Our first interview is with Jack Butler – a social entrepreneur, speaker, coach and thinker. The focus of our conversation is on whether vertical development makes you more effective as an entrepreneur, and in the process we touch on many interesting topics, such as Integral Theory, Spiral Dynamics, Enneagram and much more.
Here are some highlights of the conversation (with corresponding times in mm:ss):
1:50 raise the floor on our trailing edges
3:00 eating breakfast before bed
4:50 what really drives us
6:20 hitting the limit of our strengths
8:10 does development make you more effective?
10:30 what’s the goal?
12:00 aware of more complexity
13:02 but things become better
15:40 seeing through hidden agendas
16:05 metabolizing more truth
18:05 life as an inquiry
18:38 integral theory primer
24:00 responding to life conditions
25:15 new priorities of integral life
26:35 the evolving why
27:10 knowing when to rest
28:10 the founder grandeur
30:00 embracing discomfort
32:00 not enough time
35:05 taking the long-term view
35:40 deconstructing cultural assumptions
36:40 (not) creating from deficiency
38:30 self-authoring people and companies
39:25 the space between
40:35 what does life want from you?
41:25 entrepreneurs influence culture
42:07 enneagram
43:50 creating blueprints
You can find out more about Jack on his website.