Episode Notes [03:47] Seth's Early Understanding of Questions [04:33] The Power of Questions [05:25] Building Relationships Through Questions [06:41] This is Strategy: Focus on Questions [10:21] Gamifying Questions [11:34] Conversations as Infinite Games [15:32] Creating Tension with Questions [20:46] Effective Questioning Techniques [23:21] Empathy and Engagement [34:33] Strategy and Culture [35:22] Microsoft's Transformation [36:00] Global Perspectives on Questions [39:39] Caring in a Challenging World Resources Mentioned The Dip by Seth Godin Linchpin by Seth Godin Purple Cow by Seth Godin Tribes by Seth Godin This Is Marketing by Seth Godin The Carbon Almanac This is Strategy by Seth Godin Seth's Blog What Does it Sound Like When You Change Your Mind? by Seth Godin Value Creation Masterclass by Seth Godin on Udemy The Strategy Deck by Seth Godin Taylor Swift Jimmy Smith Jimmy Smith Curated Questions Episode Supercuts Priya Parker Techstars Satya Nadella Microsoft Steve Ballmer Acumen Jerry Colonna Unleashing the Idea Virus by Seth Godin Tim Ferriss podcast with Seth Godin Seth Godin website Beauty Pill Producer Ben Ford Questions Asked When did you first understand the power of questions? What do you do to get under the layer to really get down to those lower levels? Is it just follow-up questions, mindset, worldview, and how that works for you? How'd you get this job anyway? What are things like around here? What did your boss do before they were your boss? Wow did you end up with this job? Why are questions such a big part of This is Strategy? If you had to charge ten times as much as you charge now, what would you do differently? If it had to be free, what would you do differently? Who's it for, and what's it for? What is the change we seek to make? How did you choose the questions for The Strategy Deck? How big is our circle of us? How many people do I care about? Is the change we're making contagious? Are there other ways to gamify the use of questions? Any other thoughts on how questions might be gamified? How do we play games with other people where we're aware of what it would be for them to win and for us to win? What is it that you're challenged by? What is it that you want to share? What is it that you're afraid of? If there isn't a change, then why are we wasting our time? Can you define tension? What kind of haircut do you want? How long has it been since your last haircut? How might one think about intentionally creating that question? What factors should someone think about as they use questions to create tension? How was school today? What is the kind of interaction I'm hoping for over time? How do I ask a different sort of question that over time will be answered with how was school today? Were there any easy questions on your math homework? Did anything good happen at school today? What tension am I here to create? What wrong questions continue to be asked? What temperature is it outside? When the person you could have been meets the person you are becoming, is it going to be a cause for celebration or heartbreak? What are the questions we're going to ask each other? What was life like at the dinner table when you were growing up? What are we really trying to accomplish? How do you have this cogent two sentence explanation of what you do? How many clicks can we get per visit? What would happen if there was a webpage that was designed to get you to leave? What were the questions that were being asked by people in authority at Yahoo in 1999? How did the stock do today? Is anything broken? What can you do today that will make the stock go up tomorrow? What are risks worth taking? What are we doing that might not work but that supports our mission? What was the last thing you did that didn't work, and what did we learn from it? What have we done to so delight our core customers that they're telling other people? How has your international circle informed your life of questions? What do I believe that other people don't believe? What do I see that other people don't see? What do I take for granted that other people don't take for granted? What would blank do? What would Bob do? What would Jill do? What would Susan do? What happened to them? What system are they in that made them decide that that was the right thing to do? And then how do we change the system? How given the state of the world, do you manage to continue to care as much as you do? Do you walk to school or take your lunch? If you all can only care if things are going well, then what does that mean about caring? Should I have spent the last 50 years curled up in a ball? How do we go to the foundation and create community action?…
Ruth and Jeff (and a very special guest) talk through four movies about magic: The Illusionist (2006), The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), Now You See Me (2013), and Now You See Me 2 (2016). Did these magical movies cast a spell, or should they be locked in a safe with a defective escape mechanism and cast into the bottom of a lake forever?…
Ruth and Jeff talk about 2001’s fashion-thriller-comedy, Zoolander, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, and quote their way through most of the movie. Will this be a “cool story, Hansel,” or will the DVD “can’t not die in a freak gasoline fight accident”?
Ruth and Jeff review Michael Bay's 2007 special effects action-drama (with some LaBoeuf wit to season), Transformers , having recently watched it with their kids. Find out on this episode whether this was a good decision, or whether the trailers decepti-conned them into mis-remembering this movie as good. (Oh, that we could blame the trailers...)…
Ruth and Jeff review a Marvel movie that came out before every movie became a Marvel movie: Fantastic Four. No, not the one that came out a few years ago. The other one. Will it be Fantastic? Or is it Doomed?
Jeff and Ruth talk about the 2003 Christopher Guest mockumentary, A Mighty Wind. Will it be a kiss at the end of the rainbow, or will the mighty wind blow it away?
Jeff and Ruth talk about several boxes worth of DVDs they have sitting close enough to the official DVD binder to count, containing Seasons 1-4 of the TV crime procedural, Bones . Will they bury them again back in the binder like any good anthropologist/detective might do, or send them off to the morgue (as in the thrift store)?…
Jeff and Ruth discuss Steven Spielberg’s 1991 flight of fantasy, Hook , starring everybody famous in the 90s. Will it learn how to fly back into the DVD case or be devoured by the crocodile of our recycling pile?
Ruth and Jeff discuss the first season of the Canadian comedy, Slings & Arrows. Set in a fictional Stratford, ON, this Showtime series from the early 2000s starred Paul Gross and several other semi-famous Canadian actors. Find out on this episode of the podcast whether a future where their DVD binder still contains this series is “to be, or not to be”?…
Ruth and Jeff discuss producer and writer Lorne Michaels’s infamous masterpiece, Three Amigos. Will the DVD survive its encounter with the El Guapo of this podcast or will it ride off into the sunset and out of our house in the direction of Value Village? Also stay tuned for the moment where Ruth mistakes Driving Miss Daisy for a much older movie, and Jeff is right about Dan Ackroyd being in it, but wrong about him being in Driving Over Miss Daisy (that was John Ritter).…
Ruth and Jeff discuss civilly (at first) the merits and demerits of Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin’s 1994 library propaganda/fantasy, The Pagemaster. Jeff nerds out on animation stuff and Ruth draws some lines — join us to see if it survives!
Jeff and Ruth discuss the 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s ingenious Poirot mystery, Murder on the Orient Express. We may not be a jury of twelve, but we’re going to use every last one of our “little grey cells” to judge this DVD.
Ruth and Jeff discuss the classic Scottish sci-fi musical, Brigadoon. Will this majestic masterpiece vanish into the mists (i.e., the garbage can), or will it live to be rewatched again — and hopefully sooner than a century from now! (Sorry, lots of Brigadoon-centric references in that write-up!)
Ruth and Jeff discuss the celebrity-stacked and profanity-laced 1985 kid's adventure movie, The Goonies. Is this DVD going to stay in their treasure chest (aka DVD Binder), or does it need to walk the plank?
Ruth and Jeff discuss the special-effects-laden 1998 film, Pleasantville. Will their response be black-and-white, or will they have a more colourful reaction?
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