New Episode: Kim Scott: Radical Candor

New Episode: Kim Scott: Radical Candor

Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring it's obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging it's ruinous empathy. When you do neither it's manipulative insincerity.

Author Kim Scott was an executive at Google and then at Apple, where she worked with a team to develop a class on how to be a good boss. She has earned growing fame in recent years with her approach to effective management, Radical Candor. From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. When you become a manager, it's your job to say it--and your obligation.

New Episode: Ryan Holiday: Ego is the Enemy

New Episode: Ryan Holiday: Ego is the Enemy

In our next series on Ryan Holiday, we dive back into Ego is the Enemy to answer questions about what to do when the biggest obstacle is internal. Holiday explains how finding early successes led him to the realization that ego can cloud ambition and hinder personal and professional growth, particularly when accomplishments are tied to self-worth.

Ego Is the Enemy puts forth the argument that often our biggest problems are not caused by external factors such as other people or circumstances. Instead, our problems stem from our own attitude, selfishness, and self-absorption. In other words, introducing ego into a situation often prevents us from being rational, objective, and clear-headed.

New Episode: Michael D Watkins: The First 90 Days

New Episode: Michael D Watkins: The First 90 Days

Transitions are a critical time for leaders at all levels. Missteps made during the crucial first three months in a new role can jeopardize your success. In his book, The First 90 Days; Michael D. Watkins offers proven strategies for conquering the challenges of taking on a new role — no matter where you are in your career.

Whether you’re starting a new job, being promoted from within, or embarking on an overseas assignment, this is the guide you’ll need to succeed in your first 90 days — and beyond.

“The most important decisions you make in your first 90 days will probably be about people.” Michael D Watkins

New Episode: Ryan Holiday: The Daily Stoic

New Episode: Ryan Holiday: The Daily Stoic

Join us as we revisit a series on Ryan Holiday, starting with his book The Daily Stoic. A unique blend of practical wisdom that has been inspiring the most successful among us for centuries, from Roman Emperors to Barack Obama. The Daily Stoic widens our view on the Stoic philosophy and shows that it can be applied to any problem.

The goal of this book is “to restore Stoicism to its rightful place as a tool in the pursuit of self-mastery, perseverance, and wisdom.” From how to manage failure to get what you want, the ideas continue to be vitally relevant to today's doers and thinkers.

“You must put in place training and habits now to replace ignorance and ill discipline. Only then will you begin to behave and act”. Ryan Holiday

New Episode: Christina R Wodtke: Radical Focus

New Episode: Christina R Wodtke: Radical Focus

Radical Focus tackles the OKR movement and better goal setting through the powerful story of Hanna and Jack’s struggling tea startup. When the two receive an ultimatum from their only investor, they must learn how to employ Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with radical focus to get the right things done. Will they be able to accomplish the few critical actions that will save their startup? Or will they end up mired in distractions and choices as their time runs out?

Christina Wodkte pulls from her experience with Silicon Valley’s hottest companies to teach practical insights on goal setting in fable form. How do you inspire a diverse team to work together, going all out in pursuit of a single, challenging goal? How do you stay motivated despite setbacks and failures?

Ready to move your team in the right direction? Read this book together, and learn Wodtke’s powerful system of decision-making to create your focus and find success.

New Episode: John Doerr: Measure What Matters

New Episode: John Doerr: Measure What Matters

Is your company focused on the right things? Do you understand what goals will move your company forward, and how to measure them? OKRs can help. Measure What Matters shows you how to use the OKR management system to identify your priorities, set ambitious goals, clearly measure and track them, and motivate and align everyone on your team.

This system helped Larry Page and Sergey Brin turn a small startup called Google into one of the most innovative companies in the world. Whether your business is large or small, OKRs are invaluable tools. Learn to implement the same management system used by Google, Intel, LinkedIn, Disney, Twitter, and Spotify.

Ideas are easy. Execution is everything.
― John Doerr

Lean Start Up

Lean Start Up

Hello, listeners, members, and subscribers! Our fifteenth Moonshots Master episode is here and we are leaping into Entrepreneurship and Lean Start-Up, one of the most valuable methodologies we have ever used!

Kicking off with the team from Productivity Game, we hear a breakdown of Eric Ries’ experience at imvu and how there is so much value in learning what customers actually want. We also get inspired from the folks at Development That Pays, who tell us about the very best MVPs of all time.

As we look to understand more about Lean we go to the master himself, Eric Ries, who teaches us how to utilise a Lean methodology when building your product. Dan Martell then talks about his ‘problem, pain, passion’ framework that he uses to validate business ideas, and how we should never build a business backwards.

Now we’re ready to learn about adopting the habits and framework, we revisit Productivity Game who guides us with the steps to building an MVP. Closing out the Master series episode we have Eric Ries again, who reassures us that many startups have ‘pivoted’ their strategy, and then gone on to become thriving companies.

Our recommended reading list will help you go even deeper into the topic and our shows on Lean Start Up:

  1. Eric Ries, The Lean Startup

  2. Bill Gross, Timing Is The Single Biggest Reason Why Startups Succeed

  3. Ash Maurya, Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth

  4. Sean Ellis, Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

  5. Steve Magness, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

  6. Harvard Business Review, Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything

What key lesson are you taking from the Master Series shows? Get in touch and let us know! Thanks for listening. That’s a wrap.

New Episode: John F. Kennedy: Cuban Missile Crisis

New Episode: John F. Kennedy: Cuban Missile Crisis

We celebrate our 200th Episode with President John F. Kennedy demonstrating some of the most remarkable leadership during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy overcame the fear and pressure that came from the threat of Nuclear War and found a peaceful solution for the world.

Join us as we examine clear thinking, objectivity, and remaining calm themes.

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
John F. Kennedy

New Episode: Yvon Chouinard: Let My People Go Surfing

New Episode: Yvon Chouinard: Let My People Go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard, a Moonshots favorite and the founder of Patagonia, gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change. So let's revisit this pioneer and remarkable leadership through his story.

In Let My People Go Surfing, Yvon Chouinard, the legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth.

New Episode: Mark Cuban: Secrets to Success

New Episode: Mark Cuban: Secrets to Success

To whet our appetite before launching into the 'Achieving Your Goals' series, we revisit an icon. During our 'Media Innovation' series, we dove into Mark Cuban (Episode 73) and listened to his techniques for staying successful, and being ahead of competitors.

Entrepreneur and professional sports team owner Mark Cuban has ventured into many diverse businesses. He made his fortune through the sale of startups MicroSolutions and Broadcast.com in the 1990s, and later became known as the zealous owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks.

Cuban has also invested in film production and has appeared on such TV series as Dancing with the Stars and Shark Tank.

"It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to out work and out learn everyone.” Mark Cuban

New Episode: Sir Isaac Newton: Never Give Up

New Episode: Sir Isaac Newton: Never Give Up

Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author, widely recognized as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists of all time and among the most influential scientists. He was a key figure in the philosophical revolution known as the Enlightenment. His start in life was fraught with illness and according to his mother, at birth, he could have fit inside a quart mug.

He was born especially tiny but grew into a massive intellect that still looms large.

"My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success." Isaac Newtown by James Gleick

New Episode: Angela Duckworth: Grit: Listener Favorite

New Episode: Angela Duckworth: Grit: Listener Favorite

Angela Duckworth is the world’s leading academic in the study of grit: something she defines as passion and perseverance for long-term goals. Is success all talent? What do successful people have that allows them to achieve their goals? The book Grit, teaches us that success is not all talent. To have talent is an essential factor and it will give you the edge over others who don't, but more importantly, you need the grit to see things through.

"Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint." - Angela Duckworth

Happiness

Happiness

Hello, listeners, members, and subscribers! The fourteenth Moonshots Master episode is here and we are leaping into Personal Transformation and Happiness!

We start with Tal Ben-Shahar who states that a happy life does not need to be happy all the time; instead, we should learn to embrace painful emotions and accept pain. Continuing on the path and getting us truly inspired are Shawn Achor and Oprah, who both teach us that the most successful people - in work and in life - believe that their actions have a direct effect on their outcomes.

With a foundation of inspiration, we now lean into the details by hearing from the awe-inspiring Dalai Lama, who discusses the idea of hope and gives us a lesson on the meaning of life. We then hear from a Moonshots-first thinker, Russell Brand, who introduces us to a study comparing happiness levels between lottery winners and quadriplegics, and how your inner state is more connected to your purpose than pleasure.

Helping us adopt new habits and practices to be happier today, we learn out loud with Neil Pasricha and his top 3 tips to start with a happy mindset, and how to want nothing. Closing the Master episode on Happiness is Naval Ravikant and Joe Rogan, who both talk about why we all need to make happiness our priority and understand that Happiness is a Choice.

Our recommended reading list will help you go even deeper into the topic and our shows on Happiness:

  1. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works, Dan Harris

  2. Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment, Tal Ben-Shahar

  3. The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor

  4. The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living, Dalai Lama

  5. Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions, Russell Brand

  6. The Happiness Equation, Neil Pasricha

  7. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness, Eric Jorgenson

What key lesson are you taking from the Master Series shows? Get in touch and let us know! Thanks for listening. That’s a wrap.

New Episode: Shawn Achor: The Happiness Advantage

New Episode: Shawn Achor: The Happiness Advantage

The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor shows us how to rewire our brains for positivity and optimism to reap the happiness advantage in our lives, our careers, and even our health.

How small shifts in our mindset and habits can produce big gains at work, at home, and elsewhere. Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it is the realization that we can. Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that once we succeed, we'll be happy; that once we get that great job, win that next promotion, and lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But science reveals this formula to be backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around.

Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.
― Shawn Achor

New Episode: Albert Einstein: Problem Solving

New Episode: Albert Einstein: Problem Solving

To whet your appetite for the upcoming Isaac Newton show we wanted to reshare one of the greats, Albert Einstein - enjoy!

A lot of people think that Albert Einstein’s greatest ability was his mathematical mind, but Einstein’s greatest skill was the ability to sift the essential from the inessential — to grasp simplicity when everyone else was lost in the clutter. Problems are an integral part of everyday life. So is problem-solving. But where people differ is in their ability to solve problems. Problem-solving has a synonym today, especially in the corporate world — fire fighting. Up to 70% of employees’ time is spent ‘fire fighting’. They spend more than six hours a day grappling with problems that should not exist. Imagine what organizations can achieve if hundreds or thousands of employees get these hours daily to work on something constructive!

Some problems should be solved. Some problems should be left alone. Some problems should not exist at all.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"
Albert Einstein

New Episode: Eric Jorgenson: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

New Episode: Eric Jorgenson: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. Building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval’s wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections and written by Eric Jorgenson.

So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What does progress really look like?

“The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop."
The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

New Episode: Neil Pasricha: The Happiness Equation

New Episode: Neil Pasricha: The Happiness Equation

What is the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha's, The Happiness Equation is a book that will change how you think about pretty much everything—your time, your career, your relationships, your family, and, ultimately, of course, your happiness. Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a New York Times–bestselling author of the Book of Awesome series, and a Walmart executive.

After selling more than a million copies of the Book of Awesome series, wherein he observed the everyday things he thought were awesome, he now shifts his focus to the practicalities of living an awesome life.

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony" Neil Pasricha

New Episode: Serena Williams: Tennis Champion

New Episode: Serena Williams: Tennis Champion

Serena Williams has revolutionized women’s tennis with her powerful style of play and has won more Grand Slam singles titles than any other woman or man during the open era. Serena holds the most Grand Slam titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles combined among active players and even won the Australian Open in 2017 while pregnant.

INTRO

Most underrated athlete of our lifetime

  1. Colin Cowherd_ Serena Williams

Don’t let others stop you from rising.

  1. Serena Williams reads Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

START WITH YOU

What motivated Serena to fight and make it

  1. Train hard

  2. Don’t let negative thoughts overtake and take priority

  3. Serena Williams_ 'Never Quit'

From the master to the student, Focus on the present, and you can handle pressure.

  1. Serena Williams’ Childhood Coach (Rick Macci)

MENTAL MODELS

Keep coming back after you fail; not everyone makes it the first time, SO KEEP TRYING.

6. Not everyone makes it on the first go

When you turn up, you have to play to win.

7. Always take part to win

Relax, have fun, and think about the big picture

8. Don't focus on the short term

OUTRO

If you fail, you can learn and be 10X better.

9. What does failing do for you

New Episode: Dalai Lama: The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living

New Episode: Dalai Lama: The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living

Every time you see him, he's laughing. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and a hugely sought-after speaker and statesman. If you ask him if he's happy, even after so much loss, the Dalai Lama will give you an unconditional yes. What's more, he'll tell you that happiness is the purpose of life and that the very motion of our life is toward happiness.

How to get there has always been the question. The Art of Happiness is the book that started the genre of happiness books, and it remains the cornerstone of the field of positive psychology.

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." Dalai Lama

Which Jim Collins Book To Read First

Which Jim Collins Book To Read First

Jim Collins in his own words is a student and teacher of what makes great companies tick. His timeless concepts stem from more than 25 years of rigorous research into the question of what makes the best companies and what makes great leaders. But which book should you read first? Read on, we have some clues!

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