5 essential moves for post-pandemic success, featuring Airbnb, Etsy, Sunrun, and more
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Shift your mindset. Tighten your focus. Map your future. In this special episode, Reid Hoffman presents a five-step playbook for post-crisis success. Moving from chaos to calm requires a revised agenda, whether the pandemic crushed your business or boosted it. Peace-time strategies need to be just as sharp as wartime strategies. Featuring Airbnb's Brian Chesky, Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer, NBA all-star Jerry Stackhouse, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | High listeners, it's Reed. |
| 0:02.7 | Welcome to this special episode of Masters of Scale. |
| 0:06.2 | Since the start of the COVID pandemic, we have all been on war footing. |
| 0:10.4 | It's been an extended period of desperate triage. |
| 0:14.5 | Most of us have invested huge amounts of time and energy just to keep afloat. |
| 0:19.3 | The losses have been tremendous. |
| 0:21.8 | Battle fatigue has taken its toll. |
| 0:24.2 | But the end is in sight. |
| 0:26.7 | That's why we created this special episode using carefully selected stories from Masters |
| 0:31.6 | of Scale and rapid response. |
| 0:33.8 | This is five essential moves for post-pandemic success. |
| 0:39.6 | You gotta have incredible talent at every position. |
| 0:42.0 | It's like this huge push. |
| 0:43.8 | There are fires burning when you're going home. |
| 0:45.6 | Can you pull even? |
| 0:46.6 | Such an idiot. |
| 0:47.6 | And then you go back to, this is totally gonna be amazing. |
| 0:50.8 | There's so many easy ways. |
| 0:52.8 | So I have no idea what to do. |
| 0:54.4 | Sorry, we made a mistake. |
| 0:55.4 | But you have to time it right. |
| 0:57.4 | Oops, we're gonna have a free batch of parts. |
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