#716 Too Old for Basketball, Business Books, & Personality Disorders in Action

08/24/23 • 33 min

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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Dan flies solo this week in a 3-part episode where he circles back to a few hot topics that caught some listener’s attention over the last few months.

Back in May, Dan shared insights from a book he read called the 5 Types of People Who Will Ruin Your Life. Today he’s sharing a recent story where this came into play.

He also shares lessons from the best business book he’s read in the past 6 months (of which he reads about 3 each week). And last but not least, he reaches into the mailbag to share a story from a listener about their Mexican Fisherman Moment.

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Show Notes:

(00:00:00) Intro
(00:01:44) Too old for basketball
(00:04:33) Personality disorders
(00:11:07) Leadership
(00:24:30) Mexican Fisherman

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Past guests on TMBA include Cal Newport, David Heinemeier Hannson, Seth Godin, Ricardo Semler, Noah Kagan, Rob Walling, Jay Clouse, Einar Vollset, Sam Dogan, Gino Wickam, James Clear, Jodie Cook, Mark Webster, Steph Smith, Taylor Pearson, Tommy Griffith, Justin Tan, Matt Gartland, Travis Jamison, Ayman Al-Abdullah, Tynan

Additional episodes you might enjoy:

TMBA 688: Mailbag: What Can Scorecards Do For You? And Equity Split Dilemmas
TMBA 695: The Money Theory of Location And Why Employee Scorecards Are So Helpful
TMBA 707: Deceptively simple ways to have a better business
TMBA 702: Millions for Podcasts and Jay Clouse on Memberships
TMBA 689: Re-visiting Our Conversation with Seth Godin

Dan flies solo this week in a 3-part episode where he circles back to a few hot topics that caught some listener’s attention over the last few months.

Back in May, Dan shared insights from a book he read called the 5 Types of People Who Will Ruin Your Life. Today he’s sharing a recent story where this came into play.

Dan & Ian’s Stuff:

The Newsletter
“The DC”
DC Black
Global events
Hire remote talent
Find a remote job
Listen on YouTube
Follow on Instagram
@TropicalMBA
@AnythingIan

Show Notes:

(00:00:00) Intro
(00:01:44) Too old for basketball
(00:04:33) Personality disorders
(00:11:07) Leadership
(00:24:30) Mexican Fisherman

Links:

Additional episodes you might enjoy:

Previous Episode

#715 3 Simple Ways to Improve Your Business

Dan raises the question: if you only had to implement one simple framework to improve your business, what would it be? In other words, what’s your minimum effective dose of operational practices? Sometimes–most of the time–one simple change can make a huge difference.

Today’s guest represents this line of thinking to a T. Lydia Machova talks about the ROI of spending a month implementing one simple idea, developing an integrator/visionary relationship, and the minimum effective dose of operational practices that improved her business.

Lastly, Dan & Lydia talk about how founders often confuse assistance with delegation and how Lydia built an operating system that empowers her team to take ownership, solve problems, and send fewer Slack messages.

Dan & Ian’s Stuff:
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DC Black
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Show Notes:

(00:00:00) Intro
(00:02:02) Systems are too complicated
(00:04:23) Scorecards, scorecards, scorecards
(00:07:20) Delegation vs assistance
(00:08:32) DCBKK updates
(00:13:42) Becoming an entrepreneur
(00:21:48) Perfect integrator
(00:27:07) ROI of process
(00:37:25) Meeting tempos
(00:39:09) Accountability chart
(00:42:46) The issues list
(00:48:05) Get out from under

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Next Episode

#717 A Game of Would You Rather ft. Noah Kagan

Summer in Barcelona comes to a close with a game of Would You Rather featuring the CEO of AppSumo, Noah Kagan. Dan challenges him to choose between distributing equity to employees or advisors, investing in “boring” businesses or tech, owning or renting a primary residence, and more.

Dan also poses a question to listeners that’s been on his mind: how long should summer vacations be?

Dan & Ian’s Stuff:
The Newsletter
“The DC”
DC Black
Global events
Hire remote talent
Find a remote job
Listen on YouTube
Follow on Instagram
@TropicalMBA
@AnythingIan