Ep. 1280: Joe Davis Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Joe Davis, Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group. He is the Chair of BCG's Center for Inclusion and Equity and BCG's North America Regional Chair Emeritus. Joe’s practice area focus includes Public Sector, Retail, and People and Organization. He also serve as the BCG executive sponsor and Vice Chairman of B Capital Group where he is responsible for deepening the partnership between BCG and B Capital.

The topic is his book The Generous Leader: 7 Ways to Give of Yourself for Everyone’s Gain.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Leadership styles and approaches
Pivotal moments and experiences shaping individuals' paths
Prominent business leaders
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
Meritocracy and its implications for equal opportunities
Controversies surrounding DEI efforts and societal divisions

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:33.5	My guest today is Joe Davis.
0:35.4	He's a managing director and senior partner at the Boston Consulting
0:39.3	Group. Today we talk leadership, his new book, The Generous Leader. I like this conversation
0:46.0	because I'm the outsider. I'm the outsider entrepreneur who has never existed in a big consulting firm.
0:56.7	And one of the things that Joe has experienced with is setting up the DEI operation inside
1:02.4	the Boston Consulting Group. Of course, that bit of information makes for, from my perspective,
1:10.1	an interesting conversation. Like I just hinted at, it's a world
1:14.5	that I've never existed in. It's a world that I never will exist in. But I try to learn.
1:22.0	I try to find out. I try to determine whether or not what I think is actually is. Am I right or am I wrong?
1:33.3	And all of you out there, you get to listen and decide to. Without any further delay from me,
1:38.9	I hope you enjoyed this conversation with Joe Davis.
1:50.1	Thank you. with Joe Davis. Give me you as a young man.
1:53.6	Here you are now.
1:55.0	I believe senior partner, big consulting firm, probably one of the top five.
2:00.4	You've climbed the ladder, so to speak.
2:03.5	But I'm guessing, as a young man, this would be the thing that was farthest from your mind.
2:09.3	You don't wake up and you say you're going to pursue this particular path, just like I shared
2:14.1	a story with you that was completely unexpected.
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