The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are a PR DISASTER and the Opening Ceremony hasn't begun yet! (7/22)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘My Way’ as in Frank Sinatra as in Jerry Jones met the media yesterday and he had some things to say. He talked about his regrets with the Dallas Cowboys and about what he would do for a the team to win another Super Bowl. This was a different kind of Jerry Jones. (19:45) The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been a mess. It was moved from 2020 to 2021 and nothing has gone right since. COVID cases are spiking, rules are being broken, competitors are staying home, the creative director was just dismissed, AND THE OPENING CEREMONY HASN”T HAPPENED YET! (36:45) Review: Gunpowder Milkshake. (39:10) NPPOD. (41:55) White Sox rookie Yermin Mercedes posted on IG that he was retiring from baseball. He was electric to start the season, was scolded by Tony La Russa, demoted to the Minor Leagues, and now he wants to retire. Will he? #waittosee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My way. I guess that's the nothing personal double word of the day. The phrase the day, my way,
0:26.0	as in Frank Sinatra, as in Regrets. Do you know that song? Coke has never heard of that song. Frank Sinatra
0:34.3	was a very famous singer back in the day. Regrets, I've had a few, but then again, to few dimension
0:46.4	Regrets. Regrets a weird thing, right? I don't want to talk about Regrets. I want to talk about my way.
0:51.0	I want to talk about doing things my way. What's better than doing things my way? I don't mean you
0:57.0	doing things my way. I mean me doing things my way. You doing things your way. If you're going to
1:03.2	lose, don't you want to lose doing it your way? And if you're going to win, don't you want to win
1:07.8	doing it any way possible? That's the difference that I never understood people saying, no, no,
1:14.9	I'm doing it my way. But wait a minute. The other way is easier and will lead to better results. No,
1:19.7	no, I'm going to do it my way. If you lose doing it your way, is that better than winning it,
1:30.0	doing it someone else's way? Maybe if you have to give credit to someone else. Maybe that's why
1:36.2	people do it their way. Even though they know their way is either wrong, will take longer, or will
1:42.8	not lead to the best possible result. But they can take full credit for it. Hey, I know we suck,
1:48.0	but we did it my way. We didn't win. We didn't make money, but hey, we did the sales my way.
1:56.3	Oh, I know we can only manufacture 10,000 units instead of 10 million, but we're doing it by hand
2:02.4	my way. This is in my mind for myriad reasons this morning. As I think about my career and I think
2:12.7	about the team that I was a part of for so many years, I think about things that I did
2:25.6	that I did my way, thinking that they were the right way, and what it would take
2:31.1	to actually change my way, to adopt another way, to adopt your way and make it my way.
2:38.0	That's a real talent of a CEO or a president. If I know my way is not working, I'm going to take
2:45.8	your way, make it my way. And if that works, I'm going to say it was my way while giving you the credit.
2:50.7	I was always okay with giving other people credit for getting things done, because as a consequentialist,
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