Summary: <p>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. </p> <br> <ul> <li><strong>The importance of continually asking why</strong></li> <li>Learning to explore our hidden assumptions </li> <li><strong>The power of thinking backwards </strong></li> <li>Why certain ideas are inherently spreadable</li> <li><strong>The meetings epidemic in organizational culture</strong></li> <li>Advantages of becoming more persuadable </li> <li><strong>Dissecting and understanding our models of the world</strong></li> </ul><br> <h2>Quotes </h2> <p><em>When you want to change the world, the most dangerous thing can do is being unpersuadable </em></p> <br> <h2>Resources </h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.thedominoproject.com/">The Domino Project </a></li> <li><a href="http://unmistakablecreative.com/episodes/amber-rae-redefining-ambition">Redefining Ambition with Amber Rae</a></li> <li><a href="http://unmistakablecreative.com/episodes/willie-jackson-jackson-web-consulting-llc">Willie Jackson Interview </a></li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081297381X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=081297381X&linkCode=as2&tag=unmistakab02-20&linkId=RCMGEU5JHZIP4CU4">The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)</a><img alt="" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=unmistakab02-20&l=as2&o=1&a=081297381X" style="height: 1px; width: 1px;"> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936719169/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1936719169&linkCode=as2&tag=unmistakab02-20&linkId=4HXXN6VXQ75YVYMF">Read This Before Our Next Meeting</a><img alt="" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=unmistakab02-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1936719169" style="height: 1px; width: 1px;"> </li> </ul> <br> <p><em>Al Pittampalli is founder of The Modern Meeting Company, a group that helps organizations transform meetings, make decisions, and coordinate complex teams</em></p>
