066: Judy Robinett – Creating A Titanium Digital Rolodex: The 5+50+150 Rule
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Ryan Hawk
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🗓️ 26 October 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Episode 066: Judy Robinett – Creating A Titanium Digital Rolodex: The 5+50+150 Rule
I would like to thank John Corcoran for introducing me to Judy Robinett. Both John and Judy are such great givers… Always trying to help others and they’ve done so much for me. I was fascinated with Judy. She is incredibly intelligent and is a very deep thinker. It was a joy to get her to put some of those thoughts on tape for this great podcast episode.
Judy Robinett is the author of How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+150 Rule (McGraw-Hill, May 2014), a book that provides instant, effective strategies for meeting the people you need to know and bonding with them fast to further your goals and theirs. Robinett is a business thought leader who is known as “the woman with the titanium digital Rolodex.” She has been profiled in Fast Company, Forbes, Venture Beat, Huffington Post, and Bloomberg Businessweek as a sterling example of the new breed of “super connectors” who use their experience and networks to accelerate growth and enhance profitability.
In her more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and corporate leader, Robinett has served as the CEO of both public and private companies and in management positions at Fortune 500 companies. She has been on the advisory boards of Illuminate Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California; Pereg Ventures, a venture capital firm based in New York; Springboard Enterprises based in Washington, DC; and Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) accelerators based in New York.
Episode 066: Judy Robinett – Creating A Titanium Digital Rolodex: The 5+50+150 Rule
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“Forget an MBA… Learn to network.” – Jack Welch
Some Questions I Ask:
- What are common characteristics of high achievers?
- How have you learned how to create luck?
- What did the book “How To Win Friends and Influence People” help you?
- What is the 5 + 50 + 150 rule?
- How did you become known as the “woman with the titanium rolodex?”
- What are the 5 things to never do and say?
- What does being a “giver” mean to you?
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- The importance of “guts and luck”
- How being shy and bullied helped propel Judy to big things
- You are the average of the 5 people you surround yourself with
- Keeping a “victory log” of achievements
- How to connect others and make important introductions
- Process to create a TED Talk
- The definition of a Learning Leader
“Creating value is how you create wealth.” – Judy Robinett
Continue Learning
- Read this Forbes Article about Judy: Forbes: Judy Robinett
- Read her book: "How To Be A Power Connector"
- Follow Judy on Twitter @judyrobinett
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Episode 002: How To Take Over And Set Bigger Goals With Chris Brogan
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
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Bio From JudyRobinett.com
Judy Robinett is the author of How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+150 Rule (McGraw-Hill, May 2014), a book that provides instant, effective strategies for meeting the people you need to know and bonding with them fast to further your goals and theirs. Robinett is a business thought leader who is known as “the woman with the titanium digital Rolodex.” She has been profiled in Fast Company, Forbes, Venture Beat, Huffington Post, and Bloomberg Businessweek as a sterling example of the new breed of “super connectors” who use their experience and networks to accelerate growth and enhance profitability.
In her more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and corporate leader, Robinett has served as the CEO of both public and private companies and in management positions at Fortune 500 companies. She has been on the advisory boards of Illuminate Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California; Pereg Ventures, a venture capital firm based in New York; Springboard Enterprises based in Washington, DC; and Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) accelerators based in New York.
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| 0:15.1 | Creating value is the way that you create wealth and I like people to have wealth so they can have the freedom to do what they they want in life so I'm pretty passionate about that. I also love to give speeches. I'm flying to London next week to give a speech to a thousand people on the concepts of my book and you know my whole thing is I want to |
| 0:20.1 | change the world by people seeing that there is no lack of resources. |
| 0:25.0 | You know, there's 7 billion people on the planet, there's 369 trillion in private global |
| 0:30.3 | wealth, just in the United States and checking and banking counts as over 70 |
| 0:33.8 | billion. So there's no lack of money. There's no lack of opportunities. There's no lack of |
| 0:37.8 | anything, but most of them are connected to people. And so you know it is the most important skill, one of the most important skill I'd say that you need. |
| 0:47.0 | Jack Welch said, actually, forget an MBA learned to network. |
| 0:50.0 | Our leaders born or are they made. Our host, Ryan Hawk Hawk believes that leaders can be made through determined |
| 0:56.9 | focused work on learning the art and science behind the makeup of other |
| 1:00.9 | successful leaders. Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success. |
| 1:05.7 | You're listening to the Learning Leaders Show I am Ryan Hawk. |
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| 1:39.6 | gets a chance to participate so go to learning leader dotcom right at the top you'll see where you can put in your email. |
| 1:46.5 | Now on to tonight's episode it's with Judy Robinette. She's known as the woman with the Titanium Role decks really incredible |
| 1:55.6 | She's been profiled in Fast Company Forbes in Huffington Post among others |
| 2:00.3 | She's also the author of a great book called How to Be a Power Connector. |
| 2:06.7 | On our conversation tonight we discussed a number of topics here are a few of them. |
| 2:11.3 | How you can actually create luck. We got in a pretty deep on this topic. I think you |
| 2:17.2 | guys are really going to enjoy that part of the conversation as well as how each and every one of us can be a power connector like Judias. |
| 2:26.5 | He's from a very small town, did not come from money, was able to rise up and become a power |
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