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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Jeff Jones: President and CEO of H&R Block | #ThePlaybook 268

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Jeff Jones, President and CEO of H&R Block, shares his insights on: [:40] - How he became the President and CEO of H&R Block, despite having no background in financial services [3:04] - Why being raised in an environment that promoted curiosity taught him to stay relevant by being a life-long student [8:24] - How he maintains a better work/life balance now than he had earlier in his career [15:01] - The ways that H&R Block is adapting to the current environment by rethinking how the company delivers its services digitally

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0:00.0

On this episode of the playbook, I have Jeff Jones, president and CEO of H&R Block, and we're going to talk about

0:07.1

Curiosity does not kill the cat and how to keep your work life balance.

0:13.0

Join me for all this and more on the playbook.

0:16.0

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook,

0:18.0

where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities,

0:22.0

and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and

0:25.7

professional playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.

0:32.4

I'm your host host David Melzer. This is Dave Melzer with

0:35.6

entrepreneurs the playbook and I am so excited about a very non exciting

0:39.9

industry. That's right one that we hate the taxes. Here we go, Jeff Jones, he is the

0:45.0

president and CEO of the most famous tax company in America, H&R Block. Welcome to

0:50.2

the plate, Jeff. Thank you very much. I hope to convince you how exciting this business is. to the play

0:53.7

thank you very much I hope to convince you how exciting this business is people have tried for years and the irony is I'm like the kind of kid that got a perfect score on my SAT and math I actually really love numbers. I equate it to the universe. I always say if you

1:07.2

take care of your pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves. But don't trip over your

1:11.3

pennies to get to the dollars.

1:13.0

So, but numbers really intrigue me.

1:17.0

You have this sports enthusiast background.

1:20.0

I can see the basketball's behind you.

1:22.0

How does someone kind of move through you went to

1:24.9

University Dayton into you know that career as far as H&R Block goes?

1:30.6

Yeah it's crazy when I first got called about coming here I

1:34.6

said to the recruiter I have a really common name are you sure you called the

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