Episode 270: TMBA270: A Roundtable Discussion on Apprentices, Mentoring, and Team Building
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2014
⏱️ 27 minutes
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http://www.tropicalmba.com/returntoapprentice/ Our old friend and former team member Taylor Pearson from TaylorPearson.me has come by this week to help us have a broad, round-table conversation about team building. We talk about the ways that Ian and I have done it, and Taylor shares some insider insight from having been on our team. We also answer a question from a young listener about whether he should be learning a skill set like SEO or diving headfirst into his own business.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:05.1 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:09.7 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:14.8 | more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:17.8 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, check |
| 0:23.2 | out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:31.5 | Hey, it's Thursday morning, and it's the Tropical MBA podcast today. |
| 0:36.5 | I've got my business partner, Ian, the boss man on the show. How you doing, Ian? Hey, man. How's it going? And a special guest, Taylor Pearson from Taylor Pearson. Dot me has come by to help us out a little new format. I don't know what we're going to call it, Taylor, but you have a knack for getting the best out of us. So hopefully you can get the best |
| 0:54.4 | out of us on this week's show. Thanks for joining us. We're about to find out. All right, guys. So today |
| 0:59.9 | we're going to have a broad raging conversation about team building ways that Ian and myself do it, |
| 1:06.4 | as well as some insider insights that Taylor has from having been on our team. We're going to talk |
| 1:10.8 | about the benefits of training at altitude and playing with house money. We're going to talk about |
| 1:15.4 | the six months to Michael Keaton heuristic and the trajectory theory of hiring. But first, I want to |
| 1:21.7 | open it up with an email we've got from a young listener named Frederick. So let me read it. |
| 1:26.1 | Hey, Dan, thanks for the great podcast. |
| 1:28.2 | I love listening to it because you guys got so much skin in the game. We got to talk about it. I don't think so. I'm just giving advice, man. I specifically did not have skin in the game with giving you advice. But I'm going to give it to you anyway. I'm a 22-year-old university student without any real skills. Right now, I'm choosing between two options, which would you choose? |
| 1:47.3 | First, |
| 1:47.7 | Lowe. 22-year-old university student without any real skills. Right now, I'm choosing between two options, |
| 1:46.3 | which would you choose? First, learn SEO. There seems to be an in-demand skills for internships, |
| 1:52.8 | and this would make me a better candidate. Or two, go straight to the heart of knowledge and start |
| 1:58.2 | my own business with the, quote, skills that I have. I know some |
| 2:01.3 | WordPress so I could probably set up websites for local companies. Your advice would mean a lot. |
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