{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/f8cf3133-0543-5b5b-85cb-e7a4e48bfaf5/f1d505c3-2265-4ff9-aeee-7fd8b36ff6b5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Business of Spreading Ideas with Al Pittampalli","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6202ac9f5668e761825372c3/6202acf6484f8e0014358b35.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Al Pitampalli’s frustration with endless meetings and other things that don’t seem to have a purpose led to what he calls a meetings revolution. In this episode we discuss his experience as one of Seth Godin’s first alternative MBA students, publishing a book with the domino project and why we must learn to become persuadable…that’s right not persuasive, but persuadable, and how this enables us to spread ideas.</p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>The importance of continually asking why</strong></li><li>Learning to explore our hidden assumptions</li><li><strong>The power of thinking backwards&nbsp;</strong></li><li>Why certain ideas are inherently spreadable</li><li><strong>The meetings epidemic in organizational culture</strong></li><li>Advantages of becoming more persuadable</li><li><strong>Dissecting and understanding our models of the world</strong></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Quotes</p><p><em>When you want to change the world, the most dangerous thing can do is being unpersuadable&nbsp;</em></p><p><br></p><p>Resources</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.thedominoproject.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Domino Project&nbsp;</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081297381X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=081297381X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=unmistakab02-20&amp;linkId=RCMGEU5JHZIP4CU4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: “On Robustness and Fragility” (Incerto)</a></li><li><br></li><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936719169/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1936719169&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=unmistakab02-20&amp;linkId=4HXXN6VXQ75YVYMF\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read This Before Our Next Meeting</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>Al Pittampalli is founder of The Modern Meeting Company, a group that helps organizations transform meetings, make decisions, and coordinate complex teams</em></p>","author_name":"Srinivas Rao"}