Spartan Mindset in Modern Business | Joe de Sena and Kevin Kaiser

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Kaiser has an unconventional approach to business that was shaped by his roots growing up on a farm in Canada. As a professor at Wharton, one of the top business schools in the world, Kaiser is challenging the status quo.

In this fascinating podcast episode, Kaiser shares the philosophies that have made him an outlier - treating companies like living organisms that must constantly adapt to survive. He believes success breeds complacency if you don't disrupt yourself.

You will learn Kaiser's unique strategies for avoiding complacency and staying motivated through unpredictability. You'll discover why he argues against giving employees clear goals and instead pushes them outside their comfort zones.

Kaiser also dives into mindset, explaining how to "own" your thoughts and emotions rather than identify with them. For business leaders and entrepreneurs, this podcast provides an invigorating fresh perspective on value creation, leadership, and turning assumptions on their heads.

Highlights:
00:00 Intro
01:01 Kevin Kaiser’s background
02:08 Business as a living organism
03:55 Who decides how to deploy resources?
06:03 Students at Wharton and fragility
09:44 How do big companies like Kodak fail?
13:18 Staying relevant as a company
15:33 Don’t listen to evolutionary wants
19:26 Challenges and the example of Toyota
22:26 Being the manager of your mind, body, and emotions
24:58 How can people find Kevin?

Transcript

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0:00.0	is the CEO to figure out how to best deploy resources?
0:03.4	Probably have said yes 20 or 30 years ago, but the way I think of it now is the CEO is...
0:08.6	How do I deal with that friction of like we want to be organized we want to have clear lines of communication
0:17.3	responsibility like we don't want disruption but yet we I need it all you
0:22.3	don't trust humans when they say I want something, okay?
0:26.0	And so the evidence that you're great value is you're making money.
0:29.0	And as long as you're making money, you justify your ongoing existence here.
0:32.0	As a company, people, we don't have to make money. money you justify your ongoing existence here.
0:32.6	As a company, people we don't have to make money,
0:35.3	we have to serve our families and serve ourselves.
0:37.9	But as a company, you have to be adding value to others.
0:39.9	And if you're not, you have no right for existing.
0:42.0	And humans, unfortunately humans unfortunately is kind of
0:44.1	similar you know it's you know we're all going to die it's just a timing thing.
0:47.4	Welcome to the Hardway podcast with Joe the Senna founder and CEO of Spartan
0:52.0	races. We're teaching you how to overcome Center, and CEO of Spartan Races.
0:53.0	We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life
0:56.0	the same way we teach our 10 million plus Spartans
0:59.0	to overcome obstacles on the course.
1:01.0	With insight from the smartest, most accomplished experts from every corner of the world.
1:05.4	Get ready to elevate your life today.
1:08.3	Joe DeScentre, CEO and founder of Spartan and host of the Hardway Podcast.
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