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Bloomberg Radio New York
"gordon gecko" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Is this something that you guys are working on and really pushing ahead on? Absolutely. We will be ready to watch the origin next year and it is a vehicle that's purpose built for ride share. Cruz has the technology we're the only company that is operating and actually charging for rice in San Francisco by the end of the year we'll have vehicles operating and Phoenix as well as Austin. And so we think a lot of people think this technology is 5 or ten years away. It's here now and couldn't be more proud of the crew's team and I think when we have the origin and people are going to see that it really takes a ride share up a notch with the comfort that convenience that you have with autonomous vehicle right here. So couldn't be more supportive in a very excited about this technology. Okay, so robotaxis coming soon. Maybe we'll take a ride in the next time we're here at Stanford. Hey, Mary, you're on the board of Walt Disney. So I got to ask about the recent shakeup there. When did the discussion start to make a change and bring back bob Iger? Well, you know, I'm really not here to talk about Disney and I'm not going to talk about the specific timing that's confidential from the board perspective. But what I will say is we are incredibly confident I personally incompetent and bob's ability to set the strategic direction for renewed growth just as he has done in the past. This is a period of enormous change in 5 understands that. And he's really uniquely suited to navigate the challenges facing Disney and the broader industry. And he'll focus and take the right steps as it relates to efficiencies and across different structure. But I think the initial message that he has is so important that creativity is the heart and soul of the company. So the board will work closely with him to identify and have the right succession process in this two years, but I think right now, if you look at what he accomplished in 15 years, he's the right leader. His legacy on storytelling and what he accomplished with the company is really undeniable. So I think he's the right person for the job. Mary, you know, we said a lot of things coming at you fast and furiously. I think about Twitter and GM and advertising. You know, what are your expectations about Twitter going forward? Is it just kind of a wait and see approach to see whether or not you want to have advertising back on the platform? How do you feel about that? Yeah, we just want to better understand, you know, and make sure that there's the right monitoring of content, our brands are very important. And so we're continuing to work with the Twitter team and understand where they're going. And we'll continue to monitor that. I have to say one of the things in prepping for this is you gave a speech. I think it was back in 2016 to graduates. And you talked about how, when getting an MBA, everybody thought about Gordon gecko of the Wall Street movie. I think it has definitely evolved when you think about all the different people get NBA's and where they go. What is the smart conversation about women specifically in senior roles? You did it. But it's interesting, even though there's parity among men and women maybe at business schools, it's not necessarily in the C suite and I just, I'm curious what your thoughts are. What's the smart conversation about getting more women in senior roles? Well, I think, you know, for me personally, my time at Stanford was transformational. I always say, in some cases, I didn't know what I didn't know, taught me so much about business, but being the fact that I had a engineering degree. And that's what I the degree I persuade before I went there. So I think continuing to attract women into business school is very, very important. But then life Stanford, they have specific initiatives to work to make sure women are prepared for getting to the C suite and have a network and support to do that. So I think we just kind of keep working. I think a lot of it rests on companies to have the right pipeline. It's not something you do at the last minute. It's what you do, you know, the minute someone joins the company and having a strong pipeline through each of the different areas of the company. And that's what we try to do at General Motors. But I think the learning that an MBA provides definitely allows both everyone to attend to the opportunity to be better prepared to succeed. Mary, 20 seconds, one trait that you got from being at Stanford that you take with you today. Oh my gosh, there are so many things that I learned at Stanford, but I think one of the key things is, and what is, I think, so special about the Stanford graduate school of business, is their focus on leadership. Because leadership no matter what challenge you face, engaging people, being able to set the strategic direction, it all centers on having strong leadership. And that's a focus. And I think a big distinguisher of what the Stanford graduate school of business has accomplished. That's Mary Barra, chair and CEO of GM and Stanford GSB's class of 1990. You're listening to Bloomberg businessweek. Up next, we come full circle and
Bloomberg Radio New York
"gordon gecko" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"And this is coming through the GM cruise division. What can you tell us about this? Is this something that you guys are working on and really pushing ahead on? Absolutely. We will be ready to watch the origin next year and it is a vehicle that's purpose built for rideshare. Cruz has the technology we're the only company that is operating and actually charging for Ryzen San Francisco by the end of the year we'll have vehicles operating in Phoenix as well as Austin. And so we think a lot of people think this technology is 5 or ten years away. It's here now and couldn't be more proud of the crew's team. And I think when we have the origin and people are going to see that it really takes a ride share up a notch with the comfort and convenience that you have with autonomous vehicle right here. So couldn't be more supportive in a very excited about this technology. Okay, so robo taxis coming soon. Maybe we'll take a ride in the next time we're here at Stanford. Hey, Mary, you're on the board of Walt Disney. So I got to ask about the recent shakeup there. When did the discussion start to make a change and bring back bob Iger? Well, you know, I'm really not here to talk about Disney and I'm not going to talk about the specific timing that's confidential from a board perspective. But what I will say is we are incredibly confident I personally incompetent and bob's ability to set the strategic direction for renewed growth just as he has done in the past, you know, this is a period of enormous change in bob understands that. And he's really uniquely suited to navigate the challenges facing Disney and the broader industry. And he'll focus and take the right steps as it relates to efficiencies and across effective structure, but I think the initial message that he has is so important that creativity is the heart and soul of the company. So the board will work closely with him to identify and have the right succession process in this two years, but I think right now if you look at what he accomplished in 15 years, he's the right leader. His legacy on storytelling and what he accomplished with the company is really undeniable. So I think he's the right person for the job. Mary, you know, we said a lot of things coming at you fast and furiously. I think about Twitter and GM and advertising. You know, what are your expectations about Twitter going forward? Is it just kind of a wait and see approach to see whether or not you want to have advertising back on the platform? How do you feel about that? Yeah, we just want to better understand, you know, and make sure that there's the right monitoring of content, our brands are very important. And so we're continuing to work with the Twitter team and understand where they're going. And we'll continue to monitor that. I have to say, one of the things in prepping for this is you gave a speech. I think it was back in 2016 to graduates. And you talked about how, when getting an MBA, everybody thought about Gordon gecko of the Wall Street movie. I think it has definitely evolved when you think about all the different people get NBA's and where they go. What is the smart conversation about women specifically in senior roles? You did it. But it's interesting, even though there's parody among men and women, maybe at business schools, it's not necessarily in the C suite, and I just, I'm curious what your thoughts are. What's the smart conversation about getting more women in senior roles? Well, I think, you know, for me personally, my time at Stanford was transformational. I always say, in some cases, I didn't know when I didn't know and taught me so much about business, but being the fact that I had a engineering degree. And that's what I pursued before I went there. So I think continuing to attract women into business school is very, very important. But then like Stanford, they have specific initiatives to work to make sure women are prepared for getting to the C suite and have a network and support to do that. So I think we just kind of keep working it. I think a lot of it rests on companies to have the right pipeline. It's not something you do at the last minute and it's what you do, you know, the minute someone joins the company and having a strong pipeline through each of the different areas of the company. That's what we try to do at General Motors. But I think the learning that an MBA provides definitely allows both everyone who attends the opportunity to be better prepared to succeed. Mary, 20 seconds, one trait that you got from being at Stanford that you take with you today. Oh my gosh, there are so many things that I learned at Stanford, but I think one of the key things is, and what is, I think, so special about the Stanford graduate school of business, is their focus on leadership. Because leadership no matter what challenge you face, engaging people, being able to set the strategic direction, it all centers on having strong leadership. And that's a focus. And I think a big distinguisher of what the Stanford graduate school of business has accomplished. That's Mary Barra, chair and CEO of GM and Stanford GSB's class of 1990. You're listening to Bloomberg businessweek, up next we come full circle and
Bloomberg Radio New York
"gordon gecko" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Cruise division. What can you tell us about this? Is this something that you guys are working on and really pushing ahead on? Absolutely. We will be ready to launch the origin next year and it is a vehicle that's purpose built for rideshare. Cruz has the technology we're the only company that is operating and actually charging for rides in San Francisco by the end of the year we'll have vehicles operating in Phoenix as well as Austin. And so we think a lot of people think this technology is 5 or ten years away. It's here now and couldn't be more proud of the crew's team and I think when we have the origin and people are going to see that it really takes a ride share up a notch with the comfort that convenience that you have with autonomous vehicle right here. So couldn't be more supportive in a very excited about this technology. Okay, so robo taxis coming soon. Maybe we'll take a ride in the next time we're here at Stanford. Hey, Mary, you're on the board of Walt Disney. So I got to ask about the recent shakeup there. When did the discussion start to make a change and bring back bob Iger? Well, you know, I'm really not here to talk about Disney and I'm not going to talk about the specific timing that's confidential from a board perspective. But what I will say is we are incredibly confident I personally incompetent and bob's ability to set the strategic direction for renewed growth just as he has done in the past. This is a period of enormous change in bob understands that. And he's really uniquely suited to navigate the challenges facing Disney and the broader industry. And he'll focus and take the right steps as it relates to efficiencies and across different structure, but I think the initial message that he has so important that creativity is the heart and soul of the company. So the board will work closely with him to identify and have the right succession process in this two years, but I think right now if you look at what he accomplished in 15 years, he's the right leader. His legacy on storytelling and what he accomplished with the company is really undeniable. So I think he's the right person for the job. Mary, you know, we said a lot of things coming at you fast and furiously. I think about Twitter and GM and advertising. You know, what are your expectations about Twitter going forward? Is it just kind of a wait and see approach to see whether or not you want to have advertising back on the platform? How do you feel about that? Yeah, we just want to better understand, you know, and make sure that there's the right monitoring of content, our brands are very important. And so we're continuing to work with the Twitter team and understand where they're going and we'll continue to monitor that. I have to say one of the things in prepping for this is you gave a speech. I think it was back in 2016 to graduates. And you talked about how, when getting an MBA, everybody thought about Gordon gecko of the Wall Street movie. I think it has definitely evolved when you think about all the different people get MBAs and where they go. What is the smart conversation about women specifically in senior roles? You did it. But it's interesting, even though there's parity among men and women maybe at business schools, it's not necessarily in the C suite and I just, I'm curious what your thoughts are. What's the smart conversation about getting more women in senior roles? Well, I think, you know, for me personally, my time at Stanford was transformational. I always say, in some cases, I didn't know what I didn't know. And taught me so much about business, being the fact that I had a engineering degree. And that's what the degree of security before I went there. So I think continuing to attract women into business school is very, very important. But then like Stanford, they have specific initiatives to work to make sure women are prepared for getting to the C suite and have a network and support to do that. So I think we just kind of keep working it. I think a lot of it rests on companies to have the right pipeline. It's not something you do at the last minute. It's what you do, you know, the minute someone joins the company and having a strong pipeline through each of the different areas of the company. And that's what we try to do at General Motors. But I think the learning that an MBA provides definitely allows both everyone to attend to the opportunity to be better prepared to succeed. Mary, 20 seconds, one trait that you got from being at Stanford that you take with you today. Oh my gosh, there are so many things that I learned at Stanford, but I think one of the key things is in what is, I think, so special about the Stanford graduate school of business, is their focus on leadership, because leadership no matter what challenge you face, engaging people, being able to set the strategic direction. It all centers on having strong leadership. And that's a focus. And I think a big distinguisher of what the Stanford graduate school of business has accomplished. That's Mary Barra, chair and CEO of GM and Stanford GSB's class of 1990. You're listening to Bloomberg businessweek, up next we come full circle and
Bloomberg Radio New York
"gordon gecko" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Going to see that really takes a ride share up a notch with the comfort the convenience that you have with autonomous vehicle right here. So couldn't be more supportive in a very excited about this technology. Okay, so robotaxis coming soon. Maybe we'll take a ride in the next time we're here at Stanford. Hey, Mary, you're on the board of Walt Disney. So I got to ask about the recent shakeup there. When did the discussion start to make a change and bring back bob Iger? Well, you know, I'm really not here to talk about Disney and I'm not going to talk about the specific timing that's confidential from a board perspective. But what I will say is we are incredibly confident I personally incompetent and bob's ability to set the strategic direction for renewed growth just as he has done in the past. You know, this is a period of enormous change in bob understands that. And he's really uniquely suited to navigate the challenges facing Disney and the broader industry. And he'll focus and take the right steps as it relates to efficiencies and across different structure, but I think the initial message that he has is so important that creativity is the heart and soul of the company. So the board will work closely with him to identify and have the right succession process in this two years, but I think right now, if you look at what he accomplished in 15 years, he's the right leader. His legacy on storytelling and what he accomplished with the company is really undeniable. So I think he's the right person for the job. Mary, you know, we said a lot of things coming at you fast and furiously. I think about Twitter and GM and advertising. You know, what are your expectations about Twitter going forward? Is it just kind of a wait and see approach to see whether or not you want to have advertising back on the platform? How do you feel about that? Yeah, we just want to better understand, you know, and make sure that there's the right monitoring of content, our brands are very important. And so we're continuing to work with the Twitter team and understand where they're going and we'll continue to monitor that. I have to say, one of the things in prepping for this is you gave a speech. I think it was back in 2016 to graduates. And you talked about how, when getting an MBA, everybody thought about Gordon gecko of the Wall Street movie. I think it has definitely evolved when you think about all the different people get MBAs and where they go. What is the smart conversation about women specifically in senior roles? You did it. But it's interesting, even though there's parody among men and women, maybe at business schools, it's not necessarily in the C suite. And I'm curious what your thoughts are. What's the smart conversation about getting more women in senior roles? Well, I think, you know, for me personally, my time at Stanford was transformational. I always say, in some cases, I didn't know when I didn't know and taught me so much about business, but being the fact that I had an engineering degree. And that's what I pursued before. I went there. So I think continuing to attract women into business school is very, very important. But then like Stanford, they have specific initiatives to work to make sure women are prepared for getting to the C suite and have a network and support to do that. So I think we just kind of keep working. I think a lot of it rests on companies to have the right pipeline. It's not something you do at the last minute. It's what you do, you know, the minute someone joins the company and having a strong pipeline through each of the different areas of the company. And that's what we try to do at General Motors. But I think the learning that an MBA provides definitely allows both everyone who attends the opportunity to be better prepared to succeed. Mary, 20 seconds, one trait that you got from being at Stanford that you take with you today. Oh my gosh, there are so many things that I learned at Stanford, but I think one of the key things is, and what is, I think, so special about the Stanford graduate school of business, is their focus on leadership, because leadership no matter what challenge you face, engaging people, being able to set the strategic direction, it all centers on having strong leadership. And that's a focus. And I think a big distinguisher of what the Stanford graduate school of business has accomplished. That's Mary Barra, chair and CEO of GM and Stanford GSB's class of 1990. You're listening to Bloomberg businessweek. Up next, we come full circle and hear from a 2022 graduate who's already cofounded an agricultural tech firm that's focused on carbon reduction practices when it comes to farming. Lasso's Nicole Rojas joins us in just a moment. For me, going into this space, it was this fantastic intersection of this industry that's near and dear to my heart as a proud wisconsinite, but also that has a profound impact on the climate. And what's really exciting about agriculture and working in sustainability here is that we really see it's a win win. It's both for environmental sustainability and improving the land that we're farming on in the cattle that we're working with, but also financial sustainability that by doing these emission reduction practices, it's improving the financial viability of these farms. And we'll go off campus in our second hour to talk crypto with Kathy wood. You know, sometimes you need to battle test. You need to go through crises to see to see who the real to see the survivors. First of all, but really to test battle test the infrastructure and the thesis. And again, we think Bitcoin is coming out of this smelling like a rose. And then catch up with the chef Danielle belu on his newest kitchen. In New York City, we have the tourism we have the business. We have definitely. A New York City has a lot of rebounds. I would say all the time for different purpose and different reason. I think company will still have to entertain company will still have to do business. So I think I see the optimism maybe not only for next year, it's hard to be optimistic, but
How I Got Here with Dave Fiore
"gordon gecko" Discussed on How I Got Here with Dave Fiore
"That now we didn't have to know everything about everything. Right. And now we do. So after high school, you go to college at UCLA. And earned a degree in political science. Yeah, why did that happen? Why did that happen? I don't know. Are you interested in politics? I think I saw the movie Wall Street and I thought that that Gordon gecko. Yeah, I figured that's what I should do. I did not like it, but I had everything kind of mapped out and was going to get my poli sci degree and go to law school. So I think it was my second year in college. I took some sort of graduate level like pre law class. It was part of the honors program. And I literally got in there. I had no idea what we were doing. They were doing a moot court. I think I freaked out and didn't go to the class. I think I sobbed in front of the professor and somehow got out of it with the sea and left. And I'm like, this is not for me. And I knew that in this, I'm not cut out for this. And it was probably the wrong class to throw a 19 year old in. Or maybe some 19 year olds, but not for me. But I stayed with it because I was so far into the major because I did business and honors and poli sci. So I just stayed with it. And it was an interesting degree, but I should have been a communications major. Like hands down, I have no idea why, and it's my own fault for not digging into the possibilities, but I just have to say, it's my own responsibility to have created a support system for me, but I just didn't have people around me to guide me. And I wish that I would have taken more advantage of that. I feel like as a parent, I'm more connected with what is available for my kids than my parents ever were. But that's still my responsibility. I should have figured it out. But I think that's different too, maybe it's not for everybody, but I was completely on my own. I mean, I went to college to be a band director and then the only reason I went into got my degree in PR, but the only reason was because I had a friend whose sister was in PR. And I'm like, that sounds fun. Yeah. That was my whole process. Yeah. I think there's more, maybe. I don't know. I think that there may be a little more guidance and a little more maybe more resources for young people. But I'm not entirely sure okay. Worked out fine. And I loved school. So where did you do after graduation? Oh, so I graduated and I'm smiling because, boy, I ended up as an account executive at the second alternative rock station in the U.S. so at the time it was 91 X in San Diego and anyone that knows what that whole scene was like there was Cara K rock in Los Angeles and then 91 X was the second one. In fact, their logo, if anyone is familiar with 91 X and there may be some listeners, it's the same logo that they had. They haven't changed it. And it's basically, I just, it was really fun. It was a complete transition into what, you know, alternative music was. So what was alternative rock in this time period in the 80s? You're talking about. Wow. So it would have been like the cure and Depeche Mode. And the facts and I mean, just any of that. Yeah, I mean, it basically was what was on MTV. And so it was just a different type of experience. And it was also the 80s and there were just, it was a little wild. But it was great training and we had a lot of fun. And that's ultimately where I met. My husband. Okay. We'll come back to him in a second. Yeah. Were you selling time were you an account executive or what was your role count executive? And I basically started with no account list and strike commission. So you're going door to door? We made phone calls. Made phone calls, and it was extremely intimidating. I was 22. Right out of school. And the majority of the aes are counting executives were men in probably the early late 20s or early 30s, but you know, when you're a 22 year old, those are grown people, right? And of course, they are like kind of obnoxious and they look at me and be like everything. Would you sell today, you know? And I was just terrified. And you're in this room with a bunch of cubicles and everyone can hear you. And somehow I didn't fail. But I learned a lot. I learned a lot about sales that I learned about being kind of fearless in a very, very tough. And often very inappropriate. Environment. By inappropriate, I mean some sexism going on. Oh, absolutely. And things like go to Mexico because I'd be calling on some of the nightclubs. Go to Mexico, go pick up a $1000 and bring that back over the border. Those kind of things, or yeah. Yeah, I see your face. Those are things that I was expecting. Yeah. Those are things that you did. You got to call on the nightclubs, and then you had to go basically pick up the cash. So they just things that wouldn't happen today. Interesting. It was just, you know, this was not the radio station I worked at, but there was a station in San Diego, where when the women made a sale, they would go stand on a table and they would take a bell and hold it between their knees and ring it. Now the male account executives did not have to do that, but the women did. And somebody actually called them on it and there was a lawsuit. And that was what I remember being like the beginning of the change toward. This is what we do at work on this is what we don't do at work. There weren't a lot of rules back in the day. The 80s were different. The ideas were different. Yeah. Yeah, so you met your husband doing radio. I did. So I want to hear that story. Oh, so we met at a Jason Jennings sales seminar, Jason Jennings was a sales trainer. Okay. And I do remember meeting him. He had just been hired and I remember meeting him and he was doing that he was an account executive in the county executive also, and I remember we were friends for a long time, but I do remember sitting in the back of various workshops and seminars and probably not paying attention and writing notes or I don't know what we did. How did you end up in Tallahassee? So we were one of the mom and pop owner operators and we, if anyone remembers the old WMO radio station, mellow one O 5 melanoma 5. So we bought that and we actually flipped it to a hot AC, which was live one O 5 and ran that for several years. And then sold it to, I guess, I don't know who the I think it's been sold several times, but it's the hot one of four 9 property rights. Okay, so let's stop there for a second. You know, being an AE at a radio station is different than owning a radio station. So how did you all end up owning your own radio station? That would be a much better question for my husband than for me. Okay. But he that was always something that he had wanted to do. And again, this was many years ago. I'm going to say it was 25 years ago when you still could actually. Somebody could do that. Somebody could do that. And so but that was pretty cool. It was pretty cool. It was a different Tallahassee, 25 years ago, and
Accelerate Your Business Growth
"gordon gecko" Discussed on Accelerate Your Business Growth
"As an employee stock ownership plan. And potential exit. Opportunity in path, as opposed to a third party exit because it keeps, you know, there's a stronger probability of the business stays in the community. And it empowers the employees. No, it's not for everybody. There are a lot of reasons why an ESA potentially wouldn't apply to a family business situation. But I think that critical thing is going to the now generation and saying, let's explore all of our options and talk through it as a family. And I, whether it's the next generation that initiates that conversation or it's the now generation, the owning generation saying, hey kids, we're going to explore all of our options together. And talk through what they mean. And where are what are our options? We have too much debt, esop isn't option for us. Well, what about private equity, private equity sounds scary, but it's actually can be a great opportunity for taking the business to the next level. They're not all Gordon gecko, like everybody likes to make them out to be. You know, or maybe it is a strategic. There are lots of different options in the important thing is let's explore them. Don't let's not make any assumptions that we have to keep it in the family or we have to sell it. Let's understand it and make the decision. Now, ultimately, that decision is going to be made by the owning members because they get the vote. But by having at least a voice, it's important to have a voice even if you don't have a vote. And I'll frame it in this way, Diane, very quickly, a story on this. There's a client that I've known for years and the patriarch came from a family business himself. And he was working in his father's family business. And his father decided, you know, he talked to talk to his sons and what they wanted to do with the business and my client wanted to keep the business but the father ultimately decided nope. We're not keeping the business. From my client's perspective had his company sold out from under him. He went on to form his own business with his own next generation involved as owners and participants in the business. Not all of them were active employees of the business, but they were all owners. And now that patriarch is essentially holding the next generation hostage. He will never sell the business. Because he doesn't want to do what his dad did to him, but yet the next generation is now in their late 50s and 60s. And there's third generation has no real interest because of the family dynamics of getting involved in it. Well, you have to talk through this. You have to look through the alternatives. And if you start with what's best for the family, the alternatives will kind of play out and you can make better decisions. Oh, well, thank you so much for sharing that example. It really challenging situation for any family. And it's part of the reason that, you know, I believe, I know you believe to be able to bring in outside voices that can see it from an unemotional standpoint that can carry on those conversations and help people really have discussions and go through a process is so important to not just the future of the business, but the future of the family dynamic. Exactly. Yeah. And that's why we, you know, and the family business consulting group, we start with that three system model. And frame it in those terms. Yeah, no kidding. So important. It is. Boy, Martha, thank you so much for coming back on and having this conversation with me. It's always timely. But especially now after the past couple of years, I so appreciate it. Well, thank you. You know, Diana's always a treat to talk with you. We've had good conversations in the past, and I look forward to many more in the future. This is good. A wonderful time. In the meantime, will you tell us how they can find you? Absolutely. Absolutely. So you can find me at the family business consulting group. It would be the best place on this topic. And our website is WWW. Dot com. And I'll also if you go to our events page, we've got a number of really cool events coming up talking about how to get started in family governance, how to get there's webinar coming up on family harmony. So depending on when this airs, we have lots of resources there are lots of articles in other things as well as the events. So check it out. And you can also check me out on LinkedIn. I'm there as well. Excellent. Thank you so much. Thank you. Oh, absolutely. And listeners, thank you. You are who we are doing this for, and this is why I bring you people, like Martha, who can really provide you with information that you are most likely wondering about, especially if you are. In a family business or running a family business. So thank you all. Thank you for tuning in to this episode of accelerate your business growth. A production of evergreen podcasts. Discover more episodes of this podcast and explore others at evergreen podcast dot com. As always, continue to prosper and be curious. And if you're looking to get your sales strategy headed in the right direction, pick up a copy of succeed without selling on Amazon or wherever books are sold. Until we meet again, on another episode of accelerate your business growth, goodbye, and good day..
Patriots Beat
"gordon gecko" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"Valued player. So the market sets the value, the value does not set the market. Fair enough. One more thing and I might have got that backwards, I don't know. Okay, Gordon gecko. I have come around to most of the of the draft in general. I've kind of stomached it in whatever. I think the biggest thing I also mentioned that I feel a little bit weary about, they didn't get any better in the front 7 in this draft. They didn't even draft a front 7 player until the 6th round, and that was Sam Roberts, right? So they clearly feel really, really good. And I guess maybe this is a discussion that we can have and future shows. About the outlook of the Ross right now, they feel really, really good about their linebacker group camera growing ray kwon McMillan coming back from injuries, giving guys like uche, a chance to play. I think they feel really good about that, but yeah, but the point is Perkins yep, Ronnie Perkins. The point is is that they were 25th against the run last year. And they're run to even get any better, right? So that does concern me. The other thing is draw Mayo talked about. We got to get faster. We got to get more explosive on defense. Then they didn't really do that either, right? They drafted markets Jones. Marcus Jones explosive player. You could say that into enough. But they did. I think Gerard was talking more about linebackers 'cause he's a linebackers coach and that's fair. That's fair. Yeah, right. So that was the one thing I thought as well that it was a little bit of a head scratcher, but overall I am coming around to the draft and at this point were at the point where we just got to say, look, the draft is what the draft is and let's get these kids into camp and into the preseason. And let's see what they're made of, right? I mean, the patrons are clearly high on a lot of these guys that they pick. Macro really went to bat for Cole strange and take on Thor and Friday night after the day of the draft. He really patted the table for those guys and you saw some conviction with those picks. So we'll see what ends up happening. I am willing to give them the band for the doubt and willing to see what these guys do. All right, we're T minus an hour and 20 minutes until the Celtic salad. You have a real quick Celtics prediction for the people. Oh, I think the Chris Middleton injury ends up being a big deal. I'm going Celtics in 6. All right, Celtics in 6. I had Celtics in 7 last night on the end of the stream, John asked me this question as well. So I'll say I'll stick with Celtics in 7, but I also think Chris Middleton wound up being a big factor..
Retire South Shore Radio
"gordon gecko" Discussed on Retire South Shore Radio
"Now it's the weekend. But if you call that number and leave your name and number, somebody will get back to you guaranteed, or you can call them Monday morning 7 8 one 8 three 6 four two one four two schedule an appointment also visit the website retire south shore dot com and simply utilize the very simple grid to make your appointment. It really could help you to get information that you really need to move forward. Yeah, let's talk about that for a minute. We talk about the 15 minute strategy call every single week because we want people to call in because we're in the business of working with people. But I want to explain to people what that strategy call could in fact entail. It gives people a really good opportunity to ask a burning question that might be really niggling in their head and worrying them and a simple answer could completely alleviate them. It also gives people the opportunity to kind of lay out what they've done in the comfort of their own home. And honestly, if it ain't broke, I'm not going to fix it. If you have a proper strategy and everything's on point, there's no benefit to anybody concerned existing advisers, ask the client to create a problem that there isn't a problem, but to have that second opinion for something as important as retirement, which quite honestly is probably as long as most people have worked in their careers, is so critically important. Like you know, we only rolled this out in the beginning of 2020 because we weren't able to get together with people face to face. And I thought, you know, I had always thought better to get together with people face to face because we're in a face to face business. And I still think that it is to a certain degree. What it allows us the ability to very efficiently talk to people and see what they need if we can help them if we can. We can take it a step further if we can't, or if they have just a really quick question, which I've had multiple calls like this, then they can go on their way and be more comfortable with what they're currently doing. Absolutely. We have about four and a half minutes left. I don't want to get through this without you finishing the list you have for us today. Yeah, so the last two things that I wanted to talk about were maybe look and consider adjusting your expectations. And what I mean is be realistic with the returns that you think that you're going to need, and I don't mean, hey, I made 20% last year. I want to consistently do that. Look at it from the perspective of when we build strategies we do it so worst case scenario, doom and gloom, low returns, high taxes, high inflation, stress testing somebody's strategy to make sure that it works, and if it works under those circumstances, then anything else over and above that is gravy, quite honestly, I say this to every single client. If you don't have to take massive amounts of risk in retirement in order to do everything that you want to do, what's the point? And I'm not saying don't take. I'm not saying get out of it. I'm not saying anything. I'm just saying, look at this from the perspective of it's more about maintaining your lifestyle and trying to be the next Gordon geko doubling and triple in your money. We want just slow and steady, you want to make sure that you can continue to maintain your lifestyle and do the things that you want to do. Absolutely, Gordon gecko, my goodness, you're showing your age. Let's do the final one because I think over 7 and we're just about there. Yeah, I mean, I think we would look at reassessing your long-term plans. So where are you planning to live? Are you going to downsize your home? Are you not going to downsize your home if you downsize your home? What are you going to do with the excess money if you have excess money? Take a better stock on what travel you're actually going to do. I met with clients last week and they said, well, every other year we're going to go to the other side of the world, which is where they're from. I said, are you going to do that every other year indefinitely? Well, no, probably not. All right, let's be realistic about this. Let's look at how much money you're actually going to need and plug it in. Yeah, let's do the absolute max first and then work backwards from there because it's too bad if people are so worried about retiring because they have unrealistic expectations as to how much they're going to need, and then they push retirement out when they could have done it earlier. Yeah, that's that's me. That's my case. I sometimes take a paper to the desk and pencil and start writing things down. And when you write things out and really think about them, it becomes a lot clearer as to your plans and what they're going to be. I know one thing's for sure. Playoff football this weekend, and then next weekend, the next weekend or the weekend after, I think it's two weeks out. The Super Bowl. They're asking the wrong person. I'm asking the run. It's not that kind of football, right? But the fact at all, there's only one person on the team who's using his foot. That's true. You make a very good point as a fan of Ted Lasso I can agree with you wholeheartedly. But I did want to mention the fact that this is a good time of the year. It's cold. People are in. They're watching football. They're thinking about the spring. It's a good time of the year to make some of these plans and adjust and examine your portfolio and examine your strategic outlook because nice weather is going to begin soon and you might be a little distracted by that. So make the move now go to retire south shore dot com and check it out. A lot of opportunities there for engagement. We jump off the air. I just want to do a shout out to two clients of mine. I won't mention their last names, but rob and Deb, who on Wednesday last week just became grandparents. And they are ecstatic. He sent me a text, the morning after the baby arrived. And just delighted with themselves. So I just wanted to wish them congratulations. I know they're heading down to Florida. So you're going to have some fun down there, but they're here at the moment enjoying their grandchildren. That's what it's all about. Absolutely. You put a capper on this beautiful discussion with that. And as a fellow grandpa I can tell you there ain't nothing better. You've got a little ways to go before you get to that. Yes, I do. Marcus. Marcus always. Thank you. Have a great week stay warm. You too, sir. This radio show may contain concepts that have legal accounting and tax implications. It is not intended to provide legal accounting tax or investment advice. By contacting our company, you may be offered information regarding insurance and fixed annuity products. Annuity guarantees rely on the financial strength and claims paying ability of the issuing insurer. Any comments regarding safe and secure investments and guaranteed income streams refer only to fixed insurance products. They do not refer in any way to securities or investment advisory products. Fixed insurance and annuity product guarantees are subject to the claims paying ability of the issuing company..
The Paul Finebaum Show
"gordon gecko" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"That's a game that he would normally have been broadcasting a couple years ago and uh unfortunately he got stuck coaching. The game college football fans after an off season that sell a little more off than usual fans villain dr pepper. Invite you to celebrate because college. Football is back and so fans yes. It's the most wonderful time of year again. The season of saturday's rivalries run deep. And nacho cheese dip runs even deeper so crack open ice cold dr pepper. Warm up your cornhole tossing arm and return to glory with an all new season of fans ville by dr pepper. The one fans deserve so. Acc black guy sec. Good bargo if you go out to the rose bowl if you go all the way left to the rosebowl one of the great iconic scenes in college football you have the team one in particular would be the surprise team and there wasn't i expected. Ucla to play well. And take that into the fourth quarter. Because i just think they're really really on saturday night was in was just a dominant performance. Forget that they won paul day. We're just a better team. And i don't even think it was close and i knew wanna polish here because uh no no one. I don't bet on football and yesterday I regretted it. Because i got the. I got the all time. Gordon gecko insider trading tip from matt berry Two weeks ago when when he mean he he just flat out called a ucla. Win told many people. As i could. And then i still had to be subjected to my colleagues in the sec just propping up lsu like twenty nineteen all over again. And it's just not an congratulations mad. I i don't know whether chip kelly is sending you game film after after work. You called it and you're right and the ucla's got some real potential. But i'm i worry about lsu because nobody over sells their team better or worse. I should say than does ron. He just can never come. Come into a press conference and say like nick sabin not happy. I mean it's always great. It's always we got the best team and there's no way that this team is l. Comes out of this very well. And i mean they got problems across the board especially in. I'm glad you brought that especially Especially new coordinators who look clueless because we looked at what was the storyline with lsu. Got rid of pollini. He had to bring in a new office. We had the we had to get that stank from twenty twenty off of us and paul. Look that would. That's exactly what. I was talking about last night because i wasn't surprised by the ucla win. I was more stunned in legitimately started asking the question and it's a legitimate question now. Is everything okay at lsu because it is it getting a little more crystallized to me that maybe two thousand nineteen was just a perfect storm in an outlier in the eto doron era because since then we saw last year which is an absolute tire fire. And then. I don't know what you're going to get this year. Because last night in the rose bowl they were beaten top to bottom by pac twelve team. And i know it was on the road. I don't ever think the rose bowl is a hostile environment. But they they were outplayed. And you're not supposed to get that when you're lsu you're supposed to be one of these programs hovers around the top ten every year. Maybe top fifteen. They were absolutely embarrassed by chip. Kelly and ucla to me. The bigger story yeah. Ucla's a great story but to me. The bigger one is lsu this disney. They need to be careful. Well we're talking about a defense. I mean nothing gets more over hype than the lsu defense and their run defense got gashed. I i didn't expect to happen singly. look pedestrian at times and again we something you know. I think because of nick sabin. We assume that you can. You can change coordinators every year and not have a drop off. It affected him a couple years ago. But i didn't see anything from think about lsu for a second. I'm doing this off the top of my head. But i mean if you rank the tough games on lsu schedule. Ucla was nowhere near the top. I mean they had they have to go to alabama. You're right. They have florida which we don't know much about yet naturally. They have auburn team. That just gutted them last year got texas am on the road. So who knows and and i want to start this because i but because coach has really done a lot in and i think. The state of louisiana has often rallied around him especially now at a very difficult time. But these these off the field issues. Which don't matter if you win suddenly matter if you start losing and right now. There are a lot of angry. Lsu fans who who just didn't lose on a last second field goal that game was that game wasn't even close nokia's typically thirty eight twenty. Seven was the finals charbonnet. I suppose extra never ran at michigan. He's been running the first two weeks for chip kelly and ucla. You're right if you come down in its all time classic at the rose bowl that everybody just shake each other's hands is seeing a hell of a football game. You both fought but there was this clip of oh going around before the game. When he was walking through the tunnel he was mouth and off to a ucla fan caught like his pansy blue shirt. Or whatever but that was what as you thought of. Ucla these these soft blue uniforms and this really nice landscape and college football at the rose bowl basically what they were saying is that we think ucla as soft think ucla has finesse. You come out of saturday. In it's like lsu you got beat up and down the field by powder blue soft finesse in. It says more about lsu. Yeah he called the guy that's really smart to call now. Some of that is. I think getting inside owes head remember..
The Steve Deace Show
"gordon gecko" Discussed on The Steve Deace Show
"Was the deal. Instead of seeing crap there's a homogenized group of of people here on this continent that could be in thirty forty fifty years. They are not kept in check even more of a threat than russia or the soviet union ever was. I think that was the deal. That deal was absolutely based on greed. But there's something even deeper in my estimation to this it. It allowed them to no longer half to be americans yes To seek out this yes because in the past based in funding ideas how this country was framed. They had to deal with us. Maybe they relying this this whole time about any buy america all that stuff but it had to be about this entire team and steve is laid out in all manner of issues before as it applies to republican circles how much they hate their own base this elites ultimately hated at least did not care at the very least about their own base which is the american people their fellow citizen this untethered them from being americans there now citizens of globalism and and that is the deal that they made see they thought the initial generation that cut the steel late eighties early nineties. George h w bush year's the most favored nation status years. They thought they were making the deal. That aaron articulated. The problem is when you dance with the devil. The devil don't change. He changes you as the bible puts at bad. Company corrupts good character. They thought they were just getting cheap goods for lower wages and therefore everybody makes money. Screw the unions. They're all democrats anyway right. We don't care about them Let's put cheap goods in the hands of middle. America suburban america and everybody gets a big screen. Tv now. everybody's got a quadraphonic media display in their homes. Now everybody can afford it now. That was the deal right. That's what they thought they were making that deal. That's the deal. They thought they were made. I'll be the first to admit the all boats rise with the i fallen prey to that manner of yes thinking the economic engine how it can lift up. All people agree. So did i okay. But this is where we on. The right have learned harshly. Capitalism is not a system is not an elevating system. It doesn't make appeal to people better. It's it's a system that works within the confines of human nature the worst form of economy except for otherwise but if bad people get home and get a hold of it becomes what you just articulated and now we have another generation in charge of these corporate boardrooms now and they've all become very accustomed to going to universities heavily financed and donated to by chinese communists pharaoh zona joseph. I'm going to see movies that censor themselves and screen themselves for chinese censorship. They just grew up accustomed to this and and they now have frankly more affinity for the values of this of the chinese system then their own there they have. it's devolved from. We went from just a generation of good old fashioned. Gordon gecko esque. Greed is good even if it no matter what language. It's in whether it comes in the end of the dollar amen. To now it is ready for this. Power is good and it doesn't matter if it comes from the the dollar or what language it's an power not just corrupts in a tracks powers powers attracted to power and now a new generation in america's classrooms. And boardroom say you know we're better and smarter than you. The chinese had it right people as accomplished and successful as us should tell you what medicines you take which ones you don't would jabs you take. Which ones you don't which businesses are essential which ones are not look at the reaction we've had to covert over the last year and a half from government. How would that be any different. Than what. Happ- what would a chinese government would do. It isn't from from trump announcing fifteen days to flatten the curve. To whatever the same hell's going on now with vaccination mandates and everything else other than china won't permit vaccine mandates at the time we're taping this show which is ironic but how would how would a government specifically communist. China's have responded any differently. They wouldn't in fact you know we're a lot of our mitigation notions and techniques and tactic came from. Do you know where they came from china recommendations. They gave us. You know. we're just all one big happy family here. The useless face diapers that they want you to wear on your face. Choke yourself athletes. Choke yourself out. Where those you know. China china and so we can at least push back on greed because invariably you can you can pit greedy people against each other a give it to me better cheaper faster. I'll go with this greedy person. Instead of you right how do you how do you push back on. They just want power and it doesn't matter now. That's where people feel helpless. They vote for trump. The mass protests that you've seen in europe here in the last month the of backlash building in our country right now as we speak. And where did this faustian bargain. Where did it originate. where did it come from. what's his what's what is it. What is its historical precedent. We'll get into that when we get into this piece here in a moment. This is steve day on the radio network..
KCRW
"gordon gecko" Discussed on KCRW
"This am Fernando Valley sees those morning clouds melt away to sunshine mid eighties by later on this afternoon in the San Fernando Valley, 7 21 it's morning edition from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep, and I'm Noel King. Good morning, a small activist hedge fund called Engine number one. Last week, 12 seats on the board of Exxon Mobil by convincing other investors that the company's plan to deal with climate change was not much of a plan. It all with me now is Nell Minnow. She's the vice chair of Value Edge Advisors, and she's also an Exxon shareholder. Good morning now. Good morning, who is engine number one. Well, it's just a group of investors. It's people who and it's small by Wall Street standards, so their investment in in Exxon Mobil was only about $54 million. And if you compare that to other people who have had big fights with major corporations, people like Carl, I can Those people I want you to think about Michael Douglas, says Gordon Gecko in Wall Street. Those are people who had hundreds of millions of dollars and they invested and they went in. And they said greed is good and then a very, very tiny fraction of cases. Sometimes they were able to defeat the management sponsored candidates. But this is the first time that a tiny little fund Has been successful. They had 0.2% of the stock. This is the biggest upset since David and Goliath. Okay, so to ask you an obvious question. If they have such a tiny tiny percentage of the stock number one. Why do they care what Exxon Mobil does? And number two? How did they get this done? Well, number one. They care what Exxon Mobil does because they think that by making these changes, they'll make a lot of money on the stock. And that is why they succeeded. They succeeded because they made an absolutely incontrovertible business case. And because Exxon Mobil pretty much did everything wrong, and engine number one did everything right. Exxon Mobil lost Record 25 billion with a B dollars last year. Nevertheless, they keep raising the CEO's pay. That's the kind of thing that makes investors very angry and more important than having a big block of stock car like an Gordon Gekko back of stock. Is having angry shareholders because somebody will get out front. You could get a lot of support. Why is sex? I'm losing so much money. Well, because, unlike some of their competition, they are not pivoting to more renewable resource is they are just pretending that the world is always going to be the way it always has been. And things have changed. I mean, just last week, President Biden issued a major executive order that is gonna put a lot more pressure. On fossil fuel companies. If they don't adjust to that they're going to go the way of buggy whip manufacturers, and so when engine number one votes or pushes to get two of its people on the board, that's not about being altruistic. That's about saying we are investors. We want this company to be profitable and in order to be profitable, it has to change with the times. Exactly right. That is what they did right? They came out with a very detailed, very organized and very I'm going to just say green eye shade kind of business analysis, they said. This is why the business lost all this money and this is what they need to Dutilleux money. And then they put up also very credible candidates. People had a lot of Background in the energy business and on Dat made it very successful. You know, it's a little bit ironic that one of the groups that decided to vote with engine number one is the largest Investment fund in the world. It's the Norwegian pension fund, which was created by the oil business in Norway. And yet even they thought that Exxon Mobil was going in the wrong direction. So engine one got two people onto a board of 12. Still a minority. What does this actually change for Exxon, if anything, That's where we're waiting to see. We don't expect to see any major changes immediately. But here's how we'll know what the impact has been very quickly. One will they put these new directors on the key committees? I want to see them on the audit committee. I want to see the bond, the Nominating committee, which selects new directors, and I want to see them on most important the compensation committee and will they change the compensation so that all the incentive goals are based on making a change? Rather than doing what they've done in the past? That's how we'll know how effective they have been if the company tries to shut them out of the major committees if they don't make changes in the compensation Then you could expect another proxy contest next year until they get a majority. David and Goliath, which you mentioned is a great story. But ordinarily smaller voices do not win. Smaller investors Do not win you've been writing and speaking about corporate governance for years. How big a deal is this? Do you see a knock on effect happening? Or is this one off? Oh, this is definitely a monumental shift. They'll be studying this one in business schools for years. And remember that Exxon Mobil didn't even meet with the people from engine number one. I can guarantee you the next company that engine everyone goes after will return their phone calls. How does Exxon feel about all of this? What have they said? What is, the company said? Well, let me tell you in a serious of incredibly bad decisions, including spending $35 million to fight engine number one instead of talking to them in compromising with them, Uh, they actually did something also completely crazy and unprecedented. They halted the annual meeting in the middle to try to get people to change their votes. It was too little too late. So I think I hope that they understand this is major wake up call, And if they don't believe me, they will beginning another wake up call very soon. What are the lessons then here for corporations and four smaller investors. Well, this is really capitalism. One No. One. I always say capitalism is not named after the CEO capitalism is named after the people who provide capital and remember these are people who manage money for the pension funds for firefighters for teachers for people who work in offices, and they're trying to do what is best. So that you can retire sometime in the future and get paid. So if they don't listen to their shareholders, they're going to see a lot more of this. These shareholders like the California pension fund, the Norwegian pension fund, they're enormous..
Your Brain on Facts
"gordon gecko" Discussed on Your Brain on Facts
"One does not simply right a podcast episode about financial bubbles without talking about one of the best known historical examples. So let's just dive right into it. The seventeenth century dutch tulip mania. The primary pastel or pin. Stripy flower is closely associated with the netherlands as windmills and clogs actually comes to us from the ottoman empire. Tulips back then were read as a rule. But the occasional white or yellow popped up and being rare were prized. Its botanical history is a bit vague difficult for botanists to be sure of what they were looking at. Thanks to the very quality that would elevate tulips to rock star status their ability to mutate and change color rapidly as one botanist wrote in fifteen ninety seven. Nature seems to play more with this flower than with any other. I know you can grow a tulip from a bulb as most of us do or from a seed but that requires waiting seven to twelve years for it to reach the flowering bulb stage. Imagine a botanist surprise if they had spent a decade carefully tending patch of red tulips. Only to have them come up. Red and yellow striped. More about the stripy boys. In a minute. Not everyone has that kind of patients being a bowl. Plant means that to were relatively easy to sell and transport as opposed to a whole potted plant. Which would acquire a lot of tending along the journey. All you had to do was wait for the plant to be dormant in the late summer or early fall and dig up the bulbs as tulips migrated from the middle east to new lands in europe. Thanks largely to a habsburg ambassador to the ottoman empire in the sixteenth century. People were as likely to try eating them as we would shallots planting them but that never really caught on. They also showed up as ingredients in medicine treating intestinal complaints. But that didn't really stick either. But this was a time. When botany was the new hotness for the brainy set like archaeology and egyptology would be for the victorians though with rather less grave robbing wealthy nobles and royals planted vast gardens of beautiful tulips. This was also the era of calvinism. A stern subset of christianity that approved of tulips because though they were gaudily colored they had little to no smell which meant they could be considered to be modest or virtuous careless clues. Ius director of the royal medicinal garden in vienna took tulip bulbs with him when he relocated to the university of leiden and the dutch republic exclusives. His garden produced wondrous mutations including broken tulips. The color of the flower is painted with stripes of white or yellow. No one knew what caused broken tulips to be able to cultivate their own and clueless was probably possessive and protective of his flowers. Other tulip enthusiasts tried to manipulate the color of their flowers by fertilizing them with things like pigeon guano or wall plaster or adding pigment directly to the soil thinking the plant would draw the color up into their stems and the pedals which i can definitely see the logic behind even if it does not work that way meeting with no success on the diy. Front these tulip heads started asking lucius to sell them bulbs offering him. Exorbitant amounts of money clues refused to sell so some of these gardeners banded together and pillaged his garden undercover of darkness. Further curious which i assume as anyone who has since to this show. The broken colors are actually the result of a virus which is spread to the tulip by the peach potato eighth which afflicts peach trees also popular in gardens in the area as thieves of hot commodities will do the hobby botanists sold their. Ill gotten booty. And tulips were popping up no pun intended across the country and beyond and the obsession with broken and rare coloured tulips spread and grew along with them. The creme de la creme the must have tulip was the semper augustus and almost candy cane like red and white flower which this reporters finds to be nice not thrilling but nice these days the end all and be all color for enthusiasts is black a true black a mall goth lipstick black not the deep purple that's referred to as black in the catalogs most collectors would never lay there is on a semper augusta's in person but one who did offered its owner thirteen thousand florins. The cost of a respectable house for one single ball. This wasn't the start of people spending flatly ridiculous sums of money on a small plant that serves no purpose other than looking pretty. It was merely one example of many tulip. Mantra was on like online day. Trading in the early ought people from all social strata wanted to get rich quick sold their own homes and businesses to buy them a groom was said to have accepted a single tulip as a dowry from his bride's family a burglar supposedly sold all of his tools to buy tulips which is less going straight than hoping to be. The gordon gecko of gardeners by sixteen thirty six. Tulips were the fourth largest dutch expert. After gin herring and cheese or as we call it around my house date night. Plants propagate so fast though so it didn't take long before the enormous demand far outstripped the supply transactions went from being an exchange of money for bulbs to promissory notes for delivery of bulbs later in the future. This man selling could happen. Whenever in the year and was no longer dependent on the tulips growing cycle and dormant period as prices rose. People began buying on credit taking on mountains of debt that they were certain they be able to pay back with the prophet. The seem exists somewhere. But not here today. Where we're doing business. Mold could be bought and sold a dozen times in a busy trading day. This system was known as vin handle. Because you didn't have physical tulip in your hand at the end just a hand full of wind and a at was growers and buyers would meet in the back rooms of taverns along with an impartial intermediary. Each party would write down the figure. They wanted for their end of the deal. And the intermediary would look at these and write down a figure somewhere in the middle that they deemed to be fair if the parties agreed to the intermediaries price point. Everyone went home happy. If either party disagreed the grower owned a fine to the intermediary incentivizing them to close the deal when the payment was made the intermediary took.
The Bacon Podcast | Brian Basilico - Marketing Strategy Expert Interviews to CURE Your Marketing
"gordon gecko" Discussed on The Bacon Podcast | Brian Basilico - Marketing Strategy Expert Interviews to CURE Your Marketing
"My name is lucifer. But you may know me better as satan or the devil. I also go by coyote. That's a native american devil dracula haiti's beyond shabib call me bubba. I'm also known as the prince of darkness but really my name originally was venus. I was the morning star in the bible. But somebody didn't like that wrote me out. No i am kind of the god of light after all i do live in the firepit. There's tons of natural light there. At one time. I was also known as pluto and then they moved me to the end of the solar system. And then cancel me as a planet really. What's up with that. But now i'm back and i want to put an end to the rumors that i'm leaving georgia because i can't find any more souls to steal trust me. There's a lot of good souls down there so today. I'm filling in for brian. And i would like to talk about this. Six myths a business that i specifically created for the pandemic wanna buy finest works to date. Let's start with the first one lost. It's known as the sin of the flesh but is generally known as the least serious capital or mortal sin. but it's just not about fornication or adultery it can also be about an intense longing think of it as a lust for power. I love when you try to crush your competition. But i can tell you this. I hate it when you collaborate with others the next business myth his sloth slough is easy. Put your business on autopilot. E-commerce will rule the world. There's no reason to have a relationship with people anymore. As a matter of fact you could be the low price leader. You could beat walmart. Maybe you could beat amazon but all you have to do is create a business online and put it on autopilot and people will come. I love it when people aimlessly wander around your website looking for answers on the internet. But i hate it when you help people with good quality interaction for relationship and customer support the next myth of it like to discuss greed. And as gordon gecko said greed is good now. A lot of people. Say there's money in your list you could earn millions by emailing millions of people and they will buy yet. You don't have to worry about any of the returns refund. So i love it. When you send out mass unsolicited e-mail have you tasted span lately. It is the candy of meat food. But i hate it when you send out personalized email communications. Somebody one as far as to call that in memale memale the next myth i created which i'm very proud of his pride. You need to concentrate on that one thing because you are the best. A lot of people do this through talking head videos on social media. And i love when people do nothing but talk about themselves after all. I love zombies. I created pandemic zoom bees people that are just burnt out on video meetings and networking. And all that relational stuff i love. It gets so excited when you go on video and talk about nothing but you self reporting on about how great you are you really. Are that cool orange you but i hated when people tried to help others by educating them and giving them value. No the next thing i want to talk about is gluttony. Think about going online and creating high ticket sales. Why bother with low ticket sales when you can have high ones. All you have to do is spend on ads. Facebook google instagram tiktok. They're all places where loved to play. People will love what you have to sell. And i love it when people go to cosco and can only get the sampler after they bought the big box of chicken nuggets. But i hate it when you guide people through an incremental success journey. Who do you think you are. And finally the sixth and my favorite myth created during this pandemic. It is energy. Thou shelve not covered your neighbors tribe. Well why would you want to go. Create your own list when you can go to other people's facebook groups or websites and steal from them all you have to do is comment and convert them over to your group. I love it when you cherry pick people from other people's pages in groups and presentations but i absolutely lo- when you create your own organic vibe and build your own organic tribe. That is so much work. Maybe i can give you a bonus because after all i did create seven deadly sins and the seventh one is wrath. I wanted to give you permission to spear your opinions and your hate on social media because nobody will see it who is intended to social media is built as a closed platform. That means only people who agree with you will see what you have to say hence echoing and creating this beautiful echo chamber that you can live in and share with your friends. But don't worry. I'll protect you so let me tell you a story before i leave you and give this back to brian for next week. Gentlemen was about to go up to heaven. I caught him as he was hitting be elevator. And i said sir you're more than welcome to go to heaven. But i want you to come and check out my place before you make a decision of way. You'd like to spend eternity so he goes up in the elevator. Any looks around when he gets up to heaven. And it's beautiful than those flowers. Everybody's standing around with wings playing harps. And then he decides to come down and visit me when it gets off the elevator. I walk him around and show them this. Luxurious country club like atmosphere with food and golf and wind and who is marvelous and so he went back up to gardens. Have you know. I think i like hell better. So he came back down and when the doors opened up there. Was this luxurious fire and brimstone. He says what happened. And i said sir when you came down the first time you were a prospect..
PodcastDetroit.com
"gordon gecko" Discussed on PodcastDetroit.com
"Don't you. We have considered to room bulk. The reason that we don't have a roomba is because wait for it. We haven't bought a roomba could only resume. We don't have what we keep looking at it and we will at one point. Just let's spend the money and get the fucking roomba. Sworn a lot tonight. I'm sorry so we we have ten minutes left. Seven minutes left i want. I still wanna talk about work. And then we'll we'll get out of here so the any agreement worked so what. What do you need at work. Steve i believe with these mostly The freedom to work in their own way meet their own standards of perfection. Yeah i'd like the idea of being told here's your overall gold. Get there how you need to get their Opportunities for growth. I yes work. They believe is deeply good absolutely. That's actually the hardest thing to find. I think is that finding work. I think is deeply. I'm constantly cup. Sure there The last thing merit based reward system. I don't care actually really really don't care. I don't care about any kind of special merits at work. I i really don't care. I would be so happy with work. I believed in. That was deeply good. That i wouldn't care about receiving any special merits for doing that. Well i really wouldn't. That's how the underappreciated guy like. No i did all these. Where i mean i do. Everyone likes a pat on the back. Occasionally i just don't need it necessarily like i need the other things on your gotcha what the eight needs at work. And we've established that. I'm only in eight with no other competing numbers roles that give them independence respect authority opportunities to take an active rather than passive role a competitive fast paced work environment and rewards for getting things done. You feel. it's spot on for you. Pretty i feel like that was a rewrite of what i just said. Okay maybe you. Maybe they're all right. Why am i. I think. I work for a lot of people. Who have this kind of personality type. They work for themselves for a reason. And i've heard it said before Once you work for yourself you're unemployable two point and i took me a long time after working for myself on a couple of occasions to get back into being able to. Yeah have lost. When i worked for myself. It was really refreshing when it first started but like i said earlier like there are certain things that were like oh they did that. And i don't enjoy doing this but I think the one valuable thing it brought to me. We could talk about this way. Do the entrepreneur episodes coming up in a couple months Is if you do have to go back into the corporate sphere. I find you had the the downside the bad would be. He might be unemployable in some way. Because you don't like having a boss Or being accountable someone else. You don't like busy work and jobs you see things inefficient. And so and that's that's the upside though. The upside is being able to. If if you're in the right environment that That appreciates the values. It is being able to question the why being able to say. Hey you know what I know we're doing this thing. This would make it more efficient or have we thought about doing it this way and sometimes it's just no one has said. Have we thought about doing this way. And that's what i think. But when you're in a very very very big boat with a very very very small rudder which is corporate america while you may have some great ideas we're going to put it up the flagpole seventeen times and in seventeen years from now maybe somebody will make a decision might be gone guy. Yeah maybe you get your metal. The that's why i left. I wasn't good while it wasn't getting done. Okay and so for me at work opportunities to work with people who are collaborative generous and open a harmonious environment. Nothing too competitive or fast paced a boss who is sensitive to people's needs and a role that allows them to support and empower people. I would say that this is primarily me except for nothing too competitive for fast paced. I do like. I do at least like the fast paced i. I've worked at apple. I worked at sam goody i worked at. I know we're another place as soon as fast paced. I'm not big on competition again. I'm i'm more of a follower. I would just rather have a job you told me to do. Give me the play. I will run it. That is what are we doing today. Cool let me get my assignment done. That's generally what i'm good at on. But when you're in a sales position there is built in competition So that's not necessarily my favorite thing but it can lead to bigger paychecks but when you're in the background i'm in a boss who was sensitive to people's needs this is what makes me wonder. Will i be in this kind of role for a long for long term. Because i do absolutely need a boss who is sensitive to people's needs but i work in a in a job environment where the the boss has consistently said is. This is a job where you need a lot of back patting. You're not going to get that here. We're gordon gecko by the. But but yeah so i mean. That's that's just kind of the beginning of our understanding of the we couldn't get. I mean we got some good good mileage out of this. I think the next time we talk about this. I'd love to get more into talking about the wings and the overlap. Yeah get some people in who have used this. We're just getting introduced to this. Yeah right this is not going to be any graham show. But we're just getting introduced to this. I'd love to talk with people who were introduced to this a few years ago and have been using it actively That would be fantastic so we will be revisiting sometime season on with a few people who've actually said they wanted to beyond what can be on tonight but either way. That's all the time we have tonight. Hopefully you've found this useful. I will have in the show notes different resources to look up where you can take the test and things yourself you do have to pay to get the full report and it gets like twenty bucks or something like that. Put all of our results down. See known you right into us how to respond to us gonna take this differently but either way. Thanks so much for listening to leading questions. With calvin more make sure you check out our website leading questions now dot com where you can find oliver episodes from this season and the last one now. Seven seasons bios a counter upcoming topics and even two topics for to talk about. If you're interested in bringing our program to your college university your organization email us at hello leading questions now dot com and we will get back to you. Don't forget you can find us apple. Podcasts google podcasts soundcloud and of course the podcast detroit app. Please leave us a review. 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Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"gordon gecko" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"You'll hear activism used as far as environmental activists and that's obviously really kind of mission based Trying to solve solve an issue not trying to make money as an investment. And then you have the kind of historic connotation of of activists which is kind of the gordon gecko wall street kind of break apart. The company and kind of extract value through different means of portfolio management of the company What we're really trying to do is just position. These companies of for what we see as as an emerging risk around the energy transition that there it's a maturing industry it's gotta terminal value risk that people are increasingly concerned about concerned about the environmental footprint. We think by addressing those when you have a sector that's trading at historically low multiples. You can make money for investors. That's really our basic strategy. Well thought out. So i want to. I want to shift it to beantown on. Talk boston for a second. So one of the things that i've always noticed is people don't really understand the oil and gas industry. They're so when you in when bars were a thing up there and you were going out to the trillion brewery one of my favorite places on earth there and four point and sitting down Do do you have to educate people on what oil and gas is and the financial aspects of it or do you feel like people up. There have a fundamental understanding because it's much different than a place like taxes the perception of the oil and gas industry more liberal parts of the country like boston has clearly deteriorated from when i first got involved in the sector in early. I don't lead lead a conversation at a cocktail party. With the fact that i guess i also don't shy away from it and it actually welcome the debate on on vestment ursus engagement. You know what we're doing. Because i'm just a big believer that abandoning the sector doesn't actually do anything for the environment. Where we're still gonna use the same amount of oil and gas. So i actually think you can have a lot more impact Trying to reform the industry. That i'm trying to abandon it But but i think a lot of it is you know it comes from ignorance and people not truly understanding what goes into delivering oil and gas to the consumer i when i first started covering the sector i was i was in all of it. You know the scale the complexity just everything takes to extract the resource out of the ground. Deliver it to your jere car A price of a gallon of milk Remember this an appreciation. When i started so the industry was movie to twenty thousand or thousand foot offshore wells take two hundred days to drill watching the deepwater horizon movie with my wife. Dead woman's She turned to me and she said this is really what it takes to get oil out. And she had no idea. And i don't think most people do. It's it's mind blowing when you step back and think about it and consumer used to complain. If if ashley was four dollars instead of three dollars a gallon. It's it's. It's something that i don't think honestly i don't think the industry has done a good job..
Five(ish) Fangirls Podcast
"gordon gecko" Discussed on Five(ish) Fangirls Podcast
"It wasn't christmas. It was New year's eve eve you can put your feet up and everything else. Yeah slurp your drink. Nobody seemed like Yeah yes so. Yeah but there have been the first time. I'd sat in a movie theater in about ten months and it was kind of weird and to be honest with the has a little weird like your point that big screen. Yeah i was like oh interesting. Chair surround sound but For me it was worth going. My initial impression coming out of the theater was probably a little bit colored. By the fact that i was just excited to be in a movie theater again for the first time at a very long time and seeing something brand new So my initial reaction. When i got i was like ooh. That's really good of course when the price of admission worth the price of admission even now i would say it was worth the price of what i paid price of admission wise. If you live someplace where they charge like twenty bucks for a single person maybe not But for me it was worth. It was worth the price of mission in the price. Go it you know the effort to go in. Have to wear masks. And and that sort of thing But yeah so wonder woman. Nineteen eighty-four anticipated sequel. Finally here out available in theaters still It's still an theaters at least near me Vail long asia. Yeah available natio- max again directed by patty jenkins This time the screenplay written by patty jenkins geoff. Johns callahan We've got gal gadot returning his diana prince. Chris pine returning his steve trevor. We've got christian wig of saturday. Night live fame as Barbara minerva pedder pascal aka. The mandalorian As maxwell lloyd lord and a return to the medicare for at least a little bit so we see robin wright again and connie nielsen. The best movie agreed with my steel. The best part of manage is script. On which i mean that opening sequence kind of a line of amazonian contests he'll say america amazonia ninja warrior. I guess olympics opening sequence is really cool. I mean it's really really beautiful. I mean the the place where they film i. I'm assuming h returned to the same Location again at least for some of the filming For famous skara is Is just absolutely gorgeous. so Can i take asian. There makes you want to help a plane and go to greece. Yes recordings and just gorgeous. Yeah a little bit This is cool to watch. And gold. Star to lilly aspel plays young diana. She did all of her own stunts. how he's twelve. Jeez well gee swami at a call myself gold standard. She's well but in this case that's a good thing. It's not a frustrated twelve. It's like oh my god she's well Because she actually did it better than her own. Stunt doubles though and Bravo to the studio executives for realizing Gal gadoe and her Her star power and how important she is. She got a huge pay raise She got paid three hundred thousand dollars for the. I wonder woman she got paid ten million for this one show as an insane raise well at improper world. She would've gotten a million plus paycheck for the first one but so but yeah the plot for this one set in nineteen for The oh the height of the in real world. Reagan era of Just crazy prosperity but not equal prosperity. The eighties very stylized out to what the eighties tends to get for trade as nowadays Lots of bright colors. Spandex lot of teased hair. It was stereotypical eighties. Yeah it was. Very stereotypical nobody who lived through the eighties. That was stereotypical eighties. You know high top sneakers that sort of thing yup era. Yeah yeah You know. And and pedro pascal as maxwell lord absolutely may or may not parallel some people in real life who shall not be named. Because we don't get political on this. Show his his portrayal of show. Yeah not in this one. But i mean if you've ever seen Wall street with gordon geckos. yeah michael. Douglas's gordon gecko Lex luther gene. Hackman's lex luther from the. Yeah the superman movie very very. Yeah very very a very much based on on those characters for haskell's performance. In the in this movie you know the whole greed is good Gordon gecko waterproof degree. Yes yeah he doesn't slow well. Sitting here mistake they have gotten angel. Pascal bill pullman could've.
The Spivey Special Podcast
"gordon gecko" Discussed on The Spivey Special Podcast
"No zen. Leonardo di caprio. Boy oh boy. That's a wolf of wall. Never mind yeah. i haven't seen it. you're old. I am old michael douglas when he was young. So we'll skip that. Skip that i get it. Would you pick took creep brenton. You took creed dana. You're taking i take. Gordon gecko know that if he is an elite businessmen. It's just who talk his way through it. I just think creeds broadmoor dice than anybody else. He's definitely the wild card in the game down. I wouldn't want to play him. No none of the other ones really intimidate me except banner fair enough. Dt anymore in your old satchel a really weird one and we love at confirmed for me. It was asked was it was. It was kind of more of a. Would you rather type question. Would you rather eat a costco size container of mayonnaise. That's been sitting out for a month war. Take a shot of diarrhea. I asked is chaser. Allowed said yes. That may be a little better for some weird reason. I would go diarrhea. That's what i said. I got so much grief over it. I think that's the right thing now you that we've seen the glutton bowl and they do that where they like competition but left out and was cool. I'd go the manny's get sicker from the manny's than you from the day. You're not gonna finish either. I don't think.
Howie Carr
Suits and ties now optional, Goldman Sachs hedges dress code
"Suits and ties are now optional at Goldman Sachs is hedges as they hedge. The dress code. Stealing still mandatory. I don't know. It's I see more and more people not wearing pies. So it's you know, God knows I don't wear a tie anymore. So very part of me. And this is this is probably sexist because I don't think are all should have to wear dresses or anything. It's just too much work. But for guys like in business so much better to have a nice tie on you kind of look at Gordon gecko suspenders. It's like a lost art is it, okay? For the governor of Virginia, by the way to play. Serena williams. Father. The attorney general do they have like a casting call in Richmond. And the attorney general and the governor both