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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Understanding Meetings Culture

Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.

You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the workshops at akimbo.com.

To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.

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0:00.0	20 years ago I was invited to the big meeting.
0:05.0	Every week on Mondays at J.P. Morgan Chase,
0:09.5	there was a meeting of the team that was responsible for one third of the bank's profits.
0:16.7	This meeting consisted of 42 people sitting around a long table, 20 on a side, one at the head and one at the foot, surrounded
0:28.0	by 30 other people sitting in the second row. That meeting cost the bank more than $50,000 an hour and as far
0:38.8	as I know they're still having it. Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.
0:47.0	We'll be back in a second after this message from our sponsor.
0:57.0	Get better clients.
1:00.0	There in three words is the strategy of any freelancer who wants to do better work.
1:07.0	Get better clients.
1:09.0	You can't work more hours, but you can work for people who appreciate the work you want to do.
1:15.0	They will push you harder, you will do better work, they will talk about you,
1:19.0	you will get paid more, you will be more proud of what you produce. How to get better clients. I've been
1:26.3	thinking about this for a long time and we have built a workshop just for you. If you
1:31.5	work for yourself I really think you need to check it out. It's a
1:35.1	W.W. the freelancers Workshop.com. It's not a bunch of videos. It's a
1:42.2	workshop. You will work with other freelancers, working your way forward to figure out
1:49.0	how to do this work that matters. I hope you'll take a minute to check it out. The Freelancers Workshop.com.
1:55.7	We would love to have you join us.
1:59.9	I got this question from a reader and decided to do an entire episode of a Kimboe about it.
2:05.4	It explains why I don't go to meetings and how I avoid going to meetings.
2:09.8	Here we go.
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