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Divercial 006: A DEI+B Movement is Coming · The Business of Alignment - Powered by The E1B2 Collective

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  If we're going to say that D EI and be is important to us
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  operationally as an organization.
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  If you're going to say that you stand by, if you're going to say
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  you believe in it, the most Then we as it, we as an investor
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  Community, we as an entrepreneurial Community, we as
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  communities and companies at the Enterprise level, all the way
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  down to your mom and pop shop. We need to start making D EI.
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  And be in the technologies that are that allow that to exist and
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  scale and be productive. We need to put money, time,
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  energy and resources and making sure that verticals developed
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  and built, just like we've done and every other vertical of
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  business since the beginning of time, Over the course of time.
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  Look what they've done. They've created technology for
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  payment processing. They've created technology for
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  for measuring and understanding your finances, that cfo's.
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  I'm quite sure you use and methodologies and Frameworks.
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  They used to, to analyze organizations new predictions in
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  scale. Cos that mixture organizations
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  are structured and clean and focused.
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  Project management, tools software resources, Marketing
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  sales. Don't even get me going here.
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  I can name every single vertical in business and I can explain
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  how those vertical spent significant time energy money,
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  to make those efforts work at a high level.
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  And everyone knows it. And we're finally starting to
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  see HR get a little bit more time energy and money because I
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  can guarantee you five years ago when I was on a panel.
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  We were saying HR is under resource.
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  I was going to call it a day. Someone said that D and I
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  potentially is not under resource.
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  It's underutilized. This is what I'll say, not only
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  is it both to a certain degree. But as we actually think about
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  the resources and the energy, and the time that we spend
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  building out the technology, paying money for the technology
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  using it, mandating it inside of what we do.
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  You can show me a sales team on the face of the Earth today that
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  does millions in Revenue that doesn't have a monthly
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  subscription to a sales force or in a sauna Or HubSpot or some
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  CRM tool that allows you to manage and understand and track
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  what's coming in financially? What's going on, financially was
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  happening in Partnerships with relationships and stakeholders
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  connected to that. You can't show me one sales team
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  that's doing millions in Revenue.
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  That is productive. That doesn't have a CRM.
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  But I can show you thousands, maybe even millions of companies
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  that are saying that they want to get involved in dni.
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  And they don't and they don't have dedicated tools to actually
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  make that happen. And I don't want to hear that
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  it's early and I don't want to hear that.
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  Just give it time. I want to put a little bit more
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  urgency on this. I want to press down a little
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  bit on this more than I would in other categories and other
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  moments during the duration of this podcast. and now, now
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  whether it's diverse shil, Or whether it's alaria.
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  Or whether it's GBC or whoever it is, that's doing this work
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  and bringing the technology to the Forefront.
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  I need my investors, I need my CEOs, I need my CFOs, I need my
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  co owes to understand at a business level, why you need to
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  put your dollars and resources there, I was gonna call
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  literally 45 minutes ago. she works in the in the inclusions
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  but she doesn't technically coin it as D EI and B, but a lot of
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  her work is inclusion based What teams leaders Etc.
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  She was saying to me that she's she's seen six-figure budgets.
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  But at the scale that I was describing at the efficiency in
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  the dedication that I was describing.
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  She hasn't seen that yet, meaning rde and I leaders having
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  teams 9 10 11 12 people at their disposal.
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  Resources on the technology side, budget.
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  That's pre-allocated. That's thoughtful that's
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  understood. That has a lot of time to meet
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  attached to it. It's time I feel it.
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  So let's ride the momentum. Let's Ride The Wave.
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  I feel it. And in the signs are out there.
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  So this isn't some Tony Robbins motivational.
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  I feel it's do it. Do the the trends are there.
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  Let's press a little harder one. Let's let's let's join forces
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  and unite and make this a priority.
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  We need our investors are CEOs. Are cos are Venture Capital
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  firms. Our employees are our mothers,
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  our fathers. Our family members are people.
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  Period, we need everyone to get behind this.
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  If you're uneducated get educated, there's too much
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  content out there about it. Take my podcast out of it, take
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  my speaking and writing out of it.
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  There's hundreds thousands of people that are dedicating her
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  life to making sure this work. Sees the light of day.
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  So as always, Just a few thoughts, just a few
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  perspectives. We'll definitely talk soon.
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  We'll definitely talk soon.