How to Tell if You're Making the Right Decisions with Marc Polymeropoulos

The EntreLeadership Podcast

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The world is full of chaos, and a leader’s job is to plunge into that chaos and bring order to the situation—but how? In this episode of The EntreLeadership Podcast, we sit down with Marc Polymeropoulos, a retired CIA operative and the author of Clarity in Crisis. Marc talks about a few of the leadership principles he developed during his 26 year career in covert operations that will help you bring order to your business. Later in the episode, you’ll hear George Kamel’s chat with the executive director of ramseysolutions.com, Kacy Maxwell. They discuss the tactical way we make decisions at Ramsey Solutions, and how you can use these tactics to grow your organization. The EntreLeadership Podcast Clarity in Crisis by Marc Polymeropoulos Download the Decision-Making Framework from Kacy Maxwell. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman How to Decide by Annie Duke Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Rhiannon Beaubien and Shane Parrish Farnam Street's website Download the EveryDollar budget app. Download the How to Make Decisions the Easy Way checklist. Schedule a call with Tim, our producer. Learn more about the offers from our EntreLeadership Partners: BELAY | Gravy | Hite Digital

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0:00.0	Decisions can be mundane or they can be high stakes, but as a leader you're making decisions
0:14.9	every single day.
0:16.5	So how do you know you're making the right ones?
0:19.3	From the Ramsey Network this is the Entrez Leadership Podcast where we help business leaders
0:23.6	grow themselves, their teams and their profits.
0:27.1	I'm your host George Kamel and today's episode we've got two interviews around the topic
0:31.7	of decision making, around our business driver of plan.
0:35.6	Our first conversation is with Mark Polly Maropoulos.
0:38.8	He's a former senior intelligence officer in the CIA who oversaw clandestine operations
0:43.8	in Europe and Eurasia.
0:45.9	He retired after 26 years of service as one of the CIA's most decorated field officers.
0:51.6	He's got a new book, Clarity in Crisis Leadership Lessons from the CIA and that's exactly
0:56.1	what we talked about.
0:57.1	We talked about decision making in the CIA and how can help you in your business.
1:02.5	Our second conversation is with Ramsey leader Casey Maxwell as he walks us through an incredibly
1:07.9	helpful decision making matrix so stick around for that.
1:11.1	First up we've got our conversation with Mark.
1:14.7	Leadership is really high stakes decision making and Mark made those types of decisions every
1:19.7	single day in the CIA.
1:21.7	It was several years ago, I retired in 2019 so this happened in about 2015 or so and I
1:28.9	had returned from Afghanistan.
1:31.0	I was a base chief along the PAC Afghan border.
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