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439: How to Future-Proof Your Business with Jonathan Brill

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My guest today says that, at this moment, rogue waves are forming under your business. Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends―the undercurrents of radical, systemic change―are crashing into each other.

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When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. If your competitor can’t ride out the next wave and you can, you win.

That guest I’m alluding to is Jonathan Brill, and he’s written a book called Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive & Profit From Radical Change.

In it, he shows you how to prepare your business to survive and thrive through the most radical upheavals.

His book has been called a must-read survival guide that provides the predictive tools you need to take advantage of randomness, turn chaos into profit, and set your company on the course for long-term success.

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438: How to Engage Your Employees and Drive Organizational Excellence with Patrick Veroneau

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Some might say it’s a publisher’s dream. Others might suggest it’s a technique that is overused. When it comes to an author’s use of acronyms to help illustrate their methods, I am an absolute fan.

Patrick Veroneau

In the book featured on the podcast today, there are no fewer than four (maybe even five) acronyms used to describe the author’s ideas. And in my view, every single one is a winner.

Why? Because they help make the concepts stick. And if they stick, then it means we’re much more likely to put them into practice.

And isn’t that the point of reading a book in the first place?

My guest today is Patrick Veroneau, and he’s written a book called The Leadership Bridge: How to Engage Your Employees and Drive Organizational Excellence.

Patrick believes that leaders who align their leadership behaviors to satisfy the needs of their employees will build cultures that are both engaging and profitable.

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437: Got Years of Notes Scattered All Over the Place? Let’s Fix That!

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When it comes to effective note-taking, the kind that leads to breakthroughs, to new ideas, being able to remember where you stored a specific thought, connecting new ideas to existing ideas and more, understanding your note-taking archetype, or style, is a key first step.

Jeff Brown

I first learned about note-taking archetypes from Anne-Laure Le Cunff over at NESS Labs.

In their simplest form, they are:

  • Architect
  • Gardener
  • Librarian
  • Student

An Architect likes structure, and the ability to—I would assert—majorly customize their note-taking environment. They may even want something they can build from the ground up. For them, the app Notion is a great choice.

Gardeners (like myself), enjoy allowing their notes to breathe a bit more, giving them the opportunity to go wherever they may; to take on a life of their own, perhaps. We Gardeners thrive on serendipity when it comes to our note-taking. Our app(s) of choice tend to be either Roam Research or Obsidian (my personal favorite).

Then there are the Librarians, arguably the largest consortium of note-takers. Librarians tend to thrive on order and hierarchies. They often relish the typical folder structures we see as a part of most digital organizational systems. Many in this group tend to prefer the popular Evernote app.

All of us play the role of Student on occasion, maybe because we are one, maybe out of necessity, we don’t favor a particular style, we just want easy, the info we’re capturing will only be used temporarily, etc. Depending on the computer ecosystem you’re in the most, you might leverage Apple Notes (iOS), Google Keep (Android), or an app like Drafts.

I hope you’ll click the play button below to learn more about note-taking styles and the best apps suited for each. I’d love to hear from you and learn about which note-taking style you most identify with.

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436: The Undefeated Marketing System with Phillip Stutts

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Today’s guest has made some pretty incredible strides in the first four decades-plus of his life. When I was his age, I was floundering in year one as a solopreneur.

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For Phillip Stutts, he’s eight years in to running Win BIG Media (and Go BIG Media) and already at a BILLION dollars revenue! Needless to say, he knows his stuff.

In his new book called The Undefeated Marketing System: How To Grow Your Business and Build Your Audience Using the Secret Formula That Elects Presidents, Phillip shows you how his groundbreaking five-step marketing formula used by winning presidents and successful companies will also grow your business.

What if you could use this approach to convert customers in half the time, eliminate your financial risk, and secure huge profits? Well, now you can!

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435: How Anyone Can Turn An Unsolved Problem Into a Breakthrough Success with Danny Warshay

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There seem to be a lot of college professors writing books these days; or at least I’m interviewing my fair share of them. That many are writing their first (or in some cases second, third, or fourth) book is for good reason. Their research and experiences testing their theories in the classroom is something few of us have the ability to do.

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My latest guest is a professor at Brown University. His name is Danny Warshay and he’s written a new book called See, Solve, Scale: How Anyone Can Turn an Unsolved Problem Into a Breakthrough Success.

Entrepreneurship, he says, is not a spirit or a gift. It is a process that anyone can learn, and that anyone can use to turn a problem into a solution with impact.

Danny overturns the common misconception that entrepreneurship is a hardwired trait or the sole province of high-flying MBAs, and provides a proven method to identify consequential problems and an accessible process anyone can learn, master and apply to solve them.

In short, you’ll learn how to find and validate a problem, develop an initial small-scale solution, and scale a long-term solution.

I hope you’ll click the play button below to learn more about Danny and his work. For a summary, just keep scrolling.

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