The Clint Peek Show - Lawrence Knight

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This is The Clint Peek Show.

Clint Peek (0:39)

And we are live from downtown Marana, Arizona. Good morning America.

I got one of my favorite people on this morning. Someone asked me today, Clint, you got a bunch of favorite people. I said, yes, indeed, I do. I'm blessed. But you're definitely one of the, in that circle. Lawrence Knight, welcome back. Hey, good morning, sir.

Lawrence Knight (1:01)

Great to be here, great to be We're.

I always love your energy. It just fuels me and fires me up.

Clint Peek (1:07)

Hey, we're running a couple of minutes late because we were busy talking to Eb and Bruce in the hallway. And then you and I were on a roll.

Lawrence Knight (1:16)

That's right.

Clint Peek (1:17)

Tony's jumping from studio A to studio B. So here we are. We're going to go hard at it the rest of the day. Here I am. Till the top of the hour.

As usual, no questions. You and I are just going to sit here, and we're going to riff.

Lawrence Knight (1:32)

Talk about this.

Clint Peek (1:32)

We're going to have fun. And you and I haven't sat down for... It's been a while.

Lawrence Knight (1:36)

It has been. Yeah. I don't know.

Well, we did lunch a couple of months ago.

Clint Peek (1:41)

You and I have had conversations. But sitting at the table? Yeah, no. Come on. It's been a little while. Hey, guys, get ready for it. This is going to be like 120 miles an hour.

The next 40, 50 minutes are going to be hard. That's right.

Lawrence Knight (1:54)

That's right.

Clint Peek (1:54)

Good to see you, man.

Lawrence Knight (1:55)

Thank you, sir. Yeah, it's... There's a lot going on. There's a lot going on in my life. There's a lot going on in this town. There's a lot going on in this country.

And eyes wide open. Yeah. Right. And what I like about the energy I feel right now is growth. I feel growth.

I see folks struggling with it. I see people leveraging it. I see people leaning into it.

Clint Peek (2:25)

I see people running from it.

Lawrence Knight (2:27)

Yes. Yeah.

And you and I spend a lot of time talking about leadership, which is a key ingredient to, I think, this assessment.

Clint Peek (2:36)

Right?

Lawrence Knight (2:37)

We, if we were to write some of the big topics of the day, if someone opens the news, whether that's opening the social media, I'm not sure anybody cracks open the black and white newspaper anymore. But whether it be about conversation and topic around technology or AI, whether it be around the, you know, we're in a political season right now.

But underneath that, what I'm listening for is, what's the problem? What is people anxious about? What are their worries? The surface level conversation in my assessment is the, you know, the political buzzwords or the technology piece. But I think if we do it proper, what we're listening for is, what is it the problem we're trying to solve?

And that's where I believe leadership shows up. And I was blessed several years ago to get some executive training at the Darden School of Business. And the focus of that training was around two words, entrepreneurial neural ship, if I can pronounce the word, and strategy.

To slow those words down a little bit, I think one of the key pieces that someone with that, new business mindset, the ones that make it across the finish line, are the ones that have grit and belief.

But grit and belief ain't enough. Grit and belief is a fuel source that has you showing up every single day, showing up to the wins, showing up to the losses. But it's that strategic insight that is another piece. And so a few things you might need would be the grit, that hustle, the words that we find there with someone that has an idea. But that idea is something they genuinely believe in. Come hell or high water, right? They just show up and they show up when the odds are against them. They're doing something different than the rest of the pack. That's what makes their idea interesting or rich. Where those things can go and die is if it's just in the hustle, if it's just in the showing up, right? We've heard expressions around this of, you know, work smarter, not harder, you know, it kind of captures what I'm talking about. But it's, you've got to have that relentless pursuit, but you've got to be thinking about what's the strategy to get there. And so I think that you get those kind of thought leaders at a table, exciting things can happen, in which what makes it, when I say happen, I'm talking about not occasional wins. I'm talking about the consistent win over and over and over. But when I'm looking at performance metrics, the thing that I find too often is what I call the roller coaster. Good one month, bad next month, good neck, the roller coaster. That says that's a real opportunity. And so what you want to see is a line, right? Either it's a growth line to where you need to be, yeah, jump in.