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Ep. 481: Chris Zook Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Chris Zook
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My guest today is Chris Zook, a business writer and partner at Bain & Company, leading its Global Strategy Practice. He is listed by The Times (London) as one of the world’s top 50 business thinkers. Zook received a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Williams College, a M.Phil. in economics from Exeter College, Oxford University, and a MPP and Ph.D in Public Policy Analysis from the Harvard Kennedy School. Zook is an author of books and articles on business strategy, growth, and the importance of leadership economics, including the Profit from the Core trilogy.

The topic is his book The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • The founder’s 100
  • What keeps millennials in their jobs
  • Frontline obsession
  • Sense of insurgency
  • Owners mindset
  • Founders disease
  • Meritocracies

“Complexity is the silent killer of growth.” – Chris Zook

“Ideas are a dime a dozen. It comes down to execution and passion.” – Michael Covel

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Ep. 480: Efficiency with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Efficiency with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Efficiency with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Efficiency with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Donald Trump politics
  • The 1%
  • Generation snowflake
  • Efficiency in your thinking

“If you want to make something big happen. If you really want to leave a legacy, it depends on you.” – Michael Covel

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Ep. 478: Desert Island Prices with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Desert Island Prices with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Desert Island Prices with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Desert Island Prices with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Black Swans
  • Anti-fragile
  • Market Crashes
  • Price action analysis
  • Shutting out the noise
  • Island trading
  • Price distribution
  • No free lunch

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Ep. 474: Freedom with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Freedom with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Freedom with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Freedom with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Unanimity in government vs. Majority rule
  • Principles vs. Expedients
  • Government conformity
  • Government autonomy
  • The meaning of property
  • Responsible individuals vs. Irresponsible individuals
  • Human rights
  • Freedom of speech
  • Government failure on a large scale
  • Market failures
  • 3rd party benefits for society
  • Government failure vs. Market failure

“With a little market and a free enterprise sector it is hard to do good. But by the same token it is hard to do evil. In a society of imperfect human beings, with the experience we have had, it is worth paying a big price. Reducing the chances of doing good in order to avoid the chances of doing evil especially when one mans good is another mans evil.” – Milton Friedman

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Ep. 472: Silence with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Silence with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Silence with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Silence with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head.
  • Correlations between high blood pressure and chronic noise sources.
  • Possible therapeutic uses for silence.
  • Trend following.

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“Stick with what you know best, so you don’t sound like a complete idiot”

Feedback in based on my recent podcast:

“I think you should have named the most latest episode abject stupidity, and lack of human decency. Stick with what you know best, so you don’t sound like a complete idiot. Now you can go ahead and read this email on your podcast like you’ve done to others in the past, but I think you should stop and think for a second that you might be annoying the very people you are expecting to money off of.”

A great excerpt from Ayn Rand, John Galt, in Atlas Shrugged:

“The symbol of all relationships among [rational] men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live by values, not by loot are traders, both in manner and spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures, nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws. A trader does not squander his body as fodder, or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values, so he does not give the values of his spirit – his love, his friendship, his esteem – except in payment and in trade for human virtue, in payment for his own selfish pleasure, which he receives from men he can respect. The mystic parasites who have, throughout the ages, reviled the trader and held him in contempt, while honoring the beggars and the looters, have known the secret motive of the sneers: a trader is the entity they dread – a man of justice.”

A good retort.


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Ep. 470: Objective with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Objective with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Objective with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Objective with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Man’s morality
  • Altruism
  • Self sacrifice
  • Free and unregulated economies
  • Capitalism with government help
  • Welfare
  • Depressions due to government interference
  • Strategic decision making

“Man is entitled to his own happiness but he must achieve it himself. He cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.” – Ayn Rand

“I have no faith at all, I only have convictions.” – Ayn Rand

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