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Helping People Win At Work w/ Garry Ridge

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Jake and Gino are with Garry Ridge, Chairman & CEO at WD-40. He has co-authored the book “Helping People Win at Work”. Garry puts some light on ways to uplift the culture of any organization and help people to love their job and do the work. He differentiates between the toxic culture and the productive environment. He discusses techniques for engagement and commitment with employees and what is required at leadership level to make cultural changes besides explaining goals of the company. Garry teaches leadership development, talent management & succession planning in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership program. He is also known as ‘Culture & Leadership Architect, #1 Coach in Culture Creation’ Key Insights 00:35 Introduction 02:00 Starting with WD-40 08:07 How to make people love their job? 14:07 Soul-sucking leader lets ego eat the empathy instead of empathy eating that ego 19:00 We need to remind ourselves often of what we want to become 23:52 Lets get rid of words ‘mistakes’ and ‘failure’ 25:30 Pledge of responsibility 30:32 Best practices to make people feel the belongingness 34:00 Practices for staying organized 36:15 Wrap-up Check out Garry’s best-selling books on Amazon: https://amz.run/645Z If you are ready for a breakthrough in your life ⚡ MULTIFAMILY MASTERY 5 is for you! Attend Jake & Gino's flagship annual conference with 1,000+ like-minded individuals, entrepreneurs and investors! 💪 Learn more: https://jakeandgino.com/mm5 📌 Use our free Calculators to figure out key metrics such as IRR on an investment deal; Mortgage finance; ROI; Refinance numbers; and much more 💰 https://jakeandgino.com/realestatecalculators/ About Jake & Gino Jake & Gino are multifamily investors, operators, and mentors who have created a vertically integrated real estate company. They control over $250M in assets under management. They have created the Jake & Gino Premier Multifamily Community to teach others a simple three-step framework for investing in multifamily real estate. Subscribe to this channel: https://ytube.io/3McA Sign up for free training: https://jakeandgino.mykajabi.com/freetraining The resources you need to succeed at every level of apartment investing: https://jakeandgino.com/resources/ Apply for Mentorship: https://jakeandgino.com/apply/ #realestate #multifamilyrealestate #multifamilyinvesting #investing #apartmentinvesting Jake & Gino Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jakeandgino/ Jake & Gino Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeandGino Jake & Gino Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jake-and-gino-llc/ Jake & Gino Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jakeandgino/ More ways to engage with the Jake & Gino Investor Community: MM5: https://jakeandgino.com/mm5/ Rand Cares: https://jakeandgino.com/randcares/ The 100 Year Real Estate Investor: https://www.dualassetstrategy.com

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0:00.0

If you want your grill to sparkle like no other and you want to learn how to build an amazing culture in your company, then you're going to want to listen to this show. Hello, Hey, Hey, I'm a host,

0:21.6

Jake, Gino podcast, who

0:36.6

with my co-host, a multifamily mentor, the coach, Chef, the Father Six, the best line author, the G-Daddy.

0:41.5

Gino Barbero. Jim, how's going?

0:43.1

Jake? Trying to get it together this morning, my friend. Help me out here a little bit, bro. Help me out.

0:47.4

Hey, hey, all I'm going to say is, you know, according to my wife, nothing smells better than a can of WD40. And today's guest just so happens to be the chairman

0:55.5

and CEO of WD40 Company. He also co-authored the book, Helping People Win at Work. He has an

1:01.6

value of experience incorporating company, culture, and values into the day-to-day operations and

1:06.5

collaborating with business partners throughout the world. So what further ado, Gary Ridge, welcome the show.

1:13.1

Good day, Jay. Good to be with you guys this morning.

1:16.7

And let me give you my official introduction, if I may. Can I do that?

1:21.4

Please, please, please.

1:23.1

Yeah, gooday. I'm Gary Ridge. I'm the consciously incompetent, probably wrong and roughly right,

1:28.6

chairman of WD40 company. Wonderful. And Gino couldn't turn a computer on today. So, you know,

1:34.3

we've got a bunch of really smart folks in the room, excited about this one. Gary, I, you know,

1:39.3

I'm thrilled. I've been using WD40 ever since I was a little kid, and we'll get into some

1:44.6

questions on that in a minute, putting on the bike chain. I think that's where everyone starts.

1:49.0

Their experience with WD40 is putting it on the bike chain. But what I want to hear from

1:52.7

you specifically, how did you get involved with a company and then tell us about your time as the

1:57.8

leader and ultimately how you landed the role. I'd love to hear that

2:01.3

story. By accident, by singing timely kangaroo downspot on a tour bus, probably. But all jokes

2:10.1

aside, I'm from Sydney, Australia. I was working for the licensee of WD40 in Australia back in the 80s. And through that relationship,

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