I still feel empowered as the person who can be successful.Joe: Correct and will be. It might be the next business. You see this all the time when people are transforming. When they're changing, they have this massive breakthrough and then they go, “Oh!” then, they feel disempowered because of the power of the pattern and they're like, "How do I keep it? How do I keep this breakthrough?" As soon as you see that, as soon as you see somebody start wrestling with how do I keep it, you know that it's going to be in flux. You know that it's going to pendulate back and forth for a while.But when the person sees it so clearly that they're like, "Of course, this is what's happening," then it's over. Even if it comes back a little bit, it's over. The whole process is quicker. If somebody has been getting angry a ton in their world and then all of a sudden they have this breakthrough of like, "Oh my gosh, it's not that I'm angry. It's that I'm hurt." They start crying and they see this new reality.  They're like, "Yes." Of course, they don't need to hold on to it. Then you know that that change is going to be smooth and quick. If they are like, "Oh my God, I see it. How do I keep it?" Then you know that they're not fully empowered.Brett: That's a belief that's fragile then and that they don't really have it.Joe: Exactly. In that belief system, they still feel like this thing has power over them, this influence. What's interesting is, of course, it has power over you, of course and it's exactly that that you need to enter into. It's exactly that helplessness that helps us become empowered. What I mean by that specifically, because that can be incredibly confusing is, that going through the feeling of helplessness is what creates, oftentimes, that sense of empowerment.Brett: Yes, that's important, because what you were just saying earlier is that the power itself or the seeking of power as a deep expression of fear and it seems like that would be the fear of feeling the helplessness, the fear of being helpless. If you just move through that helplessness, then you end up on the other side feeling empowered.Joe: That's it. You just said it better than I could.Brett: Is there anything else you want to add to the definition of empowered?Joe: Yes. Empowered really is a feeling. It's a state. It's not a life condition. Meaning, you can be a billionaire and feel empowered and you can be in poverty and feel empowered. It's not really about how many resources you have. It's about your resourcefulness. It's knowing that you have the courage to do what's true for you. The other thing about empoweredness is that you can't really love without it. If you look at all the people who we see as beacons of love, there is a deep sense of empowerment to them. If you close your eyes and you go inside and you feel what it is to be unconditionally loving and then you feel what it is to be unconditionally empowered, you'll notice that they're two sides of the same mountain and you can't get to the peak without both sides of the mountain.Brett: I'm curious about what some of the different ways are that we allow ourselves to have power taking over us. What are some of the types of power? There can be economic power, there could be emotional power. I think a lot of this could allude to the victim-savior-bully stuff that we've discussed in some of the other episodes.Joe: When we're in fear, which is often when we're seeking power over another person, we're often in a victim, savior or a bully role. That is a good sign that you're in the power over. You can have power over somebody by being a bully. That role we know really well. Our society agrees with that one. They're like, "Oh yes, that person's a bully. They want power over." But you can get power over people as a victim too. I was watching a television show about magic and for whatever reason, they had this group of moms and they were all talking about guilt. They were all laughing and smiling over how guilt was a good way to control their kids. It's like, "Right, that is how people can control through the victim." Like, I'm so fragile that you can't tell me your truth. If there is somebody in your life that you can't tell your truth to because you're scared of hurting them, then you're being somebody who's controlling through victimhood. It's the same way with a savior. You can control people by saving them. You see this in very wealthy families all the time. They maintain control over their children by making sure that their money is there to save them. Or the Al-Anon saving the alcoholic. It happens all the time. There's all sorts of ways in which we are trying to have power over people. They mostly fit in the three categories, which is victim, savior and bully.Brett: The example with the rich people with the money doing the savior thing, I think there's many ways that that could apply to philanthropy as well.Joe: Yes, absolutely.Brett: Philanthropy can be done in a way that is entirely disempowering and that it can be done in a way that is empowering and I think a lot of that would come from the mindset of the people involved on all sides of it in the system.Joe: That's right. When I did a lot of philanthropy with schools and with kids, I would stay away from working with anybody who was coming from a place of guilt, that they were doing it because they felt guilty because their philanthropy just didn't work. If they were trying to help people, I would also stay away from it. If they were working with people so that both they and the people they were there to serve were being helped, then those were effective.Brett: What's an example of how that would work? Philanthropy failing, because it came from a place of guilt.Joe: I was in Nicaragua at one point and there was a group of Canadians there that had brought a whole bunch of clothing for this village. They all felt really great about themselves. When I asked them why they did it, they were all like, "Oh, I just feel bad that we have so much and I want to spread it." There's nothing wrong with it, but it just isn't successful. I remember sitting with them and saying, "Hey, there's all these turtles here that are going extinct." All these people could be saving the turtles. What if they earned their clothing by helping the turtles? How does that change this whole system?What it does change is, it makes people have an equal exchange and so they feel empowered. If somebody's just giving them stuff without an exchange, then it's actually quite disempowering because now you have power over them because they need you to give them stuff. In the '70s in Africa, you saw where food drops would happen. Then when the people who had the walkie talkies that helped the food drops happen went away, the native people tried to build fake walkie talkies and act like the person with the walkie talkies to get the food to drop.It's like you're not teaching that person how to fish. You're giving them fish. When people act out of guilt, that's usually how it works, because they feel like they have to give. Good philanthropy is an exchange. It's not a gift. It's a recognition that you're getting as much from it as you're giving.Brett: That segues to another interesting thing from earlier in the conversation about your empowerment is something that you have to give up. You choose to give up your empowerment. Let's talk a little more about that.Joe: There's a choice that you make and every time that you feel like you've been disempowered or that someone has power over you and you can't be true to yourself, then what's actually happening is that you are choosing to avoid a potential bad consequence. That's a choice that you're making. You have to choose that for it to be the case. Mandela had everything taken from him except his life. He was crushing rocks. He was beaten. It was not pretty for him and yet he stayed empowered. He continued to make choices and knew the choices that he was making despite the consequences.Brett: How does that work in daily life? Like with a job or perhaps with a receiver of philanthropy, trying to become empowered, but finding that the moment they become empowered, they stop receiving gifts and so, it's easier not to.Joe: Yes, it's really true. It's harder to raise money for something that's deeply empowered too, it's interesting that way. But then again, the people who truly feel empowered don't need to raise as much money. They have other ways of making things happen. Yes, it's a good question. How does it happen in daily life? One of the ways that I work with my clients on this often that makes it really acute is-- and I mentioned it a bit in the beginning, but I'll use a different example. It's like a husband that's deeply unhappy in his marriage. I'll ask the question, what if you act exactly how you want to act and see if they leave you, see if the divorce occurs. That's an empowered act. It's like, "Oh, I'm not going to compromise my authenticity, my truth to keep your love. I'm not going to compromise my authenticity and my truth to keep the job. I'm not going to compromise my authenticity and my truth to avoid the conflict and that's when people feel disempowered is, when they don't make that choice. That's when people complain about somebody having power over them.Brett: Right? Like believing that we're not going to be able to find another job, if we leave this job or believing we're never going to find another partner, if things don't work out with this one and we don't conform to this structure we're in.Joe: Yes. Then that becomes pretty obvious pretty quickly when you're dealing with one-on-one relationships, but then when it comes to being in a company or being in a country or being part of a geopolitical system, it becomes a little bit harder to see, because the change that you're creating is just less palpable. It's because it's a numbers game and so it becomes harder for people to see in that way.But that's an intellectual thing. On an emotional and a gut level, you feel it right away, you know it right away when you are acting empowered in those situations, say, "Oh, I'm going to be this way," and I see it all the time. It's like if you look at the people who are breaking the social norms in a way that is liberating for them, that are the front runners or the trailblazers, if you look at those folks, they are the ones who are not buying into the consequences.Brett: It's contagious then like, if you're looking for a social change, it requires empowerment on a population level. It might feel from a disempowered place that if you're the only person who becomes empowered, you're just going to get steamrolled by the system. Yet, you look at examples like MLK and it's, one person was empowered enough to have like a halo around them, creating more empowerment.Joe: Yes and he died. Right. There was somebody who had a gun and that's real power and it affected change. He had real power and it affected change. Both of the men who shot and the man who got shot in this particular case, both affected massive change in the world. The difference between the two is one felt empowered and one felt disempowered. The change that we affect when we feel disempowered usually doesn't serve ourselves or humanity.Brett: Yes, that reminds me of the archetype of the rebel, somebody who feeling what they think is power, ends up destroying their life and others in the name of their truth. Whoever shot MLK felt like they were following their truth and you see this all the time. Let's talk about that.Joe: Yes. It's really hard to see the difference sometimes, especially when you're in the middle of it and it's subtle until you see it and when you see it, it's clear. If you are in blame for another person or shame for yourself, then you are disempowered and you are trying to accumulate power. If you are not in blame or for others or shame for yourself, then that is empowered. That's the emotional way to know where you're at.Brett: Or guilt I guess, guilt and shame can be distinguished as well a little bit.Joe: Yes, guilt and shame. We'll put them together. Those are such-- semantically, that's a very interesting thing and it's very culturally based, but yes, guilt, shame, blame, all that stuff is a good indicator that you're disempowered.Brett: Earlier we were talking about the drama triangle with the bully and the victim and the savior and how that's based in fear. Can you relate that to blame and shame?Joe: Yes, so oftentimes, that fear is based on the sense of helplessness. That sense of helplessness is because we believe the story of blame and shame in our head. When you feel like someone else's making your life X, Y and Z way, then you're in blame and there's a helplessness and there's a fear that you will lose complete control and therefore, you need to have control over. Or, there's a shame, like, “I'm inherently bad.” There's no way out of that. It's a deep feeling of helplessness and we're scared of feeling that helplessness, so we then move into the drama triangle or the fear triangle. That's how it works. It's that helplessness is the feeling of that blame and shame felt all the way through, that we don't want to feel. That's the amazing thing about feeling helplessness. Feeling helplessness doesn't make you more helpless. Feeling helpless makes you more capable. It's so counterintuitive, but if you do it, you know it, right, because so much of our decision-making process is based on trying to avoid an emotional state. The emotional state of helplessness is one of the ones underlying most of our avoidance.Brett: What are some of the indicators for each of these particular roles? If all of them are fear state being set into place with blame and shame and we need to feel helplessness to get through them, what are some of the indicators for some of these particular roles of victim, bully and savior?Joe: The reason I don't call the drama triangle very often and I'm more prone to call it the fear triangle is because, the victim, bully and savior correspond with fight, flight or freeze, which are the states of fear. Fight is pretty obviously bully. Right? It's like, when I'm scared, I fight. When I'm scared, I freeze, that's more victim. When I'm scared, I fly, that's savior and that's the harder one to understand. But what happens is, I run away from myself in my own experience and I try to fix you, so that I can feel safe. If I can make it so you don't get drunk, I'll feel safe. If I can make it, that you're happy, then I'll feel safe.I'm running away from myself going into you to try to fix my issues and so, that's why I call it the fear triangle. There's a feeling for each one of them, right? It's kind of the indicator. The indicator is, if I am feeling all alone in it, that's the bully. If I feel obligation, that's the savior and if I feel stuck, that's the victim. In actuality, we'll feel all three of these things if you really slow it down for a minute and you'll notice that you'll feel all three of these things in a moment of fear. My wife comes home, she's in a horrible mood and I feel helpless that now my mood is going to be screwed up and the house is going to be screwed up and the kids are going to be screwed like, “I can't do anything.” I might feel alone, like, "Oh, God, I can't. I'm the only one who has to fix this thing." Then I feel, "Oh my God, I got to do something for her so that she feels better and then I'm stuck with this thing." It's like all three of them can happen slowly or quickly. But there's one that usually we dominate in situations that are dominating us in situations. Most people tend towards fight, flight or freeze most of the time.Brett: Yes, I personally tend towards the savior.Joe: Yes, I have tended towards both savior and bully. Those are the two places I'll go depending on the circumstance. Yes and often in quick succession.Brett: Let's talk a little bit more about how this works in companies and in teams.Joe: It works in a number of ways. The first is, you see this happening all the time in companies and teams, that somebody is acting like the victim or some group is acting like the victim. Some are acting as the savior. There's different ways that they're trying to create control. The less empowered the team feels, the more drama and that's a great-- as soon as you walk into a team, if it's super political, it's just like everybody feels disempowered. You just know it. Where everybody feels empowered and they feel like they can affect change, there's so little politics that are going on. It's a great litmus test.Brett: Right, because politics is a control mechanism.Joe: Correct. Yes, it's that fear. Drama. That's the thing that you see in politics everywhere. I don't mean politics as in people running countries. I mean politics. It might be people running countries.Brett: People being political. Joe: Being political, right. It's a deep expression of fear and people trying to capture power. Exactly. It's because everybody feels helpless and feels like they're not actually able to affect change in a way that's meaningful.Brett: How do you affect this kind of change in a company, whether you're leading the company or you're within the company or at the bottom of some ladder?Joe: Yes. Well, this is the tricky bit, because as a leader of a company, you want your people to be empowered. You also, often out of fear, want to limit their capacity to affect change. I don't want the new mail clerk to decide what my initial public offering price is going to be. It's this constant balance of people feeling empowered. You wanting people to feel empowered and at the same time, a fear of having that power runaway or this lack of control. This is the balance and the subtle war that's happening oftentimes with leaders.You'll hear it all the time because they'll say something like, "I wish everybody would act like the owner of the company." They mean that to a point, meaning they want everyone to take responsibility like that, but they don't want everybody to have all the benefits and they don't want everybody to have all the choice that they have. There's this very interesting balance that happens. What's happening in those companies is that the empowerment and the roles have gotten confused.If everybody can feel empowered in their role and their role is defined and how decisions are made is defined, then people feeling deeply empowered is incredibly good for a company. As soon as those roles aren't defined well, as soon as people don't know what they have to do to be successful, then a whole bunch of empowered people just creates a lot of mess. Brett: It sounds like there's a bit of a paradox here, where having well-defined roles and well-defined processes is structure and that could be something that people feel has power over them. Then also what you want is them to feel empowered to push back and change that structure or work fully within the structure and also perhaps challenge it. If you don't have structure like clear goals, criteria for success, loving accountability, transparency, then what happens there? There's a powerlessness in having no structure.Joe: That's right. Yes, if there's no way to affect change or make decisions, then what you'll have is this crazy politics with people trying to get power so that they can feel safe. Yes, you want to have some sort of structure that allows itself to change and a structure that doesn't change without very specific things happening, so that people can feel safe that they know what to do, that they know what success means. This doesn't matter if it's AA or Enron. In AA, there's a very particular structure that has to happen. There's 12 steps. There's the way that the meetings get run and that structure happens. It's important or people can't feel safe in those environments. In Uber, there's very particular structures in place. There's, "I'm going to rate you five stars or not," and there's another structure of making sure that drivers don't rip other people off by tracking them on maps. Those structures are really incredibly critical or people don't feel safe. Will those structures need to change over time? Absolutely. But, you need the structure for people to feel safe and know what their roles are. Then you need to be able to make room for people to grow and change their roles. The Constitution of the United States does a pretty good job of it, too.Brett: Yes, sets a structure. Joe: Yes. That's the balance that you're constantly looking for is, “How I create the amount of structure that makes people feel safe but also gives them autonomy and gives them the capacity to feel as empowered as possible.” Brett: Includes mechanisms for that structure itself to be updated to match reality.Joe: Absolutely. Right, that's it. That's how looking at company-- and what you see typically is, the more transparency and the less structure that creates safety, the more elegant the structure is that creates safety, then the more successful the company. Taxi cabs becoming Uber is an example of this, less structure, less infrastructure, but it creates actually more safety. It's the same thing that happened with GM and Toyota. Toyota became more decentralized than GM, which was at the time, the most centralized company. That decentralization, but still maintaining the structure, is what usually gives those companies a competitive advantage. The reason is, because it creates more empowerment with the employees.Brett: It seems like this would also promote scalability for a company, because if you have 100 empowered decision-makers instead of three, then more decisions can be made and more information can be processed.Joe: That's exactly right. Yes. You saw that there was a-- I can't remember, it was one of the Malcolm Gladwell books talked about, how in this war game that the Pentagon does, this small band of people beat the US Army, because their decision-making was happening at the bottom. There was some set of principles, some set of structure that they could all operate within. That's basically how you do it. It was in David and Goliath, was I think his book. You see that all the time and you see it in business books as well, like Reinventing Organizations, where the same principle is there. Brett: Yes, another war game example, just war example, would be when Rommel first encountered US troops in Northern Africa. He was like, "Oh, these guys are totally green and completely disorganized. It'll be a cinch." Then, not long after, he was writing letters back to Germany like, "Wait, don't underestimate these people. You can cut off an entire unit from their command and somehow, they'll still figure out how to fight."Joe: But this isn't just an external thing. This is an internal thing as well. When you become more empowered, you start operating on a set of principles and that set of principles, you're going to operate on whether it's comfortable or not. If I have a principle that basically says, "I am not going to work with assholes," and somebody says, "Here's a billion dollars to work with an asshole," I'm going to say, "No." It's a set of principles.  I'm not going to operate any differently than that. If I have a set of principles and it's like, I'm going to be transparent with people and tell them my truth despite the consequences, that's my set of principles. I'm going to do it no matter what. That's when all the drama in me starts disappearing. That's when I feel empowered is, I've given myself a structure that it doesn't change very readily. It takes some time to change that set of principles, but I'm going to operate in that way no matter what. That helps me feel deeply empowered, which is strange. It's like a set of criteria that I live by  that actually makes me feel empowered.Brett: Yes, as though this entire process of inquiry into values is to create a more and more consolidated, elegant structure by which we live our lives, so that we don't have to think about the complicated consequences and how the consequences are going to play out of, “What if I say this to my boss? Or speak my truth here or leave this job?” It's just, this is simply how I want to live and I'll accept the consequences if that's what it takes.Joe: That's exactly right. Yes, that set of principles is what frees us. If you look around at the people who you just saw like,  “Holy crap, they didn't have resources, but they were empowered and they changed the world.” That's something else they all have in common. They were living by a set of principles internally and externally. Not perfectly,  obviously. We're humans. We are not made perfect, but it's generally how one lives their life. When you see somebody who's living by a set of principles, you'll also notice that they never are blaming other folks. They're never worried about somebody's power over them. They're addressing it. Brett: That also will affect your opportunities as well. When I'm hiring, I'm much more interested in the resourcefulness and the ownership, the self-ownership of the person rather than the skills listed on their resume. People really detect that in any counterpart that they might work with.Joe: That's right, I'd rather pick the right mentality than the right skillset, for sure. I obviously like to pick both when I can, but yes, that's right. This is what happens internally, like I said, as well as externally, the drama internally goes away when we feel empowered internally, when we don't feel that we will make the choice even if it's uncomfortable. Even if I have to feel helpless, I'm going to make that choice. Even if I have to-- I'm not going to have power over somebody else or try to have power over myself. I will rather feel the discomfort of the fear and the helplessness. I'll rather enter into the shame. I would rather allow my own destruction as far as the destruction of my identity, my identity as one who's put upon or my identity as one who's valuable. I'd rather allow that to be destroyed, rather than move into fear and act from fear and try to have control over somebody. It's an internal and an external thing. When you figure it out internally, you have no choice but to act externally. If you feel like you are subjugated by something externally, then you also feel like you're subjugated by something internally.Brett: That sounds like a great point to wrap this up on. Thank you very much, Joe.Joe: Yes. Pleasure, Brett. Thank you very much.Thanks for listening to The Art of Accomplishment podcast.  If you enjoyed what you heard today, please subscribe. We would love your feedback, so feel free to send us questions and comments. To reach us, join our newsletter, learn more about VIEW, or to take a course, visit: artofaccomplishment.comResources:Frederic Laloux, Reinventing Organizations, https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants

Yes, indeed, no matter whether we are in office or working from home, the learning never stops, as Vinay finds out in this riveting conversation with friend, Adrian C Bazemore, Lead of International Learning & Development and Lead for DEI L&D for Chick-fil-A, Inc., one of North America's largest fast food chains.  Adrian's work in L&D stands out for his ability to successfully translate the learning engagement into what its true application would look like.   [05:01s] From Sales to L&D: His true calling[11:24s] Responding to restaurant L&D in a pandemic[19:33s] DEI: 'Truth matters'[29:05s] Future of L&D and DEI[36:11s] RWL: Adrian's recommendation to read ‘Talking to Strangers' and ‘David & Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants' by Malcolm GladwellConnect with Adrian on LinkedInConnect with Vinay on Twitter, LinkedIn or email him at vinay@c2cod.comWhat did you think about this episode? What would you like to hear more about? Write in podcast@c2cod.comSubscribe to us on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Tune In Alexa, Stitcher, Castbox, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Listen Notes, Castro, Jio Saavn, iHeart Radio. This podcast is sponsored by C2C-OD, your Organizational Development consulting partner ‘Bringing People and Strategy Together'. Follow @c2cod on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook

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In this episode of State Street, the crew starts a brand new series on David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell. The crew intros the book, and talks about what an underdog really means, as well as posing the question: was David really an underdog? State Street Socials Instagram: statestreetpod Twitter: @statestreetpod Facebook: State Street Podcast Intro/Outro District Four by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Gladwell revisits the ancient tale of the underdog to break down history's secrets. David's small size, lack of armor, and sling shot are really advantages, and Goliath's immense size and power only work against him. Gladwell revisits a dozen or so stories, ranging from Biblical battles to the London Blitz, to redefine how we look at history's underdogs and industry giants. The ‘little guys' are often considered weak due to their outlier status or their disadvantageous upbringing. But these same individuals are history's revolutionaries, medical forerunners, civil rights warriors, and powerful Hollywood producers. Likewise, history's Goliaths – Nazi Germany, white American south, and millionaire parents to name a few – lose ground despite their seemingly incredible size and power. David and Goliath is is an eye-opening book for anyone who thinks their underdog status works against them – and a stern warning to all Goliaths. *Theme 1: In the Valley of Elah Revisited - 3:23 *Theme 2: David the Dyslexic - 12:48 *Theme 3: Remote Misses - 23:03 Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Subscribe at memod.com/insights HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAY'S EPISODE HERE: "NPR Choice Page". Npr.Org, 2019, https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=243294593. Accessed 16 Aug 2019. "Malcolm Gladwell On The Advantages Of Disadvantages - Knowledge@Wharton". Knowledge@Wharton, 2019, https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/david-goliath-malcolm-gladwell-advantages-disadvantages/. Accessed 16 Aug 2019. Please keep in mind that the information provided in or through our Book Insights episodes is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for advice given by qualified professionals, and should not be relied upon to disregard or delay seeking professional advice. Full Title: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Year of Publication: 2013 Book Author: Malcolm Gladwell To purchase the complete edition of this book click here: https://www.amazon.com/David-Goliath-Underdogs-Misfits-Battling/dp/0316204374/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=david+and+goliath&qid=1593552826&s=books&sr=1-2 Book Insight Writer: Daniel Gonzalez Editor: Morwenna Loughman Producers: Daniel Gonzalez & Gabriel Mara Production Manager: Karin Richey Curator: Tom Butler-Bowdon

Simone talks about time management and the importance of prioritizing your commitments. This episode's book recommendation is David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/simone810/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/simone810/support

Kevin Brookhouser is optimistic about the future because he believes many of the world's most pressing problems can be solved by current students who have access to great teachers and breakthrough technology. Kevin is the author of The 20time Project: How Educators can Launch Google's Formula for Future-Ready Innovation and Code In Every Class: How All Educators Can Teach Programming. Kevin has experience working with students, teachers, professors, administrators, realtors, nuns, priests, accountants, lawyers, and animal welfare specialists, and if you're not one of these people, he can probably work with you just fine anyway. Book Recommendations What To Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Connect with Kevin Twitter: https://twitter.com/brookhouser Website: http://www.kevinbrookhouser.com/ ------ Hosts: Holly Clark & Tanya Avrith Website: https://infusedclassroom.com/ Join the Conversation on Twitter

Michael Chiang joins us on The Expat Money Show to discuss app development. We break down 4 simple steps to building an app and why these steps could save you 6-12 months of wasted time and effort... Michael is an Entrepreneur based out of Manhatten, he specializing in app development in the pet space and is now moving into mobile games. Michael is the Co-Founder of https://www.fitbark.com/ (FitBark.com), FitBark is a small, colourful device that you attach to your dog's collar. It monitors activity levels, quality of sleep, distance travelled, calories burned, and overall health and behaviour 24/7. In the show, I refer to it as a Fitbit for dogs, but I quickly was able to see, it is a lot more than that. https://www.fitbark.com/ (Fitbark) is available in more than 125 countries worldwide. We discuss Michaels newest venture, JoyRide, it is a mobile game you play while taking an Uber. It is a 10 question trivia game that if won will pay for your entire Uber ride as a prize. Check out http://playjoyride.com/ (PlayJoyRide.com) to learn more. You can find Michael Chiang at: Instagram: https://instagram.com/Iammikechiang (iAmMikeChiang) Twitter: https://twitter.com/iammikechiang (iAmMikeChiang)   https://softwaresecrets.com/software-secrets-new-2018qrl8jc9i?affiliate_id=665737&cf_affiliate_id=665737 () 4 Key Steps To Building An App: 1. Share your idea with your trusted circle and even go outside your circle to get opinions. Sharing your idea will help you flush out the concepts and force you to articulate them to someone else. What is their response? Do they understand? Is your product needed in the marketplace? These are all questions that must be answered before moving on, and you are not able to be objective enough without asking others for feedback. 2. Build a team. The right team can make anything happen. You can start with your personal network, ask people you respect if they can recommend someone in this space. Trust is such a massive factor when starting a new project. Make sure your team understands your vision and help guide them to the outcome you want. 3. Create your Minimum Viable Product (MVP). You can build a rough MVP in a weekend that you will be able to take to market and test. Let people see it and feel what it is like to use it, even a very basic MVP can be extremely valuable in showing you if you have a product worth moving forward with or not. If it is not going to work, it is better to fail fast then waste 6 -12 months of your life on an idea that will never have wings. 4. Make sure you are bankrolled properly. Capital is extremely important in the early stages of developing your idea. Aim at 10-20k USD to properly roll out a decent MVP and test the market. If you need to pivot your idea to something new you will really need the extra funds. Topics On This Episode Of The Expat Money Show: Why pivoting an idea in a new direction can make you money The beginning of Augmented Reality apps (AR) Why 200k downloads in 4 days can still be considered a failure Looking for problems to fix can make you a good entrepreneur How having the mindset of an athlete can set you up for success in business Books we discuss: Malcolm Gladwell http://amzn.to/2AUVTfc ( Outliers: The Story of Success) http://amzn.to/2EAFLSk (The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference) http://amzn.to/2D66FoN (Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking) http://amzn.to/2EBOCTz (David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants) http://amzn.to/2DoqhkM (What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures) Phil Knight (This book was also recommended by Ryan Lee, an expert on books, in https://expatmoneyshow.com/ryan-lee/ (Episode #8)) http://amzn.to/2FvjdU7 (Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike)   It was fantastic having Michael on the show, if you would like to get in touch with him you can hit him up on... Support this podcast

For this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Jesse & Matt explore the paranoid dread and narcotic pull of Adam Curtis' most recent documentary of political-noir, HyperNormalisation. In 2 hours and 40 minutes, it charts the globe-hopping travails of terrorists, bankers, politicians and America's digital aristocracy--all of whom use humanity as pawns by promising simple stories to explain complex problems which can't be solved with “perception management” and pastel fairy-tales about “good vs. evil.” Considered by many to be the most talented and remarkable documentarian in Britain, Adam Curtis has weaved suspicion and suspense into a BBC career that stretches from 40 Minutes: Bombay Motel in 1987 (which explores the have and have-nots of the city) to his most recent film HyperNormalisation in 2016 (which explores how an entirely Russian condition has now passed into the wider-world). Curtis' documentary was released less than a month prior to the mind-gagging upset of Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump, and the film increasingly speaks to a disenchanted, rat-fucked future of no-returns. Jesse & Matt will discuss what makes this “dank” film so compelling and deeply-felt, as well as what makes it, almost equally so, such an evasive work of art. Mentioned In This Episode: The Original Trailer for Adam Curtis' HyperNormalisation Vice: Watch Adam Curtis' Short Film,  Living in an Unreal World, Which Is Effectively a Non-Traditional Film Teaser for His Recently Released Documentary Watch Adam Curtis' HyperNormalisation at This Youtube Link (While It Lasts) Adam Curtis' Official Blog on BBC Adam Curtis' Biography on Wikipedia Internet Movie Database (IMDB) on Adam Curtis Radiohead Does Some ‘Cosmic Shit' with Supercollider--A Tribute to LHC NPR: “It's Locals vs. ‘PIBS' at the Sundance Film Festival” Bondage Power Structures: From BDSM and Spanking to Latex and Body Odors The Sun: “Japan's Weird Sex Hotels -- Offering Everything From Prison Cell Bondage to Vibrator Vending Machines” A Satire of Adam Curtis, The Documentarian: The Loving Trap The Hydra-Headed Tropes of Adam Curtis Films: Chris Applegate on Twitter: “Forget ‘HypernorNormalisation,' Here's Adam Curtis Bingo!” Why Is It That Matthew & Jesse Lack Real Whuffie: Tara Hunt's “The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business” About New York's Most Legendary New Wave Band: The Talking Heads James Verini in The New Yorker: “The Talking Heads Song That Explains Talking Heads” Christian Marclay's The Clock at The LACMA Museum An Excerpt from Marclay's Film-Collage, The Clock Wired Magazine: “Film Clips of Clocks Round Out 24-Hour Video” A Youtube Excerpt of BBC News Coverage of Christian Marclay's The Clock Ken Hollings in BBC News: “What Is the Cut-Up Method?” William Burrough's “The Cut Up Method” in Leroi Jones' (Baraka) The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America William Burrough's The Naked Lunch A YouTube Clip of Taking Down the Financial District: The Ending of Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club: A Novel Little Known X-Files' Spin-Off Pilot Episode of The Lone Gunmen Eerily Imagined A Plane Crashing Into The World Trade Center A Portrait by Gerard Malanga: “William Burroughs Takes Aim at NY's Twin Towers, from Brooklyn Bridge, 1978” Adam Curtis Documentaries Currently Found on YouTube: Pandora's Box (1992) The Living Dead (1995) Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh (1997) The Mayfair Set (1999) His Finest Achievement & Magnum Opus: The Century of the Self (2002) The Power of Nightmares (2004) The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007) All Watched Over By the Machines of Loving Grace (2011) Bitter Lake (2015) HyperNormalisation (2016) Talkhouse: “Tim Heidecker [from Tim & Eric Show] with Adam Curtis” Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine Matthew Snyder's Syllabus & Course Theme for Fall of 2016: “Presidential Material” Jim Rutenberg in The New York Times: “Can the Media Recover From This Election?” Nate Cohn in The New York Times: “What I Got Wrong About Donald Trump” Nate Silver in FiveThirtyEight: “Why FiveThirtyEight Gave Trump A Better Chance Than Almost Anyone Else” People Pretended to Vote for Kennedy in Larger and Larger Numbers After His Assassination: Peter Foster in The Telegraph: “JFK: The Myth That Will Never Die” YouTube Clip of Alex Jones Getting Coffee Thrown onto to Him While in Seattle Fredrick Jameson on the True Nature of Conspiracy Theories in His Famous Work, Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1992):The technology of contemporary society is therefore mesmerizing and fascinating not so much in its own right but because it seems to offer some privileged representational shorthand for grasping a network of power and control even more difficult for our minds and imaginations to grasp: the whole new de-centered global network of the third stage of capital itself. This is a figural process presently best observed in a whole mode of contemporary entertainment literature -- one is tempted to characterize it as "high-tech paranoia" -- in which the circuits and networks of some putative global computer hookup are narratively mobilized by labyrinthine conspiracies of autonomous but deadly interlocking and competing information agencies in a complexity often beyond the capacity of the normal reading mind. Yet conspiracy theory (and its garish narrative manifestations) must be seen as a degraded attempt -- through the figuration of advanced technology -- to think the impossible totality of the contemporary world system. It is in terms of that enormous and threatening, yet only dimly perceivable, other reality of economic and social institutions that, in my opinion, the postmodern sublime can alone be theorized. Perception Management: A Working Definition Adam Curtis' Remarkable Analysis of Neoconservatives and The Taliban in The Power of Nightmares (2004) The BBC Director's Finest Achievement & Magnum Opus: The Century of the Self (2002) Edward Bernays' Propaganda (Published in 1928) Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool (1968; Released on Criterion in 2013) Jaime Weinman in Maclean's: “The Problem With ‘Problematic'” Gore Vidal: A Working Biography James Kirkchick in The Daily Beast: “Why Did Gore Vidal and William Buckley Hate Each Other?” Morgan Neville's Best of Enemies: Gore Vidal vs. William F. Buckley Christopher Hitchens: A Working Biography The Future Is A Mixtape: Episode 004: “TDS: Terminal Dystopia Syndrome” Dave Eggers' Half-Burnt Satire & Confused Omelette: The Circle Strange Horizons: Estrangement and Cognition by Darko Suvin Takayuki Tatsumi in Science Fiction Studies (V:11; PII): “An Interview with Darko Suvin” David Graeber in The Guardian: “Why Is the World Ignoring the Revolutionary Kurds in Syria?” David Graeber on Real Media: “Syria, Anarchism and Visiting Rojava” InfoWar: “David Graeber: From Occupy Wall Street to the Revolution in Rojava” ROAR Magazine: “Murray Bookchin and The Kurdish Resistance” About PissPigGranddad in Rolling Stone: “American Anarchists Join YPG in Syria Fighting ISIS, Islamic State” The New York Magazine: “The DirtBag Left's Man in Syria: PissPigGranddad Is Coming Home from Syria” IMPORTANT CORRECTION: Matt's claim that HyperNormalisation--the term--came from two Russian brothers, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who were both Science Fiction authors, is DEAD wrong. The term "hypernormalisation" is taken from Alexei Yurchak's 2006 book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: A Working Biography Guy Debord's Society Of The Spectacle (The Original 1967 Book) Guy Debord's Society Of The Spectacle (The 1973 Film on YouTube) Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry Mike Davis' “Not a Revolution--Yet” {His Brilliant Multi-Causal Analysis of Why Donald Trump Won the Election} Jodi Dean on Why Facebook Crushes Complexity of Thought: “Communicative Capitalism and the Challenges of the Left” China Mieville in Socialist Review: “Tolkien - Middle Earth Meets Middle England” Thought Catalog: “14 Unexpected Ways Your Relationship With Your Parents Changes As You Get Older” The Atlantic: “12 Ways to Mess Up Your Kids” Tim Lott in the Guardian About Children's Ruthless Engagement with Irony: “Are Sarcasm and Irony Good for Family Life?” George W. Bush Telling Americans to Still Go Shopping with Their Families and Travel to Disneyland Ranker: “11 Ways Dying in Real Life Is Way Different Than Movie Deaths” David Graeber in Baffler: “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit” Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven & Twelve John A. Farrell in The New York Times: “Nixon's Vietnam Treachery” Peter Baker in The New York Times: “Nixon Tried to Spoil Johnson's Vietnam Peace Talks in ‘68, Notes Show” Brick Underground: “Stop Blaming the Hipsters: Here's How Gentrification Really Happens (And What You Can Do About It)” Matt Le Blanc's Episodes Chris Renaud's Dr. Suess' The Lorax (The Fucking Godawful Movie-Travesty) Dr. Suess' Brilliant Book on Ecology and Capitalism: The Lorax A Historical Guide in How Women's Rights Have Been Used in War as Seen in Katharine Viner's Essay in The Guardian: “Feminism as Imperialism” Zillah Eisenstein in Al Jazeera: “‘Leaning In' in Iraq: Women's Rights and War?” David Cortright in The Nation: “A Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions” Ricky Gervais' Extras: The Complete Series (On DVD) Annie Jacobsen's Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base Salon Magazine: “The Area 51 Truthers Were Right” Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration How Adam Curtis Misunderstands Arab Spring, Occupy and Weirdly Ignores Bernie Sanders in Jonathan Cook's Essay in Counterpunch: “Adam Curtis: Another Manager of Perceptions” The Los Angeles Review of Books: Mike Davis on Occupy Wall Street in His Essay: “No More Bubblegum” Whuffie: A Working Definition Cory Doctorow Excoriates His Naive Idea of Whuffie in His Essay in Locus Magazine: “Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies” Dear Adam Curtis: Here's Some Actual, Real-Life Examples of Organizations Offering Alternatives to Our TDS World: The Next System Project Transition Town: United States IE2030 Open Source Ecology Democracy at Work Community Land Trust Network Democratic Socialists of America Corbyn's Labour Party Momentum: A New Kind of Politics The World Transformed Novara Media Marshal Ganz's Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants John Lynch in Business Insider: “The Average American Watches So Much TV It's Almost a Full-Time Job” Kathryn Cramer in The Huffington Post: “Enough With Dystopia: It's Time For Sci-Fi Writers To Start Imagining Better Futures” Jeet Heer in New Republic: “The New Utopians” (an Overview of Kim Stanley Robinson's Works & Other Authors Using SF to Imagine a Better Future) Radiohead's Music Video for “Daydreaming” The New Yorker: “The Science of Daydreams” The Australian: “The Benefits of Lucid Dreaming” Anna Moore in The Guardian Explores Our Twenty-Year Relationship with Prozac: “Eternal Sunshine” Larry O'Connor in The Washington Free Beacon: “Ending the Starbucks ‘Pay-It-Forward' Cult, for America” Mimi Leder's Pay It Forward (Featuring Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt and Kevin Spacey) The Economist on BlackRock's Aladdin: “The Monolith and the Markets” Foundational Articles & Interviews With Adam Curtis: The Wire Magazine: “An Interview With Adam Curtis” Vice: “Jon Ronson in Conversation with Adam Curtis” Paste Magazine: “Adam Curtis Knows The Score: A List of Five Films”   Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: Email Us: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Find Us Via Our Website: The Future Is A Mixtape Or Lollygagging on Social Networks: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Welcome to Episode 8 of :15 with Ivette, Stephanie, and Randy! This week's holiday-delayed show uses the analogy of running to identify those who cheer us on during the "middle" of our trials and life in general. A good reminder that other's need our affirmation and support as we have, and will likely again, need theirs in the future. Malcolm Gladwell's book; David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, can be found at Amazon.com - http://tinyurl.com/gladwell-davidandgoliath (http://tinyurl.com/gladwell-davidandgoliath)Next week our Unfinished series continues with guest speaker Donna Burske so check-in right here next week!Join us each week on Wednesday as we take a look back at the prior weeks message for unique takeaways, added perspective, and a peek at the upcoming message at the Florida Hospital Church. To find the message discussed, go to our website at http://www.hospitalchurch.org (www.hospitalchurch.org); and use the Media link under the Resources tab.We will take your email questions and comments at podcast@hospitalchurch.org, and from our social media streams by using the hashtag: #fhcpodcastThank you for joining us and we will see you next week!#fhcpodcast #fhctakeaways #hospitalchurch #spirituality #christian-living

This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the book 'David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants'. David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell, is a book in which the author challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages. I incorporate a number of different real-life examples to try and bring these concepts to life.There were 4 Golden Nuggets taken from 'David and Goliath'.Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and sign up to receive Mind Maps from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared that week in the podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brad Lomenick sits down with Malcolm Gladwell to talk about how underdogs win and his book, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. Plus, our final Meet Your Catalyst Intern for this year.

This week, Steve Ballmer says goodbye, and investors want Bill Gates out next, Valve makes a new gamepad, Apple's the number one brand worldwide, the NSA follows you on Facebook (whether you want it to or not), the internet's black market is raided, and four rules to make Star Wars great again. What We're Playing With Andy: The IT Crowd: “The Internet is Coming”, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., GTA Online Tosin: Haworth Zody Task chair, Vengeance K70 Gaming Keyboard Chris: IFTTT Mobile, The Chair Headlines N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show John McAfee reveals details on gadget to thwart NSA Ballmer bids tearful farewell to Microsoft, promises it will 'deliver the next big thing' Exclusive: Time for Gates to go, some top Microsoft investors tell board Audible Book of the Week David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown Music Break: The Time (Dirty Bit) by Black Eyed Peas Hot Topic Valve unveils the Steam Controller All public Facebook posts ever made are now searchable FBI seizes underground drug market Silk Road, owner indicted in New York Bitcoin Falls 15% Following FBI's Silk Road Seizure Music Break: End Theme from "The Empire Strikes Back" by John Williams Final Word Apple Passes Coca-Cola as Most Valuable Brand The Drill Down Video of the Week 4 Rules to Make Star Wars Great Again Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter Geeks Of Doom's The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.