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JOIN UP DOTS - GET RICH & LIVE FREE (Business Coaching With A Touch Of Life Coaching Too)

America's Best Boss

JOIN UP DOTS - GET RICH & LIVE FREE (Business Coaching With A Touch Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Business, Education

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Stephan Aarstol is today guest joining us on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots business podcast. He is a Shark Tank Winner and CEO of Tower (where Mark Cuban is an investor), Stephan Aarstol is also the inventor of the 5-hour workday, an initiative he started in 2015 to challenge long held delusions about unhealthy start-up work culture. Stephan moved his whole company to a 5-hour workday, and yes we mean his whole company not just the directors and would later write a book, The Five Hour Workday about the experience. Now you might be thinking "wow this is amazing my company would never do this" Well there was a time when our guest might have been thinking that he wished he hadn't.

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0:00.0

Life shouldn't be hard. Life should be a fun-filled adventure every day.

0:05.0

So now start joining up dots.

0:07.0

Tap into your talents, your skills, your God-given gifts,

0:11.0

and tell your boss, you don't deserve me. I'm out of here.

0:16.0

It's time for you to smash that alarm clock.

0:20.0

And start getting the dream business and life you will, of course, are dreaming of.

0:26.0

Let's join your host, David Ralph, from the back of his garden in the UK,

0:31.0

or wherever he might be today, with another jammed pack episode

0:35.0

of the number one hit podcast, Join Up Dots.

0:39.0

Yes, hello there. Good morning to you. Good morning, world.

0:44.0

And thank you so much for being here on Join Up Dots.

0:47.0

It's a great day to be alive. It really is.

0:50.0

Well, today's guest is a Shark Tank Winger, and a CEO of Tower,

0:55.0

where Mark Cuban is an investor.

0:57.0

He's also the inventor of the five-hour workday, an initiative he started in 2015,

1:02.0

to challenge long-held delusions about unhealthy startup work culture.

1:07.0

Now, he moved his whole company to a five-hour workday,

1:10.0

and yes, we mean he's whole company, not just the directors,

1:14.0

and would later lie to book the five-hour workday about the experience.

1:18.0

Now, you might be thinking, wow, this is amazing. My company would never do this.

1:22.0

Well, there was a time when our guest might have been thinking that he wished he hadn't either.

1:26.0

As he ultimately found out, a shorter workday doesn't make businesses more profitable and productive,

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