Ep. 938: Martin Lindstrom Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Martin Lindstrom, a well-known international management consultant who routinely sees various kinds of "corporate constipation" all over the world. The author of several New York Times bestsellers – his eight books have been translated into sixty languages. Lindstrom is among the "world's 100 most influential people" (Time magazine) and the "world's top 20 business thinkers" for 2020 (Thinkers50).
The topic is his book The Ministry of Common Sense: How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate BS.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- What is Common Sense?
- Creativity and Screentime
- Losing Creativity
- Obsession of Selfies
- Common Sense and Empathy
- Ability to Have Empathy
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 Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.3 | My guest today is Martin Lindstrom. |
| 0:36.1 | He's here to discuss bureaucracy. God, I hate bureaucracy. |
| 0:42.5 | There's nothing worse than the notion of bureaucracy and the people that make it up. |
| 0:51.5 | The people that make up a bureaucracy that is. I just can't stand it. The whole concept, |
| 0:57.8 | the whole idea of a bureaucracy, people that just, I don't know, they've tuned down, they have |
| 1:05.3 | given up. And, you know, this is not Martin's perspective necessarily. It's my perspective. |
| 1:10.7 | But damn it, I just hate the word |
| 1:11.9 | bureaucracy. Martin's book today, The Ministry of Common Sense, How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, |
| 1:18.9 | Bad Excuses, and Corporate BS. Great title, right? One of those titles that kind of sticks |
| 1:26.4 | the needle in the eye of government, corporate types, |
| 1:31.2 | that just kind of go round and round. |
| 1:34.3 | They lose their efficiency. |
| 1:36.5 | They lose their gusto. |
| 1:38.0 | They lose their passion. |
| 1:40.0 | They just want to collect a paycheck. |
| 1:42.0 | How the hell do you break these bottlenecks? |
| 1:44.8 | Martin's got some great perspective, some great ideas. |
| 1:48.3 | So give me a little bit of your time. |
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