How to Create Excellence & An Easier Way to Financial Independence

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Social Sciences, Science

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Passengers get kicked off airline flights a lot more than they used to. Do airlines have the right to just give people the boot for any reason? This episode begins by explaining why you can get kicked off any flight for almost any reason. (http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2015/04/09/how-to-get-kicked-off-flight/?intcmp=HPBucket) The idea of “creating excellence” really became popular back in 1982 with the publication of the huge, best-selling book, In Search of Excellence (https://amzn.to/2qAE2qB) . So how have things changed since then? Co-author Tom Peters joins me to talk about that as well as discuss his new book The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last (https://amzn.to/2H2XQdo). Tom one of those people who always makes you think so I am sure you will find this conversation engaging. Which is better for your car – synthetic motor oil or conventional motor oil? To answer that you need to know the difference so I’ll explain that and tell you what the experts recommend. (http://www.costcoconnection.ca/connectioncaeng/20150910?article_id=1320613&pg=NaN#pgNaN) In our culture, we are encouraged to spend money. It is often difficult to save money and spend cautiously. Vicki Robin, author of the book Your Money or Your Life (https://amzn.to/2JMV1il) shares some fascinating ideas on how to look at money differently and spend wisely so you still get you everything you really want and also have money in the bank. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on something you should know, passengers seem to get kicked off of airplanes a lot more
0:07.0	than they used to.
0:08.4	Why?
0:09.4	I'll explain.
0:10.4	Then understanding excellence from the guy who literally wrote the book on excellence,
0:15.7	Tom Peters.
0:16.7	You know, excellence is 98% about the little touches, not the big touches because that's
0:23.8	the kind of thing people remember forever and ever and ever.
0:27.9	Plus, should you put synthetic or conventional motor oil in your car?
0:32.4	I'll tell you what the experts say.
0:34.9	And trying to spend less and save money.
0:37.8	It can be a real challenge.
0:39.8	It does create some problems.
0:40.8	You know, like, come on, we're all going to go to the restaurant.
0:43.3	You go to the restaurant, you just order your bowl of soup because you're being very careful
0:47.2	and then people say, well, it's just split it four ways, you know.
0:50.6	So we live in a society that is not very respectful of financial prudence.
0:56.4	All this today on something you should know.
1:01.0	I just learned, discover credit cards do something pretty awesome.
1:05.8	At the end of your first year, they automatically double all the cash back you've earned.
1:11.3	That's right, everything you earned doubled.
1:14.2	All the cash back from eating at your favorite soup dumpling restaurant doubled.
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