Welcome to Manager Tools.

Today's topic, Licency Call HR Question.

This cast comes on the ninth anniversary, that's right, nine years and a quarter of a billion,

that's a billion with a B, downloads of the Manic Tools Podcast.

Thanks to each and every one of you who are listening today.

You're helping us achieve our life mission of making every manager effective and every professional productive.

Mark and I truly appreciate the support you've provided over the years and look forward to many

more years to come.

So thanks again and with that, here we go. So Mark, we're going to do something a little bit different today.

We talked about this was your suggestion.

What was going through your head when you thought about this?

Well, we do quarterly licensee calls where we get questions in from

the audience and I answer them. We used to do them live and just because we only

getting a couple hundred people on the live call we had

thousands listen to it after the fact we decided it would be much easier

logistically for us not to do it live but to provide all the answers and this question

was just so good that I wanted more people

than maybe a couple of thousand, maybe 5,000 people to hear to hear the answer. And

we have been talking before about how could we periodically include questions

that we get from our audience in the form of podcast. Now we've always assumed

that we would do it in the middle of the week.

In other words, not on Sunday night, Monday, when most people are used to getting manager tools,

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