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The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking | Peter D. Kaufman [Outliers]
- ▶ 21:45 Shane Parrish But if you want to listen to a case study on this example, check out the outliers episode with Les Schwab. 4 times in the scene
The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success
- ▶ 32:10 Shane Parrish And before I could answer, he told me about Les Schwab. 8 times in the scene
Les Schwab: Why Real Ownership Outperforms Experience, Capital, and Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:08 Shane Parrish Before I could answer, he told me about Les Schwab, a tire shop owner who understood incentives better than almost anyone. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:50 Shane Parrish Before Les Schwab was the name on over 400 tire stores across the American Northwest, it was the name of a kid born into nothing. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:23 Shane Parrish Les got his first paper route before his parents died. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:12 Shane Parrish Les met Dorothy Harlan when they were both teenagers. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:34 Shane Parrish At 33, Les Schwab was consumed by a single ambition, to own his own business, to be in control of his destiny. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:07 Shane Parrish While Les knew nothing about tires, he knew a lot about selling and being able to outwork other people. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:38 Shane Parrish Les was ready to expand. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:06 Shane Parrish Les stumbled onto his next innovation by accident. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:04 Shane Parrish Les figured if he was already fighting OK Rubber in Bend, he might as well make it a proper war. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:40 Shane Parrish But Les had a problem. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:59 Shane Parrish During the chaos of growth and franchise battles, Les would escape with Dorothy on long drives. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:49 Shane Parrish If Les had solved his incentive problem, now he turned to something bigger, reimagining what a tire store could be. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:56 Shane Parrish By 1965, Les had 15 stores scattered across Oregon and Idaho. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:24 Shane Parrish Around 1970, Les made another counterintuitive move. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:44 Shane Parrish Les understood something that money can't buy. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:18 Shane Parrish Les, who'd been stepping back from daily operations, returned to run the company while Miller recovered. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:31 Shane Parrish Les Schwab gave away 50% of his profits and became richer than if he'd kept 100%. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:18 Shane Parrish Les was incredible. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:16 Shane Parrish All right, let's talk about some of the lessons you can take away from Les Schwab. 14 times in the scene