Motivation Minute

Spencer Harro and Jeriah Miller
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Two aspiring entrepreneurs discuss business ideas and practical personal development tips. Show hosts: Spencer Harro (Baltimore, MD), a recent electrical engineering grad. Jeriah Miller (Libby, MT), a self-taught entrepreneur and filmmaker.

  1. 07/05/2019

    Reinventing Jobs: Applying Automation in the Workplace (Ravin Jesuthasan)

    Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work - The intent of automation should not be eliminating jobs, but achieving the optimum synergy of humans and automation. - Return on Invested Performance is a critical metric for getting the best bang for your buck when choosing systems to automate - Repetitiveness, human interaction, and cognitive load impact if automation is worthwhile

    22 min

  2. 06/28/2019

    Sprint (Jake Knapp)

    Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz) - Sprints help you fast forward to the future and see customers react sooner - The longer you wait, it becomes increasingly harder to change products - Your product is never "ready" - but a sprint-mindset helps you make time-based releases (instead of feature-based).

    20 min

  3. 06/21/2019

    Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Nir Eyal)

    - To get into the habit zone, your product needs to be used frequently and provide great utility - The time or money investment users make in services greatly impacts how hooked they are - Changing someone's motivation is challenging - scarcity and a sense of progress make a big difference

    19 min

  4. 06/14/2019

    The Proximity Principle (Ken Coleman)

    The Proximity Principle: The Proven Strategy that Will Lead to the Career You Love (Ken Coleman) - Being intentional about who you surround yourself with is the key to a fulfilling future - Every career stepping stone matters.  It could become a long-term career cornerstone - You don't summit Mt. Everest all at once - success is a step-by-step process   Let us know what books you want to hear next on the survey at MotivationMinute.com!

    16 min

  5. 06/07/2019

    Gorilla Mindset (Mike Cernovich)

    Gorilla Mindset: How to Dominate and Unleash the Animal Inside You (Mike Cernovich) - To get more out of life, you must get more out of yourself. - He who controls how something is framed controls the debate. - Quick mental checklists can be powerful tools for focusing your attention   Keep the great book ideas coming to the survey at MotivationMinute.com

    19 min

  6. 05/31/2019

    The Simplicity Cycle (with Andrew Smith)

    The Simplicity Cycle: The Field Guide to Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse (Dan Ward) - We tend to be drawn towards complexity, when deep down we yearn for simplicity - Simplicity is a combination of complexity (features) and "goodness" (functionality) - True productivity is maximizing the value of existing features   Andrew Smith: Founder of ProRustics Home & Furnishings https://www.facebook.com/prorustics/ Instagram - @ProRustics

    27 min

  7. 05/24/2019

    Raving Fans (Ken Blanchard)

    Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service (Ken Blanchard) - Satisfied customers aren't enough.  To thrive your business needs raving fans. - Customers count on your consistency.  After you disappoint them once it's difficult to rebuild trust. - Focus on improving just 1%.  Tackle less of the problem, but be consistent with that "less".   Send us books you want to hear featured via our survey at MotivationMinute.com!

    22 min

  8. 05/17/2019

    Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder (with Mary Miller)

    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Nassim Taleb) - Antifragile systems improve in the face of chaos - Efficient systems are at peak capacity and on the verge of collapse - The barbell strategy (maximizing opposite extremes and avoiding the middle) helps you build an antifragile life   Guest: Mary Miller, Nuclear Engineer and Motivation Minute Listener

    24 min
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Two aspiring entrepreneurs discuss business ideas and practical personal development tips. Show hosts: Spencer Harro (Baltimore, MD), a recent electrical engineering grad. Jeriah Miller (Libby, MT), a self-taught entrepreneur and filmmaker.

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  • Creator
    Spencer Harro and Jeriah Miller
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2019
  • Episodes
    90
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Motivation Minute