Business Broken to Smokin' Podcast Lodestone True North

In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast, Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore discusses his TOMKAT tool, and his new strategic tool about eyesight.



:50 Opening song, Open your eyes, by Asia

1:20 Book reference - Team of Rivals by Goodwin

3:19 Book reference - Pinnacle by Steve Preda and Gregory Cleary

4:20 Mark talks through his tool called TOMKAT (Tools, Opportunity, Materials, Knowledge, Acquired Experience, Talent)

9:15 Reference to a Brian Regan skit

27:00 New tool



Website: www.lodestonetruenorth.com
Website www.bigeasydesk.com
LinkedIn Mark: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-whitmore-lodestone/
LinkedIn Lodestone: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lodestone-true-north
Lodestone Courses on Thinkific: lodestone.thinkific.com/

Podcast:
YouTube (video)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWcZ3wC733fQzTkWtAud0IQ
Spotify (video or audio)
https://open.spotify.com/show/3QCsZ7fyKr4z804oTac3FU
Apple Podcasts (audio)
https://apple.co/3O4uv4H



**Credits**

Music - Open your eyes - Asia

Book reference - American Icon, by Hoffman

Book reference - Good to Great, by Jim Collins

In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast, Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore discusses Generating Buy-in and Grit, the Book “Drive” by Daniel H. Pink, our M3M Took, and a Shoutout to Leppo Rents, Akron Ohio.

1:32 Shoutout to Leppo Rents https://www.lepporents.com/locations/akron

3:51 Tom Petty, and Buy-In and Grit

4:43 Book reference - Drive, by Daniel H. Pink

5:20 The M3M Tool

7:33 Meaning

8:49 Mastery

10:32 Mine (Autonomy)

18:56 Zappos example

25:04 Using meaning to cast a vision

26:19 The Pathway to Mastery

31:58 More thoughts on autonomy, and the English Garden (Stan Hywet gardens https://www.stanhywet.org/ )

37:15 ooo look what Zog do (Gary Lawson, The Far Side https://www.thefarside.com/ )

37:50 Second shoutout to Leppo Rents https://www.lepporents.com/locations/akron

38:16 Talent flees from bad culture



Website: www.lodestonetruenorth.com
Website www.bigeasydesk.com
LinkedIn Mark: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-whitmore-lodestone/
LinkedIn Lodestone: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lodestone-true-north
Thinkific: lodestone.thinkific.com/

Podcast:
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWcZ3wC733fQzTkWtAud0IQ
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/show/3QCsZ7fyKr4z804oTac3FU
Apple Podcasts
https://apple.co/3O4uv4H

**Credits**

Music - Won’t Back Down - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Book "Drive" by Daniel Pink

Book "Culture Code" by Dan Coyle

In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast, Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore discusses the main premise from his upcoming book, The Visionary Dilemma.

Website: www.lodestonetruenorth.com

Website www.bigeasydesk.com  
LinkedIn Mark: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-whitmore-lodestone/  
LinkedIn Lodestone: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lodestone-true-north

Thinkific: lodestone.thinkific.com/  
YouTube
 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWcZ3wC733fQzTkWtAud0IQ

Spotify 
https://open.spotify.com/show/3QCsZ7fyKr4z804oTac3FU

Apple Podcasts
 https://apple.co/3O4uv4H  

2:42 Shoutout to TTX  https://www.ttx-inc.com
4:00 What is vision?
5:46 Book referenced - Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision, by Andy Stanley
6:00 Shoutout to Josh Gordon, Full Spectrum Marketing https://www.fsm.agency/
17:35 The “Fair Weather” Canvas
19:35 Vision in relation to business
20:00 Back to Andy Stanley and Vision
21:20 John Adams mini-series https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472027
26:25 Book referenced - The Real George Washington
33:50 What is vacation, anyways?
36:25 Brian Regan skit about station wagons
31:50 A Compelling vision comes from…
38:30 Talking about Mark’s upcoming book, The Visionary Dilemma
38:45 Book referenced - The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life, by Ben Sherwood
42:50 Book referenced - Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
46:25 Book referenced - Drive, by Daniel Pink 4
7:20 M3M tool reference, link to other video
50:14 Joy and satisfaction comes from mastery
52:15 Reference to Stan Hywet & English gardens https://www.stanhywet.org/
56:35 Shoutout to Apollo heating and cooling [link]
58:30 Back to casting a vision
59:28 The Visionary Dilemma - 3 Parts
1:00:00 First Dilemma - You’re casting a vision for people that don’t know they even need a vision…  
1:01:45 - Without a vision people perish - Proverbs
1:04:14 - Adapting can be good, but we tend to have a toxic ability to adapt to something that we actually should change
1:04:30 Second Dilemma visions are invisible pictures
1:06:38 One of the goals of a visionary: putting clothes on the invisible man
1:08:48 Third Dilemma - Visions are disruptive  

 **Credits**
2 Tickets to Paradise - Eddie Money
Book - Man O Man, by Mark Whitmore

In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast, Brandon Kenney Co-Owner & CEO of TTx https://ttx-inc.com/ has a discussion with Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore over chapters 1-2 of the book “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Dorris Kearns Goodwin. They also discuss the Culture, Strategic Niche, and Recruiting Flywheel of TTx. Brandon and TTx are one of those businesses that we are helping guide to the Land of Awesome. 

Episode 013 - June 9, 2022. In which we discuss strategy, War Room, a little bit of Miles Davis, and a shout out to New Riff Distilling.



https://www.newriffdistilling.com/

Tribute to Alan White 0:00

Same Page Workshop 27:50

StrengthsFinder 44:45