A Strategy Session w/A-Rod + Reid: Build a team of mentors
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
To win at scale, you need more than great players – you need a team of great coaches. This Strategy Session episode is full of great advice and tactics for building that deep bench of mentors, each with a role to play. Working with great coaches is a skill that Alex Rodriguez learned in his first career in baseball, working with legendary skippers like Lou Piniella, and he's brought that skill to his work as an investor at A-Rod Corp., where he has struck up a firm friendship with none other than Warren Buffet. Answering questions from the two co-leads of HBS Class of 2021, Alex and Reid, along with special guests Katia Beauchamp of Birchbox and Mihir Desai of the HBS faculty, show you how to get the most out of mentorship – and how to make sure your mentors also get something out of the deal too.
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| 0:00.0 | High listeners, it's Reed. |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to this special strategy session on Master's a Scale. |
| 0:06.8 | On a usual Master's a Scale strategy session, |
| 0:09.4 | you would hear a set of questions from a larger group |
| 0:11.6 | entrepreneurs that I respond to with an in-depth analysis. |
| 0:16.2 | On today's episode, we're going to do something a little different. |
| 0:20.4 | Today is a strategy session all about mentorship. |
| 0:23.9 | You will hear quick precise lessons on building |
| 0:26.3 | a team of mentors who can help you on your journey to scale. |
| 0:30.7 | We will break this out into two Swiss segments |
| 0:33.5 | that were recorded during our live event at the Harvard Business School Tech Conference. |
| 0:38.9 | First, you will hear part of my interview with baseball star Alex Rodriguez |
| 0:43.1 | about his experiences with mentorship, |
| 0:45.1 | including his unlikely relationship with a great Warren Buffett |
| 0:49.0 | and the lessons he learned. |
| 0:50.8 | Then, I give my analysis on what all of us can take away from it. |
| 0:55.2 | We'll have a full episode with A-Rod coming soon that you won't want to miss. |
| 0:59.9 | Second, you will hear questions from the co-student body presidents |
| 1:03.3 | of Harvard Business School with swift, impactful responses from A-Rod, myself, |
| 1:08.1 | and our two special guests. |
| 1:10.1 | HBS professor, Mehir Desai, and Birchbox founder and CEO, Katia Beechum. |
| 1:15.9 | We're calling this segment three and Reed |
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