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March 29, 2018 | Men Of Success - Winter 2018, Session 11 - Semester Summary · Topeka Bible Church Audio Archive

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SPEAKER_00: All right, good morning, men of success.
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SPEAKER_00: Good to see everybody here this morning for our uh final meeting of the uh semester.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh I was informed though just a minute ago, if somebody has a white Ford Ranger out in the parking lot, the dome light is on.
0:17
SPEAKER_00: So on the street, yeah.
0:19
SPEAKER_00: So just want to make sure that uh you don't go out and have your battery.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, well, gee, what a uh what a great semester it's been.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you'd all uh put away your notebooks and uh uh we're gonna pass out the uh final exam here this morning.
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SPEAKER_00: So see if you've all been uh paying attention.
0:37
SPEAKER_00: No, actually, this has been a uh a great semester.
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SPEAKER_00: We've had a great turnout, um, some really cool, interesting information.
0:45
SPEAKER_00: I've always been one to like business books, and uh you guys probably know there is no shortage of new business books that uh come on the market uh every year.
0:54
SPEAKER_00: So today we're gonna just get a uh a wrap-up.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, as I was thinking this morning what to say, the one thing that popped into my mind was gee, we're about to approach the uh uh the the best weekend of the uh of the Christian calendar here, celebrate uh Easter and what that all means.
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SPEAKER_00: But um uh I'm dressed a little cash today because uh Greg and I and our wives are headed out to Lost Valley here.
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SPEAKER_00: As soon as we get done here, we're on the road for uh for a few days of uh RR out there, visit my kids.
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SPEAKER_00: So excited about uh about that.
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SPEAKER_00: So but anyway, what a great semester.
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SPEAKER_00: Thanks again to Tom and uh his uh crew of volunteers for great breakfasts this semester.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know if we have a date yet when we're gonna start up in the fall, but uh we'll keep keep watch for the church calendar, your emails so we know when we're gonna resume.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think topic probably to be determined.
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SPEAKER_00: So uh with that, I'm gonna let you guys uh wrap it up for us.
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SPEAKER_00: Perfect.
1:52
SPEAKER_00: Thanks, Paul.
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SPEAKER_02: Appreciate you giving the intro every morning.
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SPEAKER_02: That's always always a great help.
1:57
SPEAKER_02: We appreciate you for that.
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SPEAKER_01: Drive safely, have a great time out there, my favorite place in the world.
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SPEAKER_02: That's gonna be so great.
2:04
SPEAKER_02: Do some horseback riding, some eating, and eating, and more eating.
2:12
SPEAKER_02: They give you they give you dessert after like every meal out there, and it's always exquisite.
2:17
SPEAKER_02: Even after breakfast, I think you get dessert.
2:20
SPEAKER_02: It's and it's so good.
2:22
SPEAKER_01: Life is good.
2:23
SPEAKER_01: Tommy Webb, good to see you back, Maddie.
2:25
SPEAKER_01: Where have you been?
2:26
SPEAKER_01: You where have you haven't you been in the southwest?
2:30
SPEAKER_01: Oh and uh a lot of things have happened.
2:40
SPEAKER_01: So last Thursday and Friday, Saturday, Sunday, K-State and KU both beat some pretty good teams.
2:49
SPEAKER_01: And um K-State got farther than anybody thought, and KU got farther than anybody thought a month or two ago.
2:56
SPEAKER_01: Pretty exciting.
2:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
2:57
SPEAKER_02: Did any of you guys see the Duke game?
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SPEAKER_02: Duke KU.
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SPEAKER_02: That was fun.
3:01
SPEAKER_02: That was very funny.
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SPEAKER_01: I got to drive up to Omaha for that previous game against Clemson that they almost lost after being up by 22.
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SPEAKER_01: But you know, if you'd have thought if you'd have told me last Saturday morning K-State would not make the final four and KU would, I'd said you got it backwards.
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SPEAKER_01: Because I thought K-State playing loyal of Little Sisters of Mary were gonna get in.
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SPEAKER_02: Sister Jean's school.
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SPEAKER_02: I did read something where Sister Jean has just given permission for the school to publish her face on memorabilia, t-shirts, hats.
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SPEAKER_02: She's got a bobblehead.
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SPEAKER_02: She's gonna be so famous.
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SPEAKER_01: She's at her age, literal.
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SPEAKER_01: Her head on my bum.
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SPEAKER_01: Man a lot.
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SPEAKER_01: That's great.
3:44
SPEAKER_01: And no time in purgatory for those basketball women.
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SPEAKER_02: Absolutely not.
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SPEAKER_02: They just they're they're in the fast track, fast lane.
3:51
SPEAKER_01: That's right.
3:51
SPEAKER_01: You're not right less.
3:53
SPEAKER_01: You're an old Catholic, you ought to know.
3:57
SPEAKER_01: So um we're gonna go over like the top five books this semester.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's do it.
4:04
SPEAKER_01: You wanna do it?
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SPEAKER_02: This will be great.
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SPEAKER_02: We're gonna do a kind of a quick review, even higher level overview of all the books.
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SPEAKER_02: And it might make our heads spin a little bit, but it should be a good refresher as to just some of the key points, one one or two of the key points from each of these books.
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SPEAKER_02: So we kicked this thing off.
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SPEAKER_02: Good to great.
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SPEAKER_02: Does anybody remember this book?
4:28
SPEAKER_02: There we go.
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SPEAKER_02: Four people.
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SPEAKER_02: There we go.
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SPEAKER_02: So good is the enemy of great.
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SPEAKER_02: Jim Collins wrote this book, and he what he did was he he compared different companies and says good is the enemy of great, and that is the that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that become uh so little becomes great.
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SPEAKER_02: We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools.
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SPEAKER_02: We don't have great government, principally because we have good government.
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SPEAKER_02: Few people attain great lives, in large part because it's just as easy to settle for a good life.
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SPEAKER_02: The vast majority of companies never become great precisely because the vast majority become quite good, and that is their main problem.
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SPEAKER_02: And so he compares all these different companies, Walgreens, um, Eckert Pharma Pharmacy, Circuit City, Silo, Fannie Mae, Great Western, all these different companies.
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SPEAKER_02: And when he when he studied all of these companies, they discovered that the the secret ingredient, the key wasn't these superstar leaders, it wasn't that they got paid all this money, and so that's what made them great.
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SPEAKER_02: It wasn't that they had the best strategies, it wasn't technology, management, motivation, but they found it came down to six different things.
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SPEAKER_02: Came down to level five leaders, came down to first who, then what, so who's who's on the bus, confronting the brutal facts, the hedgehog concept, a culture of discipline, and technology accelerators.
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SPEAKER_02: And so the very first one of these, and we're gonna spend the most time in this book over all five books.
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SPEAKER_02: Because it's been like years since we've discovered it.
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SPEAKER_02: Years.
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SPEAKER_02: And so the very first first quality, the first key thing is who's the leader?
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SPEAKER_02: And these are level five leaders, and they combine humility with a determined will.
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SPEAKER_02: So these are people who are, you know, kind of the the Jesuses of the world, the Abraham Lincolns of the world.
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SPEAKER_02: And he says that the X factor of great leadership is not personality, it's humility.
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SPEAKER_02: And so we look and we see how do we combine great humility as the upfront leader, as the top guy, also with determination and a strong will, not being weak.
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SPEAKER_02: And so it says level five leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company.
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SPEAKER_02: It's not that level five leaders have no ego or self-interest.
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SPEAKER_02: Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious, but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution and not themselves.
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SPEAKER_02: So they're much more concerned about how are we doing as a group versus how am I doing as a leader?
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SPEAKER_02: How do I look as a leader?
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SPEAKER_02: It's a combination of humility and will.
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SPEAKER_01: The second uh of his five keys or whatever is um first who, then what.
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SPEAKER_01: He says, when when we started this comparison between companies that were great and companies that were just good, we expected to find, he said, that the difference between them was the companies were that had moved from good to great were those that had had a great vision, a great direction, a great strategy.
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SPEAKER_01: And then they got the they pulled the people on board who who they hired and said, This is gonna be our vision, can you do it?
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SPEAKER_01: Wrong.
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SPEAKER_01: He said it was just the opposite.
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SPEAKER_01: We found instead these companies first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats.
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SPEAKER_01: And then they got everybody together and they figured out where to drive the bus.
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SPEAKER_01: Isn't that interesting?
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SPEAKER_01: So that's point number two.
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SPEAKER_01: It's all about the who before you decide on the vision direction strategy.
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SPEAKER_02: And then the third point was confronting the brutal facts.
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SPEAKER_02: And so he gave a great example of AP and Kroger and the difference between these two companies.
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SPEAKER_02: Um in the early 50s.
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SPEAKER_02: A and P stood as the largest retailing organization in the world.
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SPEAKER_02: Kroger comes along, uh 75 to 2000, and they saw that the world was changing, they saw that consumers were wanting something different, and so they even both ran test studies, their RD departments were doing their thing, and they both actually discovered the same thing that consumers wanted not these mom and pop grocery stores anymore, but that they wanted these superstores, they wanted a one-stop shop.
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SPEAKER_02: Kroger decided, hey, we're gonna ride this thing out.
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SPEAKER_02: That's what the consumer wants, that's the direction we're gonna go.
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SPEAKER_02: A and P decided, hey, we're gonna test it out in one store.
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SPEAKER_02: Wow, this is what the consumer wants.
8:53
SPEAKER_02: But we don't care, we're gonna stick with our old way, and therefore we have no more AMPs.
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SPEAKER_02: So they confronted the brutal facts and they were able to adapt and they were able to change with the consumer.
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SPEAKER_01: Number four, uh, which flows out of number three, is the hedgehog concept.
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SPEAKER_01: Are you a hedgehog or are you a fox?
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SPEAKER_01: And his famous uh, and remember when Reagan was president, everybody called this when this came out for presidents.
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SPEAKER_01: Reagan was so, you know, they were they criticized him for sleeping a lot and for and for just hiring people.
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SPEAKER_01: And unlike, you know, Clinton later on was definitely a fox.
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SPEAKER_01: He tried to control everything, ran here, ran there, and so forth, whereas Reagan was just slow-moving, one idea.
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SPEAKER_01: So they asked, Are you a hedgehog or a fox?
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SPEAKER_01: In his famous essay, hedgehog and fox, Isaiah Berlin divided the world into hedgehogs and foxes based upon an ancient Greek parable.
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SPEAKER_01: The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay?
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SPEAKER_01: So, how how do you decide if you're a good to great company, if you want to become great?
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SPEAKER_01: How do you choose your one thing?
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SPEAKER_01: If hedgehog companies are the ones that are successful, well, they ask themselves three questions.
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SPEAKER_01: What can I be the best at in the world?
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SPEAKER_01: What am I absolutely passionate about?
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SPEAKER_01: And what drives my economic engine?
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, what can I be the very best at?
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SPEAKER_01: What can I be, what am I absolutely passionate about, and what brings me income?
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SPEAKER_01: Fox people live a complex life, they pursue many things at one time, move in many directions, run faster, dodge quicker.
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SPEAKER_01: Hedgehogs, on the other hand, live a simple life.
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SPEAKER_01: They reduce the complex challenges of life into a simple, organizing, single organizing idea, a simple concept that unifies everything.
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SPEAKER_01: Do less, not more.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay?
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SPEAKER_01: And those three questions one more time are what are you good at?
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SPEAKER_01: What were you born to do?
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SPEAKER_01: And what will people pay you to do?
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SPEAKER_02: And that of course flows into the last the last of these five major points.
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SPEAKER_02: So you got the hedgehog concept, but then we go into point five, which is a culture of discipline.
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SPEAKER_02: So this is staying disciplined, and it's um next slide here.
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SPEAKER_02: Start a stopdoing list.
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SPEAKER_02: And so this flows, like Jim, you just said, flows right out of the hedgehog concept.
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SPEAKER_02: So do you have a to-do list?
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SPEAKER_02: Do you also have a stopdoing list?
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SPEAKER_02: Most of us lead busy and undisciplined lives.
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SPEAKER_02: We have ever-expanding to-do lists, trying to build momentum by doing, doing, doing, and doing more.
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SPEAKER_02: And it rarely works.
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SPEAKER_02: Those who built the good to great companies, however, made as much use of stop-doing lists as to-do list.
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SPEAKER_02: They displayed a remarkable discipline to unplug all sorts of extraneous work.
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SPEAKER_02: And so instead of trying to focus on all no aspects that we could put our main attention towards, which doesn't usually yield the best results, the hedgehog concept and then being disciplined in that hedgehog concept means here's our main thing, here's our main staple.
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SPEAKER_02: Maybe it's you know preaching if we're in in a certain church, or maybe it's we want to focus on car sales, or maybe we are an advertising company, or whatever the hedgehog concept is for your business, and then focusing on that.
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SPEAKER_02: He says the single most important form of discipline is fanatical adherence to the hedgehog concept and the willingness to shun opportunities that will fall outside of these three circles.
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SPEAKER_02: So the passion, what can be, what can we be the best at the world, in the world at, and then what is going to drive our economic engine, and at the intersection of all three of those circles is typically that hedgehog, that one thing that we want our business to be known for.
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SPEAKER_01: The next book, uh, so that was good to great.
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SPEAKER_01: And the next book we looked at was the one-minute negotiator.
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SPEAKER_01: And that was this whole idea that a lot of us have negotiaphobia, even though our lives, especially at work, are comprised by you know talking to people about what we want, which they don't want, and trying to negotiate with them.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, we get scared to negotiate, so we just compromise at the very start.
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SPEAKER_02: Even at home, right?
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SPEAKER_02: Like with our wives, negotiation.
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SPEAKER_01: Really?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: No kidding.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know how she says, honey, let's go on vacation wherever you want this year.
13:13
SPEAKER_01: So you suggest a place.
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SPEAKER_01: Nah, let's not go there.
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unknown: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: So three-step, easy treatment process, okay?
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SPEAKER_01: E A S Y.
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SPEAKER_01: You engage, you realize you're in a negotiation, you assess, you evaluate your tendency to use each negotiation strategy, then you strategize, and um then the why is you have a one-minute drill, try to remember the EAS, right?
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SPEAKER_01: And negotiation strategy matrix are there are four kinds of ways to negotiate.
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SPEAKER_01: Top left, I win, you lose, that's competition.
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SPEAKER_01: Top right, and these two are the um aggressive and taking initiative, the proactive ones.
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SPEAKER_01: Collaboration, that's the best one, where I win, you win.
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SPEAKER_01: Back to the low cooperation side, instead of competition, maybe your avoidance, and too many of us are avoidance.
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SPEAKER_01: I lose, you lose, you don't even get into it.
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SPEAKER_01: And then there's accommodation, which is I lose and you win, where you're always buckling under.
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SPEAKER_01: So those are the four options, and the question is assess yourself when negotiating starts.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you tend to avoid it, accommodate, compete, or collaborate?
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SPEAKER_01: And uh I'll just end the book with this.
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SPEAKER_01: There were three really cool ideas I thought that came out of the book.
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SPEAKER_01: Many of us use the avoidance strategy much more often than we realize or care to admit.
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SPEAKER_01: We just avoid it, we don't even like to negotiate, we're scared of it, we freak out when we have to go deal with you know buying a car, buying a house, or whatever, so we don't do it.
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SPEAKER_01: Third, second, the more comfortable and skilled we are, get this.
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SPEAKER_01: At using a competitive approach, the more collaborative open open opportunities will open up for us.
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SPEAKER_01: If you start out being competitive and diving into the to the to the wrestling, putting yourself on the wrestling mat, then the other person oftentimes is the one who will come down to where you are and will want to collaborate.
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SPEAKER_01: So you have a both of you win.
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SPEAKER_01: As we re- begin to resist our negotiophobia, our accommodation tendency drops dramatically.
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SPEAKER_01: That is, you know, we say, Well, I'd kind of like to buy that house for 100, and they say I want 150, and you say, Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: So your accommodation tendency drops dramatically because we realize by giving the other side what they ask for, we're not building a true relationship, just showing weakness.
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SPEAKER_01: Any thoughts about that?
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SPEAKER_02: That's great.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay, one minute.
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SPEAKER_02: All good things.
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SPEAKER_02: And next we have the e-myth.
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SPEAKER_02: If you guys remember this, uh the book summary of e-myth is this that the fatal assumption is if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work.
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SPEAKER_02: And so looking at um people who and the key key example here is when you've got somebody, they are the technician in the company, they are very bright at the technical aspects.
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SPEAKER_02: So you've got the the employee, and there's some type of problem, whether it's a problem with the boss, problem with the way the company's run, problem with something, and they decide, hey, why don't I just run the company?
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SPEAKER_02: Why don't I just create something?
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SPEAKER_02: Why don't I be the entrepreneur?
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SPEAKER_01: I can make a good barbecue sandwich, so why don't I start a barbecue company, right, Eric?
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SPEAKER_02: Why, why, why don't I do that?
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SPEAKER_02: And so he decides, well, I'm gonna become the owner because I know all the technical things.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm good at this, but I don't really know how to run a business.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know how to do do the books, I don't know how to do any of that stuff.
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SPEAKER_02: And then it leaves to this guy crying.
16:38
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I like that face.
16:39
SPEAKER_02: Let's go back one.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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SPEAKER_02: With with the red nose, he's just really frustrated crying, he's not sweating and working anymore.
16:46
SPEAKER_02: He's just like, man, get me out of here because this is not what I was cut out for.
16:50
SPEAKER_02: And so he in the book, he describes the three different personalities of entrepreneur, manager, and technician.
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SPEAKER_02: So the entrepreneur is the visionary guy, the one who's leading and viewing into the future.
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SPEAKER_02: There they have the big ideas and they need some other people to come along to help make them into fruition.
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SPEAKER_02: And then we've got the manager, this is the pragmatic person, this is the person who lives in the past, this is the person who makes sure everything's in line and we are going towards the vision of that entrepreneur.
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SPEAKER_02: And then we've got the technician, this is the tinker, this is the sandwich maker, this is the the uh plumber, this is the electrician, this is the the person who's doing that the technical skill, whatever it happens to be for that business, and they are so, so happy doing their thing right now, you know, tinkering on that specific project that they're working on.
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SPEAKER_01: So everyone who goes, everyone sort of needs some of all three of these, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And in themselves.
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SPEAKER_02: And we do, and and we actually do have all three of these.
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SPEAKER_02: Most people have all three of these entrepreneur, uh, manager, technician.
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SPEAKER_02: And it really depends on where are we kind of more naturally gifted, which one can we really excel at the most?
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SPEAKER_02: Um, kind of the point of the whole book.
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SPEAKER_02: And then the goal for all these three is balance.
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SPEAKER_02: So the results results in an incredibly competent individual.
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SPEAKER_02: When we look at our four these these three different areas, and we work to hone all of them, knowing that we're naturally more gifted in one.
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SPEAKER_02: And that's probably the area that we'll be most fulfilled in, probably be the area that we'll be most happy at, and the one we'll probably be the best at when we focus on it.
18:41
SPEAKER_01: Cool.
18:42
SPEAKER_01: So then we came to mindset, which we really liked.
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SPEAKER_01: Love this book.
18:46
SPEAKER_01: It's about how to fulfill your potential, and it comes down to how you think.
18:50
SPEAKER_01: Uh, whether you're a complainer or a learner, you know, you have one kid and it starts when you're young.
18:55
SPEAKER_01: See little kids, one kid says, This is too hard, this is impossible.
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SPEAKER_01: Other kids don't mind failing, and they go, I love a challenge.
19:03
SPEAKER_01: So you have this fixed mindset which believes that nothing will ever change, and intelligence or talent are fixed at birth, and so if I don't have it, then I might as well give up.
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SPEAKER_01: The growth mindset says it can go up or down, I'll get better.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay?
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SPEAKER_01: So we had this illustration: you go out to work one morning, drive to work, you got a flat, then the box make boss makes a negative comment about you, and in staff meeting, your idea gets laughed at, you get a ticket on the way home, your wife criticizes you, and what would you think?
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SPEAKER_01: How would you feel?
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SPEAKER_01: Fixed mindset, people.
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SPEAKER_01: I feel like a loser, I'm a total failure, I have no life, my luck is awful, life is unfair.
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SPEAKER_01: Growth mindset.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, maybe I should check my tires more often.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe I was due for a ticket.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe I need to be more sympathetic to my wife.
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SPEAKER_01: So uh we had this quote: I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, success and failure, I divide the world into learners and non-learners.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, Derek, you and I, as we talked, we sort of liked this idea.
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SPEAKER_01: I thought this might be as helpful as any idea in the book.
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SPEAKER_02: These are these are so interesting.
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SPEAKER_02: And it has to do with, if you guys remember, the parents, teachers, and coaches, and different mindsets.
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SPEAKER_02: It says no parent thinks, I wonder what I can do today to undermine my children, turn them off from learning and limit their achievement.
20:17
SPEAKER_02: Of course not.
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SPEAKER_02: They think I would do anything to make my children successful.
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SPEAKER_02: Yet many things they do, they're motivating, send the wrong messages.
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SPEAKER_02: In fact, every word and action can send a message.
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SPEAKER_02: It tells children or students or athletes how to think about themselves, and it can be a fixed mindset message that says, you have permanent traits and I'm judging them.
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SPEAKER_02: Or it can be the growth mindset message where it says, you are a developing person and I'm interested in your development.
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SPEAKER_02: And so maybe when they when they succeed or they they get a good grade, instead of saying, hey man, you are so gifted, you are so smart, maybe something that we could say is, wow, you worked really hard.
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SPEAKER_02: I saw you, you did a great job of studying for that test.
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SPEAKER_02: You really put in great work to achieve that result that you did.
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SPEAKER_02: And then things that they didn't do well.
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SPEAKER_02: This is this is the interesting one.
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SPEAKER_02: So instead of saying, Wow, you actually were the best even though you got last, or the judges really cheated you on the score that they gave you, or it's all the referees' fault, or if only you had you had a better uh motivator in your life, then you would have done it.
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SPEAKER_02: Instead of saying all those types of things, being willing to say, you know, if you really want that top spot, if you want that top award, then you're gonna have to work a little bit harder.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry that you lost, and I'm sorry that you were disappointed, but it looks like more practice is gonna be needed if you want to achieve that particular goal.
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SPEAKER_01: So our goal is to move ourselves from fixed to growth and to move our kids that way.
21:51
SPEAKER_01: I I copied off those pages that uh those that we just read.
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SPEAKER_01: I sent those to all four of my kids and gave them to my wife to give to her teachers at school.
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SPEAKER_01: I thought those were really Valuable.
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SPEAKER_02: There you go.
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SPEAKER_02: Those are good.
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SPEAKER_02: Then, if you guys remember, this is probably the most recent in our minds, but this is the 4DX, the four disciplines of execution that we just covered over the past two weeks.
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SPEAKER_02: And so this whole thing about 4DX, it's a system for achieving goals.
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SPEAKER_02: And we've got two main things that we all have usually in our work experiences.
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SPEAKER_02: We have the whirlwind, these are all the day-to-day things that have to get done, the emails, the phone calls, the checking up, the different things that we have to do every day.
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SPEAKER_02: And in the book, it says that that should take about 80% of our time.
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SPEAKER_02: And then the other 20% of our time can be devoted to our goals.
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SPEAKER_02: These are the one or two things that are going to help us really move our business or our personal life or whatever to the next level.
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SPEAKER_02: And so this is this whole book is about that middle ground, that middle ground between the strategy that's set out and the success at the end.
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SPEAKER_02: So that middle ground is the execution.
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SPEAKER_02: This is how do you actually get stuff done?
23:07
SPEAKER_02: It's great to have a great plan, you can have it all out on paper, but this is the implementation of that.
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SPEAKER_02: And so the four disciplines, the very first, focus on the wildly important goals.
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SPEAKER_02: This means focusing on those one or two things that are going to be so important to moving your business, to moving your personal life, to moving your company forward.
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SPEAKER_02: And it's minimizing our work on the whirlwind.
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SPEAKER_02: So you're still putting in 80% because you have to do the whirlwind things.
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SPEAKER_02: And instead of 100%, it's been 100% and you're moving it down to instead of getting completely caught up in it, you are devoting a certain amount of time, about 20% of your time, to those one or two things that are going to have a significant impact on your business.
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SPEAKER_02: And then secondly, we have act on those lead measures.
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SPEAKER_02: And we we talked about this and the difference between the lag measure and the lead measure measure.
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SPEAKER_02: So the lag measure is kind of the outcome of that specific goal that you want.
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SPEAKER_02: And the lead measure, these are the things that you have influence over directly.
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SPEAKER_02: You can, these things are predictable, you can influence them.
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SPEAKER_02: This is, you know, the lever can be influenced by the team with the help of different tools.
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SPEAKER_02: And so this is how do we move that rock?
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SPEAKER_02: What's going to give us the most leverage?
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SPEAKER_02: What's going to give us the most push?
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SPEAKER_02: And we had the example of weight loss.
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SPEAKER_02: So the lag measure is not something that you can find out until after you've completed the tasks that you needed to complete.
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SPEAKER_02: So lag measure would be losing 10 pounds.
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SPEAKER_02: Whereas the lead measure would be, are you running three times a week?
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SPEAKER_02: How's your diet looking, calorie intake on a regular basis?
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SPEAKER_02: You can measure those along the way and be fairly predictable and be able to influence what the outcome is going to be at the end of a specific period of time.
24:56
SPEAKER_02: And third, creating a compelling scoreboard.
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SPEAKER_02: And this is in your organization, in your business, whatever arena you have and you're trying to execute, to have a scoreboard, something that's up there where you've got posted.
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SPEAKER_02: This is how far we are to our goal, and here is where we want to be, and continually updating that week after week.
25:18
SPEAKER_02: And then very last is creating a cadence of accountability.
25:21
SPEAKER_02: And we talked about the WIG session.
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SPEAKER_02: This is where you spend a short amount of time, about 20 or 30 minutes, every week with those key people who are a part of executing on those goals.
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SPEAKER_02: And you do it every single week and you hold everybody accountable, and it's a chance where everybody who's directly involved gets to actually be involved rather than just be told how they're doing, but they actually have to report about what they've done, did they achieve their goals, did they not, and then setting out goals for the next week.
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SPEAKER_01: Now when you go over these, you see the commonalities.
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SPEAKER_01: For instance, the hedgehog concept from good to great, which is just pick basically one wildly important goal, you know, that of course fits into 4DX, doesn't it?
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and you see, no, with mindset, the growth mindset, you can see that played out, for example, in a wig session.
26:16
SPEAKER_02: As you're as you're regrouping every week, you're you're covering your goals.
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SPEAKER_02: If you have a fixed mindset, you're gonna make every excuse why you didn't hit your goal.
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SPEAKER_02: But if you have a growth mindset, you're gonna say, Wow, I didn't do so great last week.
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SPEAKER_02: I I need to pick it up.
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SPEAKER_02: That that's my bad.
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SPEAKER_02: I can do better.
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unknown: How can I do it?
26:33
unknown: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So uh group discussion today, ideas, maybe, maybe ask and answer what was your favorite book and why, which of these ideas has been most valuable to you?
26:41
SPEAKER_01: Have you ever tried, if you tried this semester to apply any of these ideas at work or at home?
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SPEAKER_01: And if so, how?
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SPEAKER_01: And in answer to Paul's question this fall, we don't know when we're gonna start, but a number of you have said, why don't we go deeper, deeper rather than uh, you know, we've been uh first both see both of these semesters, we've covered a lot of books.
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SPEAKER_01: And so what we've done is we've picked a book that uh I noticed another church in town has been spending spending the whole year going again through Seven Habits of Highly Effective Feople, which is an old book, 1989 for heaven's sake.
27:13
SPEAKER_01: But then he's he uh he's upgraded it, revised it, and he's actually added 15 years later in 2004.
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SPEAKER_01: Gavi added the eighth habit, which uh is excellent.
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SPEAKER_01: I've read that.
27:23
SPEAKER_01: So I think what we're gonna do is we're gonna go deep.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna cover these two books so well that you're gonna know them this fall.
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SPEAKER_02: All right?
27:30
SPEAKER_02: That'll be great.
27:31
SPEAKER_02: I'm so excited.
27:32
SPEAKER_02: And you know, one of the things from this entire semester, we we changed it from our normal format.
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SPEAKER_02: We we changed the content from our normal format and decided, man, you know, there's there's a lot of guys who are interested in this leadership stuff, interested in how can I be better at work, how can I be better at home?
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SPEAKER_02: What are some of those principles?
27:54
SPEAKER_02: And I think the thing that has been most exciting to me is when we look at these these different books.
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SPEAKER_02: Some are written by Christians, some are not, but when we look at the main points, when we look at what the books are trying to say, the leadership principles that work the best are all of those that come out of Scripture.
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SPEAKER_02: They're all of those that that God uh God knew beforehand, hey, these are gonna be the things that work the best for you.
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SPEAKER_02: Like the hedgehog concept.
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SPEAKER_02: What's your one thing?
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SPEAKER_02: And we see Paul multiple times saying, you know, the one thing that I strive after, I strive after one thing.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm in it for the gospel.
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SPEAKER_02: Like that's the thing that I'm here for.
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SPEAKER_02: Instead of getting getting in the mess of all the other things he could have been involved in.
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SPEAKER_02: And it's so cool to see that God's principles are being discovered by Christians and non-Christians through the these different research projects that that turn into books.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me pray for us.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, can I do that?
28:52
SPEAKER_01: And we'll get going.
28:53
SPEAKER_01: Lord, uh, thanks for Tom.
28:54
SPEAKER_01: Thanks for the uh fact that we can come out and get a great breakfast.
28:58
SPEAKER_01: Thanks for the guys and the fact that wow, we've had uh such continuity in our numbers this whole semester.
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SPEAKER_01: That's cool.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's lasted longer than any other semester, 12 weeks.
29:11
SPEAKER_01: Uh I pray for each of them because I know there's there's stuff happening in their lives.
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SPEAKER_01: Paul, for instance, going out to visit his kids in Colorado, and I pray for a blessing there, and I know there's stuff happening in other guys' lives in this room.
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SPEAKER_01: I pray that you'll work mightily, that you'll work miracles, that you will, as we uh as we maintain discipline, as we get up early, as we do what we know you want us to do, I ask, Lord, that you'd show us show yourself strong in our lives and show that you're our God and show that show that you love working with people like Moses and Joshua and those of us that are sold out to you.
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SPEAKER_01: I pray for us as we try to put some of these concepts into practice.
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SPEAKER_01: The hedgehog concept, focusing on the things that are most important, not letting our our you know the whirlwind of life just simply control us.
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SPEAKER_01: Being leaders, being male leaders, being fathers, being husbands.
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SPEAKER_01: Lord, help us as we do these things.
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SPEAKER_01: Lord, bless these guys and bless our discussion today.
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SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.