Ep. 481: Chris Zook Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Chris Zook, a business writer and partner at Bain & Company, leading its Global Strategy Practice. He is listed by The Times (London) as one of the world's top 50 business thinkers. Zook received a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Williams College, a M.Phil. in economics from Exeter College, Oxford University, and a MPP and Ph.D in Public Policy Analysis from the Harvard Kennedy School. Zook is an author of books and articles on business strategy, growth, and the importance of leadership economics, including the Profit from the Core trilogy.

The topic is his book The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

The founder’s 100
What keeps millennials in their jobs
Frontline obsession
Sense of insurgency
Owners mindset
Founders disease
Meritocracies

Jump in!

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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	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Coval.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.2	Today on my show, I'm discussing the founder's mentality.
0:37.1	How to overcome the predictable crisis of growth.
0:41.3	Sounds a little academic, not so fast.
0:45.3	The founder's mentality is something that we all need to have if we're going to try and have success.
0:59.1	Bottom line, there is no way around it. The authors,
1:05.5	Chris Zuck and James Allen, and today on my show I have Chris Zook, one of those authors. Chris is with Bain Capital and brings decades of really great frontline experience.
1:11.7	I hope you enjoyed this conversation with Chris Zook, discussing the founder's mentality.
1:26.6	So Chris, when I want the audience to understand first, give me the elevator pitch on the founder's mentality.
1:34.8	Once I have that, I want to go backwards.
1:37.1	I want to understand your process.
1:39.3	What was the triggering moment for you to go down this path and the research process and then over the next
1:45.8	hour we can kind of backfill and tear apart and add more flesh to this but i really want to know
1:51.5	how you got started in it but the audience is going to need to know what it is first the work that led to
1:56.4	the founder's mentality probably began about five years ago when we decided to drill down into the
2:03.8	question of what is it?
2:06.4	What are the deep root causes that allow some companies to stay young, stay energetic,
2:12.8	be sustainable in their performance over time, big companies, and companies, in a world where so many businesses now age prematurely.
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