In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast: Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore and Joshua Pietrocini (VP of Operations at TTx https://www.ttx-inc.com/ ) discuss the book Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, and a lot about project management.

0:00  Intro
5:19  Reference to Dune by Frank Herbert, audio book George Goodell reader https://hdaudiobooks.com/audiobook-dune/
10:52  Reference to 6 Types of Working Genius by Patrick Lencioni and shoutout to Preston True
14:27  A little bit of history about Joshua and his role at TTx…
16:16  Struggling with Project Management…
19:32  “You’re managing timelines, expectations, tasks, schedules, communication, risks, creating . But you’re leading people.”
20:17  Kan Ban and reference to the book – 2 Second Lean by Paul Akers
21:44  Talk about the different ways to organize Trello or Kan Ban
28:44  Book reference – American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce G. Hoffman
31:33  What would you recommend as resources for project managers?

• PMI Institute

The 5 major phases of any project:

• Initiation


• Planning and discovery


• Execution


• Monitoring


• Closing

38:37  Different types of methodologies

• Waterfall


• Agile


• Scrum

44:19  (Freaking cool smoke ring!)
49:59  AAR tool https://youtu.be/YScRIF5Pm-A
54:26  “Latch” acronym used during an interview

• Loyal


• Available


• Teachable


• Coachable


• Hungry & Humble

56:16  Joshua’s 5 desert island movies:

• Dances with wolves


• Magnolia


• Intouchables


• The beast of the southern wild


• Captain Fantastic


• (In the name of the Father, Daniel Day Lewis…)

1:07:52  Reference to Rick Beato https://www.youtube.com/@RickBeato

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