Ep. 725: Richard Sheridan Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Richard Sheridan, the founder of Menlo Innovations and author of “Joy, Inc.” and “Chief Joy Officer.” He shares an inspirational guide for those seeking joy in the challenge of leading others and pushes readers to think, act and lead different. Too many live in quiet desperation. It’s Richard’s mission to bring those people out of those lives and thrive in whatever workplace they are in. Before Menlo Richard was in a job that by all definitions he should have loved. He was creating art and making a real impact in people’s lives, however he was not happy. He realized he had created a culture where nobody at his company could make a move without his approval. He knew the company could not move forward any faster than him. Shedding the “smartest guy in the room image” was an important part of culture Richard wanted to instill wherever he went next.

The topics are his books Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love and Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Extreme programming
Running experiments
Trusting your team
What is Joy?
Killing ideas vs. action oriented
Index cards

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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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Transcript

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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 Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.4	My guest today is Richard Sheridan.
0:36.4	He is the author of what many people consider this kind of cultural cult classic called Joy Inc.
0:45.1	It's about a software company that he started and Ann Arbor, Michigan got all kinds of success.
0:52.4	But he embraced something that he calls kind of a joyful culture,
0:57.2	human-centered values. What does this mean, right? Is this just happy talk? Or is there something
1:04.4	concrete that we can wrap our arms around? Now with his newest book, Chief Joy Officer, Richard talks about bringing joy to the workplace
1:15.4	from a leadership perspective.
1:18.1	He brings the good stuff that we all know or that we should all already know, but he puts
1:26.0	it out there in a way where you just pause and you say, hey, why am I not
1:32.4	doing it that way? Why am I living my life stuck in some cube getting fatter and fatter every
1:41.0	damn day, not happy? How can we all do it differently? And how can we learn from
1:47.7	Richard and what he figured out to do differently? Now look, I'm not trying to say I've got it all
1:54.1	figured out, but I definitely relate to what Richard has put together, what he has figured out.
1:59.5	Little bits of it I've incorporated in my life already.
2:03.4	But I know plenty of people, friends and family,
2:07.0	that would go through Richard's work and just go to themselves,
2:10.4	I can't do this.
2:12.4	I must not do this.
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