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December 22, 2023
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Winning Through Platforms: How to Succeed When Every Competitor Has One (American Marketing Association) by Ted Moser, Charlotte Bloom, Omar Akhtar
Winning Through Platforms: How to Succeed When Every Competitor Has One (American Marketing Association) by Ted Moser, Charlotte Bloom, Omar Akhtar
Winning through Platforms is your new go-to guide for modern competitive advantage.
Digital platforms are no longer for just the tech elite. They’re spreading to every company and industry, powered by the growth of customer sensors, streaming data, and artificial intelligence―lighting the valuable customer Use journey that was formerly dark.
How will you succeed when your markets get platform-crowded? Three senior advisers to the world’s leading technology companies reveal how to win through platforms when every competitor has one.
Winning through Platforms decodes growth moves from a decade of platform competition, communicates them through a platform playbook. It’s a treasure trove of 24 proven platform strategies―such as customer coalition design, in-use enrichment, AI branding, and much more. These playbook strategies are delivered through engaging stories of over 50 companies, plus proprietary frameworks and workshop-style questions that lead you to act.
This game-changing playbook will teach you how to:
Revitalize your business through strategic use of platforms
Design platforms that are compelling to customers and hard for competitors to match
Accelerate in-market growth through brand-and-demand excellence that spans your customer’s entire platform journey
Innovate in high-impact benefit areas to differentiate your platform
Elevate your customer’s personal platform experience
Transform your enterprise and operations to drive superior performance
Every CEO, innovator, go-to-market leader, and aspiring professional will gain valuable insight through this book. Whether your company is just starting on its first platform journey or is a born platform disruptor, this book will transform your ability to win.
Learn the platform playbook. Find and apply your plays.
This book forms part of the American Marketing Association (AMA) leadership series.
About the author
Ted Moser is a Senior Partner at Prophet, a growth and transformation consultancy. He helps leading technology-based companies to anticipate customer and market evolution, craft distinctive value growth strategies, and realizetheir ambitions. He holds an MBA with highest honors in marketing and strategy from the Wharton Business School, following a BS in Political Science from Wheaton College. Based in San Francisco, he has lived and worked extensively in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
His published thought leadership focuses on pattern recognition that helps companies thrive in the face of change. He previously co-authored Profit Patterns to identify how profit pools would shiftwith Internet business model innovation. In recent years, his extensive consulting work with global platform leaders and with companies transforming to platforms inspired him to write Winning Through Platforms.
Ted supports global microfinance development as a lifelong avocation. He has helped to scale the Opportunity International microfinance network, which has served over 250 million of the world’s poor and is developing innovative platforms to better serve poor farmers, schools, and microentrepreneurs. He served on program boards of CGAP, the World Bank-affiliated multilateral research group, to help extend the boundaries of global digital financial inclusion.
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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – How to Live an Abundant Life by Carl Grant III
How to Live an Abundant Life by Carl Grant III
To live the best life is to live the abundant life. To learn how to live abundantly, it helps to have a guide.
Carl Grant III, author of How to Live the Abundant Life, is well-equipped to take that role.
With decades of experience as a business leader, community head, and family man, he’s learned what it takes to live an abundant life—one that’s filled with meaningful activities and social connections, both professional and personal.
In this book, readers will find a step-by-step template for living the abundant life and learn the following:
Developing a positive mindset is vital to living with abundance.
Helping others without expecting anything in return enriches your life in many ways.
Finding your purpose and letting it guide your actions is critical.
Seeking spiritual growth leads you to a life of abundance.
Challenging your assumptions and taking on difficult, risky tasks sharpens your ability to achieve your toughest goals.
While material wealth is not necessarily central to the abundant life, living this type of life—with an abundance mindset—can help you attain financial success. The contentment generated by such a life can be a powerful tool for achieving all of your objectives, whether they are centered on your work, personal, or financial activities.
Let Carl Grant be your guide in this practical, no-nonsense blueprint to building a life that is rich in all the things that make life worth living. Get a copy now and live abundantly!
About the author
Carl Grant III is a married father of five adult children and a man of faith. He is a successful entrepreneur and a servant leader who lives in Austin, TX. He is chairman of a company that is working to eradicate diseases previously thought to be incurable. Carl enjoys fitness, boating, aviation, live music, and world travel. He is currently spending significant time in the Middle East, building bridges between the East and West. He founded two workplace ministries — Sunday Service @SxSW and the High Tech Prayer Breakfast and spent 20 years volunteering in juvenile detention centers.
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December 21, 2023
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor’s Code and Corrupted the Justice Department by Elie Honig
Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor’s Code and Corrupted the Justice Department by Elie Honig
“Elie Honig has written much more than a compelling takedown of an unfit attorney general; he also offers a blueprint for how impartial and apolitical justice should be administered in America.”—Preet Bharara
“An essential analysis for anyone committed to understanding the abuses of the Trump administration so we can ensure they never happen again.”—Joyce White Vance
“Essential reading for all who cherish the rule of law in America.”—George Conway
“Written with all the color and pacing of a legal thriller.”—Variety
CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig exposes William Barr as the most corrupt attorney general in modern U.S. history, with stunning new scandals bubbling to the surface even after Barr’s departure from office.
In Hatchet Man, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig uncovers Barr’s unprecedented abuse of power as Attorney General and the lasting structural damage done to the Justice Department. Honig uses his own experience as a prosecutor at DOJ to show how, as America’s top law enforcement official, Barr repeatedly violated the Department’s written rules, and those vital, unwritten norms and principles that comprise the “prosecutor’s code.”
Barr was corrupt from the beginning. His first act as AG was to distort the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, earning a public rebuke for his dishonesty from Mueller himself and, later, from a federal judge. Then, Barr tried to manipulate the law to squash a whistleblower’s complaint about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine—the report that eventually led to Trump’s first impeachment. Barr later intervened in an unprecedented manner to undermine his own DOJ prosecutors on the cases of Michael Flynn and Roger Stone, both political allies of the President. And then Barr fired the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York under false pretenses. Finally, Barr amplified baseless theories about massive mail-in ballot fraud, pouring gasoline on the dumpster fire battle over the 2020 election results and contributing to the January 6 insurrection that led to Trump’s second impeachment.
In Hatchet Man, Honig proves that Barr trampled the two core virtues that have long defined the department and its mission: credibility and independence – ultimately in service of his own deeply-rooted, extremist legal and personal beliefs. Honig shows how Barr corrupted the Justice Department and explains what we must do to prevent this from ever happening again.
About the author
Elie Honig is a CNN Senior Legal Analyst who previously worked for 14 years as a federal and state prosecutor. He provides on-air commentary and analysis for CNN on news relating to the U.S. Department of Justice, major criminal trials, the Supreme Court, Congressional and grand jury investigations, national security, policing, and other legal issues. In 2022, Honig was nominated for an Emmy Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in the category “Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial & Opinion.”
Honig is the author of the national bestselling book, “Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor’s Code and Corrupted the Justice Department,” published by HarperCollins. His second book, “Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It,” is scheduled for publication in January 2023.
Honig is the host of a popular true-crime podcast, “Up Against the Mob,” and a weekly legal podcast, “Third Degree,” both productions of Cafe and Vox Media. Season Two of “Up Against the Mob” premieres in November 2022.
Honig graduated from Rutgers College (where he now teaches) in 1997, and Harvard Law School in 2000.
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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – On the Origin of Artificial Species by David R. Wood
On the Origin of Artificial Species by David R. Wood
Charles Darwin’s natural theory of evolution is one of the greatest ideas in history. His theory enabled mankind to partially perceive the patterns in nature. However, the greater pattern has remained undiscovered until now. With the decoding of ancient Greek mythology and philosophy, the pattern of evolution has been fully revealed.
In his book On the Origins of Artificial Species, David R. Wood has completed the work begun by the ancient Greeks and progressed by the family Darwin. He has discovered the pattern of evolution – both natural and artificial. In so doing, David has produced scientific breakthroughs in the fields of evolution, neuroscience, philosophy, history, politics, business, warfare, and technology. This includes clarifying and defining what the emergence of artificial intelligence means in evolutionary terms.
These scientific breakthroughs allow humanity to understand our present and predict our future. They enable the framing of a clear choice for the future of artificial intelligence. The wrong choice will lead to our extinction. The right choice will take us to the stars.
The book On the Origin of Artificial Species contains the following key discoveries:
· Scientifically define the existential threat and incredible opportunity of artificial intelligence
· Discover the theory of artificial evolution by means of artificial selection
· Decode ancient Greek philosophy and myth lost for millennia
· Produce new insights into natural evolutionary science
· Reframe the Digital Age in evolutionary terms
· Discover the scientific theory of imagination
David R. Wood is the founder and CEO of RSG Federal, a small business IT consulting company. He possesses over twenty-five years of leadership and management experience working in the military, financial industry, academia, and federal government. As an ITIL Master, he is acknowledged in the field of IT service management as a thought leader for the Digital Age. In addition, David is a former U.S. Army National Guard enlisted soldier and commissioned officer branch qualified infantry and signal.
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December 20, 2023
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – AI Guru Steve Westfeld Shares How AI is Revolutionizing Sports Betting
AI Guru Steve Westfeld Shares How AI is Revolutionizing Sports Betting
Show Notes
About The Guest(s):
Steve Westfeld is an AI guru and the founder of Lean’s AI, a leading AI sports handicapping firm. After losing $75,000 in a sports handicapping scam, Steve used his expertise as an AI developer to create an AI sports prediction algorithm to recoup his losses. This algorithm eventually grew into Lean’s AI, which consistently beats the sports books in major American sports.
Summary:
Steve Westfeld, founder of Lean’s AI, joins Chris Voss on The Chris Voss Show to discuss his journey from losing $75,000 in a sports handicapping scam to creating an AI sports prediction algorithm that consistently beats the sports books. Steve shares how he used his background as an AI developer to develop the algorithm and the challenges he faced along the way. He also explains how the algorithm analyzes data on thousands of games to create win probabilities and cover probabilities against the spread or over/under lines. Steve emphasizes the importance of transparency in the sports handicapping industry and how Lean’s AI provides subscribers with all the data and performance metrics of the algorithm. He also offers advice for new sports bettors, including starting with low amounts and managing emotions.
Key Takeaways:
Lean’s AI analyzes data on thousands of games to create win probabilities and cover probabilities against the spread or over/under lines.
The algorithm looks for discrepancies between the true game analytics and the lines set by Vegas to identify betting opportunities.
Lean’s AI provides subscribers with transparent data and performance metrics to help them make informed betting decisions.
Starting with low amounts and managing emotions are key for new sports bettors.
The volatility of sports betting requires a long-term perspective and patience.
Quotes:
“We’ve created an algorithm that analyzes thousands of data points on every game in American sports.” – Steve Westfeld
“The algorithm is trying to create a win probability for each team and a cover probability against a line.” – Steve Westfeld
“We provide all the data and win-loss records of the algorithm so people can see exactly how it’s performing.” – Steve Westfeld
“AI takes the emotion and bias out of betting and analyzes pure data and analytics.” – Steve Westfeld
“Start with low amounts and pace yourself to avoid getting emotionally invested and affecting your normal life.” – Steve Westfeld
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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Your Pocket Therapist: Break Free from Old Patterns and Transform Your Life by Dr. Annie Zimmerman
Your Pocket Therapist: Break Free from Old Patterns and Transform Your Life by Dr. Annie Zimmerman
From psychotherapist and TikTok personality Dr. Annie Zimmerman comes a toolkit to transform yourself and your relationships, with advice on how to heal past trauma, build sustainable connections, and take ownership of your mental health.
Every day, psychotherapist Dr. Annie Zimmerman meets clients in her private London practice who are struggling with their lives. They’re committed to achieving personal growth, making changes—but they’re struck at the question stage. They ask her: Why can’t I sleep? Why do I keep going back to a bad relationship? Why did I lose my temper? What is wrong with me?
Here’s the thing: nothing is wrong with them. It’s just that they’re asking themselves the wrong questions.
In Your Pocket Therapist, Dr. Zimmerman helps readers delve into their past to identify old, unhelpful patterns and teach them how to unlock the present. The book combines practical tools with anecdotes gleaned from the therapy room, distilling complex psychological concepts with her signature warmth and empathy. Her belief—galvanized by her hundreds of thousands of followers—is that if we learn to understand the roots of our suffering, we can bring about meaningful—and permanent—change in our lives. It comes down to learning how to ask the right questions.
A brilliant, necessary toolkit for those who want to break free from past patterns and embrace a life of abundant self-awareness and connection, Your Pocket Therapist is an absolute must-read in the field of psychology.
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December 18, 2023
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – SEO Insider Phillip Stemann on Optimizing Technical Foundations, Building Content Clusters, and Preparing for an AI-Powered Future
SEO Insider Phillip Stemann on Optimizing Technical Foundations, Building Content Clusters, and Preparing for an AI-Powered Future
Key Summary Notes:
Overview of Guest:
Phillip Stemann is an SEO expert who focuses on the technical and content aspects of SEO
He shares SEO tips and reviews tools on his YouTube channel and website
Previously worked as a programmer before transitioning into SEO
Key SEO Strategies Discussed:
Having a solid technical foundation is critical for SEO success – fast loading sites, proper mobile optimization etc.
Recommends using free tools like Google Search Console and WordPress plugins (RankMath) to analyze site’s SEO and make improvements
Building a content topical map/cluster is important so you can cover a full sub-category rather than scattered articles
SEO will keep evolving with AI, so focus on UX and building authority/trust signals too
Recommendations for Getting Started:
Install caching and image optimization plugins to improve site speed
Use keyword research tools like Key Search and Low Fruits to identify targets
Reach out for a free 30-min consultation to review current strategy and goals
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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – ClearPath EPM CEO Mike Johnson, Discusses Safety, Security, and Emergency Preparedness
ClearPath EPM CEO Mike Johnson, Discusses Safety, Security, and Emergency Preparedness
Show Notes
About The Guest(s):
Mike Johnson is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of ClearPath EPM. With a background in diplomatic security and law enforcement, Mike has extensive experience in safety, security, emergency preparedness, and operational resiliency programs. He has helped provide training and consulting services to schools, corporations, and other institutions around the world.
Summary:
Mike Johnson, CEO and Founder of ClearPath EPM, joins Chris Voss on The Chris Voss Show to discuss the importance of being prepared for disruptive events. Mike emphasizes the need for situational awareness and communication in order to remain safe and secure. He introduces ClearPath EPM’s Totality platform, which helps organizations assess threats and vulnerabilities and develop emergency preparedness plans. Mike also highlights the value of online training courses and the human connection in building a culture of preparedness.
Key Takeaways:
ClearPath EPM helps organizations prepare for disruptive events through training, consulting, and technology.
Situational awareness and communication are crucial for personal safety and security.
ClearPath EPM’s Totality platform provides tools for assessing threats, vulnerabilities, and assets, and developing emergency preparedness plans.
Online training courses are an effective way to educate individuals and organizations on safety and security measures.
Building a culture of preparedness requires ongoing training, planning, and preparedness.
Quotes:
“The more we can train people, the better the response is gonna be.” – Mike Johnson
“Response denotes prior planning and preparedness.” – Mike Johnson
“Fear stands for future events aren’t real.” – Mike Johnson
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December 17, 2023
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others by Stephen M.R. Covey, David Kasperson, McKinlee Covey, Gary T. Judd
Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others by Stephen M.R. Covey, David Kasperson, McKinlee Covey, Gary T. Judd
From the bestselling author of The Speed of Trust, a revolutionary new way to lead, deemed “the defining leadership book in the 21st century” (Admiral William McRaven, author of Make Your Bed) that “every parent, teacher, and leader needs” (Esther Wojcicki, author of How to Raise Successful People).
We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. Most organizations, teams, schools, and families today still operate from a model of “command and control,” focusing on hierarchies and compliance from people. But because of the changing nature of the world, the workforce, work itself, and the choices we have for where and how to work and live, this way of leading is drastically outdated.
Stephen M.R. Covey has made it his life’s work to understand trust in leadership and organizations. In his newest and most transformative book, Trust and Inspire, he offers a simple yet bold solution: to shift from this “command and control” model to a leadership style of “trust and inspire.” People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. Trust and Inspire is a new way of leading that starts with the belief that people are creative, collaborative, and full of potential. People with this kind of leader are inspired to become the best version of themselves and to produce their best work. In this “beautifully written page-turner” (Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor), Covey offers the solution to the future of work: where a dispersed workforce will be the norm, necessitating trust and collaboration across time zones, cultures, personalities, generations, and technology.
Trust and Inspire calls for a radical shift in the way we lead in the 21st century, and Covey shows us how.
About the author
Stephen M. R. Covey is the New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of Trust, which has been translated into 22 languages and has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. He is also the author of the newly released Wall Street Journal bestseller, Trust & Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others, which was named as the #1 Leadership Book of 2022 by the Outstanding Work of Literature Awards. Stephen brings to his writings the perspective of a practitioner, as he is the former President & CEO of the Covey Leadership Center, where he increased shareholder value by 67 times and grew the company to become the largest leadership development firm in the world. A Harvard MBA, Stephen co-founded and currently leads FranklinCovey’s Global Speed of Trust Practice. He serves on numerous boards, including the Government Leadership Advisory Council, and he has been recognized with the lifetime Achievement Award for “Top Thought Leaders in Trust” from the advocacy group, Trust Across America/Trust Around the World. Stephen is a highly sought-after international speaker who has taught trust and leadership in 57 countries to business, government, military, education, healthcare, and NGO entities.
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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – The Rewrite: Change Your Life One Story at a Time by Deanna Moffitt
The Rewrite: Change Your Life One Story at a Time by Deanna Moffitt
Do you find yourself in the trap of making the same mistakes over and over again? Do you feel like there must be another approach to life, but you’re unsure what it is or how to get started? Are you tired of letting your emotions run your life?
The Rewrite will help you explore why you’re feeling stuck and give you practical tools to help you break through your patterns.
Here’s what you’ll discover in The Rewrite:
The importance of your community and how we co-create our beliefs with the people in our lives.
The concept of your family handbook, and how it is handed down from generation to generation.
The value of looking for different data to support a different story.
The idea that it takes a willingness to change and embracing change leads to our personal evolution.
You’ll also get great questions to help you act as your own personal coach. Questions that help you:
Uncover your core false narrative.
Make a different choice in the moment when you’re in the grip of your emotions.
Create a compelling vision for your future.
Be inspired by people like you who have rewritten their stories and beliefs about who they are and what they can accomplish.
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