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When you use the term “data scientist” you normally think of an inarticulate introvert who is dazzled by numbers and has week social skills.  Well, this interview with Aaron Pujanandez from Excella may change the preconception.  We start off with referencing an article from the Harvard Business Journal from 2012.  This was probably a conceit eleven years ago, but in the last decade we have seen cheap storage, available compute, and ubiquitous fast Internet.  Perhaps the title is getting closer to the truth. We begin the interview with having Aaron differentiate “data analyst” from “data scientist.”  Many common themes including Python and being part of a team.  From Aaron's view, a data analyst may be charged with providing a visual depiction of data elements where a data scientist may delve into mor advanced topics like subtleties of Extract, Transform, Load, Machine Language, and code review.  One of the challenges faced by federal information professionals is the volume of data to ingest.  During the interview, Aaron talked about many of the aspects of selecting data and making sure it is safe in transit. Aaron provides the listener with his thoughts on selecting the right data, data quality, handling large volumes of data, data access and, finally, the all-important concept of being able to communicate findings to non-technical stakeholders. There are no silver bullets here – just an opportunity to approach large data sets and artificial intelligence from a perspective that will give actionable results. Follow John Gilroy on Twitter @RayGilray Follow John Gilroy on LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Listen to past episodes of Federal Tech Podcast  www.federaltechpodcast.com      

Sondra Shannon is the CEO of Gatemaster Technology, one of the leading ticketing solutions for the attractions industry.  Sondra's career in the industry began with Q-Zar Laser Tag as General Manager, where she was a self-proclaimed “super-user” of Gatemaster in the late 1990s.  When that facility was sold, Gatemaster's founder recruited Sondra to help build the next iteration of the product, which enabled the company to expand into water parks, zoos, museums, and theme parks.  Now, as CEO of the company, Gatemaster has evolved as the trends in technology continue to shift, and Sondra remains an avid enthusiast of the industry.  In this interview, Sondra talks about making heroes out of operators, guest-driven transactions, and building an inspirational culture.   Making heroes out of operators “Their focus should be on the guest experience, and not trying to figure out how to make something work in their system.”   When an attraction implements Gatemaster, the software often replaces anywhere from three to six systems.  This makes it a much more efficient operation, and Sondra stresses that her goal is to not only make things easier for guests, but also for the operator.  If staff have a difficult time navigating their own system, it reflects poorly on the business, and the guest experience suffers.   Gatemaster was founded by people within the attractions industry who know and understand the experience.  Even though Gatemaster is a software company, Sondra ensures that she is regularly visiting attractions with her family and encourages her team to do so as well.  This allows them to see the experience through the lens of the guest, which inspires innovation in technological development that further helps the operator deliver a superior experience and be the hero for their guests.   Guest-driven transactions   "We're trying to empower hospitality."   Everything that Gatemaster has created has led to what Sondra refers to as the guest-driven transaction.  A few years ago, Harvard Business Journal conducted a study with more than 200 companies and determined that self-service technology empowers customers.  The study showed that wait times were reduced by 30-50%, and customer satisfaction increased by 50%.   Guest-driven transactions allow the guest to take more control over their own experience and feel more empowered.  The results also show that guests are investing more in their own experience and thus spending more.  By intuitively offering upsells and add-ons, the guest also feels like the business knows them a little bit better by crafting a personally-curated experience.   Building an inspirational culture   “I want to encourage more people to enter this space.”   Sondra meets with her team every Friday, and at the end of the meeting, everyone is asked what attraction(s) they are visiting over the weekend.  By encouraging every member of the team to visit attractions and understand the guest experience, it enables them to bring back ideas for how they can help the operator, and others like them, improve the guest experience, resulting in fewer angry guests and, therefore, fewer burnt-out team members.   When describing Gatemaster's culture, Sondra says that it's easy to get people to buy into the idea that they can help people create memories.  Gatemaster's core values align with what needs to go into building a product that enables attraction operators to create memories for their guests that last a lifetime. To learn more about Gatemaster, visit https://gatemaster.com.  To reach Sondra directly, connect with her on LinkedIn or email her at sondra@gastemaster.com. To connect with AttractionPros: attractionpros@gmail.com   This podcast wouldn't be possible without the incredible work of our amazing team:   Scheduling and correspondence by Kristen Karaliunas

Josh Wolf managed his first race at age 19, spent 10 years on the road running top House, Governor, and Senate races before becoming a media consultant & partner at AL Media. He also is the founder of Warchest, the innovative campaign budgeting software that - in a few short years - has become omnipresent on Democratic campaigns. In this conversation, Josh talks managing races from Maryland to Massachussetts, Florida to California...as a media consultant, helping elect Governors Katie Hobbs and Dan McKee...plus his theories on effective campaign managers, impactful media, and smart campaign budgeting. IN THIS EPISODE…Josh's path to politics at a very young age from Baltimore MD…The story of Josh managing a competitive State Senate race at age 19…How Josh become an itinerant campaign manager on the road for nearly a decade…The 2012 Wisconsin Senate recalls become an inflection point for Josh…Josh's take on what makes an effective campaign manager…The 3 types of errors on campaigns & 2 most important things for a manager…Josh breaks down his work in campaigns in California, Massachusetts, and Florida…Josh's path into media consulting…Josh goes deep on how his client Katie Hobbs beat Kari Lake to win the high-profile AZ Gov race in 2022…Josh on the political trajectory of Arizona…Josh tells the story of one of the more memorable, effective ads from the '22 cycle in the Rhode Island Governor's race…Josh talks how and why he founded the innovative campaign budgeting software Warchest…Josh's best practices on how a campaign should decide to spend “early” or not…Josh's take on how traditional and digital media should integrate…Josh explains one his most controversial, heterodox opinions…Josh gives a travel hack and movie recommendation…AND Eric Adelstein, Andover caucus meetings, Ami Bera, the best spreadsheet, Joe Biden, John Bivona, broken formulas, budget gaps, cable-news parents, the campaign's fastest runner, James Carville, clusters of talent, Heather Colburn, comically early starts, Shelbi Dantic, Bob Dole, Dominican baseball prospects, Russ Feingold, friendly insiders, gas station TV ads, germaphobia, Steve Grossman, the Harvard Business Journal, high-leverage mistakes, important incubators, Conner Johnston, King Oscar, Kory Kozloski, Roger Lau, Kari Lake, Hannah Ledford,  Ann Liston, living in the minutia, Dan Lungren, the MAGA brand, Dan McKee, Matt McKee, Andy Meyer, moments of self-reflection, Mike Muir, Patrick Murphy, the Newport Gulls, Trey Nix, Pikesville, Robert Redford, Harry Reid, roaming the halls in Annapolis, sardine-heads, Bill Scher, throwing shirts out the window, toxic work cultures, Bobby Zirkin & more!

In Quicky #8, I chat with Harris O'Malley, a dating coach who provides geek dating advice at Paging Dr. NerdLove, as well as on Kotaku and elsewhere. He and his work has been featured on Nightline, Vice, The Guardian, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Wired, Sex Nerd Sandra, Daily Life, Slate, The Austin-American Statesman, Austin Monthly, Geek and Sundry, Boing Boing, Everyday Feminism, Buzzfeed, The BBC, The New Yorker, The New York Post, The Daily Dot, The Washington Post, Kotaku, Lifehacker, NeilStrauss.com, The Good Man Project, MTV's Guy Code, The Harvard Business Journal, and many others.

This episode features keynote speaker Eliana Raggio Director of Industry Relations at Digital Air Strike and Board Member in Women in Automotive. Eliana distinguishes allyship from mentorship and discusses the benefits of both for professional development. She also talks about the importance of finding a mentor and the benefits of being a mentor, including the satisfaction of helping others succeed and the opportunity to be a part of someone's legacy.

In this episode we did into the amazing info found inside of the Harvard Busines Journal. WOW, just WOW!  The research and info in here about what businesses are not online is staggering.   Below is more about this podcast.  If you'd like to join via Zoom every Monday, click this link https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_So-3Ec0BTT2k22-xEtbP7A ---- Weekly Webinar To Help Your Restaurant DOMINATE! Money follows attention, and unfortunately many of you FAIL miserably to gain the attention you need to drive sales and profit. In this weekly webinar we are going to tackle 1 actionable item EVERY WEEK that can help you keep your restaurant on track to grow & prosper. Each week will be 1 topic and the goal is 20-30 minutes. We'll email an agenda every week and you'll have access to the weekly recordings as well. You'll leave every week with 1 actionable item, and when you put those in place every week you'll be ready to ROCK! So, there you have it, that's what you can expect from this weekly webinar. THE RULES 1st - Come ready to engage 2nd - Leave negative attitudes behind 3rd - Be prepared to do things you don't like...LIKE VIDEO 4th - Take fast ACTION 5th - Be coachable

Keenan is CEO and president of sales consulting firm, A Sales Guy Inc. and is the celebrated author of one of our favorite books - Gap Selling.Keenan was named one of the top 30 social sellers in the world by Forbes.He was named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Sales and Marketing People by Top Sales World Magazine every year running, since 2012.He has also been cited in the Harvard Business Journal, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Inc. He and his daughters live and ski in Denver, Colorado.This is episode is one of our favorites, a must-listen-to for everyone in sales. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The theory of "disruptive innovation" was introduced in the well-thumbed pages of the Harvard Business Journal in 1995 by Joseph Bower and the late Clayton Christensen. In it, they outlined the case for classic disruption - a small enterprise targeting an overlooked proportion of the population with a new but modest offering, and gradually growing to challenge industry incumbents.  In this theory, disruption only occurs in two cases: in low-end, less profitable markets, or in completely new markets altogether. However, over the past 27 years, "disruption" has shape-shifted to become a tell-all term for a business with a heck of a lot of growth potential, usually followed in tow by a slew of imitator start-ups, and of course, industry incumbents quickly pivoting their business models to catch up.  And what could be more disruptive than decarbonisation?  So in this episode, Livewire's Ally Selby was joined by Nanuk Asset Management's Peter Wilmshurst and Pella Funds Management's Steven Glass for their thoughts on three companies that dare to disrupt incumbent industries as the world shifts to net zero.  Plus, they also each name two companies that could become global leaders in one of the world's most important megatrends over the coming three decades.  Note: This episode of Buy Hold Sell was shot on Wednesday 27th April 2022. You can read an edited transcript below:  https://www.livewiremarkets.com/wires/buy-hold-sell-5-daringly-disruptive-stocks/   

Keenan is CEO and president of sales consulting firm, A Sales Guy Inc. and is the celebrated author of Not Taught: What It Takes to be Successful in the 21st Century That Nobody's Teaching You. Keenan was named one of the top 30 social sellers in the world by Forbes. He was named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Sales and Marketing People by Top Sales World Magazine every year running, since 2012. He has also been cited in the Harvard Business Journal, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine and Inc.   If you enjoyed this episode, please consider to rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. It takes less than 60 seconds and it really makes a difference. Rate, review, and subscribe at HardyHaberland.com/iTunes.

Keenan is CEO and president of sales consulting firm, A Sales Guy Inc. and is the celebrated author of Not Taught: What It Takes to be Successful in the 21st Century That Nobody's Teaching You. Keenan was named one of the top 30 social sellers in the world by Forbes. He was named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Sales and Marketing People by Top Sales World Magazine every year running, since 2012. He has also been cited in the Harvard Business Journal, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine and Inc.   If you enjoyed this episode, please consider to rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. It takes less than 60 seconds and it really makes a difference. Rate, review, and subscribe at HardyHaberland.com/iTunes.

Live in Their World is helping companies and organizations use VR technology to tackle workplace cultural issues and help employees develop and practice new skills for a respectful engagement at work. Today, VR is an immersive technology that many HR executives are starting to embrace to train employees on workplace issues from racism to sexism to hidden systemic biases. Especially in the wake of new Black Lives Matter protests, Live in Their World (LITW) hopes to use Virtual reality to help people better understand others by putting them in their colleagues' shoes, allowing organizations to use the technology to help create a more diverse and more inclusive work environment. By immersing employees in realistic digital environments, virtual reality can lead to mind-bending experiences, such as making users feel as if they have swapped bodies with someone else, letting them see first hand what it's like to be discriminated against or treated in an uncivil way. According to Harvard Business Journal, Incivility costs an estimated $14,000 per employee per year through sharp declines in employee performance and effort and lost time. Managers spend a total of seven weeks each year on average of addressing employee conflicts and their effects, not counting increased turnover or legal costs. Even more specifically, nearly a third of adults in the US, UK, France, and Germany have experienced or witnessed racism in the workplace, according to research from Glassdoor, making it even harder to retain staff from ethnic minorities. Robin Rosenberg, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of Live in Their World and shares with me how the company uses virtual reality to address issues of bias and incivility in the workplace and upskill employees for respectful engagement. She is a clinical psychologist, and prior to starting her company, she had both psychotherapy and coaching practices, wrote college textbooks, and taught psychology classes at Lesley University and Harvard University. Robin combined her interest in immersive technologies with her coaching and clinical experiences to foster in employees a deeper understanding of how and why other people may feel slighted or marginalized and how to approach such interactions differently. She's also been interested in virtual reality (VR) for years and was the lead author of a study to investigate using "VR for good." She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco.  

In this episode I chat with Harris O'Malley, a dating coach who provides geek dating advice at Paging Dr. NerdLove, as well as on Kotaku and elsewhere. He and his work has been featured on Nightline, Vice, The Guardian, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Wired, Sex Nerd Sandra, Daily Life, Slate, The Austin-American Statesman, Austin Monthly, Geek and Sundry, Boing Boing, Everyday Feminism, Buzzfeed, The BBC, The New Yorker, The New York Post, The Daily Dot, The Washington Post, Kotaku, Lifehacker, NeilStrauss.com, The Good Man Project, MTV's Guy Code, The Harvard Business Journal, and many others. Key Points: - Harris' journey from pick up artist to dating coach - Unlearning pick up artistry bullshit - The positive sides of the pick up artist community - Real dating advice for men - Having a healthy casual sex life - Models of masculinity - More practical advice Relevant Links: - Harris' Twitter: @DrNerdLove - Harris' Instagram: @DrNerdLove - Harris' Facebook: facebook.com/groups/DrNerdLove

Today’s episode is part two of our conversation with Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek of Women In Voice.  In this episode, we talked about how we should recognize and support voices that needed “amplification”, allyship and what that means, voice conferences (the good and the bad), hardware and software companies realizing the importance of the voice experience, representation of different people and cultures in the data, the interactivity of words, and the opportunity to be on the build side of rapidly changing human computer interaction.Joan also mentioned 2 articles that she wrote.  One was her CES takeaways and the other was an article she wrote for the Harvard Business Journal.  Both great reads so don’t forget to check them out. To get in touch with Joan, you can email her at joanpba@gmail.com or you can find her as well as all the wonderful Women In Voice information at www.womeninvoice.wordpress.com You can also follow and subscribe to the Sound In Marketing Podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, iHeart Radio, Pandora, and Stitcher and don’t forget to share it with your friends. For inquiries on producing and developing your own podcast or for inquiries on sonic branding and sonic branding consultation availabilities, you can find me at Dreamr Productions www.dreamrproductions.com, Linkedin and Facebook.  You can also email me at jeanna@dreamrproductions.com. Let’s make this world of sound more intriguing, more unique, and more and more on brand.And remember, we all make sounds.  Let’s make them on purpose.This episode was produced by Dreamr Productions and hosted, written, and edited by me, Jeanna Isham.  

Dr. D, the MINDSET Doc, invites Xennial Arika Pierce, a Millennial Success Strategist and expert on multigenerational workforces, to bring us up to speed about the emerging and fast-paced Millennial Leader. As an Xennial (the micro generation between GenX and Millennials), Arika has a unique perspective and has developed strategies and techniques to bridge millennials to generations before and after them. Listen in as Dr. D and Arika navigate through these 4 questions: 1) What makes millennial leaders different from other generations? 2)How can organizations support millennial leaders? 3)What are the misconceptions about millennial leaders? 4)What trends are shaping the future of leadership? She is a keynote speaker and author of The Millennial’s Playbook to Adulting which aims to provide the Millennial generation with straightforward guidance and techniques for success as they navigate the transition into life as a working adult. Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Millennials-Playbook-Adulting-Arika-Pierce/dp/1986159299/ref=sr_1_1? Her second book, The Millennial Boardroom: Proven Habits of High-Performance Millennial Leaders will be released in Fall 2020. Through Arika’s coaching program, books, weekly podcast and online courses she helps hundreds of Millennials and GenZers navigate “adulting” everyday. GIFT: Download a free version of Arika's audio book The Millennial's Playbook to Adulting: at www.arikapierce.com And, check out this report from the Harvard Business Journal to learn more about managing the 5 generations in today's work world: https://hbr.org/2014/09/managing-people-from-5-generations

Harris O’Malley (AKA Dr. NerdLove) is an Austin-based, syndicated advice columnist and dating coach who provides geek dating advice at Paging Dr. NerdLove and his bi-weekly advice column “Ask Dr. NerdLove” on Kotaku. He and his work has been featured on Nightline, Fusion TV, The Guardian, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Wired, Sex Nerd Sandra, Daily Life, Slate, The Austin-American Statesman, Austin Monthly, Geek and Sundry, Boing Boing, Everyday Feminism, Buzzfeed, The Daily Dot, The Washington Post, Kotaku, Lifehacker, NeilStrauss.com, The Good Man Project, MTV’s Guy Code, The Harvard Business Journal, and many others. New Game Plus: The Geek's Guide To Love, Sex and Dating  https://www.amazon.com/New-Game-Geeks-Guide-Dating/dp/0996487115/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=&linkCode=sl1&tag=pagdrner-20&linkId=343637642641888ba22a9d404dae09ba Connect with Harris: Website - https://www.doctornerdlove.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DrNerdLove Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/DrNerdLove Twitter - https://twitter.com/DrNerdLove 7 Day Relationship Reset - https://vienna-pharaon.mykajabi.com/Relationship-Reset Are you looking to find your purpose, navigate transition or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts  | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter    Did you enjoy the podcast? If so please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. It helps our podcast get into the ears of new listeners, which expands the ManTalks Community Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech

Hello and welcome to Debbie's Daily Tips, and I wanted to talk to you today about the fear of failure. I wonder if the fear of failure is stopping you from setting bigger goals or tackling new things. I was on an airplane and I was reading an article in the Harvard Business Review and they had an article on this topic, a terrific article. Some of the points really made me connect it back over to what may limit performance in the real estate industry. If you think about it, fear is really worrying about doing something wrong. In our case, in a sales position, maybe it's the fear of being rejected or the fear of failing and having a major setback in a situation. I look at this and, in the business of being an entrepreneur where every day we're faced with challenges, I always tell my team, we're going to innovate. We're going to try new things. We're going to embrace new opportunities. We must be agile, we must be flexible, and we also need to understand that sometimes we're going to make mistakes. Another tip on failure, from this Harvard Business Journal article, is to adopt a new mindset. After you make a mistake, if you can just look at that and say, alright, what did I learn from this? How can what I learned actually be worth the lesson learned? In other words, maybe you’ll use it in the future to make more money, to be more successful, to streamline your processes, or in some cases, maybe have a better quality of life, a better work environment. Embrace the fact that every day you need to do something that might make you just a little bit uncomfortable. Every month you need to examine the new opportunity, an out of the box idea, and then maybe play the game that I do, which is looking at the worst-case scenario. In other words, if X, Y and Z happens, or I try this and I fail, what is the worst-case scenario? And truly, usually the worst case is not that bad, especially when you think about it with something as simple as prospecting. If I make this call, what is the worst-case scenario? What if they hang up on me? Well, guess what guys? You probably don't know them or don't know them well or they're not really all that important in your life, so you can simply hang up and go on and call somebody else. There’s a quote on a little magnet that we have on our microwave here at the office, “Do one thing every day that scares you,” Eleanor Roosevelt. Get used to stretching your comfort zone a bit. When you were a were kids, did you ever have silly putty? You may remember that when you stretched it, it wouldn’t go back to its original shape. It probably rebounded a bit, but it was still bigger than how it started. If you think about your tolerance for trying new things, your tolerance for getting out of your comfort zone, your tolerance for overcoming rejection, you can stretch that tolerance. The more you do it, the more you attempt it, the more you stretch it, the greater your tolerance becomes, so that it is easier for you to try new things. So think about it, what's the worst thing that can happen? Probably nothing too bad, right? Zig Ziglar often used to say when he was alive, 80% of what you worry about will probably never happen. And when it comes to the 20% that does happen, you can't do anything about it. I'm going to ask you this last question as we wrap up the Daily Tip for today. What is one thing that you are avoiding that you know, if you stopped avoiding it, embraced it, and did it, it might be a game changer? Think about it. Maybe it's time. Give it a try. Be Brave. Alright guys. Have a great day and I look forward to talking to you on the next Debbie's Daily Tip.   If you are a real estate agent or broker that is looking to for more insight and direction on how to get more listings, sell more homes to your investors, and work with more buyers, then this podcast is just for you!

Keenan is CEO and president of sales consulting firm, A Sales Guy Inc. and is the celebrated author of Not Taught: What It Takes to be Successful in the 21st Century That Nobody's Teaching You. Keenan was named one of the top 30 social sellers in the world by Forbes. He was named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Sales and Marketing People by Top Sales World Magazine every year running, since 2012. He has also been cited in the Harvard Business Journal, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine and Inc.The 21st Century has ushered in the information age, and with it a new set of rules for success. Not Taught shares how the rules of 20th century and the industrial age no longer work and that if you want to be successful you must learn the new rules of success. Not Taught punches you in the face with the realities of work today and offers clear strategies on how to be successful in this crazy information-driven world. Not Taught is your personal guide to the changing success landscape created by the information age, social media, access to information, the high cost of college, the internet and more. The book breaks down how the rules of the past no longer suffice and what it takes for you to win in the 21st century.- https://www.asalesguy.com/Please do NOT hesitate to reach out to me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email mark@vudream.comLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Twitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Humans.2.0.PodcastMark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2Podcast

Keenan is CEO and president of sales consulting firm, A Sales Guy Inc. and is the celebrated author of Not Taught: What It Takes to be Successful in the 21st Century That Nobody's Teaching You. Keenan was named one of the top 30 social sellers in the world by Forbes. He was named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Sales and Marketing People by Top Sales World Magazine every year running, since 2012. He has also been cited in the Harvard Business Journal, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine and Inc.The 21st Century has ushered in the information age, and with it a new set of rules for success. Not Taught shares how the rules of 20th century and the industrial age no longer work and that if you want to be successful you must learn the new rules of success. Not Taught punches you in the face with the realities of work today and offers clear strategies on how to be successful in this crazy information-driven world. Not Taught is your personal guide to the changing success landscape created by the information age, social media, access to information, the high cost of college, the internet and more. The book breaks down how the rules of the past no longer suffice and what it takes for you to win in the 21st century.- https://www.asalesguy.com/Please do NOT hesitate to reach out to me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email mark@vudream.comLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Twitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Humans.2.0.PodcastMark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2Podcast

Jen discusses the power of curiosity in business and why perfectionism is a doctrine you need to lose if you really want to move your ideas forward. References: Why are we afraid of change? The science of uncertainty: https://www.unstuck.com/advice/afraid-change-science-uncertainty/ Definition of perfectionism: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfectionism Why Imperfect Actions Make the Best Stories: http://www.danadobson.com/blog/imperfect-action The Power Of Imperfect Action And Why Being A Perfectionist Is Killing Your Business: https://www.milesbeckler.com/the-power-of-imperfect-action/ Harvard Business Journal on Curiosity: https://hbr.org/2018/09/curiosity Innovation is a Combination of Curiosity and Persistence: https://www.inc.com/molly-reynolds/innovation-is-a-combination-of-curiosity-and-persistence.html A Culture of Curiosity Is the Key to Building a Company That Learns to Improve: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/277456 About Jen McFarland Jen McFarland has helped hundreds of businesses and thousands of podcast listeners make better technology decisions. She's nerdy enough to talk to the techies, but her real passion is helping nontechnical business owners. Jen's tech agnostic, research-based solutions deliver powerful results. Her clients have experienced up to 250% increases in web traffic, and a 98% reduction in data entry.

Keenan is A Sales Guy Inc.’s CEO, President, and Chief Antagonist. He’s been selling something to someone for his entire life, teaching and coaching almost as long. With over 20 years of sales experience, which he’ll tell you he doesn’t give a shit about, Keenan has been influencing, learning from and shaping the world of sales for a long time. Finder of the elephant in the room, Keenan calls it as he sees it and lets nothing or no one go unnoticed. Keenan’s passion for problem solving reaches well beyond the sales and business world. He is the celebrated author of “Not Taught: What It Takes to be Successful in the 21st Century That Nobody’s Teaching You.” The 21st Century has ushered in the information age, and with it a new set of rules for success. Not Taught shares how the rules of the industrial age no longer work and that if you want to be successful, you must learn the new rules for success. Father of 3 crazy girls, PSIA Certified Level 2 ski instructor and avid Boston Sports fan, Keenan keeps crazy busy when he’s not focused on A Sales Guy.   Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:   Coaching your Field Sales team using critical success criteria How to set up a repeatable coaching cadence The keys to successful team collaboration How to build and maintain a great culture with a Field Sales team     Get more in-depth tips on how to successfully coach your field sales team!   About the Guest: With 20 years of experience, Keenan is a keynote speaker, Forbes Contributor and Award winning sales blogger. He has been named one of the Top 30 Social Sellers in the World and one of the Top 50 Most Influential Sales and Marketing People by ‘Top Sales World Magazine’ every year running, since 2012. Keenan has been cited in the Harvard Business Journal, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc., and Forbes. His consulting company, A Sales Guy operates within strategy, structure, people, and process. They help businesses increase sales, create more deals, improve team effectiveness, establish a healthy pipeline, close more deals, resolve problems and make sure you continually make your numbers.   Website: http://www.asalesguy.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimkeenan YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZlrdetp7LzKuuMI4bn1lsQ?pbjreload=10 Twitter: @asalesguy and @keenan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/asalesguy   Listen to other episodes of 'Outside Sales Talk' here!    

Today’s First Big Idea comes from the Harvard Business Journal  — Five leadership voices every executive must cultivate. Communication is an important leadership skill that deserves more of our attention. Our second big idea focuses on the age-old debate:  Which executive is more likely to perform better and thus move ahead — the person who puts in the longer hours, or the executive who sticks to a set work schedule with no nights or no weekends?  The answer may surprise you.  

In today's episode we discuss a strategy for making BOSS decisions. The decisions that many women try to avoid because there is no easy way to make them. Listen for the strategy for making "Right vs. Right" decisions by Harvard Business Journal. This strategy is Proverbs 31 BOSS Approved. Be prepared to take notes. Also visit www.proverbs31boss.com for exclusives via our youtube channel and other FREE resources.

Is getting an MBA worth it?Derrick Williams, Have an MBA. I use it sometimes!Written 22 Dec 2015I have an MBA, and while I'm happy to have one, I think I got it for the wrong reasons. If I had to do it again, I would have gotten something in the hard sciences like cryptography or mathematics (just my personal choice).In the late 1990's and early 2000's, MBA's were something of a fad, simply everyone was getting one. Coupled at the time was the fact I was working for IBM, and could not conceive the possibility of working anywhere else. I loved working there and was really proud of being an IBMer. I was going to work there forever!Then the layoffs and offshoring of IBM jobs started happening, and in one meeting my then PDM (personnel development manager) made an offhand remark that everyone except the MBA's were getting laid off. While that alone didn't set me off, it was the spark to apply for business school that very day. I got into a reputable one (although not Harvard or Kellogg, just a established accredited school with good rankings), did fairly well, and got laid off from IBM anyway. My last few months at IBM was me scrambling away from technology and into sales, which I didn't like much after all, but if it kept me at IBM, maybe I could learn to like it. A moot point, I was terminated with some 10,000 other people at the same time.The MBA did help me find new work though, and helped me with my career and the ability to evaluate new projects and work better with people, and made me comfortable with leadership. I don't necessarily like being in management, but given the choice between me and someone else with little experience, I can step up.So to answer your question, since it seems you want a yes or no answer, I would say no, the MBA is not worth getting.To qualify this 'no':1) The MBA program is something you can learn on your own. Subscribe to the Harvard Business Journal, read the classic MBA textbooks, and there just might be a free MBA type course you can take online. This assumes you are interested in knowledge and not just the credentials.2) The MBA program is a lot about networking. If you get to a top ranking program like Kellogg or Harvard, you will make excellent connections, and that alone can be worth the money. Going to a good ranking but otherwise unremarkable school like I did got me some new friends, but not make connections that would be invaluable. I have connections with very nice people working as middle managers for Fortune 500 and small companies, not future presidents of the United States.3) If credentials are important, I would strongly recommend you get a 'hard' credential in science or mathematics, the kind of skill that products are built on. You can still learn the soft MBA skills on your own on top of that.So that's my take on it. Your mileage may vary!Derrick

  Check out my First Podcast Guest! I couldn’t have chosen a better person to start with. This woman is the real deal.. An inspiring teacher and leader that has bravely walked through big challenges to become the amazing person she is inside and out. Prepare to be filled with chills of inspiration from her story of how she went from an out of shape corporate executive to shedding not only the weight, but her marriage and her job to become her best self.  Including these accomplishments: Raising a teenage daughter Owner of 2 yoga studios  (Hauteyoga Queen Anne and Shefayoga in Seattle, WA) Creating and Owning her signature leadership program, Sendatsu Evolution Being featured in Harvard Business Journal.  “ From Accountant to Yogi” Click Here to Read Lululemon Ambassador I can’t wait for you to hear her strong words of living life as a yogi and not only being the change she wants to be in the world, but stepping up her game and leading others to their greater selves.  Leah is one of the true agents of change in the world. Also check this out on iTunes! CLICK HERE

Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Journal. She is a speaker, consultant, and author who graduated college at age 18, worked a reporter, political consultant and non-profit executive before launching out on her own.In this episode Thom Singer asks Dorie about her personal business journey and advice for entrepreneurs. www.dorieclark.com

This week we continued the topic of meditation. We delved into the benefits and the how-to for mindfulness meditation. A link is being posted at bit.ly/metaromp in the resource area for the article in the Harvard Business Journal, "Benefits of Mindfulness: Practices for Improving Emotional and Physical Well-Being."

EPIC NERDY LOVE STORY! Dating advice podcaster Harris O'Malley a.k.a. Dr. Nerdlove & wife Catherine Burke O'Malley (LEOG podcast) shares how he married out of the friend zone! TOPICS: Green Lantern Rings, Ancient Online Dating, Attraction in Friendship, Nice Girls & Boys, "Death Camp for Penis," Harris's Pickup Artist Phase, Seduction vs Coercion, the Hot Best Friend, Gay Parallel, Neato Time Dilation Effect, First Kiss, Friend Zone Philosophizing, the "Nice Guys of OKC" tumblr, Nice vs Good, Pedestals, Fish Tacos and the awkward turtle emoticon!   Harris O’Malley is an Austin based blogger and dating coach who runs run the geek love advice blog Paging Dr. NerdLove where he teaches geeks and nerds how to get better at dating without having to give up that special quality that makes them geeks. His articles have been featuredonKotaku, ThinkProgress, Comics Worth Reading, Boing Bong and even the Harvard Business Journal (?!?).  He’s also participated in Lifehacker's "Ask An Expert" series, answering people’s dating conundrums. He’s also a regular contributor to Spill.com as a member of the “League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen” podcast. You can follow him on Facebook and Twitter as DrNerdLove. Catherine Burke O'Malley holds an MA in medieval history from Syracuse University and is a regular contributor to Spill.com on the "League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen" podcast, and an occasional guest reviewer on the "Remote Viewing" podcast. Her experience with romantic, sexual, and friend-zone matters is strictly practical, personal, and completely ordinary. She married former denizen of her own Friend Zone, Harris O'Malley, in May, 2012. You can find her on Facebook as "Cat from the LEOG," and on Twitter @cathburke