Understanding the rules of succeeding at the long game of success with guest expert Dorie Clark

Dorie Clark, author of The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

Bill Ringle and Dorie Clark discuss how adopting longer range thinking leads to making more strategic and meaningful decisions, habits, and relationships than opportunistic, short-range thinking for small business managers, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs.

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Interview Insights

Top 3 Takeaways from this Interview

Powerful decision-making is key to growing a company. Leaders should not shy away from tough decisions.

Anyone can manufacture a 'crazy busy' schedule — stop viewing it as a point of pride and stop using it as an excuse for not pursuing more long-range, meaningful goals.

You can put a schedule on your calendar dedicated to pursuing your dreams.

Read the Show Notes from this Episode

Dorie describes optimizing projects and career trajectories. [01:43]

CASE: Marian Stoddard, an 80-year-old housewife, who was the heroine of Dorie's documentary, shared a piece of advice that really stuck to her, 'whenever you have a choice of what to do, choose what's more interesting.' [02:51]

Always an advocate of networks and relationships, Dorie talks about landing a friendship with Susan Stoddard, a volunteer supporter of a candidate she was also supporting, which lead her to meet Marian. [04:22]

CASE: Francis Fry and how many companies are afraid to make hard decisions.  [09:09]

CASE: Derek Sivers, a musician turned successful entrepreneur. [12:32]

The downsides of having an overly busy schedule and how to choose instead to add space to pursue long-term goals. [15:13]

The pandemic comes with uncomfortable things that businesses need to deal with preventing business leaders from pursuing more meaningful goals. [17:10]

CASE: Dorie's friend Petra Patrick and her initial fear of pursuing a dream due to lack of experience but how through dedication and motivation, she made her dream of deejaying achievable. [21:37]

Dorie talks about working with Forbes. [28:30]

My Quest for the Best Lightning Round begins.[34:33]

Expert Bio

Dorie Clark helps individuals and companies get their best ideas heard in a crowded, noisy world. She has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50 and was honored as the #1 Communication Coach in the world at the Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Awards. She is a keynote speaker and teaches for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School. She is the author of Entrepreneurial You, which was named one of Forbes’ Top 5 Business Books of the Year, as well as Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of the Year by Inc. magazine.

A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, Clark has been described by the New York Times as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and consults and speaks for clients such as Google, Yale University, and the World Bank. She is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, a producer of multiple Grammy-winning jazz albums, and a Broadway investor. You can download her free Entrepreneurial You self-assessment workbook at dorieclark.com/entrepreneur.

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