447: Stephen Schwarzman | Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Stephen Schwarzman is the chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, an investor, a philanthropist, and the author of What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence.
What We Discuss with Stephen Schwarzman:- How did Stephen turn being paired with a Nazi roommate at Yale into a learning experience?
- Why it's as hard to achieve small goals as bigger ones -- except larger goals have more significant consequences (and what entrepreneurs can gain from this perspective).
- What Stephen learned from working a summer wiping down grease in a Scandanavian ship's 120-degree engine room.
- Why Stephen considers candor fundamental to the operation of a healthy organization.
- How Stephen assesses talent when hiring.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbanger Show. |
| 0:02.7 | This kind of overall environment to some degree |
| 0:06.7 | encouraged by people being restricted to their homes |
| 0:10.6 | and not being able to assemble in a normal human way |
| 0:15.0 | has thrown the global system off. |
| 0:17.5 | It's affected almost every human being around the world. |
| 0:21.5 | And into this kind of environment, |
| 0:23.7 | looking at something as big and consequential |
| 0:27.1 | as US-China relations, |
| 0:29.1 | makes it a tiny bit difficult to say exactly |
| 0:32.8 | where we're going and going when. |
| 0:35.4 | MUSIC |
| 0:39.2 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Jordan Harbanger. |
| 0:41.0 | On the Jordan Harbanger Show, |
| 0:42.3 | we decode the stories, secrets, and skills |
| 0:44.6 | of the world's most fascinating people. |
| 0:46.5 | If you're new to this show, |
| 0:47.7 | we have in-depth conversations with people |
| 0:49.8 | at the top of their game, |
| 0:51.0 | astronauts and entrepreneurs, spies and psychologists, |
| 0:54.2 | even the occasional, not a four-star general, |
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