Freedom At Work (Part 1) with Vishen Lakhiani
The Mindvalley Podcast
Mindvalley
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
What does freedom at work look like? If you're thinking of scaling a company to greater heights, you'll need something far more than a vision. You need a great team to back you up. Vishen Lakhiani, founder and CEO of Mindvalley shares what freedom at work looks like in Mindvalley and why it's incredibly important to highlight "Culture" in the workplace. Here, Vishen shares how Mindvalley expanded to include over 40 different nationalities working on a shared mission together. Listen to the first part of the interview originally recorded for the WorldBlu podcast with Traci Fenton.
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| 0:00.0 | I am Vichin Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation. |
| 0:05.2 | You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and |
| 0:09.2 | thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work. |
| 0:17.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to the Mind Valley Podcast. |
| 0:21.0 | So today's episode is a slightly different twist. I call this a reverse interview. |
| 0:26.0 | See, I don't just interview guests the Mind Valley Podcasts. I get invited quite frequently to appear on other really solid remarkable |
| 0:33.8 | podcast and a couple of days ago I got invited by Tracy Fenton of |
| 0:38.1 | World Blue to come on her podcast to talk about the concept of democracy and power in the workplace. |
| 0:45.8 | And no it sounds political but what we really mean by this is what happens when you give |
| 0:50.8 | your people a say what happens when you give your people power to help build a company's future. |
| 0:56.6 | It's a fascinating topic. |
| 0:58.8 | And World Blue is an organization that promotes happiness at work. |
| 1:02.2 | Mind Valley was the first company to get World Blue certified in All of Asia that happened |
| 1:07.3 | way back in 2008. |
| 1:09.1 | And since then, we've been a big supporter of Tracy Fenton, World Blue, |
| 1:13.4 | and this whole idea of promoting happiness at work. |
| 1:16.0 | Some of you who know that I have a new book coming out |
| 1:18.8 | called Code of the Extraordinary Team, |
| 1:20.5 | that's the tentative title, |
| 1:22.0 | a chapter of it is dedicated to creating |
| 1:24.4 | workplaces that promote happiness. So in this particular podcast we're going to |
| 1:29.0 | talk about these issues. Tracy and I don't agree on everything. There are certain things we might respectfully disagree with each other. |
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