S01E01 The Hunting and Farming Episode

Check In Question:

• If you only had 24 hours to live, what would you do? 

Big Ideas:

• “Living is learning to die”
• Having a “north star” that is worth dying for (a just cause)
• Sinek’s belief that businesses are focusing on money, not on a cause.
• How to transition or connect a non-“sexy” business to having a just cause?
• Our “just cause” shouldn’t be tied to a service or product, so we can have “existential flex”
• How do businesses measure success? Financial, Social, Ecological?
• An infinite game isn’t about winning. The goal is to keep playing.
• Winning and losing is short-term, fixed mindset.
• Can you be competitive without winning? 
• In the infinite game, the rules are consistently shifting.
• The business shift toward business as a result of ideas from Milton Friedman
• The shift in pay scales between employees and CEO’s over the last several decades
• Reciprocity and giving it back
• How we latch onto ideas and how ideas can change
• Is making money the primary purpose of business, or the secondary?
• Move people up the hierarchy of importance in business
• Moving away from doing business for the shareholders, and focusing on the employees and their contributions
• Imbalance in how we measure financial success with regard to employees and shareholders.
• How to do capitalism different? Who defines capitalism? 
• The constellation mindset rather than a pyramid mindset
• A small amount of investment from a large amount of people can tip the scales
• Thinking of our business as hunting (short term) or farming (longing)
• People want to feel valued and a part of the journey
• The importance of cultivating relationships as farmers

References:

• The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
• The Power of Giving Away Power by Mathew Barzun
• Adam Smith
• Milton Friedman
• Gravity Payments 
• The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist
• Podcast between Simon Sinek and Matthew Barzun

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