Schmidt List Podcast
Sharing the secrets of successful entrepreneurs and leaders Since 2017

The Change Agent with Tom Horgen
“My kind of mode is to create allies in people, you know in the department\'s I go into who were the allies we\'re going to take this on. It\'s going to become there like kind of motivating charge and then they\'re going to go and want to motivate other people.”

The Business of Expertise with David C. Baker
“When a positioning change is it almost always gets even more narrow because you discover so much more opportunity than you thought existed before.”

Building a Workforce for the Future with Mark Hurlburt
“The question is so much more now. Why do you want to do something? Then how do you get it to do it?
And when you get into that higher-level where you\'re going to standing on the shoulders of technical giants in terms of your not starting at this bare-metal level of I need to build something that has never been done before?
In microcosm the experience in the empathy that you can bring to the users and the stakeholders. Becomes so much more important than the raw technical acumen.”

Selling a City with Jenn Schaal
“I think that\'s the biggest thing people want to be heard. And so if you make them feel like whatever they\'re saying you\'re hearing and thinking about and you know, whether or not that\'s going to be it be able to be implemented just the fact that they\'re being heard. I think is valuable, and that goes across from clients or coworkers or friends or whomever.”