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448: Transform How You Communicate and Lead with René Rodriguez

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My guest today is truly one of the best-prepared and most articulate guests I’ve ever had the privilege to welcome to the show. And that voice. I often get compliments on my own voice, but wow!

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Wait until you hear the voice of René Rodriguez. You just might melt.

But more importantly, I can’t wait for you to hear his message. It’s incredibly compelling.

René is here today to help us apply the latest advances in neuroscience to your real-world persuasion and influence strategies for immediate results 

In Amplify Your Influence, he delivers an eye-opening roadmap to using applied neuroscience to improve readers’ communication ability, critical thinking, cultural awareness, and leadership skills. 

Perfect for executives, managers, sales professionals, and other business leaders, Amplify Your Influence is required reading for anyone seeking to improve their ability to effect change in the people around them, whether they’re in the office, the boardroom, the classroom, or at home. 

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447: The Inside Story of a Multibillion Dollar Behemoth with Mike Evans

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It’s not every day I get to interview the founder of a multiBILLION dollar startup. Today, however, is indeed such a day.

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That founder is Mike Evans of Grubhub and—more recently—Fixer fame.

Mike has a brand new book out today that unpacks his story in entertaining fashion. The book is called HANGRY: A Startup Journey.

In Hangry, Mike details, step-by-step, the grind of building an innovative business with each chapter including sharp lessons for entrepreneurs and startups that he learned on the fly as he piloted GrubHub by the seat of his pants.

Hangry reveals a decade of eighty-hour work weeks, detailed steps of how Mike garnered his first customers, his hunt for financing dollars, cliffhanger acquisitions, the near collapse of his marriage, a brutally difficult merger, and a pair of tumultuous quit/unquit moments, all to steer the company to become one of the most successful startups in the world.

There’s plenty of razor-sharp wit, as reveals hard-won truths about how startups succeed—and even harder-won truths about how startups fail.

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446: The Only Business Metric That Matters with Jeremy Utley

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My guest today asserts that we all want great ideas, but few of us actually understand how great ideas are born. Innovation, he says, is not an event, a workshop, a sprint, or a hackathon.

It’s a result of mastering ideaflow, a practice that elevates everything else you do.

His name is Jeremy Utley, and he is the coauthor, along with Perry Klebahn of IDEAFLOW: The Only Business Metric That Matters.

They advocate a simple core principle: ideas matter. Instead of focusing on output, innovators focus on input. Instead of obsessing over quality, innovators generate quantity.

They argue that every problem is an idea problem at its core, and changing the way you think about any problem will unleash success. Innovation is a volume game, and the quantity of ideas drives quality.

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445: Peak Your Profits with Jeff Blackman

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When our guest is someone who’s been working in his Zone of Genius for as long as he has, you can rest assured you’re going to learn a lot!

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His name is Jeff Blackman, and he is the author of several books, including Peak Your Profit: The Explosive Business-Growth System.

Jeff reveals years of testing, research and development, and his explosive business-growth system that will show you step-by-step how to Peak Your Profits.

You’ll very quickly outdistance your competition and reach new levels of unprecedented success. That’s because Jeff proven, profit-producing strategies on the crucial areas of business development.

He helps you build sustainable opportunities to strongly improve your top and bottom lines.

Jeff’s book will help you grow your business and skyrocket your profitability—quickly, ethically, and dramatically—even in a tough economy.

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444: How the Future Works with Helen Kupp

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Slack is a tool I use virtually every day. And it’s a tool I’ve been using for more years than I can remember. I never thought I’d one day be interviewing a member of their excellent team but, then again, I’m drawn to smart people who write smart books.

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My guest today, Helen Kupp, is one of three writers who helped bring together today’s featured book.

She has co-authored, along with Brian Elliott and Sheela Subramanian, a new book called How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to Do The Best Work of Their Lives.

They argues that the way we work has changed. The era of toiling from nine-to-five, five-days-a-week in the office is now a relic of the past, and is being replaced by a better way—flexible work.

But flexibility means a lot more than a day or two a week to “work from home”: 93% of your employees want more flexibility in when, not just where, they work. They want choice and they are leaving their roles to find it.

The most successful leaders will go much further than offering occasional remote workdays—they will redesign every aspect of how work gets done, from defining how they measure organizational success to training their managers to make it happen.

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