The Game Changers: Recent Episodes
Dale Dixon
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My mind is a bit blown. I read about Google's newly released NotebookLM in Tim Ferriss' 5-Bullet Friday. Tim pitched it this way: "I know everyone is sick of hearing about AI, but if you haven’t heard this sample podcast, which was generated from a simple article, it will blow your mind. Those are not real humans. NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and writing assistant that works best with the sources you upload."
I didn't listen to the sample. I wanted to see it in action for myself. I uploaded the .pdf of my book, Sweating Bullets, A Story About Overcoming The Fear of Public Speaking.
Listen for yourself. I didn't type a prompt. I clicked the button to create a 10-minute conversation between two people, and this is the result. Let me know what you think in the comments.
If you'd like to see the study guide created by NotebookLM, send me an email. I'm happy to share.
We unpack the power of having a Personal Game Plan. Discover the transformational impact of pinpointing your 'lead domino' goal to ignite momentum across all areas of your life. Let Eric's insights motivate you to streamline your focus, conquer distractions, and charge towards your breakthrough objectives with newfound resilience and confidence. Tune in for a game-changing conversation that could redefine your approach to goals and inspire your next big win!
Learn more about Eric at https://thegamechangersinc.com/
Learn more about Dale at https://www.daledixon.me/
Episode highlights:
00:00 Success through consistency and strategic personal planning.
04:29 Reflect on past year before planning ahead.
08:53 Focus on significant goals for greater impact.
09:51 Clear focus on goals eliminates resource conflicts.
15:04 Identify fear of failure, take actionable steps.
18:28 State goals as if they've already happened.
20:03 Refine goals by asking specific questions.
23:06 Affirming small actions lead to reaching goals.
26:33 Visualizing better behavior leads to increased sensitivity.
30:04 Personal gain plan ensures purpose and direction.
32:50 Explore book "Moving to Great" by Eric Bowles.
In this episode, Dale and Eric discuss the Gallup 2023 workplace report on employee engagement. They highlight the concerning statistics that show a majority of employees are angry, stressed, and disengaged. They emphasize the importance of clarity in leadership and the need for recognition, approachable leadership, clear goals, and strong guidance. By addressing these areas, leaders can create a more engaged and productive workforce.
Takeaways
- Employee engagement is a critical issue in the workplace, with the majority of employees being angry, stressed, and disengaged.
- Leaders need to provide clarity in their communication and set clear goals to engage their team members.
- Recognition and approachable leadership are essential for creating a positive work environment.
- Strong guidance and clear expectations help employees understand their role and contribute to the organization's success.
Chapters
00:00
Introduction
00:36
Employee Engagement Statistics
03:32
The Importance of Clarity in Leadership
08:50
Recognition and Approachable Leadership
14:41
Clear Goals and Strong Guidance
23:55
Conclusion
As leaders, we are constantly evaluating our teams, performance, and the external factors that affect our organizations. But how often do we take the time to evaluate ourselves? In this episode, we dive into the importance of self-evaluation for leaders and how it can unleash our true potential. Eric shares his favorite questions to ask leaders for self-reflection and highlights the value of rigorous reflection, not just blame or self-criticism. We also discuss the power of asking better questions and how it can lead to significant personal and professional growth. So get ready to dive deep into the realm of self-evaluation and discover how it can be a game-changer in your leadership journey.
Eric and Dale explore the importance of starting strong in order to finish well in any endeavor. Eric shares his insights on what it means to truly start strong, emphasizing the value of being fully present and attentive in the moment. Using the concept of WIN as an acronym for "What's Important Now," he reveals how prioritizing the initial conditions of a project or goal can significantly impact its overall success. From personal routines to business strategies, the idea of a strong start proves to be a game-changing mindset that can drive results in various areas of life. Stay tuned as Dale and Eric dive deeper into this concept and explore its applications in customer acquisition and building trust with clients. Get ready to discover the power of starting strong on this episode of the Game Changers Podcast.
[00:01:59] Attention burns calories; jet lag is tough. Afternoons are challenging, but wife helps. Sleep matters, even napping aids recovery. Good information is crucial for valuable assistance.
[00:06:23] Prayer, meditation, reading, journaling, planning ensure successful day.
[00:09:29] Retain clients, invest in employee retention.
[00:12:05] Relying on energy for engaging speeches.
[00:14:40] Repeated scripted plays breed offensive team confidence.
[00:17:39] Align plan, action, and reporting for success.
[00:22:09] Focus, not competency, determines success. Game changer.
[00:23:28] Strategic planning leads to desired results.
In this episode, we dive deep into the topic of strategic thinking. We explore the concept of allowing the future to have a bigger influence on the present and how this mindset can lead to greater success. Eric shares his expertise on how to cultivate a culture of strategic thinking within organizations, starting with clear goals and effective communication. We also discuss the difference between tactics and strategy and how leaders can empower their teams to think more strategically. Get ready to elevate your thinking and make a game-changing impact.
In this episode, we explore the disruptive forces shaping our world and how leaders can navigate them. Eric Boles and Dale Dixon unpack the key principles of change management and the role of AI in transforming businesses. From embracing transparency and addressing resistance to the power of a growth mindset, they provide valuable insights to help leaders navigate the ever-evolving landscape of disruption. They also discuss the fears and concerns surrounding AI, the importance of clear communication and setting boundaries, and the potential for AI to free up employees to focus on high-value work. Join us as we uncover the strategies and mindset needed to thrive amidst disruption and harness the power of AI as a game-changer.
Welcome to another episode of Game Changers, where we explore the strategies, mindsets, and actions that can truly transform our lives. In this episode, Dale and Eric Boles dive deep into the concept of focusing on what we can control to achieve our goals, particularly when it comes to relationships and personal development.
[00:02:28] Focus on problems within our control.
[00:04:50] Contributing factors not determining. Powerful question influence, ignore obstacles.
[00:08:35] Identify trust obstacles, behaviors blocking goal.
[00:12:04] Focus on areas of control, increase empowerment.
[00:17:11] Discipline, date nights, vacations: Control your involvement.
[00:20:17] Focus on what you can control.
[00:22:14] Focus on what you can control.
[00:26:25] Control, leverage, focus, question, debate, factor, determine.
[00:29:23] Focus on what you can control.
We dive into the concept of maximizing your potential in those critical moments when the game is on the line. Eric shares an unconventional perspective on finishing strong, urging us to focus on the smaller details rather than solely relying on increased intensity. Drawing on examples from sports and business, we explore the practical steps to prepare ourselves mentally and make winning decisions when the pressure is high. So get ready to discover the secrets to finishing strong and unleashing your full potential. Let's dive in!
In a captivating episode of "The Game Changers Podcast," Dale Dixon and Eric Boles explore the profound facets of sports psychology and its applications beyond just sports. The discussion underscores the importance of implementing psychological strategies at home, work, and various recreational pursuits, offering listeners actionable insights to elevate their daily performance. Eric, with his deep expertise, shares transformative techniques which Dale reinforces with real-world applications.
The Game Changers Podcast with Eric Boles and Dale Dixon returns after a hiatus, and in this latest episode, they delve into the topic of fitness. Eric Boles, who coaches leaders to unlock their potential, shares his personal fitness routine, emphasizing the importance of conquering self-doubt and pushing through discomfort. He stresses that winning the morning by starting with exercise sets the tone for the rest of the day, building willpower and resilience.
Dale Dixon, the host, discusses the mental clarity and longevity benefits of exercise, citing scientific research. They highlight how physical fitness isn't just about looking good but also about feeling good, gaining confidence, and being in control of one's body. They encourage listeners to start small with a 15-minute daily workout routine, incorporating push-ups, sit-ups, air squats, and cold showers to build consistency and discipline. The episode emphasizes the significance of dominating oneself to thrive in the face of external challenges and the long-term rewards of prioritizing physical well-being.
Explore three fundamental questions every leader must ask. Discover how to overcome internal biases, challenge yourself to grow, and learn to create a winning environment in this thought-provoking and inspiring podcast. Subscribe, rate, review, and share with your team to unleash your best potential. "The Game Changers" podcast: Unleashing greatness in life and work.
In this episode, learn how embracing possibilities and turning them into probabilities can propel you to achieve greatness. From the inspiring journey of Arnold Schwarzenegger to the vital importance of daily reps and small actions, this podcast will reshape your perspective and equip you with the mindset to conquer challenges and reach your full potential. Don't miss out on this extraordinary opportunity to elevate your life and leadership. Subscribe now and unlock a world of possibilities.
Unleash your best in life and work with the Game Changers Podcast! Join Eric Boles and Dale Dixon as they explore the power of feedback and the importance of timing. Discover how the right words at the right time can transform your leadership and personal growth. From positive feedback to constructive criticism, learn how to make your feedback more meaningful and impactful. Dive into the nuances of giving and receiving feedback and gain actionable insights to become a more effective leader. Don't miss out on this podcast that will revolutionize the way you approach feedback and unleash your potential. Subscribe now and become a game changer in your own life and work!
In the latest episode, Eric Boles and Dale Dixon explore the transformative concept of "seeing is believing," and how it impacts our attitudes and actions. Through an engaging anecdote about a flight experience, they highlight the importance of perception and how it shapes our behavior. The episode emphasizes the need for leaders to cultivate the ability to see things from multiple perspectives, fostering humility and creating a learning environment. Tune in to the "Game Changers" podcast to gain valuable insights on leadership, perception, and personal growth.
Rest is a game-changer in life and work. In this episode of The Game Changers podcast featuring Eric Boles and Dale Dixon, Eric discusses the challenges of practicing rest and the importance of recovery. The conversation highlights how busyness can hinder productivity and decision-making, leading to short-term focus rather than long-term perspective. Lack of rest can diminish energy, resulting in compromised choices. Rest is defined as individualized and can take various forms, such as reading or engaging in activities that recharge one's energy. The episode encourages listeners to prioritize rest and create rituals around it to become better leaders.
A mindset reset means getting into the weeds of how we define growth. Everything outside of us is pushing us to go faster, to move quicker. Slowing down and taking the time to actually think is how to start the reset. Eric and Dale dive into the details.
If you've ever caught yourself saying, "I thought we talked about this and all agreed...," when working through a misunderstanding, this episode is for you. Eric and Dale real-world examples of how the lack of clarity is impacting so many organizations and what you, as a leader, can do to fight for clarity.
This episode may rock your thinking about what hard work really is ... and isn't. Eric Boles and Dale Dixon talk through the concept that hard work is not long hours... it's about impact and getting things done.
Be ready, so you don't have to get ready. How do we prepare to grab opportunities when presented. You can't be preparing for the opportunity when it arrives. Anticipate movement. Anticipate. Be quick, but not in a hurry. Eric Boles lays out a game plan to keep your team prepared to take advantage of the right opportunities.
How does productivity and true teamwork get better in light of buzzwords and the good intentions of diversity and inclusivity? In this game changing approach, Eric Boles and Dale Dixon dive into the courage to show up, understanding we're all individuals with rich experiences ... not only human 'beings,' but humans 'becoming.'
The higher the esteem level, the higher performing the team. In this episode, Eric and Dale detail five ways a leader can inspire those around them to higher levels of success by building esteem.
Have you noticed the ability to be objective and critically think through topics and issues is rapidly disappearing from society, especially in the U.S.? Screaming heads on TV. All or nothing politics. The work being done to trigger emotion, segment people into all-or-nothing groups does not help leaders make better decisions and organizations to reach full potential. In this episode, Eric and Dale tackle the challenge and provide game changing approaches to make critical thinking your most powerful psychological tool. Break through the cultural noise to seriously evaluate the present and prepare for the future.
In this episode of "The Game Changers" podcast, Eric Boles and Dale Dixon dive deep into the topic of productivity and getting things done. As successful business leaders, Eric and Dale have learned the power of productivity and how it can transform your business and personal life.
In this conversation, they share practical tips and insights to help you boost your productivity and accomplish your goals. Eric and Dale provide actionable advice to help you maximize your time and focus on what matters most.
They also discuss the importance of overcoming procrastination and building momentum, sharing personal stories and experiences to illustrate the power of taking action and staying focused.
Whether you're a business owner, entrepreneur, or simply looking to level up your productivity, this episode is packed with valuable insights and strategies to help you achieve success. Don't miss out on the power of productivity - tune in to "The Game Changers" podcast today!
Fear is a doorway you walk through, not a house you live in. How do you break through the doorway to get past the fears of failure and rejection? The answer is in this podcast through a powerful story of a mentor, key questions and the courage to take the first step.
Does seeking the convenient and easy keep us from true success? In this episode, Eric and Dale lay out a game plan for embracing seeking out and embracing challenges to build resiliency and create a game changing life.
Supercharge your team with an approach that requires no talent. Clarity is the powerful tool to create success in your leadership. Clarity takes no talent. But, it takes tremendous skill. In this episode, learn how to develop the clarity skill with a set of specific tools to use with your team to create new levels of clarity.
A game changing strategy to build trust with your team. Decisions are made faster and more is accomplished when team members trust one another. Leaders can build trust by living the game changing ideas presented in this week's episode.
If you're setting a goal, that goal is leading to a "win." How do you define that win? In this episode, Eric and Dale discuss a unique way to approach goal setting by clearly defining the win.
We all have room for improvement. A question as we start 2023: Are you coachable? A great coach makes all the difference. What if that coach is inside of you? In this episode, Eric and Dale discuss how to unleash the coach within to propel you to the life you want.
Finding clarity around what and how to measure for success in your business. Identifying specific areas of your life and work where you want to see success is an important first step in the process. Then, put the right measurement tools in place. In this episode, Eric and Dale work through the process to give you a clear roadmap.
In a world of distraction, getting the job done successfully can be hard. It's time to create focus.
Eric Boles shares what he learned about focus on the NFL field that translates to the leadership and business worlds. Learn the tactics to create laser-like focus to be your best in life and work.
Is your skillset keeping pace as your business grows and evolves? Making sure the business doesn't outgrow you is an opportunity for continual growth and development. Keeping pace with the business needs to be done the right way. Eric and Dale share the "the C's" to stay ahead.
Legacy and making a difference
Eric recently lost his brother. In this inspiring and heart-felt episode, he shares the life lessons and stories of a life well-lived.
Legacy and making a difference
Eric recently lost his brother. In this inspiring and heart-felt episode, he shares the life lessons and stories of a life well-lived.
Establishing a sense of urgency instead of panic in adapting to a fast-paced business world is crucial. In this episode, Eric Boles shares how a leader can bring her or his team along in the rapidly evolving environment. Learn how to develop and share an understanding of direction to keep your team performing consistently.
Leading requires clarity of purpose. How do you handle the present to prepare for the future? Eric shares the principles he's learned to lead with clarity.
One size does not fit all when helping the people you lead achieve their greatest potential. However it's easy for leaders to fall into the trap of doing what's comfortable. Eric provides an actionable approach to tuning into each individual on your team to coach in a personal, effective way.
"In order for choice to live, options must die." In this episode Eric shares how leaders can remove the noise of, "everything is important," to focus on and set the priority.
Our lives are found in the present moment. When we are not present, we are not living. Being present starts with a small step. Learn it and put it into action to fully alive.
After two years, the Game Changers is back. This is an incredible story of a chance meeting leading to a way forward after tragic loss.
Living a life of comfort might feel good in the moment, but what is it really doing to us mentally and physically? Maybe it's time to consider adding a bit of discomfort and intentional suffering to our lives. It's time to get uncomfortable to grow.
Want to grow your business? Innovate a game changing product? It's not the next BIG thing you should be chasing. Making small bets is the way to go. Learn the five rules of creating a culture of innovation and the one thing you can do to be more creative at coming up with those small bets.
Lifelong friend and colleague Laurence Haughton joins host Dale Dixon to celebrate what would have been Jason Jennings' birthday on May 31, 2020 with a series of Game Changing stories and accompanying life lessons. A chance meeting with Steve Jobs shows how luck favors the prepared mind. Learn how Jason “stumbled” into success with his first book that became an instant best seller. Jason had a knack for making people feel special, by using a unique gift. And, a tree planting in India shows it's always the right time to do something that leaves a legacy. Plus, Dale has a special request at the end of the episode: an opportunity for you to help craft the upcoming podcasts. What business related challenge needs a game changing approach? Send Dale an email at dale@daledixonmedia.com.
Episode 235 of The Game Changers is the podcast episode decades too early. Jason’s colleague and close friend of 40-years, Laurence Haughton joins host Dale Dixon to pay tribute to Jason Jennings. Jason passed away on May 19, 2020 after a 12-day fight for life resulting from an aortic aneurism. In quintessential Jason Jennings style, Laurence and Dale distill 10 take-away life-lessons from working with Jason. The podcast concludes with an inspiring challenge. Jason may not be physically with us, but his generosity and spirit lay the foundation for a promising future.
It’s a repeatedly proven fact that companies that don’t do layoffs gain a competitive advantage that will have them grabbing market share, increased revenues and profitability when circumstances change. It’s also proven that companies that do layoffs the right way recover faster and that companies that do it the wrong way take much longer to recover to recover if ever.
If you’re ever having a dark day, feeling bad, afraid of what’s happening around you or simply want a BIG mood booster, this episode will help you turn things around and find yourself with a powerful and positive attitude. It’s one of the most compelling podcasts ever created by Jason and it’s one you’ll want to share with people you care about.
In this episode Jason’s head of research and co-author Laurence Haughton a secret skill that will put you far ahead of the curve when the reboot begins. It all starts with seeing clearly, making a list and building a simple graph. Powerful knowledge to be gained in this week’s edition of The Game Changers.
People’s performance reaches its peak when they stop trying to control things they can’t control and spend their time on the things they can control. In this episode you’ll learn about the things you can’t control, the things you can, the difference between them and you’ll probably learn a lot about yourself.
The world is experiencing a pandemic of proportions never previously confronted. No one knows how this will be controlled one day, but it’s a certainty that it will. Many people are feeling depressed and being overwhelmed with despair. Here are 7 ways to try and find hope during these dark hours.
Our brains crave certainty in the same way our bodies crave food, sleep and other basic needs. We love receiving positive news and information that makes us more certain and fear any news that leaves us uncertain. This edition talks about the importance of certainty in our lives and how to create our own certainty.
Everyone is concerned with the safety and wellbeing of their families, but the news seems to only get worse by the hour.
Most of us can’t simply hunker down, lock the doors, work from home and hope for the best. We have companies to run, businesses whose doors must open, employees and customer who count on us and supply chains to lead and manage.
I’ve spent my lifetime studying and watching remarkable in good times, bad times and times of crisis.
This special edition of The Games Changers reveals the 8 biggest lessons I’ve learned about leading in a time of crisis.
We must all be in this together and help one another.
Jason came across a list of ways to minimize your risk for contracting the coronavirus. It contained many things he didn’t know. He checked the source and it’s a solid, reliable and highly learned doctor with no agenda other than helping keep people healthy. In this episode we reveal the eight things you can do to minimize your risk of contracting the coronavirus. This is one you should forward to others.
Do you practice mindful anticipation? Lots of studies prove that there are many powerful benefits derived from active anticipation. In this episode Jason reveals the eight ways that active anticipation will help you.
In his NY Times bestselling book, It’s Not The Big That The Small-It’s The Fast That Eat The Slow, Jason shared a powerful story about a man who finally took the time to work on his business not in his business and what happened when he did. This past week, Jason took a week to work on his business not in or for his business and shares what he learned and what to means to you.
In one chapter in his NYT bestselling book, The Reinventors, Jason writes about the inability of most companies to let go of the old and embrace the new. In one chapter titled, Letting Go, he writes about the fact that most successful companies become so averse to change they become paralyzed. That started him wondering how risk adverse he’d become. He found some great tests to evaluate his own tolerance for risk and he shares his score and the tests in this edition.
A recent research study concluded that six out of ten managers don’t know what’s really going on in their companies and when asked questions they were unable to answer, they resorted to folklore and mumbo-jumbo. If 60% of a firm’s managers don’t know what’s going on, it’s not possible to have an organization with high engagement, clear priorities, clarity and focus and accountability. Here’s how to be a lot better than everyone else.
Last week, on a trip to deliver two speeches, I caught a ride with Lyft to a bookstore.
I ended up hearing one of the greatest stories I’ve ever heard about having all the odds stacked against you but singlehandedly deciding to pick yourself up, create a goal and do whatever is needed to achieve it.
It’s the story of Nur, an immigrant from Bhutan. You’ll be uplifted, richer and more determined than ever to achieve your goals when you hear this story.
The average worker has 200 unanswered emails in their inbox. Jason frequently found himself with more than 500 and talked to a colleague who has more than 18,000 unanswered emails in theirs. So, he set out to discover the best ways to bring the number down to zero and have an incredible sense of self-esteem. This podcast reveals what he found out.
If you spend all your time focusing only on the long-term view, there’s a very good chance you’ll never achieve it!
Witness the recent debacle of WeWork whose valuation plummeted from a high of 47 billion dollars to less than 5 billion over the course of a disastrous few months, fueled by greed, not paying attention to the day-to-day and arrogance.
There are 7 big dangers to look for when creating long-term plans. We’ll reveal them in the latest edition of The Game Changers©
Each year Jason conducts more than 800 interviews with CEO’s, business owners and entrepreneurs in preparation for his speeches and workshops. In 2019, almost every person he’s interviewed has brought up one ugly subject. We’ll reveal what he’s hearing and what to do about it in this edition of The Game Changers©
Everycompany wants to do a better job of engaging their workforce and raising their employee engagement scores but they’re all missing something big. There’s only one way to achieve high levels of engagement and it’s been overlooked by almost every company. We reveal it in this edition of The Game Changers©
Great leaders are people of their word and when they say they’re going to get something done, they just do it; with no excuses ever offered for not getting it done. In this episode, Jason talks about always doing what you say you’re going to do and delivering and making good on your promises and commitments.
Endorsements and testimonials work for every business. Most people and companies are horrible at asking for and receiving endorsements that work. In this edition Jason explains how to gather and use strong testimonials and endorsements to grow your business.
Each time Jason visits India for work or adventure travel he makes new discoveries. His most recent trip – a combination of work, speeches and adventure – was no exception. This episode features 5 things you should know about India.
If you’re a regular listener you’re probably someone filled with gratitude. This podcast teaches how to take your gratitude to a new level and is based on a great thank letter that Jason recently received that sets the standard for how to say thank you.
Bill Campbell created billions of dollars of value in Silicon Valley as head of marketing and board director for Apple Inc. and CEO for Intuit and GO Corporation. But, he also created trillions of dollars of shareholder value by coaching Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Sundar Pichai at Google, Steve Jobs at Apple, Brad Smith at Intuit, Jeff Bezos at Amazon, John Donahoe at eBay, Marissa Mayer at Yahoo, Dick Costolo at Twitter, and Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook. This episode reviews the book, The Trillion Dollar Coach, and explains how he worked his magic.
It happened during the dot.com bust, it happened again during the Great Recession and it’s happening again, right now.
When the tides high and customers and new orders are flowing in the doors, , companies take all the business they can get, and it doesn’t matter what form it takes.
But, whenever there’s a sign of weakness in the economy and/or talk of an impending slowdown, everyone jumps on the bandwagon of needing to become a solution provider instead of simply selling stuff.
Successful solution providing means higher gross margins, stickier customer relationships and many more dollars to the bottom line.
Very few companies and even fewer salespeople have the determination and skill set required to make the transformation. Do you?
You’ll learn everything you need to know about solution providing in this edition of The Game Changers.
What do chopping wood and carrying water have to do with each another?
The two activities share nothing in common; in fact, it would be downright dangerous to try and do both at the same time.
It’s now been proven, without a doubt, that multitasking doesn’t work and is bad for you, your employees, your customers and owners.
In this edition of The Game Changers© you’ll find helpful tips for being in the present.
There’s a wealth of information packed into 20 very fast minutes and a couple of great stories you’ll want to claim as your own and use.
Bad leaders come from a position of scarcity, have a snarky, dark view of the world and believe there’s only enough to go around for themselves and the owners or shareholders. Truly great leaders come from a position of abundance and want the people within their organizations to truly prosper but…and there’s a big BUT, there’s a big catch! Become a more enlightened leader in this podcast.
The Business Roundtable, whose members are the CEOs of America’s leading companies with more than 15 million employees and more than $7 trillion in annual revenues, stunned the world when they announced they were changing their statement of purpose. No longer is their stated purpose, “to exist to grow profits,” but instead to do something much bigger and more meaningful. In this edition of The Game Changers© we’ll reveal their new statement of purpose and explain why it’s going to be a real game changer.
Would you give up a couple of cups of coffee or a sandwich every day to end up being worth 5 million dollars by the time you’re set to retire? Learn how to achieve financial abundance in this episode of the Game Changers.
The twelve top leaders of one of the world’s largest -and from outward appearances – most successful companies in the world recently confessed to Jason the six things they don’t do well and wanted his help fixing. If you’re a leader or want to become one, don’t allow these six frequently overlooked things to derail your success or your career.
Most people are horrible listeners. Within 48 hours of hearing a 10-minute presentation, most people can only recall 20% of what they heard. By the time a person is in high school they’re listening to less than 30% of what they hear and when most people listen, they’re so preoccupied with what’s in it for them that they fail to recognize important clues. And, to top it off, unless you have one unique personality trait, you’ll never master being a good listener. The secrets about listening are all revealed in this episode.
Jason recently took part in the first conference of the top 30 leadership gurus in the world. He attended prepared to share and ended up being astounded by how much he learned. The gathering drove home the need for all people to find ways to constantly rejuvenate and refresh themselves. In this episode you’ll hear what Jason learned at the conference and what it means to you.
In most companies, the higher up the ladder you climb, the less direct contact you have with customers. That’s not the case with great companies where the top leaders all stay in close touch with customers.
Seven of ten startups fail within a couple of years and nine are dead and buried before their 10th birthday.
Think of what a wide swath of broken hopes and dreams, crushed personal finances and irreparably broken friendships float down that river of misery.
If you’re thinking about doing a startup or know someone who is, you should click here and listen to the latest edition of The game Changers© and learn the eight things a start-up can do to help ensure their success.
Jason was recently asked to be a guest on two episodes of Business-Next, one of India’s most popular business podcasts. The podcast is being aired on Bloomberg India and 20 other social media platforms in India. This segment sheds light on toolkits to building a high-speed company - toolkits to develop a focused set of principles, tactics and a continuous learning process to avoid mistakes that everyone else has made.
Having recently witnessed an alarming number of retail stores closing their doors, Jason decided to investigate the future of retail in the US. Some of his findings and insights will surprise you.
It’s my birthday and the 200th birthday of the podcast I do each week with Dale Dixon.
My birthday is the day of the year that I spend time taking stock of where I am, where I’m headed, what I’ve accomplished and what I want to accomplish.
Today, in addition to giving thanks for the gifts of health, family and success, I was also struck by the realization that everything I’ve achieved in life has come from helping other people achieve what they want to achieve. Without exception!
Jason Jennings loves India and has spent time there on many occasions. Recently, Jason was asked to be a guest on two podcasts on the subject of building a high-speed enterprise. Produced by IVM Podcasts, an Indian Company, the podcast is being aired on Bloomberg India and twenty other social media platforms.
During recent business trips Jason witnessed many overt acts of prejudice and discrimination. How do principled people opposed to discrimination respond when they see or experience vile acts? Do they look the other way? Do they says something or say nothing? Here’s how he’s decided to handle it.
Meeting new people can be stressful; some people even experience severe anxiety when forced to do so. Here’s a list of the good things that happen when you’re open to engaging with strangers and instructions for how to make it happen.
Brian Devine, former CEO and Chairman Emeritus of PETCO told Jason that he’s never lost an employee he wanted to keep. Keeping great people is a challenge. In this episode you’ll learn a ‘devine’ way for keeping great people.
Here’s a powerful and inspirational short story to about the unlimited opportunities available to everyone – if they just know where to look. This is one story you’ll never forget.
Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Alibaba endorses the 996 work system; 12 hours of work from 9:00 to 9:00 six days a week and argues that people who work that much have found their true passion and are the only people he considers to be his ‘brothers’ in business. That’s the discussion in this podcast.
The definitive research is in and it proves that companies whose employees are the happiest, generate far more revenues and profits than those of companies whose employees are less happy. In this edition you’ll learn 17 ways to make your employees happier and more engaged.
The Median US household has saved less than $5,000 for retirement (that means half of all households have saved more and the other half have saved less). That paints a picture of a desperate future for tens of millions of people. Here’s how we can start solving the problem.
While researching his book, Hit The Ground Running, Jason observed that truly exceptional leaders simply do a better and more effective job than their less successful peers at communicating where the department, business unit or company is headed. They’ve mastered the skills of being destination agents.
Asking for a raise is hard – it’s difficult to talk about how much money you’re worth. In this episode Jason and Dale reveal 10 things you can do to prepare yourself and present your case for getting a raise.
Last week, I was traveling for a speech and, because of the location, had to stay in a hotel that charges $800 a night.
The service was lousy and over two nights and three days, I was on the receiving end of a record setting 36 “I’m sorry’s” and “I apologize.” Each was well-practiced and patently disingenuous.
I started doing some research and discovered that most people feel the same way; they simply don’t believe most customer service apologies.
I also discovered some fascinating research published in the Harvard Business Review about what it takes to make an apology work.
Average companies have hundreds of objectives and initiatives. Highly successful companies have 95% fewer objectives. Here’s how to reduce the number of objectives you have and watch productivity will soar.
I shared a flight with a cranky guy with a bad attitude last week.
It got me thinking about how grateful I am to be an optimist and I took out a pad of paper and started making a list.
If you like the idea of being optimistic, you’ll enjoy the list and learn something.
When researching his book, Hit The Ground Running, Jason spent time with and wrote about Howard Lance, the CEO of Harris Corporation and currently the Chairman and CEO of three billion dollar, Maxar Technologies, a leading space technology and solutions company. During one of their interviews, Lance told Jason about an exercise he’d done as a young, rising executive that had a profound impact on his career; he and the other attendees were instructed to spend an evening writing their own obituary. Learn how writing your obituary can be the first step toward building a plan that allows you to live the life you want to live.
Imagine having everyone who works with or for you aiming their arrows at the same target.
That can only happen with effective communication and that relies on being able to cascade information throughout the company.
Here are the 7 Steps that will insure the messaging you want everyone to have is cascaded properly.
In the past, I’ve bough a lot of Armani and Brioni suits to make sure I looked good on stage. A great designer label suit with fine Italian fabrics can easily cost $5,000.
Then, I heard about a company whose suits sell for $800 and in an evaluation test for the WSJ, a team of experts judged the $800 suit to be as good as a $5,000 Armani suit.
Hear the story of how Suitsupply is upending the menswear business. You’ll learn something you can us in your business.
As a researcher, author and teacher I’m able to gain access to lots of very accomplished business leaders. But, recently, I was privileged to see the best example of leadership in action I’ve ever witnessed. Listen and gain invaluable leadership insights into how great leaders lead.
My observations:
1.Successful people and companies frequently start to take their success for granted. Of the original Fortune 500 from 1955 fewer than 10% remain; 450 died, got absorbed, went of business etc. The average lifespan of a company in the S&P is less than 20 years versus 60 years back in the 1960’s.
2.They overlook small things which will become tsunamis later
3.When the person steering the ship sees it drifting off course, immediate course correction is required
4.Most companies don’t realize that what got them to where they are, won’t get them to where they want to go. They believe they are the exception to the rule, and they aren’t.
Last week, I was doing kick-off the year speech in Sacramento for BMD, a great employee owned mid-size company. After my speech, we divided the attendees into small groups and assigned each group one of the key points of my speeches. The assignment was to answer the question, "How can we use this to get us where we want to go?"
I was stunned with the great ideas the small groups generated.
On the trip home I couldn't stop thinking about how many valuable ideas employees have that never get shared with senior leadership.
Here's 10 ways to get more ideas than you'll know what to do with from the people who report to you.
Is the glass half-empty or half full? Does it only depend on your perspective? One of the observations Jason has made this year while interviewing nearly 1000 CEO’s, top business leaders and entrepreneurs is that companies who are doing well believe they have unlimited opportunities in front of them while businesses experiencing little or negative growth believe the opportunities in front of them are limitless. Is it the just perspective or is it something else? Jason thinks it’s something else.
Do you believe in ghosts? Jason never did until he visited Richmond, Virginia last week for a speech. Let him tell you what happened in his hotel room. The story is enough to give you goose bumps. There’s also a great business tip from a small business owner who employs 65 people in a highly successful enterprise. You’ll find his unique perspective refreshing, unusual and maybe a little controversial.
Each year, Jason conducts between 600 - 1,000 telephone interviews in preparation for his speeches around the world. These conversations are with CEO’s of small, medium and very large companies, business owners, entrepreneurs, and high-level executives. This episode reveals the ten things business leaders see as their big challenges for 2019.
Recent research reveals that students who take four years of arts and music average almost 100 higher points on their SATS than those who take a half-year or less. Have children or grandchildren? Want them to have a rich life. Maybe you should encourage them to grab a paintbrush instead of a football. 9 reasons why the arts are better than sports.
Description: After studying more than 220,000 companies for books and having conducted more than 34,000 interviews with the most successful leaders, business owners and CEO’s in the world, Jason complied a list of the eight traits that truly great leaders share. He reveals them in this episode of the Game Changers©.
Followed the company from its infancy but they never -explain – qualified for one of my books. But it’s tough to ignore advice form a guy who has a net worth of 158 billion dollars.
Half of all online searches start on Amazon, 50% of Americans belong to Prime, and the company receives 1 of 2 dollars spent online.
Article by Randall Lane, Editor of Forbes and have always admired him.
- Day 1 Tower – it’s the first day of their existence and the first day of the Internet (Think BIG Act Small)
- Emphasize growth over short term profitability
- Multiple paths to yes, instead of multiple paths to no. (Dan DiMicco, Nucor Steel)
- Celebrate and undo your small failures (Schwab)
- Looking for a differentiated idea – not a me too offering. Has to be big. Had to offer potentially great return on capital. Kindle story…. nobody wanted to do but Bezos said we need to start learning. (arrow Electronics)
With 1.3 million listens and downloads and growing every week, this is, The Game Changers with Jason Jennings, NY Times, WSJ and USA TODAY bestselling author of eight books on leadership, growth, innovation, speed, reinvention….
Dale: You’re a fitness fanatic but we’ve never talked about it before, but, I guess that’s the subject today…what caused this to pop up your radar?
This episode is based on content from Jason’s book, Hit The Ground Running and reveals 9 simple steps for creating a fierce sense of urgency in any business or organization.
There’s a group of people whom you probably deal with frequently who can quickly make you or break you. But, many companies, small and large pay little attention to keeping these people on your side and turning them into partners. In this episode, Jason explains how to turn your vendors and suppliers into a cheerleading squad for your business.
Positivity is a powerful force that is oftentimes overlooked. A positive thought, a positive mindset, or a positive point-of-view has the potential to change your entire outlook on any situation. Find out why is positivity so important and how can you lead with positivity.
Since his first book, almost 20 years ago, Jason has logged an average of 300,000 miles annually in air travel. If anyone is an expert at navigating airports around the world it’s him and, in this episode, he’ll reveal the 10 ways he survives and thrives while circumnavigating the problems most travelers confront.
Marcus Theaters, the 4th largest movie chain the US is reinventing the movie going experience and their CEO, Rolando Rodriguez, has seven secrets for reinventing mature businesses.
Jason recently returned from a month-long speaking and ‘snooping around’ tour to Asia and Southeast Asia and, despite having previously visited and worked in the region more than 50 times he was blown away by what he witnessed. Here’s what you need to know.
After 166 episodes of The Game Changers Dale Dixon and Jason Jennings had never met in-person. That all changed on the eve of Jason’s departure on a three-week speaking, adventure and ‘poking his nose around tour of China, Cambodia, Laos, Hong Kong and Singapore. During their lunch together, Jason gave Dale a sneak preview of what he’d be sharing with the leadership of one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.
When it was time to buy a holiday ham Jason headed to the Honey Baked Ham store in northern California. He knew it was an hour-long drive, knew the store would be mobbed, called ahead anyway and was blown away by 5 Star customer service that he received and that any business can copy.
Nick Stathis, the Director of, Portfolio Financial Group, in Queensland, Australia, and a former client, reached out to Jason and asked if he remembered teaching a session titled, “How to Get a Job with Any Company Your Choose.” This episode reveals the six steps for getting a job and a career with any company you choose.
It’s a fact; 80% of jobs are never advertised!
Why in the world would anyone spend all their time scanning job postings, filling out forms and submitting resumes only to, most likely, hit the data dump and never hear back?
The current episode of, Jason Jennings The Games Changers©, will reveal the 6 steps anyone can take to find a job and work for any company they want.
You’ll be a better person for listening or watching and learning these six steps.
Dale Dixon, the host of, The Game Changers©, just attended a Tony Robbins fifteen-hour workshop. Ever wondered about what goers on? We’ll review it for you.
Do you know what the letters in the word ‘fine’ stand for? Once you do you’ll permanently banish the word from your vocabulary and think twice before interacting with anyone who uses it.
Do you ever hear buzzword phrases like, ‘aggregating leading-edge functionalities’ and wonder if you’re stupid because you have no idea of what they’re talking about or are simply dealing with a precocious, pretentious poseur? Well, it turns out there’s even an app to generate buzzwords.
We take a one episode break from serious business, share some observations and promise you’ll learn a thing or two in this episode titled,
We promise you’ll be a better person for listening or watching.
There was a big problem at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.
Men were missing the urinals, cleanup was getting out of hand, and, nothing seemed to fix the problem until, one person had a bright idea that cut cleaning costs by 80%.
The story is hilarious and true and will introduce you to the concept of nudging; how to get people to act in their own best interests without rules, decrees, policies and punishment.
Learn how to nudge in the latest episode of The Game Changers©
Sixteen years and six books ago, I was fortunate enough to write my second NYT and WSJ bestseller, Less Is More.
A few weeks ago, I received a call from the leader of a company who wanted a speech based on that book, specifically, the last few pages of the book, where I’d written a summary of my findings into the most productive companies in the world.
I didn’t remember what he was referring to and decided I’d better reread the book. And, there it was, at the end of the book; a short summary of findings of the world’s most productive companies. It was like finding a wad of $100 bills in a pair of jeans you hadn’t worn for years.
In this episode of The Game Changers we reveal the 10 traits of highly productive companies and explain how each 1% increase in productivity can make a HUGE impact on your bottom line.
I’m working on a new book and, earlier this week, came across a few statistics that were shocking!
Did you know that ten years after completing their studies, 3% of Harvard’s MBA graduates were earning 10 times the income of the other 97%?
The 3% only did one simple thing the other 97% didn’t do. It’s something you can do today. And, I bet you’ll get the same results.
I’ll tell you all about it in the latest edition of, The Game Changers©.
Last week, while sneaking in a few day’s of vacation, I voluntarily attended a timeshare presentation. I wanted to know if all the horror stories I’d heard about them were true.
Worldwide, timeshares are a 50 billion dollar a year business and some of the biggest and most respected names in hospitality are the big owners.
The three hours I spent with the various representatives were enjoyable but, most importantly, I walked away – after finally saying no – with a real respect and admiration for the process.
There are great things you can learn from this 50 billion dollar business that will help your business.
I have a suggested resolution for you; in 2018, everyone should strive to become a better listener because listening is magnetic and the people who really listen to us are the ones we move toward, believe and they are the ones with whom we want to be close.
We reveal the, 10 Secrets of Listening, in the latest edition of, The Game Changers.
51% of all workers plan on leaving their current job (Gallup) and 33% of employees says they’re leaving within the next 12 months. (Mercer) 40% of all workers say they’re unhappy with their boss (IBM) and another 20% say they’re un happy with the company. (IBM) Is it possible that asking workers five simple questions can turn things around? Yes, and we’ll throw you a life saver and reveal the five questions in the latest episode The Game Changers titled, 5 Questions That Will Practically Insure Your People Won’t Leave
This podcast explains why maintaining a professional distance between you and your clients is the right thing to do and explains the five BIG reasons why it’s best for business.
Thomas Frey, powerful visionary and founder and Executive Director of the DaVinci Institute, who members of the media refer to as ‘the father of invention’ and the ‘Dean of Futurists, is the featured guest on this edition of the Game Changers to present and discuss shocking predictions about driverless vehicles.
In this episode we’re joined by Jeff Hyman, author of a new book, Recruit Rockstars: The 10 Step Playbook to Find the Winners and Ignite Your Business. He’s the Chief Talent Officer for Strong Suit Executive Search and teaches an MBA course about recruiting at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. You’ll learn three recruitment secrets that will make you better at what you do.
Do you have what it takes to be a good steward or servant leader? If you look in a mirror and ask one simple question, your answer will reveal things you never knew about yourself.
There’s a new report out – conducted by NORC - the University of Chicago’s research institution - that reveals what prospective employees are looking for in a company where they’d want to work. What they learned will surprise you and help you in your recruitment efforts.
In just 14 years Elon Musk has created Tesla; a company with a market cap of $54 billion. In this edition of The Game Changers© we’ll reveal five of the reason for the meteoric growth of Tesla and they are all powerful tools you can begin using tomorrow in your business.
This episode reveals the three questions that will allow anyone to deliver a speech or presentation that knocks it out of the park.
According to USA TODAY six in ten Americans would be unable to pay an unexpected bill of $500.00 and would have to put it on credit card, not pay it or borrow from family and friends. That’s sad and an outrage! In this episode Jason talks about the need to save, save, and save some more, how to do it and the importance of achieving economic freedom.
“Five-year plans are stupid,” are the words that have been spoken to Jason by a very long list of the most successful entrepreneurs, business owners and CEOs in the world. In this episode Jason discusses the fallacy of most long term plans and explains what kinds of plans work.
Have you ever dreamed about doing an adventure of a lifetime with your child before they graduate, leave home and it’s too late? It’s something every parent would love to do but how can you make it happen? How do you manage the time off? Will your business or career stall while you’re away? What kinds of challenges, lessons learned and rewards will result? In this episode learn about three parents who took the time to bicycle across America with their kids and the lessons they learned.
Today, we welcome bestselling author Shawn Hunter to the podcast with a remarkable story of a journey across America. Shawn Hunter -Entrepreneur, author, idea developer. Shawn has collaborated with hundreds of business authors, executives, and researchers to create learning solutions. Shawn’s first company, Targeted Learning, was acquired by Skillsoft in February 2007. He is the author of Out•Think and Small Acts of Leadership and currently Founder and President of Mindscaling, a company dedicated to creating beautiful, and intelligent online learning experiences based on the works of bestselling authors.
Have you ever wondered how some people have great attitudes all the time while other go through life with a sourpuss? In this episode Jason shares the stories of three recent encounters with three people facing unique challenges and reveals the six things they share for maintaining great attitudes all the time.
Want to be more productive, want to get more done, want to sit down at the end of the day with a feeling of accomplishment and contentment? In this edition of The Game Changers© Jason reveals how to dramatically improve your productivity. It’s an easy way that will easily double how much you get done in less time than you’re spending now.
Each year Jason interviews between 600 and 800 CEO’s, senior leaders, wildly successful entrepreneurs and front-line personnel for the keynote speeches he delivers and the books he writes. Occasionally, he hears remarkable insights that he wants to share. You’ll love some of the spot-on and wry observations from senior leaders at one of America’s most successful companies.
While conducting an interview in preparation for a speech, a business owner said something to Jason that is the most egregious thing he’s ever heard. It’s also the reason why employees don’t become engaged in the business and eventually leave.
While on a recent speaking trip to Denver, Jason stayed in the Westin Downtown Hotel. While there, he experienced something that's never happened in any of his more than 4,500 hotel nights and it was pure magic.
Grit is defined as clenching the teeth in order to keep one’s resolve when faced with unpleasant or painful duty. In short it means not giving up. It’s a word that I’m hearing more and more when interviewing CEO’s; specifically, the lack of it on the part of the workforce. Insight on grit in this edition.
New research proves that companies that get involved in community causes retain their workers longer, have higher employee engagement scores, pay their people more and earn higher profits than those who don’t. Here are the six reason why every business should support a charitable cause.
Finding, engaging and keeping the right people continues to be the single biggest challenge facing businesses everywhere. Based on his exhaustive research into more than 220,000 companies Jason reveals five secrets for getting the job done.
In the course of everyone’s live there comes a time when they face a challenge, a hardship or a problem that threatens to overwhelm them and they don’t’ where or to whom to turn. When that happens to you or someone close to you, you should be armed with three questions that will provide an immediate solution.
Retail is in free fall with some forecasts saying the US will have 25-40% less retail space in the next ten years. Then, there’s TJ Maxx and Marshalls with 33 straight quarters of increased sales, annual sales that exceed Nordstrom’s and JC Penny’s combined and a market value seven times that of Macy’s. Learn how they do it and why they should be a model for retailers everywhere.
Testimonials and third party endorsements and are powerful ways of convincing customers they’ve made the right choice, affirms that others have made the choice were pleased and helps them think they’re making a wide decision. This episode will teach you everything you need to know about collecting and using testimonials and endorsements.
Medline is the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies in the world. The companies more than 1,200 sales representatives generate more than eight billion in annual revenues for the 350,000 different products which are delivered from the firm’s more than 12 million square feet of warehousing. This is one incredibly company and here’s the story of how they built one of the most extraordinary sales organizations of all time.
Edelman is a leading global research and communication company that conducts an annual trust survey. The results this year are shocking. Have a listen.
Think about the last compliment you received from someone. I bet it made you feel really good. Years ago, a cashier at a drive through window at a Jack in the Box paid Jason Jennings a compliment that he's never forgotten; you could even say it was a life changer. To this day Jason can’t drive by the place on Lombard Street, in San Francisco, where the restaurant was located, without smiling a big smile. In this new edition of The Game Changers Jason shares the seven reasons why you should make giving compliments a big part of your life.
One of leadership’s commonly followed rules is to keep your cards close to your vest and make everything a big secret. This edition reveals that dinosaur like belief as being plain stupid.
Traditional retailers are closing their doors, going out of business and filing for bankruptcy at an unprecedented rate. But, Wal-Mart is still growing and the things they’re doing to stay relevant, profitable and prosperous are must learn lessons for everyone in business.
Can a single flap of a butterfly’s wings in the Amazon eventually create a hurricane that destroys homes and kills people in Texas? The Butterfly Effect is a well-respected and widely written about part of Chaos Theory that you should know about when making business decisions. It’ll also make you appear very smart.
It’s inevitable that you’re going to disappoint someone and be forced to apologize. In this episode you’ll learn how the world’s best companies handle customer complaints and make certain they don’t happen again.
The day this episode posts Jason will be in Marquette, Michigan delivering the Spring Commencement Address to 1,200 students graduating at Northern Michigan University. In this podcast Jason gives us a preview of the three secrets he’ll be sharing with the final Millennials and the first Gen Z’ers.
Way back in 1997, Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon, wrote a letter to his first shareholders. Contained in that letter were the beliefs he held sacred. Listen and learn how prescient the guiding principles were and how they resulted in building one of the five most valued companies in the US in a remarkably short period of time. In the episode we’ll also compare the twenty year old letter with his most recent letter to shareholders and see what’s changed. You’ll learn a lot you can use.
The video went viral and the world watched as a passenger on United Airlines was forcibly removed from his seat, beaten up badly and unceremoniously tossed off the plane. His only offense was that the airline had to get four employees to another airport. Jason, who has flown almost four million miles on the airline and knows the inner workings of the airline explains why having too many rules caused this tragic event to occur.
Howard Schultz has stepped down as CEO at Starbucks. The last time he tried to step aside everything went to hell in a hand basket. This edition will tell you why bad things happened when he left and what to be on the lookout for in his replacement and it all ties back to a single basic principle of business.
The first members of Generation Z are about to graduate from college this year and they are completely different than their Generation X Millennial predecessors. Learn about the differences between Gen X and Gen Z in this this edition.
Uber is the 70 billion dollar Goliath and Lyft the feisty and nimble competitor. But, Lyft has something going for it that Uber doesn’t and it could turn out to be a huge vulnerability and a great case study that might eventually prove that, “it’s not the big that eat the small – It’s the fast that eat the slow.” Here’s another MBA level course in culture.
Back in 1958 an Englishman by the name of Cyril Parkinson published a book titled, Parkinson’s Law and The Pursuit of Progress. It was filled with wickedly humorous essays based on his time in the British Civil Service including one about how many people and how much time it took to get something done. Members of British Foreign Office set out to prove his observation and succeeded. It’s truer today than ever. You’ll learn all about people pyramid schemes and bureaucracies.
Every organization of more than two people has a culture. It’s either the want they to have and they work on it constantly and if they don’t have a culture one exists by default and any culture that exists by default inevitably becomes toxic. Here’s your MBA level course in culture.
Jason recently completed an engagement with a client where he helped bring alive the purpose of the company. What they did with it is brilliant. If you want to learn one of the best ways to cascade a message through an enterprise and get everyone on the same page you’ll love this game changer.
Is nickel and diming and constant surcharging a defensible business model. This week’s edition provides examples of what happens when the nickels and dimes start adding up and your customers vote with their feet and leave.
Author Simon Sinek says that Millennials were dealt a bad hand and it’s the responsibility of business to accommodate them and their ‘special’ needs. In this week’s edition we talk about bad parenting, the effects of technology and wanting it now.
This episode tells you how to never run out of great ideas using one simple thing that Jason learned while research his first landmark book, "It’s Not The Big That Eat The Small –It’s The Fast That Eat The Slow". Practice this one painless maneuver whenever you’re about to take a trip and watch the ideas flow.
After completing a recent keynote speech in Phoenix Jason came to the conclusion it was the best managed and most outstanding conference in which he’s ever taken part. After more than 1000 keynote speeches around the world, Jason shares the six secrets for an outstanding conference.
Sometimes leaders are required to make decisions that cause short term pain. Here’s an invaluable lesson in how to make the hard stuff fun.
If you want to grow your business don’t resort to using the same old tired excuses routinely offered up by executives and owners of businesses that aren’t growing. This edition debunks every excuse for little or no growth and offers up a sure recipe for nonstop growth.
Episodes of The Game Changers always rely on the research for Jason’s bestselling books and the fascinating people he meets during the course of traveling hundreds of thousands of miles each year. But, in this episode opens up and reveals a personal story he’s never shared before and the four e invaluable lessons he learned that changed his life. It’s a must listen podcast.
This episode will strike terror in the hearts of anyone involved in sales. Several fascinating studies have repeatedly proven the efficacy and financial benefits of constantly changing things up, shuffling portfolios and changing account lists. Learn about the fascinating research in this edition.
At the end of 2015 Jason read about something Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook planned on doing in the coming year. He decided that if it was good enough for Zuckerberg it was good enough for him and he made a promise to do the exact same thing. The results of his New Year’s resolution have been amazing. Not sure how it worked out for Mark Zuckerberg but it can make a huge difference in enriching your life.
Out of the more than 1000 keynote speeches and teaching assignments that Jason has delivered in every state, province and nearly 100 countries he’s only found himself speechless on four occasions. Recently, after being introduced as the closing speaker for ComEd’s Key Manager’s Meeting in Chicago, he took the stage and it happened again…he looked out ta the audience and almost didn’t know where to start or how to begin. Here’s what gave him pause and a big lesson for anyone in business.
Jason guesses he’s stayed in more than 3,000 different hotels during his career and his favorite hotel will surprise you. Recently, while staying at that hotel, he was engaged in one of those unplanned, spur of the moment conversations with a man standing next to him in the lobby. It turns out the man is the owner of the hotel and a dozen others. During their conversation, he shared with Jason the four things that have made him an extraordinarily successful hotel owner. You can adopt and use these four things in your business as well.
Does your customer service suck? The only way to find out is by being your own customer and experiencing firsthand how you treat your customers. Here are seven steps for dramatically improving customer service.
At least once a year Jason has lunch with Russ Colombo, President and CEO of Bank of Marin, a highly successful bank which has enjoyed remarkable growth under Russ’s stewardship. This year they decided to bring their spouses. While comparing notes they discovered both couples had been together since they were twenty, were celebrating big anniversaries this year and that’s where the conversation naturally turned – to why highly successful, long term relationships in life and in business happen. Together, the two couples think they cracked the code.
Many years ago, a woman named Laura, who was my assistant, walked into my office, laid down a bunch of memos and letters and said, “That letter you wrote is the worst letter I’ve ever transcribed in my life,” adding, “you should be ashamed of yourself!” And, then, she proceeded to give me a lesson I’ve never forgotten and use every day. In many ways it wasn’t only a game changer but a life changer for me. And, it can be for you too.
We receive a lot of mail from people asking what they can do to change or transform their company from the bottom or the middle. Many of these emails express utter frustration at feeling stuck in a company that doesn’t get it. Here are Jason’s thoughts and advice on making an impact from the bottom or the middle.
This week, in preparation for a speech in Arizona, I interviewed Patsy O’Brien, the Chief Operating Officer of Smith & Howard, an accounting and advisory firm in Atlanta, Georgia, a firm consistently rated the number one CPA firm in America by INSIDE PUBLIC ACCOUNTING. At the end of a great conversation Patsy said, “Wait a minute, there’s one more thing I need to tell you about before we wrap up.” What she said has profound implications for every business and is one of the coolest and biggest game changers I’ve ever come across.
Peter Drucker said culture eats strategy for breakfast, your research really illustrates that point. (Jason, pick it up and illustrate with a story). When you talk about a lean culture, what do you mean? In your book, Less is More, you identify eleven leadership traits behind creating the culture. While we don't have time to go into all eleven. Give us one or two that a leader can focus on and improve in the next week.
What can you learn from the most successful companies? The research shows top performers consistently master the art of creating and sustaining organizations where everyone thinks and acts like the owner. In this episode of The Game Changers, Jason shares the story of Billion Dollar Brad and details the way to make every employee feel like the owner.
Need some help supercharging meetings within your company? Here are six things to do to make every meeting exciting and productive.
In preparing for five upcoming speeches to five different companies in five different cities Jason was tasked with five different assignments. One company wants to get everyone on the same page. Another wants to their workers to embrace radical change, another fears a new onslaught of competition, still another is struggling with finding, engaging and keeping its workforce and other wants to learn how to make everything happen faster. They’re all searching for a magical answer and there is one. It’s revealed in this edition of The Game Changers.
Do you love stories about fast growing remarkable companies with nothing but upside potential? Here’s a story about a company that has increased their revenues ten times in fifteen years. High tech? Nope. Healthcare? Nope. A new App? Nope. Try… you’ll love how this company keeps everyone on the same age shooting at the same target.
Have you ever noticed that some people just seem to be luckier than most and go from strength to strength and win to win almost effortlessly? Have you ever been tempted to mutter under your breath that you’d like to be as lucky as they are? Here are a couple of basic truths about getting lucky.
Last week I spent some time with a CEO in the middle of a 26 billion dollar merger. He was talking about the challenges of getting both companies on board the same culture and had some startling, revealing and spot on advice.
It’s been said that luck occurs when preparedness meets opportunity. Most fortunes and successful careers have been created when someone sees something, instinctively knows it’s going to be a winner and finds a way to put themselves in the front of the parade. But, how do you find the parades in formation so you can get in front? That’s the subject of this edition.
We’re all in a hurry. We feel like we’re responding to one problem after another and if we fail to act fast every delay is potentially deadly. It’s almost as if we’re trying to put out the latest fire with no time to get the whole story. This edition teaches why you should make sense first and judgments second.
In Podcast 93, listeners learned the question that Jason asked thousands of times each as part of his research, “What’s Keeping You Awake at Night These Days?” That question has been the basis of each of Jason’s eight bestselling books and so we asked you, the people who listen to the podcast to share what’s keeping you awake at night these days about your business? You submitted hundreds of ideas. Here’s what you told Jason.
The two biggest markets in the world are ‘consumer technology’ and ‘escape from consumer technology’. What’s your role going to be in the new world and are you developing the skills that will allow you to achieve your full potential in whichever you choose? That’s’ the subject being discussed in this podcast.
All of Jason’s bestselling books on leadership, speed, change, innovation and reinvention have occurred as a result of asking CEO’s, leading entrepreneurs and business people one question, Here’s your chance to be learn that question and be involved in selecting the title and subject for Jason’s next book.
Jason was in Sri Lanka doing a speech and leadership training for MAS Holdings, a truly exceptional company that does business worldwide. While listening to one of the company leader’s talk about culture he was stunned when he heard the leader say, “What we have here is a culture of defiance!” Later, Jason realized that every great company has a culture of defiance. Defiant cultures and what they mean to you are explained and explored in this podcast.
At the end of a newsletter that Jason received there were six tiny stories; each being one or two sentences long. He read them, thought about them all day long and went through the day with a smile on his face. Maybe you will too.
If you spent too much time listening to the pundits and all the self-serving, wannabe, not so bright folks who call themselves journalists, you’d be running for cover. Are things as bad in the US as people say? I don’t think so and this week’s podcast features some facts and thoughts that you should know and act on.
What in the world happened to Yahoo? Once valued at 120 billion, Yahoo finally got sold for less than 5 billion to Verizon. Every CEO the company hired only made matters worse and most of them should have gone to jail for management malpractice. How did this once incredibly valued company become the joke of Silicon Valley and what lessons are there to learn?
When do you think people stop asking the questions ‘why’ and ‘what if’? The answer is a shocker and it will definitely cause a change in your behavior. This is one of the neatest pieces of research Jason has come across in a long time. You’ll love it.
During his book research one of the CEOs of a company he was studying told Jason a story about customer service that he’s never forgotten and frequently shares with others. Here it is for you to borrow and tell.
One of the observations made by Jason and his research teams is that truly great companies keep all their doors open believing it leads to transparency. Can something so simple really make a difference? Listen and find out.
It’s taken a long time but most businesses now get it. They know they need a set of guiding principles or values in order to achieve their full potential. Imagine, taking the concept of having a set of values one step further; to your home and family and teaching your children the family values the same way you teach them their ABC’s or to count to 10. Here’s the story of one man who did just that. It’s remarkable and a game changer.
It’s a fact; the more priorities you have the less effective you are. Maybe it’s time to prune the number of priorities you’re chasing. Find out how in this episode.
If you lead other people at work or at home there’s a big question you’ve probably never asked them. It’s knowing the answer to this question that allows you to lead them.
Each year Jason conducts somewhere between 700 and 1,000 conversations in preparation for speeches. During the past week –a rare week of being off the road - he had 36 conversations with leading entrepreneurs, academics, heads of not-for-profits and CEOs and Presidents for upcoming speeches. He finished the week’s work having figured out what he believes is the single most important question you’ll ever ask in business and in life.
Jason travels between 200,000 and 360,000 miles a year on research, consulting and speaking and he’s been doing it for many years. Along the way he’s developed 15 tips that will make your travel life easier and more productive. Even seasoned travelers will learn valuable tips from the guy whose flown 10 million miles on business.
Almost 70 years ago Abraham Maslow put forth an idea in a revolutionary research paper titled, "A Theory of Human Motivation" that all people are motivated by five primary needs. His original findings have been validated by hundreds of subsequent studies and surveys. Do you know the five needs? Do you know how you can use Maslow’s work to make your enterprise lightning fast and hugely productive? Pay special attention to the third level of his pyramid because most businesses do a horrible job of employing it. This is fascinating stuff you can use.
One of the twelve labors of Hercules was cleaning out the stables. Sometimes all of our stables – the house, the car, the office, the purse and briefcase - need a good cleaning out. And, you’ll be surprised to learn that many benefits accrue from cleaning up.
Once in a while, even the best among us, either screws up and makes a mistake or error in judgment and ends up disappointing a customer and/or making them angry. Here’s the best way to handle the situation when that happens based on the research from Jason’s bestseller, The High-Speed Company- Creating a Culture of Urgency and Growth.
Words are like eggs dropped from a great height. You can’t call them back or ignore the mess they’ve caused. In this episode of The Game Changer’s Jason discusses the power of words with an intensely private and personal story he’s never told publicly before.
When you make a conscious decision to make growth a guiding principle of your company everything changes for the better. In this episode Jason talks presents the 10 great things that will happen when you decide to grow your business nonstop. It’s a Life Changer!
Do you have something big and important enough in your life that you’re willing to be seen by others as being foolish? Henry Ford did. Bill Gates did. Steve Jobs did. Charlie Chaplin did as well. Maybe it’s time to step to the pump and find something in your life you feel so strongly about that you’re even willing to be deemed foolish by some.
Are you away from home on business too much? Do some of your work days seem too long and hard? Ever want to chuck it all? Ever feel bummed out and depressed at how tough and long the journey is? Jason argues we need to be thankful for being allowed to practice our craft and puts things into perspective.
Jason and Dale talk about customer service and where the decision to serve the customer must take place; based on a real life example at Delta Airlines.
Jason is traveling in the Middle East on a speaking tour and he and Dale were unable to secure a high quality audio line to do this week’s podcast. In its place we’re urging you to listen to or listen again to the episode that has generated the biggest response of any episode. Originally it aired as Episode 66: Exceed Everyone’s Expectations Every Time. This episode reveals the single most powerful and important question you’ll ever ask as you’re about to begin doing business with someone. It’s a simple question that will change your entire life. Nothing more needs to be said. Jason and Dale will return live next week.
Jason tells the story of River Valley Bank, based in Wausau, Wisconsin, USA, which was founded by immigrant farmers to America’s Midwest who started with one cow and a vegetable patch and, which has become, a highly successful and powerhouse mid-size bank through nonstop innovation. You’ll learn how innovation can come from the most unlikely places and events and how one small seemingly insignificant event can forever change a company….maybe your own…if you’re ready to seize an idea and run with it.
This episode explains the nine primary reasons that people hesitate and how to overcome each of them and you’ll learn the words that were shared with Jason by an early mentor and had guided him during his entire career.
Jason was in the middle of a 17,000 five city speaking tour when host Dale Dixon caught up with him. Based on Jason’s research they discuss whether or not a recession is looming, the biggest challenge facing businesses right now and conclude with something shocking that happened to Jason in Mexico.
Every time you say to someone, “I’m so busy,” or, “my schedule is so jammed,” what you’re really saying is that your life is out of control and you’re not in charge of your own destiny. Here are seven steps for getting control of your calendar and your life.
The Gig Economy: Millions of people don't work for a company; they work for many. Gain remarkable insights into the new gig economy and learn how to be prepared.
This week’s edition of, The Game Changers, reveals the single most powerful and important question you’ll ever ask as you’re about to begin doing business with someone. IT’s a simple question that will change your entire life. Nothing more needs to be said.
Average performing companies have 372 priorities. Above average companies have 21. That means above average companies are outperforming average companies by 17 times. Reducing the number of priorities companies are tracking from 372 to 21 means doing away with a lot of stuff that will take care of itself. This episode of, The Game Changers, takes its lead from Peter Drucker who said it first. “If you want to be an effective manager do first things first and second things not at all.” How will you decide what things to do first and what things not at all?
Prescription without diagnosis is malpractice and the vast majority of people trying to sell something do it all the time. They are so busy telling what they want to tell and selling what they want to sell that they never take the time to learn what the client really needs. In this edition of, The Game Changers, you’ll learn five steps that will help make you an excellent diagnostician.
After a lifetime spent studying highly successful CEO’s, business owners and leading executives the inevitable conclusion is that the only freedom any of us will ever have is economic freedom. This episode details the ten things that people who achieve economic freedom shave in common. Follow their lead and you’ll end up in the same place.
Christianity and Judaism have Ten Commandments, Islam has Five Pillars, Buddhism has an Eightfold path and Hindus have Five Principles and Ten Disciplines. No human organization has prospered and withstood the test of time without a set of guiding principles or values. This episode explains the vital importance of having a set of guiding principles and how to move them throughout the organization. It’s a game changer.
Last month Jason delivered a keynote speech to the leadership of Edward Jones and in the process of his preparation he learned the 'two words' that have been responsible for this great company growing to more than 13,000 locations and financial advisors and more than 8,000,000 clients. The magical 'two words' – if you take them on board – will be a huge game changer for you.
When you’re deemed worthy people listen to you, talk to you and trust you and will do business with you. In this week’s edition of The Game Changers you’ll learn how to gain belief. Imagine how powerful it is when you go from introducing yourself to gaining belief in only minutes. It will give you a unique competitive advantage, have you towering against the competition and be the start of a relationship that will last a lifetime. Oprah does it better than anyone and she’s done pretty well for herself.
When you’re deemed worthy people listen to you, talk to you and trust you and will do business with you. In this week’s edition of The Game Changers you’ll learn how to demonstrate your points of difference in a way that will give you a unique competitive advantage, have you towering against the competition and make an impression that will last a lifetime.
When you’re deemed worthy people listen to you, talk to you and trust you and they will do business with you. In this week’s edition of The Game Changers you’ll learn how to state your purpose the right way and in a way that will give you a unique competitive advantage that will last a lifetime.
When you’re deemed worthy people listen to you, talk to and trust you and they will do business with you. In this week’s edition of The Game Changers you’ll learn how to break the ice in a way that’s authentic, from the heart and seen as being genuine.
When you’re deemed worthy people listen to you, talk to you, trust you and they will do business with you. But, repeated scientific studies prove that within 1/10 of one second – before you open your mouth – people make scores of judgments about you.
Since the debut of Jason’s first landmark book in 2000 he has delivered more than 1,000 paid keynote speeches around the world to more than 2.1 million people. This is the podcast where he details step-by-step what he goes through to prepare for and deliver a speech guaranteed to win a standing ovation and rave reviews.
There’s a HUGE difference between strategy and tactics. Leaders and companies who know the difference far outperform those who don’t. Do you have too many strategies? Perhaps the most overused word is strategy. It’s so overused as to have qualified for inclusion in a game of Buzzword Bingo. Great companies and great leaders have one strategy and many tactics and they have a foolproof way for selecting the right tactics. Ten minutes that will give you a cutting edge. This week’s episode of The Game Changers will give you a competitive advantage when it comes to strategy and tactics.
Millennials will make up 100 million of America’s 130 million job market. You will succeed at finding, keeping, engaging and growing them or you will go the way of the dinosaur. Spend ten minutes learning the results for some fascinating new research about Millennials and the six things you can do to engage them. It’ll be worth your time. 91% of all Millennials want to become leaders but only 5% of them say it’s about the money. Lots of great numbers and research about Millennials and the six ways to find, keep, engage and grow them in this week’s edition of, The Game Changers with Jason Jennings and host Dale Dixon.
Stop taking, “No,” from anyone who doesn’t have the ability to say yes! In order to get a job, raise money or sell something you’ll stack the deck in your favor by getting to the decision maker. This week’s episode of The Game Changers reveals the seven steps to take for getting an audience with the person who can say, “Yes!”
Are you so busy working for your business or in your business that there’s never any time to work on your business? Solo business travel provides vital time to work on your business. This week’s episode of The Game Changers reveals the eight benefits of solo business travel and explains how to take full advantage of every business trip you make.
There are four little words that prevent most people and companies them from ever achieving their full economic potentials. Most people and companies routinely use four little words that will prevent them from ever achieving their full economic potentials. This week’s episode of, The Game Changers, reveals these four little ugly little words and shows you how not to allow them to stop you or your company dead in its tracks.
Good stewards get it. They know their job is to make everything better for their workers, customers, vendors and suppliers, owners or shareholders and the world. While attending a Native American Pow-Wow in the Upper Great Lakes region of America, Jason heard an Indian Chief tell a story to a group of children. The story stopped him in his tracks and it will stop you in yours. This week’s game changer is a remarkable story about stewardship.
There are 100 million Millennials and 123 million jobs in the US. Similar staggering statistics exist in almost every developed nation. Until you crack the code on finding, keeping and growing Millennials you don’t stand a chance of creating sustainable urgency and growth. Engaging Millennials is a challenge; research shows that as many as 87% of them don’t instinctively trust people – including their leaders. In this week’s Game Changers you’ll learn the three things that have to happen in order to keep Millennials engaged
This will cause you to look at speed and urgency differently and teaches you how to solve problems the first time rather than fixing the same ones over and over again. keep your good customers instead of churning them, engage the 70% of your workforce who aren’t engaged (Gallup 2014) and gain the cooperation of those workers standing on the sidelines.
The most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is. In this episode, Jason responds to a fan, answering a question and in the process shares a game changing approach to reviving common sense. While it might be as simple as saying what’s old is new again, it’s worth taking a look at the most successful “under-the-radar” companies to learn that success is rooted in good old common sense.
Tim and Richard Smucker, Co-Leaders of J.M. Smucker, have not only enjoyed significant organic growth but also quickly gobbled up, digested and grown such iconic brands as Folgers, Dunkin Donuts Coffee Products, Pillsbury, Hungry Jack, Carnation, Knotts and Jif. These folks, headquartered in tiny Orville, Ohio are fast. Between 2004 and 2014 they grew revenues from 600 million to six billion dollars and introduced an average of fifty new products a year growing profits by almost 800%.In this episode, Jason Jennings shares the core foundation to Tim and Richard’s success: four simple actions that some people call hokey. When Jason is finished, you’ll call it authentic.
Seven out of ten employees say, “The most stressful part of my job is dealing with my boss!” And the reason, research shows, is “unnecessary leadership” or what most of us call bureaucracy and micromanaging.In this game changing conversation, Jason Jennings provides a principled approach to ending bureaucracy and micromanagement.
The age of big data promises more than it can deliver. It gets us thinking that more information means little to no chance of making any mistakes.Big companies invest 200,000 employee hours per billion dollars in revenue generating data for yearly forecasts and budgets. That means billions of dollars in data analysis were spent at companies like Blockbuster, Borders, Circuit City, Sears, HP and Sprint. Did that make them faster or did it create speed bumps? The answer, of course, is no.In this episode, Jason Jennings presents a game changing plan for action that ends paralysis.
When should a company license rather than sell what it produces? The question is becoming more and more relevant for companies of all sizes. While the game changing approach might not be actionable for you today, it should kept in mind. Jason dives into the idea of becoming an innovative organization with an eye toward licensing products.
Jason Jennings provides a preview to telling research uncovered in his next book about the lack of trust and subsequent damage to business. As always, Jason touches briefly on the challenges, then provides four game changing actions you can start immediately to grow trust in your organization.
What do four economists, four Oxford students and four garbage men have in common? Not much, especially when it comes to predicting the future. Jason provides a game changing approach to seeing the future by sharing the story of the economists, students and garbage men along with stops for stories from Italy and India. By the end of this value-packed podcast, Jason gives you the five ways you can start anticipating the next big thing in your future.
Jason gives you a behind the scenes look at his bestseller, Think Big, Act Small. Learn how one of the business leaders profiled in the book gave Jason the book title. Most importantly, Jason shows you why thinking big and acting small is the one thing successful businesses have in common. Then, he gives you the action steps to think big while acting small.
Jason shares the inspiring and game changing story of Jack Strack of SRC Holdings. Jack turned a debt ridden, poor performing company into a high performing success – and he did it with transparency and honesty. Jason breaks it down with actionable steps you can learn from Jack’s accomplishments.
Whether a business sells coffee and pastries, dry cleaning or airline seats, it’s not enough for the owners and management to know the lifetime value of a customer. In this game changing conversation, Jason Jennings shares three stories that show why the front-line people in your business must know the true lifetime value of the customer.
Listeners from Great Falls, Montana to Cape Town, South Africa; Birmingham, UK, to Mobile, Alabama ask Jason questions. Hear Jason explain principle-based leadership, the power of small bets and if the leadership principles really apply across cultures.
Jason Jennings was made to feel a little uncomfortable recently, but the experience opened his eyes to a game changing paradigm. In this episode, Jason shares how this event in his life caused him to change one important way in which he spends three-to-four minutes each day. Jason will show you how this small change in your life can make a big difference. Listen and answer the question: Will you accept the challenge? Write to us at jason@jason-jennings.com.
Jason Jennings shares the story of a game changing business practice he discovered at a successful martial arts studio in Chicago. What did the studio sell? Self-defense training for kids to survive on very tough streets? After school babysitting? A way to build self esteem? Try, none of the above. The owner took a step back and defined his business in simple generic terms. Listen to the podcast and learn the result. Better yet, discover how to do it for your business.
Looking for the true competitive advantage in your work? Jason Jennings shows you the game changing approach that will make you stand out from the competition: Collect one story a day. Think of just a few of the immediate benefits. Seeking stories provides unique insights into people and possibilities. Hearing stories allows you to connect life’s dots. Tuning in to the world around you keeps you humble and grateful.
Do you ever find yourself disappointed? Disillusioned? In despair? Do you feel like a cynic? Jason Jennings provides a game changing approach to change that negative mindset and move from a scarcity mentality to an abundance approach to life. See what it can do for you and your business.
In this best of The Game Changers, Jason Jennings shares stories from his research that show how remarkable companies stay remarkable. Businesses that are game changers in their respective industries make continual small bets. Jason shows you in four steps how small bets are made and what it can mean for you and your business.
The leader of any organization is responsible for making everyone proud. In this game changing conversation, Jason shares two stories. The first is of a newly hired executive who turns his insurance company around by making everyone proud. Then, he explains how a Michigan drum and bugle corps can’t be stopped. He applies to your business the lessons learned from this decades old group and what keeps its members coming back year-after-year and what it means to make everyone proud.
Do you find you, your managers and the leaders within your business are constantly chasing top-line growth, never achieving true economic potential? You’re probably not tracking the only numbers that really matter. In this episode, Jason breaks the myths of what numbers most business owners think they need to track and tells stories of businesses that have discovered his game changing approach to paying attention to what matters most.
Five simple steps that will change your sales career and life. Jason shares his story of being the youngest radio station owner in the U.S. In the story, he shows what he learned when a blue jeans manufacturer called looking for help in a desperate situation. Jason said, “I have nothing to sell.” From there, he created the five steps that will set you apart from the competition.
Game changing leaders must be confident. In this episode, Jason clarifies the difference between much needed confidence and very costly ego. Determining the difference starts with one question. Jason shares the real cost of ego and the steps each leader must take to confidently check his or her ego at the door.
Fresh from two disturbing experiences in well-known retailers, Jason goes to the pages of The Reinventors to offer the ultimate checklist to use when hiring for your company. Or, if you’re interviewing for a job, be sure you’re confident in these six areas. While the checklist is simple, the work of hiring is hard. But, hiring hard makes managing so much easier.
Many top business leaders tell Jason that one of their biggest concerns is finding, keeping and growing the right young people. At the same time, the leaders complain that young people are a different breed and a challenge to manage. Jason offers some unique insights on attracting, keeping and growing those born between the 1980’s and early 2,000’s.
Whether a one-to-one sales call, a board presentation or a speech to 20 or 200, learn four ways to get past the jitters and be a more powerful presenter as Jason takes over the podcast and turns the table on host Dale Dixon. The two detail the four tips from Dale’s new book, Sweating Bullets-A Story About Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking.
There’s little dispute that the right culture is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jason challenges you to a test within your business, company or department to determine if yours is the culture that will take you where you want to go.
If you tell what you want to tell in order to sell what you want to sell, people won’t buy. Jason shares the four game changing ways you can sharpen your listening skills and turn listening into a profitable skill.
From Anthony in Abuja, Nigeria to Roger in Estherville, Iowa, Jason answers your questions. Learn about the power of positive words, where Jason gets the ideas for his books and hear Jason set the record straight about the company one listener calls “bad.”
Each week, Jason receives scores of emails from people who want to know how to get a book published. If you believe there’s a book inside you, this is the podcast for you.
Jason shares the most powerful paragraphs he’s read and how the words lead him to discover the three must-haves to get anything done in business – especially starting a revolution.
If there’s a game changing podcast, this is it. Jason Jennings returns from Istanbul and working with a key client where he witnessed one of the most paradigm shifting customer engagement processes. Hear the story of what one of the world’s iconic brands does to really understand its customer.
You've no doubt seen the company. The business achieves a level of success, then, poof, it fades away. Jason found the companies that continue delivering quality products and services have this one trait in common: Continuous improvement. The Japanese call it Kaizen, and in this episode, Jason shows you the principles all highly productive companies use to achieve continuous improvement.
Have you ever heard someone say the only thing holding them back from growing the business, innovating a new idea or releasing a new product is, "More money!" In this episode of The Game Changers, Jason blows that excuse out of the water. He explains why all you need is a problem and not quite enough money. Learn why being frugal will make you the ultimate Reinventor.
In researching more than 220,000 businesses and interviewing more than 50,000 people, compiling nearly one-million pages or research notes, Jason and his team found the game changing businesses embrace the idea of every employee feeling like THE owner (not an owner). If you haven't already, listen to Episode 13, where Jason told the story of Billion Dollar Brad. Employees who are treated like the owner get to make big, important decisions. In this episode, Jason shares how leaders can help employees make the right decisions.
In this episode, Jason shows you the principle he learned from the funeral industry: Set a clear destination. Cutting through the fog means you have to get your hands dirty. In this case, getting your hands dirty means spending at least half your time doing one specific thing. Listen and learn what that one thing is as you set a course for a clear destination.
What can you learn from the most successful companies? The research shows top performers consistently master the art of creating and sustaining organizations where everyone thinks and acts like the owner. In this episode of The Game Changers, Jason shares the story of Billion Dollar Brad and details the way to make every employee feel like the owner.
Herb and Marion opened Jason’s eyes in a big way as they shared the reason for their success. It was summed up in the acronym WTGBRFDT. It’s the one question every successful leader asks before making any decision. In this episode, Jason Jennings shares the story of Herb and Marion, how he discovered the question and what makes it a powerful tool for anyone seeking to improve her/his business.
You’ve heard the excuses: The economy stinks; I can’t find good employees; The competition doesn’t play fair. Jason turns the magnifying glass to the inside of your company, where the real problems can be found. Listen as Jason shows you the two steps to eliminate excuses and find new levels of success.
Everyone needs a program to succeed. Whether you’re a grad fresh out of high school or an entrepreneur growing your net worth past $10M, Jason shows you why it doesn’t necessarily matter what program you choose, just get yourself on a program. It’s time to get your hands dirty.
Jason Jennings makes the case that layoffs never work. Except, for one reason. Learn the four negative outcomes of layoffs and how top performing companies avoid the layoff snare.
When everyone in your organization is on the same page, moving in the same direction and shooting at the same target, you'll find new levels of success. Best selling author and speaker Jason Jennings shares the importance of getting everyone on the same page and how to do it.
Confronting opposing ideas and views within any process in doing business. Finding the right direction with the right idea and improving the system. Making it all work in systematization using lists with clarity and finding the best way of producing the best results and outcome.
With one of the most asked questions asked of Jason, he reveals some of his research findings on personal performance and potential.
Peter Drucker said culture eats strategy for breakfast, your research really illustrates that point. (Jason, pick it up and illustrate with a story). When you talk about a lean culture, what do you mean? In your book, Less is More, you identify eleven leadership traits behind creating the culture. While we don't have time to go into all eleven. Give us one or two that a leader can focus on and improve in the next week.
Jennings research into more than 220,000 companies proves that people and organization that are unable to let go of four things will not grow but instead face certain failure and irrelevance. What are these four things and how can leaders and companies adopt a spirit of letting go?
What is a small bet? But, people in my organization are paralyzed in fear of making a mistake - how do we move past that? What are some ways an owner or manager can tap into creative innovation to start making the small bets? What type of measures should be in place to determine success?
Why every human organization must make growth a number one priority, how to make it happen, how to move it, how to establish a commitment to growth throughout the organization, getting everyone on board and the consequences of a no growth company.
Who is Jason Jennings? Why does he do what he does? What’s his background and story? How did he get to the position, according to USA TODAY, of being “one of the three most in demand business speakers in the world”?