What Separates Professionals From Amateurs

Start Today Podcast

Chris Cavallini

Starttodaypodcast, Health & Fitness, Selfhelp, Education, Business, Personaldevelopment

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Chris changes things up and reads a short fictional story that he wrote which allows you to take a look from the outside in and experience the path to creating endless new opportunities to advance your career, get fat raises, earn bonuses and how claiming your spot in the winners circle!

The story is short and impactful! Its unique narrative highlights the key points, behaviors and practical action steps that separate the professional from the amateur.

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0:00.0	What's up, guys? Welcome to the Start Today podcast. I'm your host Chris Cavalini, and today
0:15.3	it's just me. I'm going to be reading you a story, a story that I authored. And this story is going to allow you
0:26.3	to experience from an outside perspective, the path to creating endless amounts of new opportunities
0:32.2	to advance your career, earn fat raises, and just basically articulates in a very concise easy to understand manner
0:40.6	the difference between how professionals and amateurs think act and operate all right so here
0:48.6	we go guys we're going to jump right into it mr smith is the owner and CEO of a fitness equipment company who, due to his
0:56.4	ability to innovate and stay ahead of the competition paired with a burning desire to win,
1:01.4	has experienced 14% growth over the last 12 months within his business. Due to the company's
1:07.4	significant growth, he's had to make some adjustments with staffing his team to best position the company for success.
1:13.5	This included creating a new position for a high-performing senior executive, which left the senior executive's job vacant and needing to be filled.
1:22.1	There were two managers who were considered for the promotion.
1:24.8	One had more experience and had been with the company three years
1:28.2	longer than the other. He was not the one selected to advance. When hearing he'd been passed up
1:34.2	and the promotion was given to the other manager with less experience and tenure, ego bruised
1:38.5	and feeling resentful, he decided to ask the CEO why he had made the decision that he did.
1:50.5	Instead of answering the question directly, Mr. Smith asked him, how many orders were shipped out yesterday?
1:56.2	The man then said, well, I'm not sure. Let me check. And a few minutes later returned and said,
2:01.2	26. Mr. Smith then asked, what pieces of equipment had been shipped?
2:06.3	After again checking, the manager came back with a piece of paper in hand where he had handwritten each piece of equipment that had been shipped the day prior.
2:09.9	He then nervously reported to the CEO that he was just told by a subordinate that they
2:15.2	had completely ran out of one of their signature treadmills,
2:18.1	a best-selling piece of equipment that he was personally responsible for managing the inventory
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