Ep. 467: David Burkus Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is David Burkus, the bestselling author of four books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens of languages. Since 2017, Burkus has been ranked as one of the world's top business thought leaders by by organizations like Thinkers50, Global Gurus, and LeadersHum. As a sought-after international speaker, his TED Talk has been viewed over 2 million times. He's worked with leaders from organizations across all industries including Google, Stryker, Fidelity, Viacom, and even the US Naval Academy. A former business school professor, Burkus holds a master's degree in organizational psychology from the University of Oklahoma, and a doctorate in strategic leadership from Regent University.

The topic is his book Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Re-designing the factory
Physical labor vs. Intellectual labor
Machines vs. Man
Multitasking = Task switching
"The customer is always right" mentality
Confirmation bias
Introverts and extroverts
Customer service
Non-compete clauses

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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	A big thank you to all of my listeners.
0:03.5	And if you would like to support this transmission even more and boost your trading account,
0:09.5	go to trendfollowing.com slash now.
0:16.0	And without any further delay, on to today's show.
0:25.5	Thank you. And without any further delay, on to today's show. This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:30.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:41.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. That's my passion.
0:53.2	My guest today is David Burkis, his new book titled Under New Management.
1:00.0	We'll make anybody that dreams of being on the assembly line doing repetitive motion 10 hours a day not happy.
1:12.4	David will force you to think this is not the day in age where we should aspire or we should have our children aspire
1:21.8	to repetitive motion tasks as a way to live a life.
1:28.0	That is just not the direction in 2016.
1:32.4	I hope you enjoy this conversation with David Burkis.
1:42.5	I want to jump into the notion of work, the workplace, and the real starting point of that,
1:50.4	and you throw a name out there in the beginning of your newest work that I've not heard from a long time.
1:55.8	I don't know if I wanted to hear that name again, but I think it's useful for us as we start to examine the workplace.
2:02.8	Frederick Winslow Taylor.
2:05.3	Give my audience, give my audience the education they need to know about that name, and then
2:11.9	we will forget about that name very quickly.
2:14.5	Ah, Freddie Taylor.
2:16.1	You can't, you can't forget about Freddie. Freddie, I mean, so here's the thing, Freddie Taylor. You can't forget about Freddie.
2:18.3	Freddie, I mean, so here's the thing.
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