Al Pitampalli’s frustration with endless meetings and other things that don’t seem to have a purpose led to what he calls a meetings revolution. In this episode we discuss his experience as one of Seth Godin’s first alternative MBA students, publishing a book with the domino project and why we must learn to become persuadable…that’s right not persuasive, but persuadable, and how this enables us to spread ideas.The importance of continually asking whyLearning to explore our hidden assumptionsThe power of thinking backwards Why certain ideas are inherently spreadableThe meetings epidemic in organizational cultureAdvantages of becoming more persuadableDissecting and understanding our models of the worldQuotesWhen you want to change the world, the most dangerous thing can do is being unpersuadable ResourcesThe Domino Project The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: “On Robustness and Fragility” (Incerto)Read This Before Our Next MeetingAl Pittampalli is founder of The Modern Meeting Company, a group that helps organizations transform meetings, make decisions, and coordinate complex teams Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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