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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Boyd Matheson | Why Knowledge is Only Potential Power and How to Learn to Disagree Better

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The podcaster, writer, and former Chief of Staff for Senator Mike Lee, Boyd Matheson shares why knowledge is only potential power, how to learn to disagree better, and why it’s SUPER important for everyone to be on the same page after a decision.

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0:00.0

Today we interview the podcaster, writer and former chief of staff for Senator Mike Lee.

0:10.4

And he shares why knowledge is only potential power.

0:15.0

And the thing that is always most important to me is, you know, we often make the mistake of talking about knowledge as power and that's just a myth.

0:25.1

Knowledge is only potential power and it only becomes power when we actually use it and apply it.

0:31.7

And it's when we apply principles that change happens, lives are transformed,

0:36.0

communities get better, good things happen in the world.

0:39.0

Boyd Matheson also joins us to share how to learn to disagree better and why it's super important

0:46.2

for everyone to be on the same page after a decision has been made within your organization.

0:54.0

I used to stand in a lot of organizations and they talk about consensus and I say,

0:59.0

wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, consensus,

1:02.0

is not 100% agreement. It's not 100% agreement. Consensus is 100% support

1:09.7

once the decisions have been made. You got people undermining authority by saying hey we're

1:14.8

gonna do it different I know so-and-so said this but we're gonna do that that is an exhausting

1:19.8

thing I've seen more organizations go down through that because the test for any

1:25.1

organization is you know we normally we run out of energy long before we run out of

1:32.0

opportunity and I've seen so many businesses run out of energy because of this very thing that you've described.

1:39.0

Get ready to enter the bribe time show. We started from the bottom now we get.

1:45.0

We started from the bottom and we'll show you how to get here.

1:48.0

It's started from the bottom now we hit.

1:50.0

We started from the bottom now. We started from the bottom.

1:55.0

Now we're on the top.

1:56.0

To knew the systems to get what we got.

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