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- Enterprise taught professionalism and systems
- Entrepreneurial spirit led him to pursue self employment
- Introduced to Purple Cow in the hallway at Dell (Purple Cow)
- Enterprise leaders often have bad filters for following thought leaders (they follow them too easily)
- Willy nilly is dangerous for leaders
- Andy Stanley – “Leadership is a stewardship, it’s temporary and you’re accountable.”
- Successful entrepreneurs realize they can be more effective with a team
- Teams create a “momentum of success”
- When you work by yourself you have to create your own momentum all the time. That is tiring.
- http://devtheme.com/ – Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Does John want to hire Linchpins?
- Teams are successful when they combine. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
- Toilet paper is a need
- You can find emotional satisfaction on “a line” or in a world class startup.
- How to develop yourself continually…
- – Read a wide variety of literature
- – Comic books
- – Fiction
- – Business books
- Wolverine #50 cover
- John built Michael Hyatt’s blog
- http://michaelhyatt.com/welcome-to-my-blog-30.html
- http://michaelhyatt.com/3-bloggers-every-serious-blogger-should-be-following.html … humbling…
- Most classical institutions struggle with “free”.
- – “Free is the understood price.”
- – “Free is the rights to play.”
- – “If traffic is a metric of value for a blogger…then free work is of high value in this social economy.”
- – Compliments are free but they are leverage as well.
- StrengthsFinders
- Strengths Based Leadership
Running Time:
1:15:42
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Enjoyed this conversation very much. Somehow these podcasts fell off my radar. Good stuff Andy.
Glad we’re back on the screen again. Lots more coming soon from this site.
Hi Andy,
Well I listened to the WHOLE episode right to the end and loved every minute of it!
As you can maybe tell, I am listening my way through all of the Episodes of Linchpin podcast. Thanks for keeping them coming!
I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your interviewing style and this whole series of podcasts. Great topics and you find the most interesting people.
I have been a fan of Seth’s for quite a while, but I am now an Andy Traub “Fan Girl”!!
Thanks Pam. Grateful that you’re getting some value out of the conversations and I appreciate that you like my interview style. It’s something I”m constantly trying to improve. Bless you…