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Ari Meisel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
378 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

and amazing automations that my partner built coded custom stuff so uh that was a big turning point there because at that point not only uh up until then i've been doing a lot of work coaching wise with individuals about their individual issues but at that point not only were we growing our own business but we were starting to service a lot of small business owners so we were just seeing a lot more issues and challenges and i was doing a weekly webinar series for them for all our clients so uh

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

and amazing automations that my partner built coded custom stuff so uh that was a big turning point there because at that point not only uh up until then i've been doing a lot of work coaching wise with individuals about their individual issues but at that point not only were we growing our own business but we were starting to service a lot of small business owners so we were just seeing a lot more issues and challenges and i was doing a weekly webinar series for them for all our clients so uh

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

it was a lot of like on the job learning in a way.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

it was a lot of like on the job learning in a way.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

it was a lot of like on the job learning in a way.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Yeah. So the latest book is actually called on productivity, which is like my sort of, Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, no, no. It was second to next or last year, but then I did this sort of like opus at the end. But the thing that I think may have also had some contribution there is, so I've always been really interested in history.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Yeah. So the latest book is actually called on productivity, which is like my sort of, Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, no, no. It was second to next or last year, but then I did this sort of like opus at the end. But the thing that I think may have also had some contribution there is, so I've always been really interested in history.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Yeah. So the latest book is actually called on productivity, which is like my sort of, Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, no, no. It was second to next or last year, but then I did this sort of like opus at the end. But the thing that I think may have also had some contribution there is, so I've always been really interested in history.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

And in particular, I got the, I found this like passion around the world's oldest companies. So there are hundreds of companies in operation today that have been around for hundreds of years. And there are a few dozen companies that have been operating continuously for over a thousand years. And there are about eight traits that these companies tend to share that make them last so long.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

And in particular, I got the, I found this like passion around the world's oldest companies. So there are hundreds of companies in operation today that have been around for hundreds of years. And there are a few dozen companies that have been operating continuously for over a thousand years. And there are about eight traits that these companies tend to share that make them last so long.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

And in particular, I got the, I found this like passion around the world's oldest companies. So there are hundreds of companies in operation today that have been around for hundreds of years. And there are a few dozen companies that have been operating continuously for over a thousand years. And there are about eight traits that these companies tend to share that make them last so long.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

And a lot of those, I think in some ways have informed the things that I've written about and what really makes a company that is a thing unto itself, as opposed to just a CEO who owns their own job.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

And a lot of those, I think in some ways have informed the things that I've written about and what really makes a company that is a thing unto itself, as opposed to just a CEO who owns their own job.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

And a lot of those, I think in some ways have informed the things that I've written about and what really makes a company that is a thing unto itself, as opposed to just a CEO who owns their own job.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

So one of them is that they rarely, if ever, took outside investment, which I think is really interesting. And that wasn't a protective thing. It was more just like they wanted to grow under their own steam. So there were no unicorns per se that grew. Well, no, that's not true, actually. There are many of them, but they didn't like. They weren't overnight successes, you know, by any means.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

So one of them is that they rarely, if ever, took outside investment, which I think is really interesting. And that wasn't a protective thing. It was more just like they wanted to grow under their own steam. So there were no unicorns per se that grew. Well, no, that's not true, actually. There are many of them, but they didn't like. They weren't overnight successes, you know, by any means.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

So one of them is that they rarely, if ever, took outside investment, which I think is really interesting. And that wasn't a protective thing. It was more just like they wanted to grow under their own steam. So there were no unicorns per se that grew. Well, no, that's not true, actually. There are many of them, but they didn't like. They weren't overnight successes, you know, by any means.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

And again, so like there is a hotel in Japan that started in 702. There is a restaurant in Austria that started in 806 that is still running. You know, think about the restaurant business. There are beer gardens. There are banks because banks used to be private institutions. All sorts of really crazy stuff and everything in between. But so...

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

And again, so like there is a hotel in Japan that started in 702. There is a restaurant in Austria that started in 806 that is still running. You know, think about the restaurant business. There are beer gardens. There are banks because banks used to be private institutions. All sorts of really crazy stuff and everything in between. But so...

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

And again, so like there is a hotel in Japan that started in 702. There is a restaurant in Austria that started in 806 that is still running. You know, think about the restaurant business. There are beer gardens. There are banks because banks used to be private institutions. All sorts of really crazy stuff and everything in between. But so...