Ep. 800: Joel Peterson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Joel Peterson, the chairman of JetBlue Airways and the founding partner of Peterson Partners, a Salt Lake City-based investment management firm. Joel is on the faculty at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and has been since 1992. After three careers, four decades of marriage and seven kids, and demanding roles as CFO, CEO, chairman, lead director, adjunct professor, founder, author, entrepreneur and investor, Joel is often sought as a mentor and coach by leaders and aspiring leaders.
The topic is his book The 10 Laws of Trust.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- JetBlue Chairman Joel Peterson and Michael talk through the playbook for establishing and maintaining a culture of trust that breaks down the operational silos and CYA mentality that plague many organizations.
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 | I love the word trust. |
| 0:37.3 | Trust is the glue. |
| 0:39.7 | It's what binds us. |
| 0:42.3 | For example, if you did not trust me, you would not read my books. |
| 0:49.0 | You would not listen to this podcast. |
| 0:51.6 | And I'm sure some people don't. They don't listen to this podcast. And I'm sure some people don't. They don't listen to this podcast. They don't read my |
| 0:59.4 | books. And they don't trust me. I'm sure it's a minority. The crazy ones that should be locked up |
| 1:07.1 | in asylums across the planet put in white jackets with all seriousness. |
| 1:14.5 | Trust is the key. |
| 1:17.6 | It's the absolute key. |
| 1:19.0 | It holds us all together. |
| 1:21.6 | My guest today is the chairman of JetBlue. |
| 1:25.4 | Yes, the airline company. |
| 1:27.1 | Joel Peterson, he has had a little bit of |
| 1:30.8 | experience with this word trust. Great insights across a long career. I mean, look, this is the |
| 1:40.1 | basics. This is the most important stuff. Investing in respect, empowering everyone, requiring |
| 1:47.5 | accountability, keeping everyone informed, embracing conflict where it matters and where it's good |
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