492: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets with Jason Del Rey
Read to Lead Podcast
Jeff Brown
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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I’m old enough to remember a book from over 30 years ago called, The Late Shift, a chronicling of the wars between David Letterman, Jay Leno, NBC, and who would eventually end up with the Tonight Show Crown. Our featured book this week reminds of that book in many ways. The difference, however is the […]
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| 0:00.0 | This is the read to lead podcast, episode 492. |
| 0:12.8 | They literally said in Phoenix and in parts of California, we will run out of humans to hire because we've turned through so many. |
| 0:23.2 | For years, Walmart and Amazon operated in separate spheres, one a massive brick-and-mortar |
| 0:29.0 | retailer, the other, an online giant. But in 2016, Walmart aggressively moved into the world |
| 0:35.3 | of e-commerce while Amazon made big bets in physical |
| 0:38.8 | retail. |
| 0:39.8 | What can we learn from this back and forth battle? |
| 0:43.0 | Well, you're about to find out. |
| 0:45.1 | Hi, I'm Jeff, and this is the Read to Lead podcast, the podcast dedicated to your personal |
| 0:50.7 | and professional growth. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm going to be talking with |
| 0:54.6 | Jason Del Rey today about his book called Winner Sells All, Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for |
| 1:03.0 | our wallets. I'll be asking Jason a number of key questions, the first of which is, what is |
| 1:08.0 | what is the average person you and me need to understand about this |
| 1:11.8 | story about this battle how their differences in ethos culture strategy and leadership have played |
| 1:17.8 | themselves out and that we can learn from in a winner sells all economy what do we consumers |
| 1:24.0 | merchants and employees stand to lose and lots lots, lots more. I am about to give away |
| 1:29.2 | a hundred free books. A book's from authors I'll be interviewing in just a couple of weeks. |
| 1:35.9 | The book is called Leadership is Overrated. How the Navy SEALs and successful businesses |
| 1:40.8 | create self-leading teams that win. Now, the thing is, these 100 copies have |
| 1:46.0 | already been spoken for. They're going to 100 people either from my mailing list, in the |
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