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Hello and welcome to this week's Business or Bullshit quiz with the CEO of Philanthropic Investment Model, GreaterShare, Dana Bezira, in the hot seat.
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So this is our favorite part of the show, Business or Bullshit.
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I do love that.
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You'll have to tell me where to get one.
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Well, we're just, it's just, you know, these will be freely available for Excellent price, uh, once we've fully solved the board version.
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This is, this is the, uh, podcast version of the game.
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Deque the music, we're gonna list off some key terms.
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All you have to do is tell us whether you think it's business or bullshit.
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Okay.
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We probably should have come up with some great ones for you, but we're just waiting for about 500 of these cards to arrive.
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Anyway.
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Okay.
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LinkedIn.
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Business.
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Sadly.
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Office nap pods.
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Bullshit.
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Yeah.
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I don't know, I'm really coming round to the idea.
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Well I think it would be alright if it had a light on.
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Said who was in it, said how long they'd been in there for.
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Oh no, God, because the stress of I've been in here for over 40 minutes now and they're going to fire me would be horrific.
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Well, the science is quite clear.
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If you sleep for anything more than 20 minutes, your performance goes down.
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So they'd have to limit you for 20 minutes.
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No, what you do...
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But how do you fall asleep for 20 minutes?
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That's my problem.
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Because you would have to know when I've been in there for five hours, but I only just drifted off.
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Right, the nap pod monitors your heart rate and your breathing, etc.
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Because...
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It can tell when you fall asleep.
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Oh, it can tell?
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Yeah, you put on a watch.
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And then, it waits 20 minutes and electric shocks you.
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Well, no, I was going to say, can't it play some nice classical music, warm up the room, and have someone with a cup of tea pops out?
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Uh, ballpark figures.
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Oh, probably business.
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Team building exercise.
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Exercises.
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Business.
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MBAs.
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Bullshit.
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Damn straight.
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Correct.
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Flexible working.
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Business.
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In office fitness classes.
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Bullshit.
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I'm feeling these are very easy.
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I think you'd have been...
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Yeah, paradigm shift.
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I hate that.
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Bullshit.
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Okay, very good.
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Low hanging fruit.
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Oh, I hate that.
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Bullshit.
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Hot disking.
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Bullshit, because I don't like it.
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It's a good idea, but I don't like it.
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Yeah, you don't like seeing it I don't like working that way, yeah.
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I don't want people touching my stuff.
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Yeah, okay.
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No one touch Dana's stuff.
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Uh, wheelhouses.
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Oh, these are all so classic.
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Yeah, bullshit.
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Pivoting.
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This is all business jargon I hate.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, they're all bullshit.
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They are, a lot of them.
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Mandatory office birthday cake.
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Oh, total bullshit.
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Do you do that in America?
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Which way round?
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Do you have to give cakes?
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Lots of people give cakes.
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I think it's total bullshit.
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What if I don't like you?
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What if I don't care that they would give it to the birthday person.
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Yes.
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In our country, it's absolutely bonkers.
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You've got to buy everyone else cakes because it's your birthday.
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Who the hell sold that?
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I think, well, maybe someone worked out they'd sell more cakes, so they said, oh, that's the ambition.
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You know.
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No, but I also think it's like, okay, sorry, I'm going to show my geekiness now.
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It's like Hobbit birthdays.
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On Hobbit birthdays, you give everybody else presents.
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Yeah.
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Hobbits have I'm sorry.
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Yeah, Hobbits do probably pre date, mandatory, anyway, business plans.
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Bullshit.
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Universal basic income.
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Oh, that's business.
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Yeah, let's discuss it.
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You know anything about it?
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It's very popular in the U.
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S.
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right now.
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There's a concept.
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Uh, there are lots of, uh, beta tests going on in all different pockets.
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Oh, yeah, there are, aren't there?
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Yeah, mm hmm, absolutely.
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And what are they doing, what, a thousand bucks a month or something?
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Yeah, depends on where they are and how much funding they could get, but yes, lots.
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Diversity quotas.
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Oh, I think they're important, but I think they're poorly implemented sometimes.
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Meeting agendas.
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I actually like those, increasingly.
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I used to hate them.
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Yeah, I kind of think an agenda's probably not bad.
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And just to finish this off on some, um, Uh oh.
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Jargon.
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I hate blue sky thinking as jargon.
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I like the idea, but...
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Okay, very good.
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You're an anti jargon machine.
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I just think it's funny.
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So there we go, that was the end of Business or Bullshit.
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Thank You got a million points.
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I actually thought your answers, I think I agree with every answer, Mr.
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A big thank you to Dana for joining us this week, and we'll be back with a brand new episode next Tuesday.
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In the meantime, have a great weekend.
