43: Slack, Microsoft, and Shoe Dog

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Last week Slack took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to "welcome" Microsoft to their market ahead of announcing Microsoft Teams. Most of the Twittersphere and press weren't fans of the ad, but we had a little bit of a different take: competition is good. So we talk about that -- plus we revisit a few lessons from Shoe Dog, a book by Nike founder Phil Knight. Here's a link to the Slack announcement if you missed it: http://bit.ly/2fCXSfx Here's a link to Shoe Dog on Amazon: amzn.to/2fmxeGB We appreciate all of the love and support for the podcast. Here's a link that David mentioned on the show about how to leave us a five-star review on iTunes: bit.ly/2fmvP31 Connect With Us! Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter. Come hang out with us at seekingwisdom.io and on Twitter @seekingwisdomio. Learn more about Drift at Drift.com.

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0:00.0	Man.
0:11.1	We just had a little accident on our...
0:14.4	Tell them what you did.
0:16.4	We were bringing the heat and the recorder wasn't turned on.
0:20.4	But luckily, I noticed five minutes in...
0:23.6	Five minutes into an episode.
0:25.1	And the worst part is before we were doing this, before we started recording, we talked about what we were going to talk about on this episode.
0:32.1	We were going to do a book review of Shoe Dog.
0:35.0	Yes.
0:35.6	DC told me we've already done that.
0:37.4	Yeah. So that's twice that i
0:39.2	told me slipping today it's okay you're allowed to slip you know every once in a while it happens
0:44.5	to the best of us please troll him on the internet call him out all right he's slipping but here's the deal
0:49.7	so we've talked about shoe dog um but we haven't talked really specifically about a couple management lessons.
0:55.7	So that's what we're going to talk about today.
0:56.7	And because, you know, we love the book and we want you to have it. We're going to give away a bunch of copies of the book, too. Damn, boy. Yeah. I appreciate you sticking with me right now. You're nice to those people. So, before we get into Shoe Dog, I want to get your take on something that happened
1:13.2	last week.
1:13.8	Give it to me.
1:16.2	Slack versus Microsoft.
1:18.9	So if you're listening to this podcast, you probably saw it, but just in case you missed
1:23.2	it, Slack basically came out ahead of Microsoft, who was supposed to announce their Slack competitor, Microsoft for Teams.
1:31.3	They took out a full page ad in the New York Times, and they wrote this whole Dear Microsoft letter.
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