00:00 Intro to Evan's work
01:35 What pushed Evan along analytics, tech, and biological sciences
06:34 Data silos that we end up with in and how to tackle
11:58 Internal customer vs external customer narrative
14:41 How cognitive thinking separates people's performance
21:25 Concept of "intuitives" and "semi-intuitives" traits of people
30:17 Notes on hiring well: Mindset over Skillset
41:23 Conscientiousness and working mindset
45:52 Learning styles and personalities for a team
52:27 How to leap over different learning styles with practice
59:06 Why ideas have a greater value than execution
01:04:52 Vision vs Fantasy: how to tell them apart
01:11:00 How great thinkers obtain clarity
Finding the right set of peers, building the dream team to work towards a vision, setting the table for growth—all of these are interrelated from the perspective of strengthening teams. However, there’s a layer of science behind all of the best performing companies and the humans who’re a part of those teams. When the tools from the biological sciences meet the business world, there’s a ton of possibilities that open up—from understanding one’s personality and communicating better to even making right decisions at the workplace.
Evan LaPoint is the founder of Core Sciences, a platform that helps teams accelerate to a peak performance state. Evan has been an entrepreneur in the past as well, and he sold his company Satellite to Adobe, and before that merging his firm Marketing Alpha with Search Discovery.
Follow Evan: https://twitter.com/evanlapointe
Check out Core: https://www.core-sciences.com/
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