Brian Bowers part 2 - Mentorship and the Power of Purpose Statements

Update: 2018-10-16

Description

In this episode Brian Bowers, COO of Visible Supply Chain Management, shares stories of mentors who focused on his growth and provided Bowers with opportunities to progress. He discusses his business purpose and how having a written statement has focused his target. Bowers discusses Amazon and the good and bad examples it provides in the world of ecommerce as well as the many changes taking place in that space.

Show Notes:

How varied experiences have provided cycles of opportunities to learn a new business and effect change [00:48 ]
Viewing people development as a business purpose, not a side effect [03:00 ]
30 minutes of peer to peer mentoring focused his business purpose and gave added clarity and reminder to every decision and task [07:39 ]
Caution with machine learning and big data and maintaining integrity [13:32 ]
Ask yourself if you replaced your friends and family with your customer do you still feel good about that level of intrusion [15:09 ]
Robots versus human power, focus on their strengths and then optimize them together [19:42 ]

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Brian Bowers part 2 - Mentorship and the Power of Purpose Statements

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Brian Bowers part 2 - Mentorship and the Power of Purpose Statements

Brian Bowers part 2 - Mentorship and the Power of Purpose Statements