Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

in this episode, we bust three leadership myths. 

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Brad Mulvey is the founder of Millennial Mastermind and host of the Millennial Mastermind Podcast.

His mission is to build a community of highly motivated millennials who want to build amazing lives for themselves and each other.  By connecting with the already successful, I am digging into their journeys and uncovering the proven strategies that they used to achieve massive success.  In doing so, I will share with you a formula for your own success.

We explored myriad topics in this conversation, but we specifically deep dived into:

1. Millenials being the participation trophy generation
2. Weaknesses and strengths that millenials embody and how to best circumvent or leverage these in the workplace
3. What Brad learned interviewing the CEO of his company, Speedeon Data

Show Notes:

Website: www.millennialmm.com/

Facebook: facebook.com/millenialmm

Twitter: @bradmulvey

Instagram: @bradmulvey
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Patreon: www.patreon.com/thesteveglaveski

Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io

Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0

Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud

Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski

Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski

Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz

Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com 

Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski

NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/

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Mike Vardy is an author, speaker, and productivity and time management strategist.

He’s the founder of Productivityist, and the company's mission is to help people stop 'doing' productive and start 'being' productive through a variety of online and offline resources.

He is the author of "The Front Nine: How to Start the Year You Want Anytime You Want” and most recently "The Productivityist Playbook."

He has served in an editorial capacity for The Next Web and is a contributor to The Huffington Post, GTD Times, 99u, Lifehacker, and SUCCESS Magazine.

Expect to learn a number of techniques that you can begin to apply today to see an immediate impact on your own productivitiy, including:

1 - how to avoid the hefty cost of task-switching by batching tasks on your calendar

2 - why frameworks give you freedom; and

3 - techniques for letting technology be your slave, rather than your master

With that, enjoy my conversation with the productivityist, Mike Vardy. 

Topics Discussed:

• Mike’s purpose
• What ‘productivity’ actually means
• Batching tasks
• Avoiding the cognitive switching penalty
• Frameworks
• The psychology of flow
• Asynchronous communication
• Inbox zero
• Meetings
• Digital minimalism
• Prioritisation

Show Notes:

• Mike’s books:
• Mike’s podcast:
• Productivityist: productivityist.com
• Special offer for Future Squared listeners: productivtyist.com/glaveski

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Patreon: www.patreon.com/thesteveglaveski

Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io

Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0

Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud

Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski

Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski

Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz

Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com 

Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski

NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/

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Hanging out with people just like us might be comfortable, but it doesn't do anything to expand our world view or make us more tolerant and creative. 

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Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io

Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0

Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud

Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski

Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski

Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz

Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com 

Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski

NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/

• GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
• GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack

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This is just a quick announcement-isode to let you know that the audiobook of Employee to Entrepreneur has just landed. 

Check it out on Audible at https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Employee-to-Entrepreneur-Audiobook/1980035253?ref=a_typ_c1_lProduct_1&pf_rd_p=c2ff329e-8198-47fc-a709-32a47cceb95b&pf_rd_r=QX2D9SHX048ERRT1SR69& 

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Walker Deibel is an acquisition entrepreneur. He has cofounded three startups and acquired seven companies. He currently serves as the President of EDC, which helps companies with multiple locations manage their supply chain through sourcing, inventory, and fulfillment management.

Walker is the Managing Director for Centra, which currently owns and manages three companies. In addition Centra is a partner in over a half dozen firms covering: distribution, manufacturing, education, childcare, film and television production, enterprise software, online content, and eCommerce.

Walker is the bestselling author of Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game, released by Lioncrest Publishing.

He has also produced almost a dozen films and had premieres at some of the world’s most esteemed festivals, including Sundance, SXSW, and Toronto International Film Festival.

Listeners of this podcast would have learned all about building new ventures from the ground up, but not as much on acquiring ventures with a foundation to build upon, so it was great to get some fresh perspectives from Walker on a topic I haven’t explored in depth on this show.

We unpacked lots of lessons, including:

• When buying first makes more sense than building first
• How raising capital for an acquisition opportunity can become a virtual walk in the park when compared with raising capital for a startup; and
• How to identify and evaluate acquisition opportunities

 With that, enjoy my conversation with Walker Deibel.

Topics Discussed:

• Why you should buy an existing company rather than starting from scratch
• How to raise capital for an acquisition
• What to look for in an acquisition target
• Where to find target companies and how to build your own deal-flow
• How to value an acquisition target
• What to look for in yourself before acquiring a company
• The CEO mindset
• What to glean from the seller of the target company
• Jim Collins’ hedgehog theory
• How to transition leadership post-acquisition
• How results fuel motivation and passion

Show Notes:

Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Employee-Entrepreneur-Earn-Freedom-Matters/dp/0730363864

Web: Buythenbuild.com

Twitter: @walkerdeibel

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Patreon: www.patreon.com/thesteveglaveski

Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io

Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0

Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud

Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski

Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski

Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz

Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com 

Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski

NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/

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The bots are here! 

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Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0

Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud

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Beth Comstock is change maker who has helped people grapple with rapid-fire change and open up their companies to transformation. Before she ever led the reinvention of a team or a business, she learned to rely on her curiosity to provoke change in herself. She infused her life with the habit of discovery, seeking out new ideas, people and places and in turn she built a career path from storyteller to chief marketer to GE Vice Chair. And now author.
Beth knows what it is like to work on the front lines of change. In nearly three decades at GE, she led efforts to accelerate new growth and innovation, initiated GE's digital and clean-energy transformation, developed new businesses and increased GE's brand value. She created GE Ventures, oversaw GE Lighting, and was the company's Chief Marketing Officer. As President of Integrated Media at NBC Universal, Beth oversaw ad revenue and the company's digital efforts, including the early development of hulu.com. Earlier in her career, she held a succession of marketing and communications roles at GE, NBC, CBS and Turner Broadcasting/CNN.
Beth is a director at Nike, trustee of The National Geographic Society and former board president of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum. She graduated from the College of William and Mary with a degree in biology.

We touched on many a topic in this conversation, including:

1 - How Comstock went about shifting the culture from seeking perfection before releasing anything to the public to one that embraced the minimum viable product

2 - Roadblocks she faced in rolling out the Fastworks program and the leans startup methodology across GE insofar as policy and procedure was concerned and how to overcome this; and

3 - What really happened when she and longtime CEO Jeff Immelt resigned from the company on the back of activist investors pushing for change, and why she thought it happened

Topics Discussed:

• Why change is hard at an organizational and individual level
• How to get buy-in internally
• Speaking the same language and translating messages
• Rolling out the lean startup at GE
• Why culture and process needs to adapt to support new capabilities
• Leading indicators versus trailing indicators
• Roadblocks and lessons learned
• What really happaned in GE’s executive shake-up
• Shorttermism and how it can plague innovation at listed companies
• How a long-term tenure in one organization (27 years in Comstock’s case) doesn’t need to come at the cost of creativity or learning
• The three buckets of innovation and how GE invested across the three
• Why marketing is what you do at the beginning, not at the end
• Why the lean startup can be applied to anything from engine turbines to medical C-arm devices
• Why short feedback loops are key to learning and moving towards product market fit for new ideas, and how bloated organisational procedures can sabotage this

Show Notes:

• Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Imagine-Forward-Courage-Creativity-Change-ebook/dp/B078LJW4G4
• Web: bethcomstock.info
• Twitter: @bethcomstock

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Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io

Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0

Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud

Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski

Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski

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Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com

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"We're wrong about most of our ideas most of the time" - Michael Shermer.

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Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io

Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0

Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud

Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski

Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski

Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz

Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com 

Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski

NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/

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Dr Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic. Shermer engages in debates on topics pertaining to pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism.

He’s also a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. He is the author of Why People Believe Weird Things, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, and The Moral Arc. His new book is Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality & Utopia.                                 

Shermer is also a member of what’s become known as the intellectual dark web, alongside others such as Sam Harris, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Jordan Peterson.

Having recently appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience and the  David Rubin Show, today he appears for the first time on Future Squared.

We covered a lot of ground in this episode, including:

• People’s last words and what we can glean from them about how we live our lives
• Immortality and whether you and I might live long enough to live forever
• Tribalism, identity politics and diversity quotas in tech

 This only scratches the surface of what we covered, so sit back and strap yourselves in for an enlightening conversation with the skeptic, Dr. Michael Shermer.

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Topics Discussed:

• Michael’s new book, Heavens on Earth
• Our fear of death and how people come to terms with the inevitable
• People’s last words
• The afterlife
• The technotopian quest for immortality
• The intellectual dark web
• Jordan Peterson
• The meaning of life
• Why people believe in God
• Evolutionary advantages of belief
• Morality without religion
• Tribalism and identity politics
• Diversity quotas in tech
• The shortcomings of science
• Why decision outcomes shouldn’t be equated with the quality of the decision
• Stein’s Law
• The value of counterfactuals

Show Notes:

• michaelshermer.com
• skeptic.com
• Twitter: @michaelshermer
• Shermer’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Shermer/e/B001H6MCNY/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1550116103&sr=1-1

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Patreon: www.patreon.com/thesteveglaveski

Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io

Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0

Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud

Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski

Instagram:www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski

Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz

Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com 

Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski

NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/

• GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
• GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack

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