How to Deal with the Difficult Personalities (Dennis Rodman) Within Your Organization (with NBA Hall of Famer, David Robinson)
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
David Robinson (Hall of Fame basketball player) explains how to deal with and manage the difficult personalities found within every organization (including Dennis Rodman).
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| 0:00.0 | Get ready to enter the Thrive Time Show 3, 2, 1, Boom! |
| 0:09.1 | Alright Thrive Nation, welcome back to the conversation on today's podcast. |
| 0:13.5 | I had a unique opportunity to interview the NBA Hall of Fame basketball player and my |
| 0:18.6 | dear friend, David Robinson. |
| 0:21.5 | And I asked David a bunch of hard-hitting questions about specifically, how do you manage difficult |
| 0:26.6 | people? |
| 0:27.6 | You have an office where you have, I don't know, three people, four people, five people |
| 0:32.0 | or more. |
| 0:33.0 | You probably are dealing with a difficult, a contentious personality. |
| 0:37.1 | Somebody who refuses to do what they're supposed to do. |
| 0:42.3 | So how do you deal with that kind of person? |
| 0:45.0 | And so, you know, I didn't hold anything back. |
| 0:48.6 | I asked David Robbins to the admiral, the guy who played basketball with, you know, such |
| 0:53.8 | personalities as Dennis Rodman, how he was able to win two NBA championships and two |
| 1:00.6 | gold medals for the U.S. Olympic team. |
| 1:02.3 | I mean, how did he deal with difficult people? |
| 1:05.5 | And then obviously outside of the basketball or off the court, he's actually, David Robinson |
| 1:11.9 | has actually had more success off the court than on the court. |
| 1:16.6 | And so, as an executive now, as an investor, as an entrepreneur of several multi-million-dollar |
| 1:22.6 | companies with the admiral fund, how does David Robinson, how did David Robinson manage |
| 1:28.6 | difficult personalities who refuse to follow systems? |
| 1:32.8 | So, with any further ado, my interview with David Robinson. |
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