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Mike Robins is an author, speaker, coach, and podcaster who delivers keynotes and seminars (in-person and virtually) to groups of all kinds throughout the world. He’s written five books, which have been translated into 15 different languages. His latest, We're All in This Together, has just been released. Before starting his business in 2001, Mike played baseball at Stanford University and then with the Kansas City Royals organization. After baseball and prior to starting his consulting business, he worked for two tech companies in online ad sales during the "dot-com boom" of the late 1990s.

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(00:00) – Introduction

(01:50) – It's definitely called upon a lot of us to dig deep and think, what can I contribute to the world? There's a desire for us to connect, even though we're all separated by time and space more than ever these days.

(03:05) – In some ways the rules have changed very quickly through this pandemic, we're all getting a chance to connect with and see each other's humanity as people are trying to do work from the dining room table and their kids are off to the side.

(06:52) – There's a lot of companies, especially tech companies who've been needing to embrace video and other platforms in order to communicate. There are a number of companies that we work with for which that is the primary way they communicate anyway, prior to COVID. That's going to allow us to work in a more effective and productive way, but also humanize the technology if you will, because that's been one of the challenges over the years and continues to be. 

(09:04) –  Everybody is panicked in the sports industry because they don't know what's going to happen. They're just hoping and waiting for things to get back to normal, but it's impacting a lot of people's lives and a lot of people's jobs in the short term.

(11:47) – The technological capabilities of schools are often dependent upon the socioeconomics of that school or that community. Not everybody has access to the same technology and so just as that exists in school in person, it also exists online. The education experience, just like the meeting experience or the conversation experience, is different when it's done virtually than when it's done in person.

(13:57) – We want an education just like in business, that can be innovative and creative, adaptive and adjusted to the moment.

(16:31) – if you had the best players you would have the best team. If you have the most talented players, you should have the best team. But that was not the case at all and I learned it many times in sports. 

(18:00) – It was the intangible qualities that allowed us somehow, some way to put our little egos aside and be interested in each other's success, wanting to win as a team more than simply just succeed as an individual to cultivate an environment where people can work together in a way that actually brings out the best in everybody.

(21:30) – To be good at anything and ultimately sustain that success and grow, you got to master yourself. We're talking a lot more about mindfulness, both in our schools and in businesses, because we're all dealing with similar macro experiences, even though we have our own little world. Much of our success or failure has to do with mindset and approach. We need some talent, but the same is true in business.

(28:44) – We actually have a lot more common ground with each other than we think we do. We're separated in a way we've never been forced to be physically separated before, and we're simultaneously connected to each other in this global experience all at the same time.

(32:30) – Maslow's Hierarchy, the third place on the pyramid once we get past the physiological and safety needs for human beings is a need to belong. The ultimate  goal is to get to a place where you create an environment where everyone irrespective of their background, their race, their seniority, their age, their gender, their all of that everyone feels like they belong and that's not easy. 

(35:40) – Authenticity and vulnerability is the iceberg. And it's about lowering the waterline on the iceberg so that we share a little more authentically and vulnerably how we're feeling and we really ask other people how are you and not just the corny hey, how are you? How's it going? What's up? Reach out a little bit to offer some support.

(39:26) – Have some compassion for ourselves in the midst of all this, and also have some grace and compassion for other people. There are a bunch of companies and apps and pieces of technology that maybe we didn't realize were super important that are now becoming very important in a different way because of what's going on.