Shaan's 9 Unorthodox Management Tips

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How To Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. Talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said, you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's podcast network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales.
You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.

**Shaan Puri** (1:09)
What's up y'all, Sean here. Sam is in Europe traveling around with the fam, and so I'm on my own today. And I wanted to do something cool, and I think I got a great idea. So I believe, here's my guess. I think this pod is gonna be one that people really, really like, because I know I would have wanted to hear this at some point in time. And the reason why is because most of the people who listen to this podcast are some form of leadership. You might have started your own company or your own business.
You might be kind of an exec somewhere or a manager somewhere, or you wanna be a leader, right? So most people who don't wanna be leaders are not listening to a podcast like this. So the problem is me and everybody else sucks. Everybody sucks the first time that they are managing people.
And this isn't like how to manage people one-on-one. There's a lot of books that are written about this.
There's some best practices, there's common sense.
But I wanted to share some of the unorthodox, some of the weird things that I do that I have found work for me. And they might not work for everybody, but they work for me.
And not all of these people are gonna agree with, not all of these will work for you. But again, they all work for me. Nobody, I couldn't find any of this stuff in a book.
I heard about these either from somebody or I just kind of made it up on my own. And so I think I have five, maybe six different things that I do that are unorthodox but work. Okay, so let me start with number one. And this is called Dr. House. It's inspired by Dr. House. So if anybody watches the TV show House, he always does this thing.
The show is like, there's this genius doctor, but he's kind of like a curmudgeon. And all the other doctors really respect him because he's amazing, but he's kind of hard to work with. And one of the things he does that's amazing but hard to work with is he has these like three junior doctors who are kind of like, he's, I don't know, advising them or whatever.
They work under him. And when a patient comes in and they run a test to try to figure out what's wrong with the person, he doesn't just look at it and say, here's what's wrong with the person, right? First of all, it's usually not that straightforward. Second of all, even if he kind of has an idea, he doesn't spoon feed it to his team. Instead, he will usually slap the, like maybe the scan or the data or the x-ray or whatever up on a screen and he'll say, what do you see here? Or he'll say, what's weird about this? Or he'll say, what's interesting about this?
And then the team has to start thinking and getting curious and looking at the thing and saying, well, there must be something there. What do I see?
And this is really effective. I do this all the time. I will take, let's say some data I'm looking at. When I'm curious about something, I see something that makes me go, hmm.