I want to have a conversation today about the zero percenters, as I like to call them, these humans that are in the .001%, in their craft, in their art. Tiger Woods, Steve Jobs, the Buddha. The difference between the folks we are talking about is the difference between someone who is a multimillionaire you have tens of millions of dollars in the bank versus someone who is a centipillionaire who has hundreds of billions of dollars in the bank.

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- DEI is so commonplace that I don't know many organizations that don't have D.E.I initiative or department or leader. Are we making progress as the world, especially particularly the corporate boardroom and corporate America? Is it a very diverse place today?

- Pick ten boards, I challenge your listeners. How many of them have the right trade knowledge to ensure the appropriate strategy is being put forward? Almost half said the board expects members to be at least literate on an issue. Without acknowledging trends, it puts shareholders and fund owners at risk.

- Most companies are good at aligning stock based compensation with the CEO. And I haven't seen an original idea come out of boards in a while. All the goodness you might get out of diverse thinking and diverse opinions, you're just not getting it because you're not getting diversity.

- Adam: Having a third party do an audit of your board, not only the composition, but the operations, the culture. He says it's really important that we start doing more measurements on the actual outcome of these events. Sobel says the fourth part is just communication and disclosure.

- Adam : The people that are most well versed in what is going on, not just for a micro, but more of a macro environment, those are the people I think can be really helpful as we think about board recomposition. There are going to be more challenges that the board is going to have to deal with.

- Adam Aldiston had a car accident almost three weeks ago. He asked about rental reimbursement. The company still hasn't determined if he's liable or at fault. Aldiston learned some things today about board representation.

connect with Adam on linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/adumey/

The most consequential American inventor once predicted the following:

“The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour.”

People mocked the great Oliver Evans when he uttered those words. He was right, the steam engine changed the course of human history.

Thinking of the steam engine as technology might feel a bit out of place.

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- Do you know what your Uber rating is? What about your airbnb rating and does it actually matter to you if you answered? I want to talk about this topic with you around ratings and feedback. It's my first podcast. This is going to be a good show.

- In 1970, the average GPA was about 3.0. As of 2022, it's 3.8. Where does this culture of everyone has a score get more pervasive? At what point is enough?

- Adam Sobel: Performance ratings are being used to make decisions about promotions and pay raises. He says there is a lot of anxiety around these ratings. Sobel says company culture plays a really important part in this. There is national bias in how ratings are used, as well as gender bias.

- The social score can be very pervasive and impact your ability to do. How does it impact folks in the workplace, both the organization and the individuals? There's been this, I would say, kind of vacillation this change over time. It can't just be just a mass movement.

- Michelle: We usually end with a story, an anecdote a quote. And mine is going to be about my airbnb ratings. Adam: What have you got? I'm curious to hear about the whole car situation.

Michelle: I feel like there's been an increase in over reliance on ratings. Adam: The Internet has made it easier for people to provide ratings on everything. As always, thoughts, criticisms, comments are welcome. We will chat with you guys next time.

contact Michelle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-seidel-consultant/

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The most pressing question that I answer almost every single day is how do you get great customer service? He says the real question is what is good service to you? Amas: No two organizations have identical goals and ideas about what good service means.

The Stoics do not believe anger is a useful emotion. Anger is usually not a thoughtful thing. It also depletes your energy. The most irrational part about anger is you are now being controlled by somebody else when you're angry.

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A study says 53% of us have something called nomophobia. Nomophobia is cell phone addiction. I think technology has this way of changing us. Christine is the perfect guest to discuss this with.

- Gen X is often the most forgotten generation in the middle. What we got right with technology is the democratization of information. But sometimes technology doesn't always deliver on making things better. - At home, I definitely live a very analog life. I have an actual alarm clock. I keep a physical planner for all of my personal commitments. I miss how much we used to use our hands for writing. I embrace these imperfections

. - What is something in your life that you discovered embarrassingly too late in life? I found out wrestling wasn't real in college. Pacific Time switches between PDT and PST. What would be yours? 

- Christine: Slack allows you to bring your personality inside of technology. Each generation will take a little bit about what they loved for their own younger years and incorporate it into our lives. What we need to do is just embrace the change, but just keep on passing on the things that we loved for the next generations.

 - We have a tradition on the show where we leave folks with something you read or made you laugh. For me, I've been reading a book called die with zero. You can give chat GPT a prompt that says that the response should be formatted as a slack message. Christine:https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinemchone/

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