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OutsideVoices with Mark Bidwell

In OutsideVoices Mark Bidwell talks to remarkable and compelling leaders from the worlds of business, exploration, arts, sports, and academia. In these conversations he explores topics of fundamental importance to many of us today, both in work and in life, topics ranging from leadership and performance to creativity and growth. OutsideVoices has a clear purpose: to bring fresh and diverse perspectives that help listeners navigate the world we live in.
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Now displaying: June, 2021
Jun 29, 2021

It's a great pleasure to welcome back Gillian Tett, who chairs the Editorial Board in the US for the Financial Times. She has a regular column at FT, writing about finance, business and the political economy. Gillian’s work is all about looking at the world through different lenses, and moving from tunnel vision to lateral vision. It’s about leveraging diversity, embracing the unknown, and learning from others in non-related fields, cultures, and geographies. 

In this interview, we talk about her new book, "Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life," and we cover a lot of topics from an anthropological perspective. We also talk about controversial topics like Bitcoin and Trumpism, as well as more enduring issues like leadership, and what that looks like in this VUCA world that we live in. So whether you're a business leader, a policy maker, an investor, or even just a parent worrying about how your kids appear to be over-reliant on technology, I hope you will find this conversation as fascinating and inspirational as I did. 

What Is Covered:

- The three principles of the anthropology mindset and what being an anthropologist means in the corporate world

- How the concept of barter and social silences plays out in the world of AgTech and “free” services

- Why teenagers are glued to their cell phones and what kind of needs in physical space the cyberspace is fulfilling

- The concept of fast and slow money, and people’s behaviours around money 

- Understanding Trumpism from an anthropological perspective

- How Bitcoin and cryptocurrency tribes are changing the economy and the power structures  

Key Takeaways and Learnings: 

- Barter trade terms in the world of AgTech need to be reset to make it more equitable, giving a lot more transparency to consumers, giving consumers more control over the duration of the trade, and creating data portability.

- The four skills that anthropology can offer to any leader are the ability to have empathy for difference, to flip the lens and look back at yourself with a sense of humility, the ability to look outside the model, and to recognize that we need to think about people's human behavior and how culture matters. 

- Cultural phenomena like Balinese cockfighting rituals are a good way to make sense of Trumpism, and of what's happening with Elon Musk and Bitcoin in terms of defining tribal groups, the role of rituals and symbols, and the role the emotions play

Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode: 

- “Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life” by Gillian Tett https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Anthro-Vision/Gillian-Tett/9781982140960 

- Connect with Gillian Tett on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillian-tett/  and Twitter https://twitter.com/gilliantett 

- Data & Society https://datasociety.net/ 

- ReD Associates https://www.redassociates.com/ 

- “The Interpretation of Cultures” by Clifford Geertz https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465097197/ 

- Why Anthropologists are More Interested in Bitcoin Than Economists, by Mick Morucci https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/anthropologists-are-interested-in-bitcoin 

- “Who Can You Trust” by Rachel Botsman https://rachelbotsman.com/books/ 

- The Conversation https://theconversation.com/global 

- Colliding with the Unexpected with Gillian Tett on OutsideVoices Podcast https://outsidelens.com/colliding-with-the-unexpected-with-gillian-tett/ 

Connect with Mark Bidwell:

- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidwell/ 

- Twitter https://twitter.com/markehb 

Jun 8, 2021

Joel Greenblatt is arguably one of the best investors in the world. He is a Managing Partner at Gotham Asset Management, an investment firm he founded in 1985. He has spent more than two decades teaching at Columbia Business School, and he's the author of five books focused on investment strategy, including "You Can be a Stock Market Genius," "The Little Book that Beats the Market," as well as his most recent book, called "Common Sense: The Investor's guide to Equality, Opportunity and Growth."

In this conversation, we talk about what's changed and what remained the same in value investing specifically, and more broadly in investing in general. We also talk about how important it is to keep learning, both from wiser, more experienced and often older people, as well as from the next generation. In addition, we touch on the advantage that individual investors have over professional investors, and our ability to think and act with a long-term perspective. 

What Is Covered: 

- How Joel’s investing philosophy has evolved over the years 

- “The Magic Formula”, why it still works, and why it is hard for people to follow it

- The value of a long-term perspective in investing, Joel’s projects in education and charter schools for kids from low-income and minority communities

- How the internet and network effects have changed the world of business, and why we’re seeing some of the best businesses that have ever existed 

Key Takeaways and Learnings:

- The importance of accumulating and compounding experience, learning from other people’s mistakes, and reading a lot; one of the biggest elements of investing is recognising an outsized opportunity when you see it, and if you see something great, taking advantage of it.   

- The returns are very noisy; you could go one or two years underperforming the market, and then make a lot of money in year three or  four that made up for it. People aren't very patient, especially if they’re blindly just following a formula. 

- Individual investors have an advantage, because they don't have the pressure of their performance being viewed every day, and they can invest and think in private. 

- At any time, if you get your stuff together, there's an ecosystem outside your current system that will let you learn.

Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode: 

- Common Sense: The Investor’s Guide to Equality, Opportunity and Growth, by Joel Greenblatt https://www.amazon.com/Common-Sense-Investors-Equality-Opportunity/dp/B08HHFJLH7 

- The Little Book that Still Beats the Market, by Joel Greenblatt https://www.amazon.com/Little-Still-Market-Books-Profits-ebook/dp/B003VWCQB0/ 

- The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route for Long-Term Investment Success, by Joel Greenblatt https://www.amazon.com/Big-Secret-Small-Investor-Investment-ebook/dp/B0051BLTJO/ 

- Outliers: A Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930 

- The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking, by Roman Krznaric https://www.amazon.com/Good-Ancestor-Think-Long-Term-Short-Term/dp/1615197303 

- Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie T. Munger https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Charlies-Almanack-Charles-Expanded/dp/1578645018 

- Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Cowboy-Mark-Robichaux-audiobook/dp/B07YVNMKXS/ 

- William Green: Richer, Wiser and Happier on the OutsideVoices Podcast https://outsidelens.com/richer-wiser-happier-practical-wisdom-from-some-of-the-worlds-greatest-investors/ 

- Robert Hagstrom: The Return on Investment of Mental Models on The OutsideVoices Podcast https://outsidelens.com/the-return-on-investment-of-mental-models-with-robert-hagstrom/ 

- Brad Feld: When Big and Small Make Great on The OutsideVoices Podcast https://outsidelens.com/when-big-and-small-make-great-with-brad-feld/ 

- OutsideVoices Podcast - Summary of Guests: https://outsidelens.com/outsidevoices-summary-of-guests/ 

Connect with OutsideVoices:

- Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/outsidelens/ 

- Check us out on Twitter https://twitter.com/LensOutside 

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