Meikles & Dimes

168: How to Thrive | Professor John Bingham

John Bingham is a Professor in the BYU Marriott School of Business, and has served as Fellow in the Sorensen Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership at BYU, and as associate dean at the BYU Marriott School.

John teaches organizational behavior and strategic human resource management courses to Executive MBA, MBA, and undergraduate students, and he has won numerous teaching awards, including the Student Choice Faculty Award. And his research has been published in top management journals and been featured internationally in news outlets.

In this episode we discuss the following:

• John teaches students how to thrive. And the first thing he teaches are the myths of happiness: status, wealth, beauty, power. The motivation to pursue those things and the comparisons we make to others, can lead us to feel hollow and empty.
• To thrive, we have to be intentional and deliberate about progressing on the things that matter most to us…things that are intrinsically motivating rather than extrinsically driven.
• To thrive, it’s not just about knowing what to do. It’s actually doing it, as John learned for himself, when his daughter told him that she hated his job. So he changed.

 

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167: “Show Me Your Money & I’ll Show You Your Values” | Daniel Crosby, Behavioral Finance Psychologist

Daniel Crosby is a psychologist, behavioral finance expert, and asset manager who applies his study of market psychology to everything from financial product design to security selection. He is also a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Behavioral Investor and Personal Benchmark.

Daniel was named one of the "12 Thinkers to Watch" by Monster.com, a "Financial Blogger You Should Be Reading" by AARP and in the "Top 40 Under 40" by Investment News.

In this episode we discuss the following:

• Our lives will tend to be as rich or poor as the lives of our friends. We mimic each other to an astonishingly high degree, and the people we surround ourselves with is predictive of who we are and where we’re going.
• “Show me your money and I’ll show you your values.” It’s easy to say we value health, while spending a sizeable portion of our income on fast food. By analyzing where we spend our money, we can see what we truly value.

 

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166: Our Brains Are Wired for Stories | Author Lisa Cron

Lisa Cron is a story coach and the author of: Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers From the Very First Sentence.

Lisa has worked in publishing at W.W. Norton, as an agent at the Angela Rinaldi Literary Agency, as a producer on shows for Showtime and CourtTV, and as a story consultant for Warner Brothers and the William Morris Agency.

And since 2006, she's been an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and been on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts MFA program in visual narrative in New York City.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

• Take almost any bit of data, random or not, and our brain will try to make sense of it…it will try to create a story to explain it.
• Given that our brains are wired for stories, when it comes to persuading other people, stories are the most powerful tool we have. Don’t underestimate the power of stories.

 

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165: Sundays with Tozer Episode 18 | The Books That Have Most Influenced Tozer

In this episode we talk about how to solve problems that no one has ever solved. And then we discuss the books that have most impacted Tozer. 

I've started making my way through these books and they're excellent. And to make it easier for you to read the books, here's the list:

As A Child

• Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour
• Western books by Zane Gray
• Old Testament and New Testament
• Old Mother West Wind by Thornton W. Burgess

As An Adult

• The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
• When I Found You, Walk Me Home and Take Me With You by Cathryn Ryan Hyde
• Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
• The Boys in the Cave, by Matt Guzman
• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
• Centennial by James A Michener
• Greyhound by Steffan Pyper
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• A Child Called It by David Pelzer
• A Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
• Endurance by Alfred Lansing
• South by Ernest Shackleton
• Teach Like Your Hairs on Fire (first 2/3 of the book) by Rafe Esquith
• Einstein by Walter Isaacson
• Jesus the Christ by James Talmage
• The Journal of Joseph by Joseph Smith Jr. and Leland R. Nelson
• Battle Rock: The Struggle Over a One Room School by William Celis
• Blind Man’s Bluff by Sherry Sontag (Tozer worked with Tiernen)
• Dead Run by Dan Schultz (murder that happened in Cortez)
• October Sky by Homer Hickam

164: Kim B. Clark Former Dean of Harvard Business School and President of BYU—Idaho | Leaders Increase Light

Kim Clark’s leadership experience is impressive: Dean of Harvard Business School, President of Brigham Young University—Idaho, Commissioner of Church Educational System for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Kim is also the author of the book Leading Through, which he wrote with his daughter Erin and son Jonathan.

Kim earned his B.A., MA, and PhD in economics from Harvard.

In this episode we discuss the following:

• We’re all leaders. And the best leaders lead in 3 ways: they help people experience meaning, purpose, and personal growth. They help the organization realize its purpose. And they strengthen the organization.
• Leaders always do good. They strive to increase light and decrease darkness.
• When Kim became Dean of Harvard Business School, he knew he had to fire a colleague who had been a kind of poison. The previous administration had been afraid to fire the colleague for fear of a lawsuit with the Union. But when Kim fired the person, the Union said, “What took you so long?”

 

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163: Pulitzer Prize Winner Matt Richtel | “Don’t Mess with Happiness”

Matt Richtel is an award-winning writer and journalist for the New York Times. He is the author of several books including, Dead on Arrival and Doomsday Equation, and in 2010 Matt was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a series on distracted driving. Matt earned a bachelor's degree from Cal Berkeley and an MS from the Columbia School of Journalism.

In this episode we discuss the following:

• Matt was happy in San Francisco, and when the New York Times told him he needed to relocate to New York City or be fired, Matt decided that he didn’t want to mess with happiness, so he stayed in San Francisco. He then waited for the Times to fire him, but the call never came. And eventually Matt went on to win the Pulitzer Prize.
• “Happiness can be fragile. Don’t mess with happiness.”

 

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162: Kansas Chancellor Doug Girod | “I Have More Bosses Now than I’ve Ever Had in My Life”

Doug Girod is the chancellor of the University of Kansas. Under his leadership, KU has recruited the largest freshman class in history and earned the highest designation for the KU Cancer Center. Before becoming chancellor, Doug was a head and neck surgeon and served as executive vice chancellor at KU Medical Center.

Doug earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of California at Davis and his medical degree from the University of California at San Francisco. He also served in the United States Navy Reserve for 15 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander and earning the Meritorious Service Medal.

In this episode we discuss the following:

• Listen before you speak.
• Doug intentionally tries to not sit at the head of the table in meetings to signal to others that they’re all equals.
• Doug has more bosses now than he's ever had

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161: Heisman Trophy Winner Ty Detmer | Bouncing Back from Seven Interceptions in One Game

Ty Detmer changed the game of football. As a junior at BYU, Ty threw for 5,000 yards and 41 touchdowns, setting 42 NCAA records and tying five others. The highlight of the season was beating the #1 ranked Miami Hurricanes, who were also the defending national champs. In that game, Ty threw for 400 yards and three touchdowns. At the end of the season, Ty won the Heisman Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in college football.

For his college career, Ty set 59 NCAA records and tied three others. His ability to accurately pass the football was unprecedented, and played a pivotal role in the passing revolution in football. And in 2012, Ty was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Ty continued playing football beyond college, spending 14 years in the NFL where he mentored players such as Brett Favre and Michael Vick.

In this episode we discuss the following:

• Maybe no football player has ever been so successful while also being so often mistaken for an equipment manager. But as Ty said, a little bit of toughness and a little bit of grit can go a long way.
• In Ty’s first college game he threw four interceptions; in an NFL game he threw seven. But he simply took accountability and kept working hard.
• It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters in life.

 

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160: Special Counsel Ingrid Price | Advising Clients on National Security Matters

Ingrid Price, Special Counsel for Covington & Burling, advises clients on national security matters, including cross border investment, supply chain security, and public policy.  She has successfully represented numerous clients in gaining regulatory approval across various technology sectors, including AI, mobile applications, software, telecommunications, and robotics.

Prior to joining Covington, Ingrid clerked for Chief Judge James E. Baker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. She also served as in-house counsel at Amazon Web Services before returning to Covington as Special Counsel.

Ingrid is a graduate of Stanford Law School and the University of Cambridge.

In this episode we discuss the following:

• When it comes to investment in technologies that are relevant to national security, such as AI, quantum computing, integrated circuits, or even collecting sensitive personal data, the U.S. government wants to ensure that’s its interests are protected, so it was interesting to hear how Ingrid helps companies navigate that investment process.
• I thought it was especially interesting that Ingrid felt “underwater and overwhelmed” when she first started her career, especially given her intelligence and background. But her advice is excellent: People should come into their careers with confidence, knowing they have something to contribute but also with humility recognizing that there is always more to learn.

 

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159: Professor Jeffery Thompson | Finding Your Calling

Jeffery Thompson is the director of the Romney Institute of Public Management at the BYU Marriott School of Management. He was raised in Boise, Idaho, and graduated from BYU with a BA in Japanese and a Masters degree in business. Jeff then earned a PhD in organizational behavior, with an emphasis in ethics, at the University of Minnesota, and then taught for four years in the business school at Miami University of Ohio prior to returning to BYU.

Jeff’s research focuses on organizational ethics and meaningful work. And in 2009, Jeff and his coauthor, Stuart Bunderson, published a paper that went viral in the academic world, and has been cited nearly 2,000 times. Much of our conversation today revolves around findings from that work.

In this episode we discuss the following:

• Jeff found that the zookeepers he studied, consistent with others who have found their calling, have three things in common: First, they do work that has an other-orientation, a sense of service. Second, they embrace, and leverage, their own unique gifts. And third, they describe a sense of destiny, as if it were fate that had led them to their position.
• And even though Jeff eventually found his own calling, he realized that there was more to his calling than he initially thought, as he accepted new positions and embraced new opportunities. 

 

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