A super-fun chat about company culture, depth of conversation, and Aaron’s new comprehensive theory of human commerce.
Episode Links:
DEFINITION OF COMMERCE
AARON'S "COMMERCE THEORY"
5 WAYS TO BECOME A MORE VALUABLE WRITER
INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILY
Recorded 1/12/24, includes:
- Listening to “Pinnacle of Success” by Airae
- Aaron’s Business X-Change at the PCBC
- “It almost sounds like our conversations are negotiations”
- “Merriam-Webster, I’ve heard of that!”
- Everything we do is commerce!
- “There’s an exchange here too”
- You have relationships with everyone in the world
- A productive, disruptive confusion
- I talked about more metaphysics in Commerce Theory than I’ve ever talked about before!
- Reading Think and Grow Rich for the 4th time with Paul Martinelli
- There are no new ideas
- It’s had the same shape since the beginning of humans
- Ping-pong tables are one of the bright, shiny new objects
- Signal is not the same as cause
- Who can guess how many years ago Todd was in college?
- The yin and yang of vision and culture
- Now, next, later? Culture is all the time!
- Culture is based on intention
- The roots of the word “culture”
- Culture must be sustained
- About Aaron’s new Commerce Theory
- “This is hard to do in 25 words or less!”
- Maybe you can’t help but to worship
- “All human behavior follows that basic shape”
- I’ve got 15,000 questions to ask you and we’ve only got time for 1!
- Todd’s word for 2024
- Psychology dances with what is sacred - humans are theological
- Whatever you’re doing is what you believe to be the most valuable thing to do with your time and space
- Todd is an understated genius
- Where does Aaron’s fascination with words come from?
- The etymology of “leadership”
- A meta-etymology
- That stuff shapes your thinking and you don’t even realize it!
- Why do people think ping-pong tables will improve their company culture?
- Taking conversations below the surface - making them meaningful and deep
- The boat is very special and meaningful, but you can’t start with the boat
- The length of time to transformation - the actions become more automatic
- For deep alignment, see your company culture chiropractor
- They were yelling at me about how much I’ve changed in a year!
- Do you get into resolutions?
- Resolutions vs. Habits
- Outcome goals vs. process goals
Learn more about Todd at https://toddkuckkahn.com/, on Facebook, or LinkedIn
Learn more about Aaron at https://aaronjmarx.com/, on Facebook, or LinkedIn
