The Professionals Playbook

My guest today is former US Naval Fighter Pilot, Charlie Plumb. After graduating from the Naval Academy, he completed flight training and reported to Miramar Air Station in San Diego where he flew the first adversarial flights in the development of “TOP GUN.” He then deployed to Vietnam and flew 74 successful combat missions and made over 100 carrier landings.

On his 75th mission, just five days before the end of his tour, he was shot down over Hanoi, taken prisoner, tortured, and spent the next 2,103 days in an 8-by-8 foot cell as a Prisoner Of War.

Following his repatriation, he continued his flying career, retiring from the Navy after 28 years of service.

In our conversation, we talk about what it was like flying the top jet of the era, the missions he flew over Vietnam, and how he kept hope throughout his nearly 6 years as a POW. Below are the show notes with associated time stamps:

• His passion for flying (min. 02:30)
• His first jet out of pilot training (03:30)
• Probability of Kill (PK) missiles (06:00)
• Showing up to Vietnam (07:30)
• First mission (09:30)
• Jumped by 3 enemy fighters (12:30)
• Surface to Air Missiles (19:45)
• Being shot down (26:00)
• Hanoi Hilton (32:30)
• Time in Captivity (34:00)
• Keeping hope (39:40)
• Torture (44:00)
• Keeping mentally and physically fit (45:30)
• Coming home (48:30)
• Inspiring others (54:30)

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My guest today is Dr. Daniel Kraft, a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. He has over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation. He is founder and chair of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare.

He has multiple scientific publications and medical patents and is often called to speak to the future of health, medicine, and technology and has given 5 TED and TEDMED Talks.

Daniel recently founded IntelliMedicine, focused on personalized, data driven, precision medicine.

He is an avid pilot and has served in the Air National Guard as a flight surgeon with squadrons flying the F-15 & F-16. His research on aerospace medicine has been published with NASA. He is also an Adviser to the XPRIZE Foundation.

In our conversation, we talk about the challenges of turning an idea into reality, the similarities between medicine and aviation, and how to live a longer healthier life. Below are the show notes.

• Career evolution (min. 02:45)
• Aviation vs medicine (min. 06:00)
• Medical simulators (min. 08:30)
• Stanford pager story (min. 12:00)
• How flying is transformational (min. 14:00)
• Yelp for doctors (min. 17:00)
• Turning an idea into a reality (min. 17:45)
• How he learns (min. 24:00)
• How to perform at a high level (min. 24:45)
• How to increase longevity (min. 29:00)
• Things to help kids develop better (min. 35:45)
• Future of medicine (min. 40:00)
• Flying conversation (min. 50:00)
• Social media info (min. 53:00)

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My guest today is Roy Bahat who is the head of Bloomberg Beta, an investment firm with over 150 million dollars under management. He invests in the future of work with a focus on machine intelligence and automation. Fast Company magazine named Roy one of the Most Creative People in Business.

Before heading up Bloomberg Beta, Roy served as the president of IGN Entertainment, the leading Video Games' media company. There he was known for unorthodox but very effective hiring strategy.

Roy is also on the faculty at U.C. Berkeley, where he teaches about media at the Haas School of Business. He's a graduate of Harvard and was also a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.

I had a great time chatting with Roy today. He is the leading expert on the future of work. In our conversation we talk about how he choses a startup team, the principals he uses to run Bloomberg Beta, the future of media, and more. Below are all the show notes with associated timestamps:

• Bloomberg Beta background (min. 02:45)
• Finding companies with potential (min. 03:45)
• Data vs. gut feeling (min. 06:30)
• Successful startup team makeup (min. 12:00)
• Lessons learned over the years at Bloomberg (min. 15:30)
• Trends of the future (min. 22:30)
• Future of work (min. 25:00)
• Artificial Intelligence (min. 28:00)
• Separating the signal from the noise (min. 33:45)
• De-emphasizing the resume (min. 35:00)
• Future of formal education (min. 39:00)
• Advice for next generation (min. 41:30)
• Projects working on now (min. 43:45)

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My guest today is Chris Voss who served as the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the FBI. During his career, he worked on over 150 international hostage cases. During his 24 year tenure, he was trained in the art of negotiation by not only the FBI but Scotland Yard and Harvard Law School. He is also a recipient of the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence and the FBI Agents Association Award for Distinguished and Exemplary Service.

Chris is a master negotiator who has since written one of the top books in the field titled "Never Split the Difference." He also works as an adjunct professor at USC's Marshall School of Business and Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. In our conversation we talk about what it's like to be on the phone with a terrorist, the traits required of a hostage negotiator, how everyone can become better at negotiating, and more. Below are all the topics with associated timestamps:

• Big picture of his career and highlights (min 03:00)
• The moment he starts speaking to a terrorist or criminal (min 04:30)
• Building rapport with the other side (min 09:30)
• The ebbs and flows of a hostage negotiation? (min 11:45)
• Traits of a great hostage negotiator? (min 16:30)
• Why only 5 people on the planet can do this (min 19:45)
• Negotiation he's most proud of (min 23:00)
• Negotiation that didn't go well (min 25:15)
• Reading someone's voice (min 27:45)
• Negotiating in business (min 31:00)
• How to improve your negotiation skills (min 34:30)
• Mistakes most people make (min 38:00)
• Dealing with people who have a big ego (min 39:15)
• Negotiating over email (min 40:15)
• Asking for a raise (min 42:30)
• Negotiating exercises (min 43:45)

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