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GA 112 | How to Pursue Greatness with Ron Pereira

By Jessica Bush Updated on September 30th, 2016

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Today’s episode features a keynote speech, “In Pursuit of Greatness,” delivered by our own Ron Pereira at the TWI Summit in San Antonio, Texas. As you’ll hear, he thoroughly enjoyed the conference and learned a lot about the human side of lean. Ron’s speech contains a lot of great advice on motivating people and creating culture. An MP3 version of this episode is available for download here.

In this episode you’ll learn:

An inspiring anecdote about Team Hoyt (3:19)
What percentage of American workers are disengaged in their work (7:28)
About extrinsic motivation (8:57)
About intrinsic motivation (12:07)
The autonomy component (13:20)
The mastery component (17:43)
The purpose component (20:02)
About passion (28:08)
The characteristics of passionate people (32:14)
Why you should read Richard Sheridan’s book, Joy Inc (35:38)
About trust (37:26)
What The Jacobs Model says (38:01)
About perseverance (41:19)
A closing quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (46:35)

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What are your thoughts on extrinsic and intrinsic motivation? Which works better? In what situations?

Jessica Bush

Jessica is responsible for the editorial aspects of Gemba Academy’s content, focusing on course materials, podcast production, social media, and other copywriting efforts. An avid advocate of entrepreneurship, Jessica has worked with two technology startups as co-founder and head marketing strategist. Jessica received her BS in Business Administration from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, with a minor in Music.

David
May 27, 2016 - 2:06 pm
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Are the slides for the talk available for download? Thank you!

Ron Pereira
May 27, 2016 - 9:04 pm

Hi David, we just added the slides to the resources section. Let us know if you have any problems accessing them. Please note since it’s a PDF the videos won’t work.