Thinking With Mitch Joel

Welcome to episode #768 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #768 - Host: Mitch Joel. My friend and fellow speaker, Victoria Labalme , is a performing artist, performance coach, documentarian (her film, Muppet Guys Talking , is amazing), and author. She's performed for over two decades in film, TV, Broadway and comedy clubs. From there, she realized that hel...

Welcome to episode #767 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #767 - Host: Mitch Joel. The patron saint of management strategy and business thinking is Tom Peters . Full stop. When I think of Tom Peters, there is only one word that comes to mind: Legend. He is that. He is the "oracle of business" to me, personally (and for many others) when it comes to busine...

Welcome to episode #766 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #766 - Host: Mitch Joel. If you have had to deep dive into presenting via video (who didn't?), odds are that you have heard about Ecamm Live (which is a great software for the Mac that enables anyone to make their livestream, Zoom meeting, virtual presentation really standout). Ecamm has done a phe...

Welcome to episode #765 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #765 - Host: Mitch Joel. Welcome to the our second-ever live podcast recoding from Clubhouse (the new social audio app that is all the rage these days). This conversation was recorded on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021. Our conversation this week is with someone I met many moons back on the speaking c...

Welcome to episode #764 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #764 - Host: Mitch Joel.  Ethan Kross is one of the world's leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. A professor in the University of Michigan 's Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business , he studies how the conversations people have with themselves impact their health, perfo...

Welcome to episode #763 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #763 - Host: Mitch Joel. Welcome to our first-ever live podcast recording from Clubhouse (the new social audio app that is all the rage). This conversation was recorded this past Friday (February 19th, 2021). Our conversation this week is with my old friend,  Jeremiah Owyang , to discuss the presen...

Welcome to episode #762 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #762 - Host: Mitch Joel.  Judy Samuelson is founder and executive director of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program and a vice president at the Aspen Institute . Judy led a ten-year campaign to disrupt Milton Friedman 's narrative about profit-maximization to successfully challenge conve...

Welcome to episode #761 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #761 - Host: Mitch Joel. There are days when I am not feeling at all productive. I usually think to myself, "WWDCD?" Or... "What Would Dave Crenshaw Do?" That's how much Dave has inspired me, since we both met in a mastermind that was formulated during the early days of the pandemic. What I didn't...

Welcome to episode #760 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #760 - Host: Mitch Joel. I have this weird obsession with books about book writing. I collect them. I search them out. I devour them. With that, you would think that I would have written more than two of them myself (not there yet). One of my favorite books about writing is The Writer's Process by...

Welcome to episode #759 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #759 - Host: Mitch Joel. If we have learned anything during this pandemic, it is this: the brands that are either purely digital or the ones with a strong digital component felt much less pain. Look no further than the value of a company like Amazon or the incredible rise of Shopify . Watching so m...

Welcome to episode #758 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #758 - Host: Mitch Joel. She has an incredible work ethic. That was one (of the many) takeaway from this episode. Lisa McLeod is a strategy consultant, executive coach, and keynote speaker who has worked with some of the coolest companies on the planet. Lisa is the author of five books, including t...

Welcome to episode #757 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #757 - Host: Mitch Joel. Erich Joachimsthaler , is a rare combination of consultant, author, entrepreneur, academic, and researcher who sheds light on massive branding, marketing, and digital transformations. A man after my own heart. He has authored several books and hundreds of articles. He is bo...

Welcome to episode #756 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #756 - Host: Mitch Joel. The past is something that we easily forget. Before the pandemic, many looked at the disastrous rise and fall of WeWork . So much so, that journalist, Reeves Wiedeman , decided to use the WeWork story as the topic for his debut book, Billion Dollar Loser - The Epic Rise and...

Welcome to episode #755 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #755 - Host: Mitch Joel. Some managers work their way into the position after years of working for other leaders. Many managers, these days, are thrust into the position. That was Julie Zhou . Julie loves learning about people. As one of Silicon Valley's top product design executives, she leads the...

Welcome to episode #754 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #754 - Host: Mitch Joel. There is no doubt that when it comes to writing business books on the creative process and how it flows in business today, Todd Henry is the gold standard. He bills himself as "an arms dealer for the creative revolution," and that's just one of his creative ways to describe...

Welcome to episode #753 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #753 - Host: Mitch Joel.  Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson is an author, professor, and speaker who studies the intersection of leadership and diversity. She is focused on how unconscious bias affects the evaluation of leaders, and strategies that leaders can use to mitigate bias. If I've learned anything i...

Welcome to episode #753 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #753 - Host: Mitch Joel.  Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson is an author, professor, and speaker who studies the intersection of leadership and diversity. She is focused on how unconscious bias affects the evaluation of leaders, and strategies that leaders can use to mitigate bias. If I've learned anything i...

Welcome to episode #752 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #752 - Host: Mitch Joel. First, a mea culpa: I had to record the audio for this episode over Zoom . There was a glitch with my usual software (it kept crashing), so I am hopeful that you will stick with this content, because it's important… and it matters. Who wrote the book on sales? Jeffrey Gitom...

Welcome to episode #751 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #751 - Host: Mitch Joel. I have been a fan of Dan Pontefract for many years. We first met when he was working at the national Canadian telecommunications and media company, TELUS , as their Chief Envisioner and Chief Learning Officer. Dan has always been more than that. Now, he's a leadership strat...

Welcome to episode #750 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #750 - Host: Mitch Joel. With a book titled, Uncharted - How to Map the Future Together , you would think that Dr. Margaret Heffernan is a futurist as well. Margaret produced shows for the BBC for over thirteen years. She then moved to the US, where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit...

Welcome to episode #749 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #749 - Host: Mitch Joel. In the early days of blogging and podcasting (2004/2005), I spent a lot of time teaching business professionals about digital marketing and media. One of the more confounding technologies to explain was RSS - the way in which someone would subscribe to a blog/podcast, and h...

Welcome to episode #748 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #748 - Host: Mitch Joel. I'm a reader. I pride myself on reading. Mostly business and non-fiction books. I can work through 1-2 of them per week... that is until Covid 19 hit. I was in a funk with my reading. Just could not get through a book. No matter what I did. No matter how hard I tried. Then,...

Welcome to episode #747 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #747 - Host: Mitch Joel. Another part of this pandemic that can get me down is not meeting my fellow speakers in person. That's how I first connected and became friends with Brant Menswar . We both share a love of music, the music industry, and then with a slight (or major) zig zag into the speakin...

Welcome to episode #747 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #747 - Host: Mitch Joel. Another part of this pandemic that can get me down is not meeting my fellow speakers in person. That's how I first connected and became friends with Brant Menswar . We both share a love of music, the music industry, and then with a slight (or major) zig zag into the speakin...

Welcome to episode #746 of Six Pixels of Separation . Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #746 - Host: Mitch Joel. Have you ever felt like an outsider? Like you don't belong? Like the things that you like, don't seem to be the things that everybody else likes? Growing up as a Russian immigrant in West Texas, Olga Khazan always felt that there was something different about her. This feel...