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Ted Santos

CEO & President, Turnaround Investment Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ted Santos is the CEO and President of Turnaround Investment Partners, where he advises CEOs on organizational transformation and leadership strategies. He previously served as a Chief Operating Officer in the logistics and language services sectors.

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1 assertion · 2 opinions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Santos: Humans spend only five minutes per waking hour actively thinking
“From what I've heard, psychologists say for every waking hour, we only spend five minutes thinking. The other 55 minutes is spent having thoughts.”
Ted Santos Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 19:28 He Who Masters Self Masters Chaos: Ted Santos on Why Jobs Went to India

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Opinion
Santos: CEOs Who Do Not Intentionally Create Problems Should Be Fired
“CEOs, if they are not intentionally creating problems for their organization to solve, they should be fired or retrained immediately.”
Ted Santos Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 0:43 He Who Masters Self Masters Chaos: Ted Santos on Why Jobs Went to India
Insight
Santos: Education traps leaders in incremental 'more, better, different' cycles
“I would say the paradigm that we are given is all about evolution more, better, different. So we're doing X and we want to do it. We want to do more of it. So we try and do more. If that doesn't work, then we do it better. If that doesn't work, we do it differ…”
Ted Santos Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 3:27 He Who Masters Self Masters Chaos: Ted Santos on Why Jobs Went to India
Assertion Contradicted
Santos: Humans spend only five minutes per waking hour actively thinking
“From what I've heard, psychologists say for every waking hour, we only spend five minutes thinking. The other 55 minutes is spent having thoughts.”
Ted Santos Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 19:28 He Who Masters Self Masters Chaos: Ted Santos on Why Jobs Went to India
Opinion
Santos: History's greatest leaders contradict modern empathetic leadership fads
“When you look at the top leaders, you look at the people who had the huge, the biggest impact on their industries, like John D. Rockefeller Sr., and Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie, even J.P. Morgan, Howard Hughes, a lot of people don't think about him, and wh…”
Ted Santos Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 31:25 He Who Masters Self Masters Chaos: Ted Santos on Why Jobs Went to India
Insight
Santos: Steve Jobs drove a paradigm shift by inventing the iPod problem
“No one knew they didn't have an iPod. It was something we didn't even know we didn't have. And so by creating that problem, he created a whole paradigm shift in how we engage music.”
Ted Santos Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 4:58 He Who Masters Self Masters Chaos: Ted Santos on Why Jobs Went to India
Insight
Santos: Chaos is created by perspective, and self-mastery overcomes it
“Chaos is not chaos. Chaos is something that's occurring. It's something that's happening. Your point of view, your perspective, your belief about what's occurring is what makes it chaotic. So he who masters self masters chaos, you master life.”
Ted Santos Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 30:21 He Who Masters Self Masters Chaos: Ted Santos on Why Jobs Went to India

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
He Who Masters Self Masters Chaos: Ted Santos on Why Jobs Went to India Sep 2, 2025 18m
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