Yet another fantastic conversation with Rory Sutherland, a man who has quickly leapt onto my radar and become a champion in my eyes! The only thing I'd add to Rory's anecdotes is to mention Rap (and relatives like RnB) as a music genre that's widely disputed but the best of which is incredile.
A very interesting interview. It's funny that I've come to many of the same conclusions as Rory has, independently. So I'm here for confirmation bias reasons, rather than education.Not what I was expecting. A likeable chap, and quite entertaining. Thanks for the interview, James.
As a Brit I will happily defend New York. But I will put in this caveat walk around New York on weekends when the city has its hair in curlers and it's 'wandering around in tracksuit bottoms doing the weekly shop at the supermarket'...at that time it comes alive and is rather special. I've had great experiences there. Hanging out with the off duty cops in sports bars...shucking oysters south of Houston Street with a couple of brothers celebrating one of them becoming a father for the first time. It's like Paris you have to know it's rhythms.
Fabulous point regarding the university admissions letter holding value. Universities need to up their game to ensure that students come out with much better practical and knowledge based skills so that degrees themselves retain value.
Rorys views are very illuminating, the exception being his views on WFH. Would Ogilvy be the organisation it is or Rory be the person he is if they had had WFH in place for the 35 years he has worked there. One can not ignore the social capital that organisations have built over many years of working together in the office, which then makes WFH look viable in the short term butbwould produce very different outcomes in the medium/longer term. Confusing preference for productivity simply does not stack up
What strikes me about Rory is that he never claims to have "the answer." What he's doing is suggesting that there are a LOT more ways to look at the problem in order to find a new, novel and potentially valuable way to approach it.
Just a heads up, spend less time dithering on introductions I doubt most people want to hear 5 minutes of hype before actually listening to a guest. Most of us probably already knew who he was already and is the reason we're watching this video in the first place.
I was happy for the introduction. I had only seen a brief interview with Rory a few hours before, so I searched UA-cam for him and ended up here. The beauty of UA-cam is that you can spool forward to the bits that interest you. There's a slider at the bottom of the screen.
Yet another fantastic conversation with Rory Sutherland, a man who has quickly leapt onto my radar and become a champion in my eyes! The only thing I'd add to Rory's anecdotes is to mention Rap (and relatives like RnB) as a music genre that's widely disputed but the best of which is incredile.
And a Brillaint conversation of such caliber is on here for free … and there are less than 2k likes and 3 comments … damnnn … loved this!!
A very interesting interview. It's funny that I've come to many of the same conclusions as Rory has, independently. So I'm here for confirmation bias reasons, rather than education.Not what I was expecting.
A likeable chap, and quite entertaining. Thanks for the interview, James.
Rory is always great value
Such a great conversation. I enjoyed it. Smart and thought provoking.
As a Brit I will happily defend New York. But I will put in this caveat walk around New York on weekends when the city has its hair in curlers and it's 'wandering around in tracksuit bottoms doing the weekly shop at the supermarket'...at that time it comes alive and is rather special.
I've had great experiences there. Hanging out with the off duty cops in sports bars...shucking oysters south of Houston Street with a couple of brothers celebrating one of them becoming a father for the first time. It's like Paris you have to know it's rhythms.
NY is amazing, but honestly, after a weekend, it's insanely draining.
Rory's not wrong about Chicago :-)
Fabulous point regarding the university admissions letter holding value. Universities need to up their game to ensure that students come out with much better practical and knowledge based skills so that degrees themselves retain value.
Amazing discussion. Even more so that Rory is joining from a personalised first class cabin.
Rorys views are very illuminating, the exception being his views on WFH. Would Ogilvy be the organisation it is or Rory be the person he is if they had had WFH in place for the 35 years he has worked there. One can not ignore the social capital that organisations have built over many years of working together in the office, which then makes WFH look viable in the short term butbwould produce very different outcomes in the medium/longer term. Confusing preference for productivity simply does not stack up
What strikes me about Rory is that he never claims to have "the answer." What he's doing is suggesting that there are a LOT more ways to look at the problem in order to find a new, novel and potentially valuable way to approach it.
Just bought the book on eBay 😀
Airplanes should change a couple of movies they show on flights with Rory’s talks. As he says, you might want the plane to go slower…
With regard to Harvard & getting into Silicon Valley, a lot of the owners of these companies dropped out of Harvard!
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Too mAny effin interruptions
Just a heads up, spend less time dithering on introductions
I doubt most people want to hear 5 minutes of hype before actually listening to a guest.
Most of us probably already knew who he was already and is the reason we're watching this video in the first place.
I was happy for the introduction. I had only seen a brief interview with Rory a few hours before, so I searched UA-cam for him and ended up here. The beauty of UA-cam is that you can spool forward to the bits that interest you. There's a slider at the bottom of the screen.