Sabrina Horn(@SabrinaHorn) on Leading with authenticity for real results! #FutureofWork #Work2dot0 #Podcast

In this podcast Sabrina Horn discussed his book Ruthless Consistency, the insights it carries and shared how his journey has helped him craft a strategy that could work on the testing times. He sheds light on the importance of ruthless consistency and how any leader could adopt it in their day to day activities and succeed in leading.

Sabrina’s Recommended Read:
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t https://amzn.to/3aRbr8p
Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers https://amzn.to/3eKuLVU
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers https://amzn.to/3nAgNu8

Sabrina’s Book:
Make It, Don’t Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success https://amzn.to/3gPft5a

Podcast Link:
iTunes: http://math.im/jofitunes
Youtube: http://math.im/jofyoutube

Sabrina Horn is a tech industry communications expert, thought leader, and executive suite advisor with more than thirty years of experience. She is the founder of the PR firm Horn Group, which has received national acclaim as Best US Employer, Best US Tech Agency, Silicon Valley Hall of Fame winner, and PR Entrepreneur of the Year. Horn splits her time between San Francisco and New York City.

Timing:
0:46 Sabrina’s journey.
3:00 Evolution of PR industry.
5:49 Common pitfalls for businesses when it comes to PR.
9:13 Being truthful in your PR.
12:25 PR in the times of disruption.
16:01 What are businesses/startups doing wrong when it comes to HR?
18:31 When should startups start engaging with a PR agency?
21:11 Frugal methods for startups to adopt PR.
23:31 How much resources should a startup invest in?
25:25:00 Success PR stories.
31:33:00 What kind of business does PR find hard to work on?
34:07:00 How can an unethical business work with a PR company to turn things around.
38:44:00 Why the title “Make it, Don’t fake it”?
40:44:00 What’s the main message in “Make it, Don’t fake it”?
43:50:00 Distinguishing truth from a lie.
45:55:00 Dangers of lies and being delusional as a business.
51:28:00 Staying away from sensationalism.
56:57:00 Rapid fire.
1:00:45 Sabrina’s secret to success.
1:01:56 Sabrin’s favorite reads.
1:03:30 Closing remarks.

Here’s the GPS for the questions (These are just the boundaries questions to give a rough journey for the conversation):

Stage 1: Lead-in
1. Starter: Give your starter pitch 1 point that this book points to:
2. Vishal briefly introduce guest

Stage 2: Subject Matter Expertise
3. How has the world of PR evolved over last couple of years?
4. What is the role of a PR?
5. What people get it wrong about their perception?
6. What are some common pitfalls most business fall into when it comes to their brand perception?
7. What are some easy 1-2-3 steps that one could take to improve their market perception?

Stage 3: Introduction as an author
8. Why write this book?
9. Who should read this book?
10. Is “faking it” the same thing as lying?
11. Why is running a business with integrity hard?
12. What is the FUD factor?
13. In an era of fake news and minimizing realties, what can we learn about the value of being honest, especially when it’s hard?
14. Why should honesty be the foundation of every business?
15. You talked about the Founder’s curse, what is that and why should I worry?

Stage 4: Rapid Fire with Sabrina [Say what comes to your mind, make the answer one sentence crisp]
16 a. #Business
16 b. #Entrepreneur
16 c. #Leadership
16 d. #Culture
16 e. #PRNightmare
16 f. #Things That Keep You Up At Night
16 g. #Success
16 h. #Failure
16 i. #Being Authentic
16 j. #Destiny
16 k. #MakeItDontFameIt

Stage 5: Closing
17. What are 1-3 best practices that you think are the key to success in your journey?
18. Do you have any favorite read?
19. As a closing remark, what would you like to tell our audience?

About TAO.ai[Sponsor]:
TAO is building the World’s largest and AI-powered Skills Universe and Community powering career development platform empowering some of the World’s largest communities/organizations. Learn more at https://TAO.ai

About WorkPod:
Work Pod takes you on the journey with leaders, experts, academics, authors, and change-makers designing the future of work, workers, and the workplace.

About Work2.org
WorkPod is managed by Work2.org, a #FutureOfWork community for HR and Organization architects and leaders.

Sponsorship / Guest Request should be directed to [email protected]

Keywords:
#FutureofWork #Work2.0 #Work2dot0 #Leadership #Growth #Org2dot0 #Work2 #Org2

In this conversation, Thomas Eisenmann discussed the complicated world of startup failures. Tom discussed various failures and what are some ways businesses could have done right. This is a great conversation for anyone seeking to understand failures and how to avoid them.

Bio:
Tom Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS) and the faculty co-chair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. Since joining the HBS faculty in 1997, he’s led The Entrepreneurial Manager, an introductory course taught to all first-year MBAs, and launched fourteen electives on all aspects of entrepreneurship, including one on startup failure. Eisenmann has authored more than one hundred HBS case studies and his writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes. He is the author of the new book Why Startups Fail.

Thomas’s Book:
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success https://amzn.to/2SeCCEa

Discussion Timeline:
0:56 Thomas’s journey.
8:25 The stigma of failure.
14:26 The right way to deal with failure.
19:50 Indications of success or failure in startups.
26:44:00 Doing the right things, yet failing.
30:55:00 Examples of graceful failures.
36:14:00 Don’t give up till the end or exit gracefully.
41:55:00 Anti-fragile and embracing failures.
44:14:00 Tips for an entrepreneur to be resilient.
50:10:00 Rapid fire.
52:48:00 Tom’s success mantra.
55:10:00 Tom’s favorite reads.
56:18:00 Closing remarks.

Stage 1: Lead-in
1. Starter: Give your starter pitch 1 point that this book points to:
2. Vishal briefly introduce guest
Stage 2: Subject Matter Expertise
3. What is the state of startups today?
4. What are some common pitfalls you find in the world of startups?
5. What is the state of innovation today?
6. What are some common patterns you are seeing when it comes to startups that are coming up today?
7. How has corporate innovation stifled over the last year?
Stage 3: Introduction as an author
8. Why study startup failures?
9. What are some surprises you found in studying startup failures?
10. What are the most common patterns of failure?
11. Why is it important to normalize and accept failure?
12. Is there such a thing as failing well?
13. What was one of most of the unexpected failures you learned about when writing this book?
14. How you should embrace failure if you are a founder?
15. Are failures something you avoid or something you should embrace?
16. Naseem Taleb suggests being anti-fragile, can startup be anti-fragile

Stage 4: Rapid Fire [Say what comes to your mind]
17 a. #Startups
17 b. #Entrepreneurship
17 c. #Failures
17 d. #Growth
17 e. #Culture
17 f. #Founder
17 g. #Disruption
17 h. #JobsOfFuture
17 i. #FutureofStartup
17 j. #FutureofOrganization

Stage 5: Closing
18. What are 1-3 best practices that you think are the key to success in your journey?
19. Do you have any favorite read?
20. As a closing remark, what would you like to tell our audience?

About TAO.ai[Sponsor]:
TAO is building the World’s largest and AI-powered Skills Universe and Community powering career development platform empowering some of the World’s largest communities/organizations. Learn more at https://TAO.ai

About WorkPod:
Work Pod takes you on the journey with leaders, experts, academics, authors, and change-makers designing the future of work, workers, and the workplace.

About Work2.org
WorkPod is managed by Work2.org, a #FutureOfWork community for HR and Organization architects and leaders.

Sponsorship / Guest Request should be directed to [email protected]

Keywords:
#FutureofWork #Work2.0 #Work2dot0 #Leadership #Growth #Org2dot0 #Work2 #Org2

In this podcast, Michelle Seiler Tucker talked about the challenges of business around mergers and acquisitions. She suggested critical ways businesses could position themselves to find aspirational growth and exit at the maximum value by doing certain things right. A great conversation for anyone seeking to deliver more value from their outcome.

Introduction:
Michelle Seiler Tucker is the author of EXIT RICH: The 6 P Method to Sell Your Business for Huge Profit and the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated. She has sold hundreds of businesses to date and currently owns and operates several successful businesses. She is a leading authority on buying, selling, and improving businesses, as well as increasing business revenue streams.

A formidable force in her industry, Michelle closes 98% of all offers she writes and, on average, obtains a 20 to 40% higher selling price for her clients. Her remarkable track record proves her persistence and dedication to creating win-win situations for both her buyers and sellers. She has appeared in Forbes, Inc., CNBC, and Fox Business. She has also been a “celebrity judge” on “Pitch Tank” alongside Steve Forbes and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. She lives in New Orleans.

Stage 1: Lead-in
1. Starter: Give your starter pitch 1 point that this book points to:
2. Vishal briefly introduce guest

Stage 2: Subject Matter Expertise
3. What is the state of exit today?
4. Why did you chose to invest yourself in researching M&A
5. What does M&A means in the middle of a pandemic?
6. When is the good time to think about Exit?

Stage 3: Introduction as an author
7. Explain your journey to your current role?
8. Could you share something about your current role?
9. What does your company do?
10. Explain your journey to this book?
11. Why write this book?

Stage 4: Main points on the books
12. Why small business owners and entrepreneurs should be thinking about an exit strategy from day one
13. How to objectively evaluate your business’s worth
14. How and when to sell your business for a maximum profit
15. The biggest mistakes small companies during a downturn that lead to unnecessary business failure
16. Immediate steps for scaling and preparing a business for a profitable exit—even in a recession

Stage 5: Closing
17. What are 1-3 best practices that you think are the key to success in your journey?
18. Do you have any favorite read?
19. As a closing remark, what would you like to tell our audience?

About TAO.ai[Sponsor]:
TAO is building the World’s largest and AI-powered Skills Universe and Community powering career development platform empowering some of the World’s largest communities/organizations. Learn more at https://TAO.ai

About WorkPod:
Work Pod takes you on the journey with leaders, experts, academics, authors, and change-makers designing the future of work, workers, and the workplace.

About Work2.org
WorkPod is managed by Work2.org, a #FutureOfWork community for HR and Organization architects and leaders.

Sponsorship / Guest Request should be directed to [email protected]

Keywords:
#FutureofWork #Work2.0 #Work2dot0 #Leadership #Growth #Org2dot0 #Work2 #Org2

Discussing #FutureOfWork & Work2.0 with Josh Linkner talks about using little creativity spurts to use for disruption. He sheds light on how organizations could embrace creativity and use little creative innovation to help stir for big breakthroughs. She shared lots of examples of big little breakthroughs.

Bio:
He has been the founder and CEO of five tech companies, which sold for a combined value of over $200 million. He’s the author of four books including the New York Times Bestsellers, Disciplined Dreaming, and The Road to Reinvention.
This guy just loves starting and building companies. He’s the founding partner of Detroit Venture Partners and has been involved in the launch of over 100 startups.
Today, Josh serves as Chairman and co-founder of Platypus Labs, innovation research, training, and consulting firm. He has twice been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and is a recipient of the United States Presidential Champion of Change Award.
Josh is also a passionate Detroiter, the father of four, a professional-level jazz guitarist, and has a slightly odd obsession for greasy pizza

Josh’s Book:
Big Little Breakthroughs https://amzn.to/3usFCLm

Josh’s Recommendations:
Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day https://amzn.to/3bzvyYh
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World https://amzn.to/37K4PqW
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know https://amzn.to/37MepcR

Discussion Timeline:
TIMELINE

Some questions we covered:
1. Starter: Give your starter pitch 1 point that Big Little Breakthroughs points to:
2. Vishal briefly introduce Josh
3. What are you seeing the role of innovation in the middle of firefight[pandemic]
4. What is the state of enterprise investments to promote innovation?
5. What are some easy to fix bottlenecks to get enterprises to keep on innovating
6. What are some misconceptions about innovation and its adoption
7. Explain your journey to your current role?
8. Could you share something about your current role?
9. What does your company do?
10. Explain your journey to this book?
11. Why write this book?
12. Why are you so passionate about helping everyday people become everyday innovators?
13. What’s the most misunderstood thing around human creativity?
14. What’s your favorite brainstorming technique?
15. From doing the research for your new book, Big Little Breakthroughs, what surprised you the most?
16. What are 1-3 best practices that you think are the key to success in your journey?
17. Do you have any favorite read?
18. As a closing remark, what would you like to tell our audience?

About TAO.ai[Sponsor]:
TAO is building the World’s largest and AI-powered Skills Universe and Community powering career development platform empowering some of the World’s largest communities/organizations. Learn more at https://TAO.ai

About WorkPod:
Work Pod takes you on the journey with leaders, experts, academics, authors, and change-makers designing the future of work, workers, and the workplace.

About Work2.org
WorkPod is managed by Work2.org, a #FutureOfWork community for HR and Organization architects and leaders.

Sponsorship / Guest Request should be directed to [email protected]

Keywords:
#FutureofWork #Work2.0 #Work2dot0 #Leadership #Growth #Org2dot0 #Work2 #Org2

Leading the future of work in public sector

In this podcast, Teresa Roche, CHRO @ City Of Fort Collins discussed running a diverse organization and some challenges that go with running a diversified workforce. She also shared some challenges and opportunities of running a public sector organization. A must watch/listen for leaders seeking ideas/challenges/opportunities running a diverse organization.

Introduction:
Teresa Roche is currently the Chief Human Resources Officer for the City of Fort Collins a position she thought about long before being asked to serve in this role. After being in Leadership Fort Collins in 2008 Teresa reflected on how working to create and sustain healthy inclusive and economically viable communities can change the world and she hoped someday she would be more directly involved and not just through her volunteering efforts. The City uses the Triple Bottom Line framework which includes social environmental and economic factors to guide their work which aligns deeply with Teresa’s values.

Here’s the GPS for the questions (These are just the boundaries questions to give a rough journey for the conversation):

Segment 1: Lead-in
1. Starter: Give your starter pitch 1 point that you wish as a central theme.
2. Vishal briefly introduce guest

Segment 2: State of organizations
3. What is the state of organizations today?
4. How to control an organization when the control lies outside[pandemic]
5. How is automation impacting the state of organizations?
6. What does it mean to learn/develop a worker, in the age of work?
7. Name an inspirational role model when it comes to organizations led around people?
8. How to lead an organization into the future?
9. What is the role of a leader in #FutureOfWork
10. What are some common traits that you see inspiration leaders have?
11. How to handle toxic leadership?
12. People get hired for culture but leave for managers, how to bridge the gap?
13. Who is your inspirational role model when it comes to leaders leading organizations into the future?

Segment 3: Rapid Fire [Say what comes to your mind quickly]
14 a. #FutureOfWork
14 b. #Technology
14 c. #Leadership
14 d. #RemoteWork
14 e. #Equity
14 f. #Diversity
14 g. #Legislature
14 h. #JobsOfFuture
14 i. #FutureOfLearning
14 j. #Something exciting
14 k. #Things that keep you up at night?

Segment 4: Your personal journey
15. What are 1-3 best practices that you think are the key to success in your journey?
16. Do you have any favorite read?
17. As a closing remark, what would you like to tell our audience?

About TAO.ai[Sponsor]:
TAO is building the World’s largest and AI-powered Skills Universe and Community powering career development platform empowering some of the World’s largest communities/organizations. Learn more at https://TAO.ai

About WorkPod:
Work Pod takes you on the journey with leaders, experts, academics, authors, and change-makers designing the future of work, workers, and the workplace.

About Work2.org
WorkPod is managed by Work2.org, a #FutureOfWork community for HR and Organization architects and leaders.

Sponsorship / Guest Request should be directed to [email protected]

Keywords:
#FutureofWork #Work2.0 #Work2dot0 #Leadership #Growth #Org2dot0 #Work2 #Org2