EP 161: Waste Management President and CEO Jim Fish

The Erik Anders Lang Show: Golf - Travel - Comedy

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4.8 • 949 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This episode of The Erik Anders Lang Show is brought to you by Waste Management. Erik has a chance to sit down with the President and CEO of Waste Management, Jim Fish. Together Erik and Jim talk about business on the golf course and what you can learn about someone during a round of golf. Craving more awesome golf content? Be sure to follow Erik on social media, and subscribe to his YouTube channel! JIM FISH/// Social: @jimfishwm Web: http://investors.wm.com/management/james-c-fish WASTE MANAGEMENT/// Social: @wastemanagement Web: https://linktr.ee/wastemanagement ERIK ANDERS LANG/// Web: www.erikanderslang.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/erikanderslang Twitter: www.twitter.com/erikanderslang Facebook: www.facebook.com/erikanderslang YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/eriklang12 GARRETT LEIGHT/// Web: www.garrettleight.com Social: @garrettleight PRECISION PRO GOLF/// Web: www.precisionprogolf.com Instagram: @precisionprogolf Twitter: @preprogolf DEVEREUX/// Web: www.dvrxthreads.com Social: @dvrxthreads ADIDAS/// Web: www.adidas.com Social: @adidasgolf

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0:00.0	All right. Welcome to the Air Canders Lang Show.
0:07.0	Awesome, thanks.
0:08.0	Jim Fish. I feel like we can get into so many parts of your story, CEO of Waste Management, but first, I feel like you probably had some good nicknames throughout your life.
0:18.0	You know, actually because of my last name, I mean, that's kind of been it. It's not's not I mean you have a guy with the name
0:24.3	a smith or something I mean you know you got to give him a nickname but fish is
0:27.6	kind of a natural Jim fish it's impossible to have a first and last name with
0:32.0	fewer syllables.
0:33.0	That is true. Have you thought about that?
0:35.0	I mean, I was shooting for zero, but I don't think you can go zero.
0:39.0	Unless you're like Freud or something, right?
0:41.0	Just go one name.
0:42.0	This is where we get into the concept that you live the sort of the minimalist waste management lifestyle.
0:48.7	Yeah, just one syllable in each. One. That's part of our hiring protocol. you're not going to waste syllables you're not going to waste products
0:56.5	How do you we've we are people may think that we have a great rapport from the start but we're friends would you agree you bet you're
1:05.5	smiling you don't call me that much but you know I I don't well I don't want to bug you
1:12.1	you're you know CEO of
1:13.4	we are friends we're absolutely fortune going to dinner tonight we are going to dinner
1:17.2	tonight there you go fortune 500 company is waste management true that's true I
1:22.3	actually could almost say we're
1:23.3	Fortune 200, we're close like Fortune 2008 or something. 2008. Yeah. And that's
1:27.2	the threshold. Not that I'm keeping track. I mean I would imagine that's a big
1:30.3	that's a big deal, big difference. difference.
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