Engineering Your Inner Circle for High Stakes Growth with Mike Maddock
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Engineering Your Inner Circle for High Stakes Growth with Mike Maddock

Often, our biggest barriers don’t come from a lack of effort, but from a lack of perspective.

It’s easy to get trapped by our own blind spots, making it really difficult at times to see the disruptive possibilities that are right in front of us.

Today’s guest, Mike Maddock, is a serial entrepreneur who has launched seven successful companies.

For years, he’s been an internationally recognized innovation consultant for many Fortune 100 companies, is a best-selling author and the founder of Flourish Advisory Boards.

In this conversation, Mike explains in great detail how to build a peer group that really challenges you.

We walk through the exact framework for choosing the right people to surround yourself with and the radical shift from simply giving advice to sharing real, world experience.


In This Episode, You Will Learn:
  • Why expertise can become a trap that prevents you from seeing disruptive possibilities.
  • The “Gestalt methodology” of sharing experience instead of giving advice.
  • How to engineer a peer group with different “lenses” to help you see around corners.
  • The specific questions you need to ask to get to the core of any business or personal issue.
  • Why being more human and authentic is becoming the ultimate competitive advantage in an AI, driven world.

What We Discuss:
0:00:00 – Episode Opener and Introduction to the Podcast – Mike Maddock
0:00:58 – Podcast and Guest Intro
0:02:13 – Why Peer Groups Matter
0:04:24 – Engineering Great Groups
0:05:24 – Uncompromising Friends
0:07:22 – Advice Versus Experience
0:09:03 – Accountability Done Right
0:12:44 – Challenging Someone Must Be Earned
0:17:19 – Building Trust Equity
0:19:31 – Curiosity Question Framework
0:23:27 – Framing Safe Conversations
0:30:04 – Avoiding Echo Chambers
0:31:55 – Finding The Right Mix
0:33:51 – Peer Group Mirror Moment
0:35:58 – Origins And Early Career
0:40:57 – Loss, Grief And Gratitude
0:43:47 – Wealth Is Being Present
0:44:51 – Look For Strawberries
0:46:59 – Distraction At Universal
0:49:28 – Quiet Time For Ideas
0:52:23 – Hopeful Tech Signals
0:59:26 – Peer Groups Versus AI
1:03:01 – Training The Brain Trust
1:05:23 – Wisdom Beats Intelligence
1:18:14 – Humanity As Advantage
1:22:34 – Authenticity In Peer Groups
1:25:01 – Build The Right Peer Group
1:27:11 – Rapid Fire And Wrap Up


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