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August 3, 2011 By Andy Traub

Meetings could be awesome – "Read This Before Our Next Meeting" by Al Pittampalli – 019 Linchpin Podcast

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The Modern Meeting Standard
The Modern Meeting Standard
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1:06:21

  • http://www.modernmeetingstandard.com
  • Twitter – #meetdomino
  • Let’s make meetings a sacred tool again.
  • Meetings are powerful things.
  • Meetings should be rare.
  • The cover is awesome
  • Al had to write three books to get this book
  • Seth Godin really pushed Al to find his voice
  • Jerry McGuire’s mission statement written by Cameron Crowe was an inspiration – http://www.thisisawar.com/PurposeJerry.htm
  • “Meetings, like war, should be a last resort.”
  • War is expensive and so are meetings
  • “No more will we allow our time to be consistently wasted thirty minutes at a time. Our time is too precious, too fleeting.” – Page 45
  • Small businesses could
  • “No one has built a building inside of a meeting.”
  • No one has ever sold a one million dollar consulting package inside a meeting.
  • The stuff that leads and creates forward momentum does not happen in meetings.
  • Meetings should be pit stops; quick, efficient and enable forward motion
  • Organizations have a decision problem, not a meeting problem.
  • Meetings create shared responsibility and that’s NOT good sometimes.
  • Do not call a meeting to make a decision.
  • Resolving a decision is why you call a meeting – THRASH
  • Making decisions in meetings – HASH
  • Conflict is great in modern meetings because it revolves around making the decision better, but decisions are being made!
  • Defend – Someone has to be willing to defend an idea
  • http://www.bringtim.com/ – Time is money clock
  • Meetings should exist to thrash not hash
  • Brainstorms are not meetings – they are polar opposites
  • The latin meaning of decide is to kill – We are killing the other options.
  • Brainstorming is essential because we need collective creativity

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July 14, 2011 By Andy Traub

Todd Henry of the Accidental Creative on the art inside all of us – 018 Linchpin Podcast

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Todd Henry
Todd Henry

Todd Henry – http://www.accidentalcreative.com
Todd’s new book – http://ow.ly/5BxWM
Todd on Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/toddhenry
Accidental Creative on Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/beaccidental

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  • Introduce conversations about the creative process.
  • Help businesses who need to come up with ideas, come up with ideas.
  • The create on demand world wears you out.
  • Creativity is somewhere between prayer and the U.S. tax code.
  • Build infrastructure that helps our creative process.
  • Build a rhythm that helps you be brilliant at the right time.
  • Elements of creative rhythm:
    • Focus – Finding the problem you’re trying to solve.
    • Relationships – Outside of obligation (family) and convenience (work).
    • Energy – We manage time a lot better than we are at managing energy. We don’t schedule well.
    • Stimuli – Things that spur creative thinking. “You are what you eat.” The same is true of our mind so we must consume good content. Create a study plan – things that cause you to think new thoughts.
    • Hours – Time is the currency of productivity. We focus more on efficiency than effectiveness so we need to focus on how we are creating ideas.
  • Everything of significance will have an enemy.
  • Organizations are wired to protect what has already been done so as a result they are not fans of “new” things.
  • Frustration comes because you think you’re trying to control something that you can’t control.
  • Organizations are about control, about clamping down.
  • Everyone has art in them according to Seth Godin. Seth believes we will be surprised at the organization’s reaction.
  • Conversation needs to happen within an organization even if they’re awkward.
  • Creatives want to be listened to and managers want to be followed.
  • It is not our nature to stop and talk to each other and that’s likely why it needs to be done.
  • Organizations hesitate at big shots and crazy ideas but if you can prove yourself a few times then they will give you more permission to be creative.
  • Cover bands don’t change the world.
  • The goal is to influence the world, not just get great ideas.

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July 9, 2011 By Andy Traub

Creating something that lasts forever in 45 days with Photographer Peter Doyle – 017 Linchpin Podcast

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Peter Doyle
Peter Doyle

Peter’s Blog
Peter on Twitter
Peter’s Website
Breast cancer

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  • It would be good to read that section to start every day. – Section 79 (Kindle)
  • Did a photo session jam and left feeling like it could be bigger
  • Father died from lung cancer
  • Looked for photo shoots around breast cancer support
  • ProjectStoryboard
  • The tweets that brought us together:
    Tweets
  • Peter was the only one who said Peter couldn’t do it.
  • He had to put a deadline (shoot date) out in order to get the donations
  • Leer Jet, Dodge Vipers, Stretch Hummer Limo
  • Get the book at www.ProjectStoryBoard.com
  • Started a BIGGER breast cancer project in 2010
  • Allison – A fairy tale photo shoot
  • Eric – Male breast cancer survivor
  • Chick-fil-a Calendar
  • How it helped him professionally:
    • – More connections because he needed help
    • – Stretched him too
    • – Taught him to create opportunities
    • – A lot of starting photographers have reached out to him for help
  • Develop Indispensability – Location 136
  • Build a tolerance of what you can handle later on
  • 279 Days To Overnight Success
  • How to find a wedding photographer – A practical guide for the busy bride
  • Running Time:

    1:04:09

    If you have some thoughts on this episode you can:

    – Call in feedback to 605-610-UASK (8275)

    – Email me at [email protected] .

    – Leave a comment by clicking on the title of this episode and looking at the bottom of the page.

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June 30, 2011 By Andy Traub

Too much good stuff to fit into a clever title with John Saddington of TentBlogger.com – 016 Linchpin Podcast

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www.tentblogger.com
john.do
www.twitter.com/tentblogger

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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

If you have some thoughts on this episode you can:

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June 16, 2011 By Andy Traub

Learning to lean in with Linchpin Clay Hebert – 015 Linchpin Podcast

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Recent articles
We Are NY Tech

Spark Boutik on Social Media ROI

http://www.Zaarly.com

Seth Godin on his own fame:
– “Getting in early and persisting like a crazy person matters.” – Seth Godin
– “I notice things and I tell people about what I notice. I try to be generous about telling. If someone can point out things to you that you already know but describe it in a way that helps you take action on it there becomes a really neat relationship.”

About Clay

Example of “boring” client able to create valuable and free content (free .pdf that helps buyers and sellers simplify the complex NYC closing costs calculation)

– Jerry – Clay’s client we discussed

Traindom – On-line learning platform

– Linchpins can work for other people.
“That person sticks out.”
“That person took risks and that’s why they’re moving up the ladder.”

– “If all you do is what someone tells you to do then you can’t be a Linchpin.”
“There are no longer any great jobs where someone else tells you precisely what to do.” – Godin, Linchpin (262 – Kindle)

– How he found out about the Seth Godin Alternative MBA program
3:30am call from a friend telling him to read Seth’s post (which he does every day anyway)

Clay’s summary post about SAMBA – A Life Changed

Clay’s SAMBA Application

The SAMBA application made you prove yourself. You couldn’t fake it.
Purple Cow at an airport in Chicago was the book that introduced him to Seth Godin.
The Cluetrain Manifesto
Naked Conversations

“On time is not the same as early.”

Stuart smalley and Michael Jordan skit

“I credit Seth with blowing up the education paradigm.”
We spent one week on design. A day on typography. A day on how to be a great client to a great designer.

“He didn’t want us to be great designers but he did want us to be able to work with great designers.”

He taught us about contracts and laws in light of the mistakes he made in the past.

The Personal MBA site
Buy The Personal MBA

Skate skiing
“Lean in.” – Seth Godin
Leaning in creates movement and progress. It can also cause you to crash but momentum is not optional.

It would make a great movie

– Tribes Win
Helping big companies lead their tribes.

– Spindows
Platforms that allows you to meet more relevant people in an organization based on tags.

– Launchrock.com – One page site for your idea
Allows you to collect emails to see who wants updates
Seth Godin – First Ten post

– Clay’s book and project

Running Time:

1:28:10

If you have some thoughts on this episode you can:

– Call in feedback to 605-610-UASK (8275)

– Email me at [email protected] .

– Leave a comment by clicking on the title of this episode and looking at the bottom of the page.

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