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492: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets with Jason Del Rey

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I’m old enough to remember a book from over 30 years ago called, The Late Shift, a chronicling of the wars between David Letterman, Jay Leno, NBC, and who would eventually end up with the Tonight Show Crown.

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Our featured book this week reminds of that book in many ways. The difference, however is the players. Instead of Letterman and Leno, we have Amazon and Walmart. And the battle is still raging, and likely will be for some time to come.

That book is called Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets by Jason Del Rey.

For years, Walmart and Amazon operated in separate spheres—one a massive brick-and-mortar retailer, the other an online giant. But in 2016, Walmart aggressively moved into the world of e-commerce, while Amazon made big bets in physical retail.

The resulting rivalry is a bare-knuckle power struggle as each titan tries to outmaneuver the other to become the biggest omni-channel retailer in the world. As the two megacorporations have consolidated power, troubling consequences have also emerged—for consumers and small merchants faced with fewer buying and selling options, and for millions of workers paid meager wages for demanding and sometimes dangerous work.

Winner Sells All is a tale of disruption and big money moves, with legendary executives and fearless entrepreneurs in a battle—between rival corporations and sometimes even within the same company—to invent the future and cement their own legacies.

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491: Your Future Self with Hal Hershfield

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Today’s feature book is one that I can’t wait to read with others. Yes, I’ve read it myself, but I want to talk about with other people and share insights ASAP. That’s when you know you’ve stumbled across a great book.

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And that book is Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today, and it’s written by Hal Hershfield.

When my mastermind group asks me to recommend our next book we’ll read together, this one will be at the top of my list.

In my course, Note-Making Mastery, we talk at length about the importance of writing notes as if you’re writing for someone else. Why? Because, I argue, Future You is someone else.

In his book, Hal shows us how to connect with our “future selves” so that we can improve our lives right now and achieve our greatest hopes for the future.

Your Future Self presents the science, describes the mental mistakes we make in thinking about the future, and gives us practical advice for imagining our best future so we can make that vision a reality.

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490: The Learn-It-All Leader with Damon Lembi

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In today’s episode, I make a fairly dramatic statement. It’s a warning to those who may read this week’s featured book. I say, plainly, read it at your own risk. Why do I make such a statement?

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Because if you’re anything like me, you’ll immediately want to figure out a way to go work for Learn It CEO Damon Lembi. Yes, his new book is that compelling.

This describes how I felt after reading Damon’s book, and I’ve been gleefully self-employed for ten years, so that’s saying a lot.

In The Learn-It-All Leader, Damon shares the leadership mindset you need to make better decisions, take bolder risks, and build stronger teams. He brings insight from his career in baseball to more than two decades of leadership experience, identifying the traits and techniques that separate the learn-it-alls from the know-it-alls.

And he shows you how learn-it-all leaders think and act differently, and why active leadership attracts-and retains-team members who are adaptable, curious, and committed.

With entertaining anecdotes and inspirational examples, The Learn-It-All Leader is a compelling guide to being your best and playing to win, every time.

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489: How to Work with (Almost) Anyone with Michael Bungay Stanier

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This week’s guest wrote a book that is considered to be the best coaching book of the century. He and I spoke about that book here several years ago.

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His latest book is another winner in my view. His name is Michael Bungay Stanier and the book is How to Work with (Almost) Anyone.

The hard truth, Michael says, is most of us leave many of our relationships to chance. Few of us approach them with any amount of intentionality.

Relationships always get a little broken, or a little stale, or a little worse. C’est la vie, c’est la guerre. Carry on.

But it doesn’t have to be like this. Every working relationship can be better.

Michael’s book shows you how to build the best possible relationship.

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488: Always Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past with Dan Miller

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One of my favorite guests of all time, and one of my favorite humans in general, is joining me again for this episode. His fourth visit thus far.

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I’m talking, of course, about New York Times bestselling author, Dan Miller.

His latest book, unconventional in that he made all the “wrong” choices during its creation, is called An Understanding Heart.

Some of those choices include:

  • A simulated leather book
  • 406 pages
  • 84 vignettes in all
  • Color pages
  • A satin bookmark
  • A gift box with key quotations
  • A bonus medallion
  • And more.

It’s about as excited as I’ve ever seen Dan about one of his projects. It’s the kind of book you can dive into for a few pages, put it down, and then come back to it later, without the guilt typically associated with approaching a book in that way.

For this reason and many others, it makes a fantastic gift! I loved it, and I think you will too.

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