Do We Even Need Leaders?
Money For the Rest of Us
J. David Stein
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How societies have functioned without leaders, including leaderless megacities that survived over 800 years.
Topics covered include:
- Is geopolitics more like chess or poker
- Why analysts think Putin will soon agree to a settlement with Ukraine
- Do most development occur from the top-down or bottom-up
- What are some examples of leaderless societies and organizations
- How social capital and enforcement mechanisms allow the world to function without leaders telling everyone what to do
- How companies are struggling with the workplace of the future and the role of leadership
- Why do we need more leadership and fewer bosses
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Show Notes
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
Possible Outcomes of the Russo-Ukrainian War and China’s Choice—U.S.-China Perception Monitor
Why Is Leadership Important? by Eric Beato—Babson Thought & Action
Do We Need Leaders? by Jimmy Guterman_Harvard Business Review Home
3 Reasons Why We Need Leaders—Jonathan Sandling
If We’re All Talented People, Why Do We Still Need a Leader? by Angelina Phebus—Lifehack
Trust, Associational Life and Economic Performance by Stephen Knack
Is hybrid work the worst of both worlds?—The Economist
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Money for the Rest of Us. |
| 0:03.2 | This is the Personal Finance Show on Money. |
| 0:05.8 | How it works, how to invest it, and how to live without worrying about it. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm your host, David Stein, today's episode 379. |
| 0:13.6 | It's titled, Do We Even Need Leaders? |
| 0:18.0 | Last week, LaPrile and I were driving from Phoenix to Tucson. |
| 0:22.1 | We wanted to listen to a podcast, so I checked out my friend, Joshua Sheet's podcast, to |
| 0:27.8 | see if there was an episode I found interesting. |
| 0:31.2 | We decided to listen to a bonus episode, it's the strategic background on the conflict with |
| 0:36.4 | Russia, Ukraine, and the West. |
| 0:39.5 | In the episode, Joshua quotes extensively from the book, The Next 100 Years, a forecast |
| 0:46.5 | for the 21st century by George Friedman. |
| 0:49.8 | As soon as I heard the title of the book, I wanted to turn the episode off. |
| 0:53.4 | I haven't read the book, I'm unfamiliar with the author, but I'm extremely skeptical |
| 0:58.7 | of long-term forecasts. |
| 1:00.8 | But then Joshua mentioned that Friedman predicted that there would be a Russian initiated war |
| 1:07.2 | in 2020. |
| 1:08.2 | Well, it's 2022, that's pretty good. |
| 1:12.9 | Maybe we should listen. |
| 1:14.4 | Friedman is a geopolitical forecaster and strategist in international affairs. |
| 1:20.0 | He was born in Hungary and he is the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, an online |
| 1:26.7 | publication that analyzes and forecasts the course of global events. |
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