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Adam Outland

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
872 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

We know we can actually make a profit and float around the same amount of revenue.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

And maybe we can even push the boundaries and grow a little bit at a time.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

What's far the perceived risk of doing something drastically different is much higher in our minds.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

But when you actually look at that risk, it actually may be a lot lower to try to do something different.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

It's all about how you perceive change and what you have to look at to do that.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

So the analogy I'd end with is this, like it's like driving a car.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

over the last handful of years where one of the wheels is a little bit out of alignment.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

Have any of you guys had like an old car that had an alignment problem before?

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

What happens to the car when the wheels, it like vibrates, right?

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

So we're, you know, you just keep dealing with some of these changes.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

You keep going in and looking at a set of data and having a conversation.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

You still, you feel the car vibrating.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

And it's because three wheels are in alignment, but there's like one little wheel you got to click into place.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

And sometimes the vibration gets a little worse before it gets better.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

But that's where we are right now.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

You know, insatiable curiosity is a superpower.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

And David has that one.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

And it really is.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

And one of the reasons I think insatiable curiosity is a superpower is because it's an impact on risk.

The Action Catalyst
Scaling With Purpose: An Action Catalyst Panel (Business, Leadership, Growth, Technology)

And when you think about how old you were when the first time you stepped onto an airplane, right, many of you might have been a teenager, maybe even younger.