Mark Malkoff on Work Ethic and Workflows
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2012
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Mark Malkoff is a comedian, writer, and filmmaker who formerly worked for Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report.
His most famous exploits are:
- Visited all 171 Starbucks franchises in Manhattan in a single day. http://youtu.be/CwYxuV2dVzw
- Moved into an IKEA store in Paramus, New Jersey for a week as his apartment was fumigated. http://youtu.be/z3S5s3EITcQ
- Lived on an AirTran jet for 30 days in order to conquer his fear of flying. After completing this endeavor, he broke the Guinness World Record for most flights taken in a 30-day period with 135 flight segments. http://youtu.be/-f4sjKueSKs
- Traveled for four weeks in a Ford Fusion Hybrid around the country seeing how many U.S. mayors he could get to present him their key to the city. http://youtu.be/b0o1vGn1HwU
- Was physically carried 9.4 miles in Manhattan by 155 individuals. http://youtu.be/Gi4ClspNrNs
- Raced a crosstown Manhattan bus while riding a Big Wheel tricycle to point out how slow the busses in New York are. http://youtu.be/uv916r2UcaU
- Tried to be thrown out of a Manhattan Apple Store, including having a pizza delivered, bringing in a band to play live music, bring in a pet goat, and trying to have a quiet candle-lit dinner with his wife. http://youtu.be/Bo2p82aTQzo
- Tested the limits of Netflix by watching as many movies as he could in one month. During the month, he watched 252 movies from opening to ending credits. For being the heaviest Netflix user that month, Malkoff was invited to Netflix Headquarters where he met Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix. http://youtu.be/eoMpEddA5Vo
Covered in this episode:
- Use every success as a springboard for more success
- Delegation
- Dale Carnegie – How to win friends and influence people
- David Allen – Getting Things Done
- David Allen – Ready For Anything
- Never Eat Alone
- Networking is about people
- Let others know when you think they’re doing good work.
- Internet addiction
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| 0:00.0 | When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. |
| 0:05.0 | That's why you have to check out LinkedIn Jobs. LinkedIn Jobs has the tools to help you find the right professionals for your team faster and for free. And trust me, I've spent a lot of time looking |
| 0:15.6 | through LinkedIn jobs and by far it has been the easiest way for me to find viable candidates fast. |
| 0:22.5 | And LinkedIn isn't just a job board. |
| 0:24.2 | LinkedIn helps you hire professionals you can't find anywhere else because even those who |
| 0:28.3 | aren't actively searching for a new job might be open to the perfect role that you have. |
| 0:33.2 | In any given month, over 70% of LinkedIn users don't visit other leading job sites. |
| 0:38.3 | So if you're not looking on LinkedIn, you're looking in the wrong place. |
| 0:41.9 | On LinkedIn, 86% of small businesses get qualified |
| 0:45.0 | candidates within 24 hours. Hire professionals like a professional on LinkedIn. |
| 0:50.8 | LinkedIn knows that small businesses are wearing so many hats and might not have the time or resources to hire. |
| 0:56.0 | LinkedIn is constantly finding ways to make the process easier. |
| 0:59.0 | They even just launched a feature that helps you write job descriptions, |
| 1:02.0 | making the process even easier and quicker. |
| 1:04.6 | Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com.com. |
| 1:06.8 | referral that's LinkedIn.com slash referral to post your job for free. Oh, you're going to be. Hello and welcome to another episode of Beyond the To Do List. |
| 1:39.9 | This is your host Eric Fisher. |
| 1:41.8 | This is the show where we talk to people, have conversations, |
| 1:47.0 | about how they've produced positive results towards achieving their goals. |
| 1:51.0 | Our goal for you is that you will listen and learn to do the same. |
| 1:55.7 | This week we're talking with Mark Malkoff. He is an internet comedy project person. |
| 2:02.1 | I won't call him a comedian because that's not really what comes |
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