@tangy_turbo BookClub: Recent Episodes
Esther
"Look, NO ONE wants to avoid looking under the hood more than I do." -me
Top 3 common CEO fears when considering opening up their financial books to implement the Great Game of Business (GGOB):
1) What do we reveal if our numbers are bad? 2) What if our competitors get ahold of our numbers? 3) What will our employees think if our numbers stink?
This episode corresponds to takeaways from chap 5 of the "Great Game of Business" by Jack Stack.
If teams can't win in baseball without knowing the rules, then why in business (a way more vicious sport) don't employers teach their "players" the basics?
You know how to do your job, but can you also see how your department affects the business overall? If not, then you might be arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Widen your scope asap with the Great Game of Business: a free management operating system that works as a game.
Episode 7 corresponds with material in Chap 4 of the GGOB book.
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Episode corresponds with Chap 3 of the book. Is it possible to teach people to genuinely care about the quality of their work?
This episode traces reasons for the well-planned meteoric rise of the Industrial Commons in the US (1800-1990). We also pinpoint the internal and external reasons for its erosion post WW2.
Many of us know the word "outsourcing."
But do we truly know how to control (and dare I say, maximize) the benefits of trade surpluses and trade deficits?
Nuns driving school buses filled with steel. This saved the day.
Episode corresponds with points from Chap 2.
380,000% stock growth rate.* Not kidding. You do the math.
Episode corresponds with points made in Chap 1.
*Calculated with year-ending 2018. CAGR of 76.5% of 36 years.
By 2030, a third of all jobs in the USA will be replaced by automation (McKinsey & Co. report 2017). Humankind desperately needs GGOB.
Here's the McK report: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/jobs-lost-jobs-gained-what-the-future-of-work-will-mean-for-jobs-skills-and-wages