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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

1796 | Mellody Hobson: “Sometimes You Have to Be Very Small to Be Very Big.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness, Education

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

On today’s QOD, Mellody Hobson, president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, shares the very best career advice she’s ever received. 

One of them might surprise you. 

Source: The best career advice Mellody Hobson ever received | Fortune

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0:00.0

Yeah, today's Q-O-D is.

0:02.0

Sometimes you have to be very small to be very big.

0:07.0

Here we go. Oh, Welcome back to the quarter of the day show. I'm your host Sean Croxton and

0:36.8

Sean Croxton. We've got melody Hobson who is the president and co-cieo of aerial investments on the show today.

0:45.2

She's going to wrap things up this week by sharing the very best career advice she's ever

0:51.0

received and one of them just might surprise you.

0:54.7

Melody Hopston's coming up.

0:58.0

I thought we would do maybe like a speed round of career tips from Melody because she's just packed full of them and I'm going to say the tip I'm going to like you know we got to keep this fast I'm going to say the tip and you're just going to say where you learned this or who taught this to you.

1:14.1

Okay? So one of the things you say you learned is to speak up.

1:17.0

John Rogers, my business partner, he started Ariel, started when he was 24 years old,

1:23.0

and he said to me on my very first day of the job

1:26.2

when he took me to TGI Fridays for lunch.

1:31.6

He said, you're gonna be in a room with people have bigger titles than you and who make a lot of money

1:37.2

And it doesn't mean your idea is not better. I want to hear it

1:42.0

Ask a lot of questions. Is it? I want to hear it.

1:43.0

Ask a lot of questions.

1:44.6

Is it Jeffrey Katsenberg who calls you the Picasso of questions?

1:49.3

So I learned that from John's father, who was a judge judge and he basically said that the best way

1:55.5

to get information that you need and or help someone to come to a different point of

2:02.4

view was not to pound them and push them and

2:05.8

barrage them or berate them but to ask them a series of questions that would help them

2:11.4

find the way to maybe the place you were trying to get them.

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