Episode 218
EP 218 - QUIZ - Business or Bullshit with Dana Bezerra
We run Greater Share CEO Dana Bezerra through our quiz gauntlet!
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Transcript
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.
Speaker:So this is our favorite part of the show, Business or Bullshit.
Speaker:I do love that.
Speaker:You'll have to tell me where to get one.
Speaker: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.
Speaker:This is, this is the, uh, podcast version of the game.
Speaker:Deque the music, we're gonna list off some key terms.
Speaker:All you have to do is tell us whether you think it's business or bullshit.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker: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.
Speaker:Anyway.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:LinkedIn.
Speaker:Business.
Speaker:Sadly.
Speaker:Office nap pods.
Speaker:Bullshit.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I don't know, I'm really coming round to the idea.
Speaker:Well I think it would be alright if it had a light on.
Speaker:Said who was in it, said how long they'd been in there for.
Speaker: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.
Speaker:Well, the science is quite clear.
Speaker:If you sleep for anything more than 20 minutes, your performance goes down.
Speaker:So they'd have to limit you for 20 minutes.
Speaker:No, what you do...
Speaker:But how do you fall asleep for 20 minutes?
Speaker:That's my problem.
Speaker:Because you would have to know when I've been in there for five hours, but I only just drifted off.
Speaker:Right, the nap pod monitors your heart rate and your breathing, etc.
Speaker:Because...
Speaker:It can tell when you fall asleep.
Speaker:Oh, it can tell?
Speaker:Yeah, you put on a watch.
Speaker:And then, it waits 20 minutes and electric shocks you.
Speaker: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?
Speaker:Uh, ballpark figures.
Speaker:Oh, probably business.
Speaker:Team building exercise.
Speaker:Exercises.
Speaker:Business.
Speaker:MBAs.
Speaker:Bullshit.
Speaker:Damn straight.
Speaker:Correct.
Speaker:Flexible working.
Speaker:Business.
Speaker:In office fitness classes.
Speaker:Bullshit.
Speaker:I'm feeling these are very easy.
Speaker:I think you'd have been...
Speaker:Yeah, paradigm shift.
Speaker:I hate that.
Speaker:Bullshit.
Speaker:Okay, very good.
Speaker:Low hanging fruit.
Speaker:Oh, I hate that.
Speaker:Bullshit.
Speaker:Hot disking.
Speaker:Bullshit, because I don't like it.
Speaker:It's a good idea, but I don't like it.
Speaker:Yeah, you don't like seeing it I don't like working that way, yeah.
Speaker:I don't want people touching my stuff.
Speaker:Yeah, okay.
Speaker:No one touch Dana's stuff.
Speaker:Uh, wheelhouses.
Speaker:Oh, these are all so classic.
Speaker:Yeah, bullshit.
Speaker:Pivoting.
Speaker:This is all business jargon I hate.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, they're all bullshit.
Speaker:They are, a lot of them.
Speaker:Mandatory office birthday cake.
Speaker:Oh, total bullshit.
Speaker:Do you do that in America?
Speaker:Which way round?
Speaker:Do you have to give cakes?
Speaker:Lots of people give cakes.
Speaker:I think it's total bullshit.
Speaker:What if I don't like you?
Speaker:What if I don't care that they would give it to the birthday person.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:In our country, it's absolutely bonkers.
Speaker:You've got to buy everyone else cakes because it's your birthday.
Speaker:Who the hell sold that?
Speaker:I think, well, maybe someone worked out they'd sell more cakes, so they said, oh, that's the ambition.
Speaker:You know.
Speaker:No, but I also think it's like, okay, sorry, I'm going to show my geekiness now.
Speaker:It's like Hobbit birthdays.
Speaker:On Hobbit birthdays, you give everybody else presents.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Hobbits have I'm sorry.
Speaker:Yeah, Hobbits do probably pre date, mandatory, anyway, business plans.
Speaker:Bullshit.
Speaker:Universal basic income.
Speaker:Oh, that's business.
Speaker:Yeah, let's discuss it.
Speaker:You know anything about it?
Speaker:It's very popular in the U.
Speaker:S.
Speaker:right now.
Speaker:There's a concept.
Speaker:Uh, there are lots of, uh, beta tests going on in all different pockets.
Speaker:Oh, yeah, there are, aren't there?
Speaker:Yeah, mm hmm, absolutely.
Speaker:And what are they doing, what, a thousand bucks a month or something?
Speaker:Yeah, depends on where they are and how much funding they could get, but yes, lots.
Speaker:Diversity quotas.
Speaker:Oh, I think they're important, but I think they're poorly implemented sometimes.
Speaker:Meeting agendas.
Speaker:I actually like those, increasingly.
Speaker:I used to hate them.
Speaker:Yeah, I kind of think an agenda's probably not bad.
Speaker:And just to finish this off on some, um, Uh oh.
Speaker:Jargon.
Speaker:I hate blue sky thinking as jargon.
Speaker:I like the idea, but...
Speaker:Okay, very good.
Speaker:You're an anti jargon machine.
Speaker:I just think it's funny.
Speaker:So there we go, that was the end of Business or Bullshit.
Speaker:Thank You got a million points.
Speaker:I actually thought your answers, I think I agree with every answer, Mr.
Speaker:Bell.
Speaker:A big thank you to Dana for joining us this week, and we'll be back with a brand new episode next Tuesday.
Speaker:In the meantime, have a great weekend.
