In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast: Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore and Joshua Pietrocini (VP of Operations at TTx https://www.ttx-inc.com/ ) discuss the book Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, and a lot about project management.
0:00 Intro
5:19 Reference to Dune by Frank Herbert, audio book George Goodell reader https://hdaudiobooks.com/audiobook-dune/
10:52 Reference to 6 Types of Working Genius by Patrick Lencioni and shoutout to Preston True
14:27 A little bit of history about Joshua and his role at TTx…
16:16 Struggling with Project Management…
19:32 “You’re managing timelines, expectations, tasks, schedules, communication, risks, creating . But you’re leading people.”
20:17 Kan Ban and reference to the book – 2 Second Lean by Paul Akers
21:44 Talk about the different ways to organize Trello or Kan Ban
28:44 Book reference – American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce G. Hoffman
31:33 What would you recommend as resources for project managers?
- PMI Institute
The 5 major phases of any project:
- Initiation
- Planning and discovery
- Execution
- Monitoring
- Closing
38:37 Different types of methodologies
- Waterfall
- Agile
- Scrum
44:19 (Freaking cool smoke ring!)
49:59 AAR tool https://youtu.be/YScRIF5Pm-A
54:26 “Latch” acronym used during an interview
- Loyal
- Available
- Teachable
- Coachable
- Hungry & Humble
56:16 Joshua’s 5 desert island movies:
- Dances with wolves
- Magnolia
- Intouchables
- The beast of the southern wild
- Captain Fantastic
- (In the name of the Father, Daniel Day Lewis…)
1:07:52 Reference to Rick Beato https://www.youtube.com/@RickBeato
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