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In this course, longtime business owner and consultant Eric Zackrison, PhD, will show you how to critically assess sources of information and how to determine the right approach to make the best decisions. You'll also learn strategies for approaching both simple and complex problems, along with a process for taking your team through the entire life cycle of a challenging decision. Finally, you'll gain an understanding of common traps people fall into when solving problems, both individually and as a team.

Critical Thinking And Problem Solving By Eric Zackrison

In this course, longtime business owner and consultant Eric Zackrison, PhD, will show you how to critically assess sources of information and how to determine the right approach to make the best decisions.

One of the biggest barriers to thinking critically is unrecognized biases. After watching this, you will be better able to put your biases aside and get at what is actually being said.

The better able you are to get the message, the better prepared you'll be to actually evaluate it. This lesson sets you up for success by showing you how to remove barriers, both internal and external.

Questions are one of the most powerful tools for better listening, better understanding, and better analyzing. After watching this, you'll have more tools in your toolbox for using questions effectively.

The information we get is not always based on solid data. This lesson sets you up to better assess the information you are getting to make sure it's reliable.

An odd contradiction of problem-solving is that clarity on restrictions actually leads to more freedom. After this lesson, you'll be able to assess the parameters of your decisions leading to a clearer path to solving problems.

Research shows that even a little structure leads to better decisions. After watching this, you will have several simple problem-solving models that you can apply to your own decision-making and problem-solving.

Sometimes a simple model is not enough. This lesson gives you a tool to work through large complex problems that lead to better solutions that last.

The first step to solving any problem is to first make sure that everyone on the team truly understands what they are trying to solve. After watching this, you will be able to set your team on the right path by guiding them to a full understanding of what they are trying to solve.

Too often solutions are adopted that do not truly solve the problem. After this lesson, you'll be able to guide your team in establishing criteria for success so you have something to compare options to.

The more ideas you have on the table the more likely you are to have the best solution on the table. After watching this, you will have several actionable skills to use in generating potential solutions.

It is not enough to just have ideas, good problem-solving uses processes to limit your choices to the best option. After watching this video, you will be able to guide your team in assessing the various choices and limiting them to the most appropriate option.

The work does not end when the decision is made or a solution is identified. You also have to implement the solution or decision. This lesson sets you up for making your implementation long-lasting and effective.

There are a number of common ways that we can be fooled by things that sound logical on the surface but are flawed. This lesson will help you identify some common fallacies and be able to counter them.

The way that data is presented can be misleading. After watching this, you will be able to recognize some common data manipulation techniques and better assess the data you get.

Groups are a great way to reach high-quality solutions but also come with some common pitfalls. This lesson identifies some common pitfalls and gives you some tools to avoid them.

In this episode, Eric discusses further resources to help you be better at critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Rising to the Challenge traces the leadership journey of Carly Fiorina right from her graduation from Stanford to her stint as a secretary to eventually rising up to be the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, one of the world's biggest tech companies. Focusing on her personal, professional and political struggles as she fought cancer, suffered the devastating loss of a child and yet went on to run for Presidential office, this series offers invaluable insights into what makes an undaunted leader.

Get an in-depth peek into presidential candidate and corporate honcho, Carly Fiorina’s journey as a leader. While navigating personal tragedies and professional challenges, learn what goes into making a leader by unlocking human potential.

True leadership lies in identifying and unlocking inherent talent in people. Learn what differentiates a manager from a leader and how true leadership is about supporting and challenging people to reach their full potential.

A leader's primary job is to unlock the potential in people. You can do so by taking a chance on someone and providing them with tools and opportunities to unleash their potential.

Carly Fiorina, through her own experiences, has been well-acquainted with the hugely misogynistic treatment meted out to women at work and home, across the world. Fiorina decided to make a positive change in this direction and focused her efforts to helping women in developing nations get the opportunities they deserved. Watch this video to see how empowering women can transform communities.

Are You Giving Women The Opportunities They Deserve?

Women are an underutilized resource in the world today. Creating better opportunities for women can transform careers and communities.

As companies grow they often get entangled in administrative and hierarchical structures that stifle growth and innovation. Learn how Carly Fiorina cut through bureaucratic red tape to allow for flexible growth and innovation when she took over Hewlett-Packard.

A bureaucracy is a complicated, hierarchical system of rules and processes that tends to create complacency. Whenever possible. avoid allowing bureaucracies to develop in your organization.

No one likes listening to stories of picture perfect lives. This episode discusses how sharing honest stories, as a leader, which include struggles and gaffes can prove more engaging than neat and tidy ones focused on glorifying successes.

People can't relate to easy success stories. To build relationships and credibility, share your struggles openly and honestly.

Holding on to one’s values and principles is not always easy, yet it is the right thing to do. Learn how Fiorina survived the public humiliation of being fired from her job as CEO by staying true to her core values, in this episode.

When faced with a challenge, it's important to stay true to yourself and to your principles. Figure out your non-negotiable positions and work to compromise in other areas.

Carly Fiorina learned the hard way that sometimes in business and politics diplomacy may be the preferred route to take. Watch this video to find out why.

Some ideas may be true but inappropriate to voice aloud. Be mindful of when it's more important to be sensitive than honest.

In this course, thoughtLEADERS, LLC principal Tanveer Naseer will guide you in creating a hiring process that will help hire the best candidates for any job. Drawing insights from the book Who - The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart and Randy Street, Tanveer will guide you through the process of creating a starting pool of talented people through a series of interviews that will help you objectively identify who is most likely to succeed in the role and help your organization grow.

Who - The A Method For Hiring By Geoff Smart And Randy Street

Most of us make the common mistake of hiring someone based on the work they’ll be expected to do. This course will help you overcome bad hiring mistakes and employ what the authors, Geoff Smart and Randy Street, call The A Method for hiring. Tanveer Naseer will help you create an objective hiring process to identify, curate, and select the best candidates to help your team succeed and grow.

The process of hiring new employees is often mired in bad hiring habits. After watching this video, you will have a better understanding of how The A Method can help you overcome bad hiring habits and achieve greater success in your hiring decisions.

A job scorecard makes clear what outcomes need to be achieved in the role as well as what competencies the best candidate should have. After watching this video, you will have taken an important step toward preventing who mistakes and ensuring you’ll be hiring the right candidate to join your team.

There are three key purposes behind creating a job scorecard before you start the hiring process. After watching this video, you will know how to create an effective job scorecard that will help you evaluate which candidate will succeed in this new role.

The main challenge in the hiring process is trying to find a suitable pool of talented individuals from which to find your ideal candidate. After watching this video, you will understand the many sources you can use to build a bank of qualified candidates from which to find your A Player.

One trait successful leaders share is building a network of talented people to use as their pool of potential hires. After watching this video, you will learn how to create a talent pool of A-Players from which you can find the best candidate to help your team succeed.

Creating A Talent Pool Of A-Players For Hire

There are four different interviews you need to conduct to identify the best candidate for the job. After watching this video, you’ll learn about the first of four interviews in the A Method and how it can help you weed out unqualified candidates.

The Screening Interview: Separating A-Players From The Rest

The screening interview helps you separate the A-Players from the B and C Players. After watching this video, you’ll know how to conduct a screening interview that will save you time and help you find the two to five best candidates to continue with in the next step in the A Method for hiring.

The second interview in the A Method for hiring is the Who Interview. After watching this video, you will learn why The Who Interview is critical to helping you narrow down your list of potential candidates to the A player your team needs to succeed.

The Who Interview helps you discover patterns in a candidate’s career past that will help better assess their fit for the role and your team. After watching this video, you’ll know how to conduct the Who Interview so that you have a detailed profile for each hiring candidate and a better idea of who your A-Player really is.

The third interview in the A Method for hiring is the focused interview. After watching this video, you’ll understand how the focused interview can help you collect all the information you need to confirm that the candidate is really the A-Player you’ve been looking for.

The Focused Interview: Learning More About Who

The focused interview allows you to collect additional specific information about potential hires. After watching this video, you’ll know how to conduct the focused interview which will give you clarity and greater certainty over who you should hire to succeed in this role.

The fourth interview in the A Method for hiring is the reference interview. After watching this video, you’ll know how to conduct the reference interview which will help remove any remaining unknowns so you can move forward with picking your A player.

The Reference Interview: Confirming What You Learned

Having completed the four interviews of the A Method for hiring, you will have enough facts to determine if a candidate’s a good fit for the position. After watching this video, you’ll know how to use the information you’ve collected to identify the best candidate who will match the mission and competencies needed to succeed in the role.

At this stage in the A Method, you’ve identified who you should hire for the role, but there’s no guarantee they’ll accept the job offer. After watching this video, you’ll know how to sell your A-Player on why they should join your team and help your organization succeed and grow.

Modern workplaces are generally made up of a multigenerational workforce with experienced boomers often managing spirited young millennials -- and this relationship can be tricky. In his book, Leaders Eat Last motivational speaker and author, Simon Sinek offers some pragmatic tips on how to foster collaboration and improve engagement between the two generations to leverage the best out of both for the organization’s success.

A Book In 12 Minutes - Leaders Eat Last: Simon Sinek - Modern Managers And Millennials - How Can They Get Along?

Millennials require meaning from their jobs beyond revenue generation. Structure meetings and schedules in ways that lift millennials' thinking and help them understand their roles and behaviors in context of the broader organization.

One-size-fits-all doesn't hold. Not for t-shirts, or for leaders. The people featured in this series break the conventional stereotype for leadership and business approaches, and still emerge as the best in what they do.

Jack Dorsey refuses to be put in a box, so, even though he is a chief executive, he is also a certified masseuse who loves fashion and makes time for hot yoga and drawing.

There are many unique ways to achieve success. You don't have to fit into the workaholic CEO stereotype to get there.

Hollywood actor Gwyneth Paltrow didn't let her celebrity status limit her. Unafraid, she evolved into an entrepreneur, a wellness guru and a lifestyle influencer with Goop.

If you have a niche brand, it is important to identify your audience and leverage your idea (and their loyalty) to build its strength and longevity.

Her outlandish designs and outspokenness belie her stature as one of the world's leading fashion designers. Vivienne Westwood — also an activist and environmentalist--is a force to be reckoned with.

You don't have to sacrifice your principles to be successful. On the contrary, your authenticity to your values will create a bigger brand. You.

He started working at 16, and Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson has never quite let go of his childlike enthusiasm to be unique and fun-loving, even at work.

Leaders don't have to be humor-free. Fun at work not only refreshes and invigorates but can also lead to new ideas.

For video game auteur Hideo Kojima, the lines between real and reel are so blurry that he says walking becomes dangerous for him! Find out why.

Creativity can flow across disciplines. Deep-dive into your ideas, let them absorb you and see the magic happen.

This is the story of how a little boy's fascination with the world of knowledge that encyclopedias opened up to incorporate the largest of the kind available free of cost, online, in multiple languages at the click of the mouse. Here's how Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger rewrote the book to launch Wikipedia, and why its community-driven approach is a success.

New concepts and ideas do not necessarily evolve quickly. Change can be incremental, with adequate testing and minimal disruption.

What makes the relentless pursuit of perfection a lifelong fascination? In this episode, we find what fuels Jiro Ono's preoccupation with sushi all-consuming. In a routine cultivated with rigor for 85 years, the world's greatest sushi master returns to his passion daily looking for a rare kind of perfection.

Sushi making teaches that improvement comes with hard work, dedication and consistent routine. Improvement doesn't lead to the goal, it is the goal.

Daniel Ek mastered the art of disruption early. He was already designing websites at 14, he was at the helm of an online marketing firm by age 20 and then founded pathbreaking digital music streaming service Spotify at 23. This series tracks his journey to see what fuels his inspiration.

If you believe in your vision, plough forward despite a low chance of success. Your greatest satisfaction is likely to be found in striving for the goal rather than achieving it.

Walt Disney was an imagineer: an engineer with visionary imagination. Generations of children and adults alike have this man to thank for some of their happiest childhood memories of lovable characters such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and the magical Disneyland. Fun was a serious pursuit for him, one that he made his life purpose.

If you let curiosity be your guide as you pursue dreams and ambitions, your growth and development will never end. Obstacles will seem smaller because your sites will always be trained on the road ahead.

When a horseriding accident left him paralyzed neck down, this Superman grew wings. Life had just begun for Christopher Reeve. He used his celebrity to draw attention to spinal cord disabilities that led to research funding for the cause. He fought for disability legislation, directed and acted in movies and TV shows. He could fall but nothing could keep him down.

Your success in meeting a challenge is determined not by the challenge itself but by your response to it. Regardless of how insurmountable a challenge may seem, focus on the possibilities and potential outcomes.

Despite being born into enormous wealth, Karl-Johan Persson, grandson of Erling Persson, the founder of H&M, put in years of hard work to prove his mettle before taking on the reins of the fashion retail brand as CEO in 2009. Watch this video to see how Karl-Johan Persson led H&M into a decade of explosive growth while leading the charge for high-street fashion businesses to become more sustainable.

Pursuing an aggressive expansion strategy while building a sustainable business is not an easy task, but it is important to strive towards it while acknowledging the challenges of balancing environmental, social, and economic risks and opportunities.

It is tough to believe that Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay -- the world’s largest personal online trading community -- became a web entrepreneur almost by accident. This video traces the fascinating journey of the French-born Iranian-American technocrat billionaire. Get inspired by his impactful philanthropic efforts aimed at building a more equitable society and his latest adventurous foray into online media and journalism.

If used correctly and with transparency, the internet has the power to give individuals access to information and opportunity, which can help build helpful and trustworthy communities and allow people to reach their potential with honesty.

In this course, Louise Crowley, a principal at thoughtLEADERS, will share an approach for understanding your customers and their needs so you can turn your product into something they demand. She will draw insights from the book The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick. You will learn how to gather customer insights, avoid bad data, find the best customers, and derive insights from your conversations with them.

Understanding your customers and what they really want and need is at the heart of building and selling a winning product. This course will provide you techniques for truly understanding your customers and their needs so you can turn your product into something they demand. Louise Crowley will explain how you can ask great questions that get to the heart of your customers’ needs and how you can avoid common research pitfalls along the way.

The three principles of talking to customers about their lives, asking them to be specific, and listening more than you talk are at the heart of good research. After watching this video, you will be able to identify how these principles will help you get better market information on customer needs.

Having a solid interview plan improves your odds of efficiently gathering useful information. After watching this video, you will be able to create an interview plan that is focused and repeatable.

Bad data leads to bad insights. Compliments, non-specific “fluff” answers, and product ideas are all forms of bad data. After watching this video, you will be able to identify when you’re getting bad data and take a different approach to get the insights you need.

To become a good interviewer, you need to practice and assess your performance. After watching this video, you will know how to assess your interview performance and identify areas where you need to improve this skill.

To really understand customers, you need to go deep into their motivations. Fortunately, the words “say more” can help you probe their needs. After watching this video, you will know a great technique for getting customers to open up and share perspectives.

Keeping customer conversations casual can get them to open up more and share their thoughts candidly. After watching this video, you will understand how to balance the need for formal preparation with the need for casual execution of these conversations.

Setting the stage for a casual conversation takes preparation. After watching this video, you will have ideas for where and when to conduct your interviews and approaches for making sure you enter those conversations in a relaxed state of mind.

Moving prospects forward to becoming customers requires commitments. The three main types of commitments are time, reputation risk, and cash. After watching this video, you will understand the different kinds of commitments you can ask for and incorporate those into your meetings to move prospects down the path of becoming customers.

Getting commitments of time, reputation, or cash requires being intentional with your requests. After watching this video, you should have a plan for the kinds of commitments you’ll ask for and who you’ll ask for them from.

Your business needs customers and there are two ways to find them: going to your customers or bringing them to you. After watching this video, you will know several approaches for going out to find prospects as well as ways to bring prospects to you.

Prospecting is hard work and can be overwhelming. Start with a small, focused effort to generate prospects. After watching this video, you will have some initial ideas for how you’ll get in front of prospects and get them coming to you for more information.

Customer segmentation requires you to understand “who-where pairs” that help you identify the customers you want to target and helps you reach out to them wherever they congregate. After watching this video, you will be able to begin segmenting your customers and understanding their common needs.

Customer segmentation is a major success driver for your business. After watching this video, you will be able to identify who you’re marketing to, where you can reach them, what types of marketing to use, and what kind of messages might resonate for that segment given their interests or buying motivations.

To have good customer conversations, you must prepare properly. After watching this video, you will understand how to prepare for your customer conversations.

Preparing For And Reviewing Your Conversations 

Preparing for customer interviews requires you to understand the customer and have a clear sense of the questions you want to ask them. After watching this video, you will know how to create a good customer profile and craft an insightful interview guide.

This 9-part series traces Jessica Alba’s journey from child actor to Hollywood star and businesswoman. Draw inspiration from her journey as she successfully navigates different professions, cross-pollinating her learnings; draws from her own experiences to identify and build a brand, works hard; learns to appreciate life’s imperfections; and recognizes her strengths and weaknesses while building and working alongside her team.

A firm disbeliever in the maxim, Stick to Your Lane, popular Hollywood star Jessica Alba, battled much opposition to successfully grow a million dollar consumer goods business. See how Alba cross-pollinated the skills she learnt as an actor, to understand the needs of consumers and connect to different demographics to effectively run her business.

Your different experiences build on each other. The skills you learn in one lane can prepare you for the next.

Jessica Alba’s consumer brand The Honest Company grew out of her own search for healthy, effective baby products at affordable prices. What did Jessica experience as an expectant mother? What made her take matters in her own hands? Learn how by identifying a gaping hole in the market, Alba came up with a safe and successful business solution.

Successful businesses identify a problem and provide a solution that consumers need and want. If a business can't satisfy consumers' needs, they will look elsewhere.

If you are passionate about a cause, it becomes your mission statement. The Honest Company set out to create a toxin-free world and built a loyal customer base by upholding this vision. "It's so much better to promote what you love than to bash what you hate," says Jessica Alba.

To attract customers, your sense of purpose needs to align with theirs. You should be able to tell a story about your solution that your customers will believe and support.

“My theory is if you look confident, you can pull off anything – even if you have no clue what you’re doing,” says Jessica Alba, Her journey from a sickly child to a popular movie star, bears testimony to this mantra. Jessica shows how unwavering confidence and belief in oneself can empower one to achieve anything one tries.

You don't need to be an expert to start something. Often, the only way to learn something is to do it.

At one point, overworking to be a perfect version of herself, Jessica started losing interest in the one thing she loved—acting! It took motherhood for her to readjust her priorities and learn that perfection is just a construct of one’s own mind. Once you accept that life has its imperfections, you begin to appreciate yourself and stop worrying about how others perceive you.

Fear of how others perceive you only exists in your mind. You can overcome your fear by accepting that your imperfections are inevitable and help make you human.

‘There are no shortcuts to success, only hard work.’ See how Jessica’s journey as a child actor from a humble family without means to one of the most well-known faces in Hollywood bears testimony to this proverb.

You don't need every tool and resource to accomplish your goals. Do the best with what you have and work hard.

Knowing what you want to achieve but knowing how to get there are two different things. Learn how Jessica understood this and enlisted expertise to ensure her vision of quality products at affordable pricing was not compromised. Recognizing shortcomings early on and building partnerships is crucial for success.

You can't do everything yourself. Understand your strengths and weaknesses so you can identify the kinds of people you need to collaborate with.

From marketing research, to understanding her market and building her brand—find out how Jessica Alba prepared before she launched, to make her business a success.

Preparation is key to success. To give yourself the best chance of succeeding, spend time learing your customer and planning your business model, direction and resources.

A good leader stays involved with the team. Learn how Alba rolls up her sleeves and works with her team to find solutions along the way. Helps keep the vision alive and the team motivated!

The key to success is understanding your people, their needs and how to motivate them. Getting involved with your team is a great way to start.

640 pages of the book Warren Buffett considers his investment bible, distilled into six classic principles: this show, based on The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Buffett’s professor and mentor, is a definitive watch for anyone who wants to hone their investing skills.

The Intelligent Investor By Benjamin Graham

Warren Buffett credits 85% of his investment philosophy to the author of The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham's teachings, and this episode will tell you why.

Warren Buffett's Favorite Investing Book By Far

Learn why you need to ignore Mr. Market, the character introduced by Benjamin Graham in The Intelligent Investor.

Intelligent Investing Takes Mind Over Matter

Don’t make investing decisions as an emotional response to the mood swings of the market. Think big picture and fundamentals.

It is important to understand the kind of investor you are before you begin investing. So are you enterprising or defensive?

If you're investing with an eye on king-sized returns, be prepared to work hard, take risks and do the research.

If a risky road is not your style, you are most likely a defensive investor. Understand the pros and cons of this kind of investing.

You want to invest but don’t want to take on too much research or high risks? Then identify yourself as a defensive investor who is likely to be happier with average returns.

Understand the standards and discipline required to build wealth. Research the indicators of how the stock price of a company will perform in the long run.

The first and most critical step to intelligent investing is fundamental analysis: That is, understanding whether a company is worth buying into or not.

Get your fundamental analysis right with Benjamin Graham. He takes you through the five factors that will help you make the most intelligent investing decisions.

Getting Started With Fundamental Analysis

If you want to be an intelligent investor, spend time learning how the basic concepts of fundamental analysis. That simple!

See why, besides mindset and discipline, the other important factor for the intelligent investor is time.

As a value investor, time is your friend. Adopt the right mindset of patience and discipline even as stock market valuations swing.

The Lean Startup is a book that transformed the business startup environment – leading to a shift in the way companies are built and impacting the launch of new products. Author Eric Ries offers stimulating new ideas to help a company stay lean and agile and provides innovative insights that can help you build a sustainable business.

Adopting lean manufacturing practices can help you reduce product failures by bringing structure and science to your entrepreneurial passion. Learn from iconic car maker Toyota’s experiences to avoid risks, evaluate early signals from the market and eliminate waste to create a lean, sustainable business venture.

Why Startups Need Lean Lessons From Toyota

Author Eric Ries argues that entrepreneurs should liken the launch of their startups to driving a car, rather than steering a rocket. Find out why in this video.

As a startup entrepreneur, you may not know the market and your customers all that well, so stay flexible and agile and be prepared to deal with ambiguities.

Both the conventional rule book and radical, non-disciplined methodologies fail in unpredictable startup environments. So what is the right way to deal with uncertainty? Find out in this episode.

Fight Uncertainty Through Validated Learning

Adopt a scientific, research-based, data-driven approach to verify your assumptions and keep learning about your ideas, offerings and customers to build a sustainable business.

To build a lean, successful business, it is important to focus on the essential elements to avoid wasting time and resources. Learn how to eliminate waste in this video.

Make sure any activity you undertake makes a positive contribution to your business by seeking feedback at every stage, before you invest significant time and resources on it.

The Build-Measure-Learn (BML) loop is at the heart of Ries’ lean startup methodology. Understand the approach and learn how to leverage it to minimize risk for your business.

Build a minimum viable product (MVP) to test key elements of your business idea with potential customers to gauge their response rates against your expectations.

It is easy to lose sight of the real picture by getting trapped in top line metrics. Ries explains the kind of metrics you should look out for to garner a true sense of the success of your business idea.

Don’t get caught up in a sea of meaningless data; even a couple of well targeted metrics can help identify potential pain points and areas where you could make a difference.

Not getting the desired results while working on your venture? Learn how pivoting helps with course correction can help achieve successful outcomes.

If your metrics aren’t indicating sustainability, rework your strategy using what you have built and learnt so far to ensure that your business remains viable.

Arguing against conventional wisdom, Ries advices completing tasks in small batches to maintain efficiency. Find out how this helps in the early stages of your launch, in this video.

Quality checks, error detection and design tweaks are easier and more efficient when carried out in small batches, as they minimize the time and resource loop.

Billionaire maverick, dream catcher, or quirky businessman, it might be difficult to define the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, but Ashlee Vance's biography sets out to do just that. Stay tuned to this series to find out what fuels Elon Musk and his strategies for excellence.

Technology is meant to serve a much higher purpose than make everyday lives easy, believes Elon Musk. Whether it is Solar City, e-transport or space dreams, the Tesla CEO always sets his sight high.

The Maverick Who Wants To Change The World

Elon Musk had a clear goal even while still in college. Driven by a bigger purpose, saving the human race from annihilation, for instance, he set about exploring his options. His journey makes for interesting insights, watch this video to learn more.

Elon Musk's goals are broad and far-reaching. Consider expanding your corporate goals from acquiring customers to helping customers.

If there is one thing Elon Musk is bullish about, it is perseverance. Whether it’s a bonding exercise with colleagues or the Burning Man Festival, he is always up for a challenge with his never-say-die attitude. What makes this entrepreneur a survivor, clawing back from bankruptcy and failure? Find out in this episode.

Bringing your dreams to life requires perseverance. Stay focused and work hard, even when the obstacles seem insurmountable.

Elon Musk's idea for any business is simple: pick an industry with money and enough inefficiencies to exploit using the internet. Learn how his innovative fixes ensured customer satisfaction and loyalty. You can try applying this principle to your situation.

Business ideas are all around you. One way to find them is to look for inefficiencies and come up with solutions to fix them.

A big idea can be overwhelming but broken down into simple chunks, it becomes achievable. Elon Musk has mastered that thought process and so can you. Take cues from how the Mars mission shaped up by watching this video.

Big tasks can seem too overwhelming to get started. When this happens, break your complex ideas down into smaller, actionable pieces.

Elon Musk can be one of the few tech-preneurs who can make environmentalism cool and coveted by the rich and happening. He makes it possible to save the planet while furthering your goals. Watch and learn.

Your company mission may inspire employees but not consumers. Make sure your product or service aligns with your mission as well as your customers’ needs.

They say your true character is revealed under stressful situations. This is where Elon Musk scores over his competitors. The story of how he brought Tesla back from the brink of bankruptcy is educative. Hit play to learn more.

It's easy to make bad decisions in a crisis. Under pressure, stay focused and rational as you find a solution.

He may not wear a cape but Elon Musk's all-or-nothing attitude has earned him a superhero stature. There's more to his rise and rise, also find out why there are big payoffs for taking risks, in this episode.

Big ideas demand big action. If you believe in an idea, don't wait to get started—go all in.

In this course, learn key insights from Matthew Pollard's book The Introvert's Edge to Networking. Learn about the system of networking he has developed that focuses on introvert strengths, and understand why introverts make the best networkers. In this course, you'll be guided through a series of activities, to better understand your passions, ways of developing a networking script, and ideas and tips to help you put it into action, to reach a global audience, in the online world.

The Introvert's Edge to Networking by Matthew Pollard

Networking has traditionally been seen as an extrovert's job but author Matthew Pollard disagrees. He has created a system of networking that focuses on introverted strengths to achieve incredible success, and that system is what we will learn through this course. To begin with, we shall see why introverts make the best networkers, and get a glimpse of what's to come.

One of the strongest motivators known to man is his passion, and knowing what drives you is integral to networking success. In this video we will help you uncover your passions, and see how we can use them more effectively.

Conventional wisdom would lead us to believe that catering to a variety of clients would increase their numbers, but Matthew Pollard shows us how finding and developing your special niche is what leads to networking success. This and other misconceptions about niching is what we will learn to learn about in this video.

Having seen the importance of niching in the previous video, we will now lay down steps to discover your own niche, which will revolutionize what you do and how you network for it.

Entering into the first element of our actual networking script, we look at just how incredibly powerful a story can be in your networking conversation. The author shares his three learnings from the science of storytelling that emphasize this fact.

In this video learn about an activity to confirm what we've learnt from the science of storytelling in the previous video… how facts stay in memory much longer when embedded in a story!

Now that we know how important stories are to our networking script, in this video we learn how to craft truly compelling relevant stories that give your networking conversations the boost they need.

In this video we will look at what the author calls his special weapon that ensures every one of your networking conversations begins with a healthy dose of curiosity, compelling the listener to pay more attention and be more open to what you're saying.

You can gain a lot more from the people you network with by not approaching them all like clients. In this video we will look at a useful way to categorize people, in addition to what mindset we need to adopt to ensure that we never miss out on great networking opportunities again.

The Ride Of A Lifetime By Robert Iger

The Ride Of A Lifetime By Robert Iger

The Ride Of A Lifetime By Robert Iger

Episodes

1. It's A Ride To Remember

2. "Good Enough" Isn't Good Enough

3. Give Yourself Permission To Fail

4. Don't Let Your Ego Dictate Your Actions

5. Go Big Or Go Home

6. Some Rules Are Meant To Be Broken

7. Ability Over Age

8. Delegate To Compartmentalize