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#36: The Reinvention of Real Estate Part 1 of 2 with Matthias Hollwich, Glenn Lowenstein and Jennifer Salopek
We are bringing you a big topic today, so big that it matters to every corner of our lives and our economy: real estate. We’re interested in what is changing…
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#35: What Do We Do With High Valuation Stocks and Markets?
What do we do when valuations of stocks and markets become so high as to defy our most careful assessment of the value of the business and its future cash…
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#34: Questions for Management, Part 1: John Dillon
Today we are happy to spend time with John Dillon, longtime CEO of private and public companies, currently at data company Aerospike. We often turn to John for…
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#33: Questions for Management, Part 2: Inducing Uncommon Inputs
Part of our job as investors is to find or design uncommon inputs that will lead to uncommon investable insights. One of the important inputs is how we spend…
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#32: Implementing ESG Process - Top 10 Greatest Hits
ESG, or Environment, Social and Governance regarding sustainability, was thought of as an add-on to an investment thesis 5 or 10 years ago. But the world is…
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#31: Community in Business with Peter Espersen and Darren Herman
Today we’re talking about community and business, and we have with us two business leaders who know loads about this topic: Peter Espersen and Darren Herman…
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#30: 10 Practical Ways to Increase Conviction While Saving Time
Today, we present just a few of the ideas related to process that we know have helped our team find leverage in what we thought were unmovable parts of the…
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#29: Elliot Noss on the Future of Work
Elliot Noss, CEO of internet company Tucows for just about 25 years, starts us off with a simple but reverberating statement: “the fundamental compact between…
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#28: Decision Making: Job, Vocation, Waste
Picture a pie chart of your work week: what percent is your job, your vocation, or total waste? Let’s use this model to uncover possible changes in process and…
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#27 Greg Parsons on The Future of Work
As more of our work life is digitized, we do know now, or we will know the how, when, why and where of work... where we work best, with whom and for what…
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#26: Growth vs. Value
Growth and value are simply boxes we put around two giant categories. It’s helpful for marketing purposes, and for investment process. So what gives? Well, we…
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#25 Irwin Kula: “The Mainstream Study of the Mind”
The “study of the mind” is now mainstream, but why is this important, and how far ahead are corporations and advertisers?
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#24 Investment Process: “Student Mindedness”
This student mindedness conversation will help us take a step back, exploring an attitude or approach that can be highly personalized. But what is it? What…
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#23 Maria Souza Part 2: “Complex Systems and Internal Feedback Loops — Finding your Lynchpins”
We continue with biologist Maria Souza on complex systems. In Part 1 we discussed resilience as a key property of complex systems. Now we examine the role of…
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#22 Maria Souza Part 1: “Complex Systems and Resiliency”
Biologist Maria Souza introduces us to the core properties of complex systems: how to identify a resilient system, and how understanding the property of…
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#21: Stewart Brand’s Pace Layering Model
An introduction into Stewart Brand’s pace layering model, from his work The Clock of the Long Now. Movement in this model leads to vast destruction or creation…
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#20 Matt Wallaert: “Identity and Behavior Change”
Social psychologist Matt Wallaert offers his thinking on why identity is the most powerful force for behavior change, and how to be aware of it and use it to…
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#19 Decision Making: “The Data Chain”
Continuing on the topic of decision making, we walk through the data chain and how to use it to identify where you are in the process and to then make the…
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#18 JC Herz: “Decision Making When All of Your Options Are Terrible”
JC Herz guides us through risk avoidance vs. risk acceptance, resilience and fragility, and why your first step must be to identify and write down the answer…
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#17 Decision Making Biases: “Vanquishing Decision Making Biases”
We know investors are particularly prone to some common decision making biases. We start the discussion today on some of the tactics and tools to bring…
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#16 JP Rangaswami: “ESG: Stewardship vs. Monetization”
Data scientist and business leader JP Rangaswami expands on the impact of starting from a point of view of stewardship vs. monetization; how he expects the…
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#15 Tools to Study Change #4: “The Five Stages of Grieving”
Continuing our series of tools to assess change, we apply Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s Five Stages of Grief to managements ability to assess reality and lead…
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#14: Corey Loftus: “Living in the Bardo”
A deeper dive with Corey, Pip and Brynne into Coreys piece Living in the Bardo.
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#13: Tools to Study Change #3: “The Change Function”
Part 3 in a series intended to help you study possibilities for the future with fewer investment biases, more context, and easy to use tools.
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#12 Accelerating Changes: “Omnichannel on the Way to Fulfilling its Broader Possibilities”
“Omni” means all, but we have used the term omnichannel to describe retailers who compliment brick and mortar with e-commerce and mobile. In this mini-cast, we…
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#11 Dr. Morris Pickens: “Where is Your Locker Room?”
Adversity comes every day. What can we do to mentally prepare for it and handle it in the moment it arrives? Dr. Morris Pickens is back to explain his “locker…
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#10: Tools to Study Change #2: “Seven Questions for Forecasting Change”
Part 2 of a series intended to help you study possibilities for the future with fewer investment biases, more context, and easy to use tools.
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#9: Tools to Study Change #1 :”Glenn Lowenstein’s Grid”
Part 1 of a series intended to help you study possibilities for the future with fewer investment biases, more context, and easy to use tools.
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#8: Decision Making: Rudy Karsen: "The Gut"
What does it mean to “trust your gut”?We explore this question with investor and former CEO Rudy Karsan. Rudy gives examples of how he has learned to identify…
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#7 Glenn Lowenstein: “Accelerating Changes in Real Estate”
What is considered a healthy building or community in a world that was already increasingly remote? Glenn Lowenstein discusses a changing calculus in how…
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#6: Dr. Morris Pickens: “Clean Time to Think”
Giving ourselves clean time to think is a surprisingly counter-cultural activity. In this conversation, Mo describes why it’s so important, and Mo, Pip and I…
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#5: Grant McCracken: “Being Invited in By Your Customer”
In this mini-cast, we discuss one quick insight with cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken.
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#4: Lenley Hensarling: “Accelerating Changes for Doing Business in a Virtual World”
Pip and I are in conversation with Lenley Hensarling on accelerating changes in sales and development strategy.
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#3: Dr. Morris Pickens: “Stress is Not the Problem. Taking Real Breaks”
This is the first in our series of 5 to 7 minute mini casts designed to give you a quick process insight and get you on your way.
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#2: Dr. Morris Pickens: “Leadership in Times of Crisis”
Right now we are in the midst of the COVID-19 virus arriving in Europe and the United States, and as leaders we are called to quickly reorient to managing and…
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#1: Investing Biases: “Type II Error Avoidance Behavior”
From Coburn Ventures, a conversation with Brynne Thompson and Pip Coburn on what Type II Error Avoidance Behavior is, what to do to identify it in your work…