Stories Mean Business - Nick Warren

Every sale in your business happens for one reason ... it resolves a customer conflict.

What's yours?

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/855:-What-Powers-Your-Story

I expect to become the premier search result for this search term in no time ... but that's not what I'm talking about today.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/854:-Mickey-Mouse-and-Colonoscopies

Yesterday, I quoted Harvey S. Firestone without really knowing who he was ... today the quote has way more resonance, because I've linked him in to things I already know.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/853:-Linking-In-Firestone

Bob Iger's Masterclass is excellent ... even if most of us aren't ever going to manage a multinational brand like Disney.

(Iger was CEO from 2005 to 2020, reinvigorating Disney animation with the Pixar acquisition, then adding Marvel, Star Wars and 20th Century Fox. Not to mention quintipling the value of the company from around $50 billion to $250 billion.)

But we can still learn from smart people, and one of the things I loved it that Iger put Curiosity top of the list of the traits he valued for leaders.

That's one of the reasons this podcast jumps around so much, and reminds me of the quote from Harvey S. Firestone.

“I notice that when all a man's information is confined to the field in which he is working, the work is never as good as it ought to be. A man has to get a perspective, and he can get it from books or from people — preferably from both. This thing of sleeping and eating with your business can easily be overdone; it is all well enough—usually necessary—in times of trouble but as a steady diet it does not make for good business; a man ought now and then to get far enough away to have a look at himself and his affairs.”

Exactly.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/852:-Why-We-Wander

In Groundhog Day (1993), Bill Murray plays a hapless weather man reliving the same day over and over again until he gets it right.

In Deathloop (2021), Colt Vaugn is also reliving the same day ... until he can kill seven evil geniuses and 'break the loop'. (To clarify, this is a video game I'm playing.)

In both cases, living the same 24 hours again and again gives the characters the chance to learn, improve and win.

What seemed impossible eventually becomes routine.

The best real world example of this in my life may be learning to drive.

The point, of course, is that incremental improvements make a huge difference to our lives if they are compounded.

Paul Akers, the author of 2 Second Lean, asks his team to make one improvement every day ... something that will save them 2 seconds tomorrow.

This morning, I made my 2 second improvement.

What about you?

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/851:-Groundhog-Day-Meets-Deathloop

The Subscribe process from Sprint 1 is now on the website at www.storiesmeanbusiness.com.

For Sprint 2 I will be breaking the landing page (www.storiesmeanbusiness.com/yourstory) up into three or four separate pages.

This is the process of adding "good friction" which I talked about in Episode 594.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/850:-Sprint-2

At the end of January, I'll be paying my taxes ... and it turns out to be more important than I thought.

This podcast is inspired by a section of Thomas Piketty's magnum opus, Capital In The 21st Century.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/848:-A-Short-Dip-Into-Economics

I love Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.

It's the kind of book that makes us better humans, not to mention the ton of eye-opening insights.

But most relevant to our work is Harari's views on storytelling.

Let's get into it...

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/848:-Stories-from-Sapiens

In his 33rd letter, Seneca exhorted his correspondent, Lucilius Junior, to stop relying on the wisdom of others and stake his own claim.

The irony is thick in this episode.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/847-Stake-Your-Claim

Finishing our 10,000 tour of Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Lean.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/846-Kanban-and-Lean