Episode-by-episode discussion of The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett — 33 laws of business and life, and why standards beat perks every time. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of The Ambition Podcasts.
One chapter per episode, in the book's own order. Each episode stands on its own.
Steven Bartlett has been founder, CEO or board member of four companies worth more than a billion at their peaks, raised close to a hundred million, and advised Apple, Nike, Coca-Cola and Uber on how to tell their story. Then he spent four years interviewing neuroscientists, psychologists, athletes and billionaires — seven hundred hours of it. The podcast grew 825 per cent in a year. This is what he took from the room.
David was drinking his espresso in the front garden when a panting stranger in tired gym kit stopped, cracked an unintelligible joke, and started talking about the spaceship he was building and the robots he would put in people's houses. You would assume he had escaped somewhere. Then you hear the name: Elon Musk. The difference is five buckets — knowledge, skills, network, resources, reputation — and the order you fill them in.
A school awards evening, a few parents, a sheet of paper shaking so hard he could not read it. He stood there mute for the longest minute of his life, blurted out something meaningless and fled the hall. A decade on he was speaking fifty weeks a year, to sold-out arenas in Barcelona and tens of thousands in São Paulo. One law did it. Read about something and you learn it. Teach it and you master it.
His mother could shout at his father for six hours about the same thing in the same words, and his father would ignore her, flee the room, or drive off. Twenty years later Bartlett said "I disagree" to a furious girlfriend at two in the morning, tried a counterargument, and ended up locked in his own walk-in wardrobe being shouted at through the door. You can predict any relationship by whether conflict makes it stronger or weaker.
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