{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep 7 - The O'Leary Review - Guest: Sean Kennedy - Simbiotrek","description":"As the Founder and President of Simbiotrek (sim-b\u0113-\u02c8\u00e4-\u02c8trek), Sean Kennedy wears many hats. Sean\u2019s roles include: transformation strategist and catalyst fractional COO for small- and medium-sized businesses small business peer advisory board coordinator and chair Sean works with entrepreneurs and business owners to unlock the potential trapped by the structure and capacity of their current business organization, and to build beautiful businesses together.   Sean has 20+ years of experience in software development. He\u2019s primarily concerned with Agile and Lean software, of which he is a practitioner, coach, strategist, and digital transformation leader. We delve into Sean\u2019s role in \u201cdigital transformation\u201d and much more. Sean\u2019s clients range from: Multinationals to startups In the Americas to over in Europe and Asia Within the aerospace and automotive industry to industrial automation and insurance into health care, retail, technology, and telecommunications\u2026he runs the gamut.   Tom Woods #TomWoods100 TomWoods.com TomSchoolofLife.com My goal is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on this show. We are building steady. Sean is the 5th person within Tom\u2019s orbit to come on the pod\u2026 First, if you don\u2019t know who Tom Woods is, you\u2019ve probably been living under a rock, but Tom is a benefactor of mankind\u2026and to my intelligence level. Check out TomWoods.com for a firehose worth of great content and then work your way to TomSchoolofLife.com. We need to keep the momentum going for this #TomWoods100 series. (And I apologize to Tom if I hijacked a hashtag he wanted &\/or needed for another project\u2026but I don\u2019t think so.) The point is\u2014The O\u2019Leary Review provides a platform for serious people to get the word out on what they are doing to make this world better. Also\u2014 our mission is to fight back against the crazy in this world. It exists all around us and we must eliminate it.   How I met Sean. I met Sean a few weeks back when he facilitated an accountability group within the Tom Woods School of Life that I am a part of.   \u201cBlah blah blah\u2026Austrian Economics\u2026blah blah blah\u2026 I know nothing about that stuff.\u201d Well, you should find out. And we provide a platform here\u2014at least on the last few shows\u2014where you can now jump on the Austrian train with relative ease. Over the last few podcasts, we\u2019ve talked a bit about Austrian Economics and have provided resources in the various show notes. The following talk, however, is also worth your time if you have any inkling to discover more about why one should pursue Austrian Economics in even its basic forms. You\u2019ll likely discover that economics is indeed a field worth studying or exploring.  \u201cThe Attractiveness of Austrian Economics\u201d by Tom Woods from July of 2013. https:\/\/youtu.be\/DStLhWMRERM   More About Sean Lives in the Raleigh-Durham area after moving down from Toronto. Simbiotrek\u2019s office is in \u201cWake Forest.\u201d Wake Forest, the town, is in the Raleigh-Durham area, also called the Research Triangle\u2026not\u2014as I found out doing a little cursory research\u2014near Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. About a 2-hour car ride away! Notable son of Wake Forest: Bryce Love, former Stanford running back who had a phenomenal junior season at The Farm (Doak Walker Award, Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year, Unanimous All-American, etc.). Attended Wake Forest-Rolesville High School. Love had one great college season after backing up Christian McCaffrey for two seasons then got hurt his senior year, playing off-and-on. Got hurt again\u2014ACL tear\u2014in his final college game, but was eventually drafted by the Washington Redskins, yet dealt with more injury trouble and never ultimately played a regular season game in the NFL. Great ballplayer.   Sean\u2019s early days were spent in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Kitchener, Ontario, however, and not in the Research Triangle.   Sean\u2019s rooting interest in the CFL is for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. https:\/\/www.bluebombers.com\/   A couple of other famous sons of Kitchener, Ontario: Lennox Lewis Former Heavyweight Champion of the World. Last heavyweight to hold the undisputed championship. Moved to Kitchener at the age of 12. 1988 Gold medal winner at the Seoul Olympics (representing Canada).   Jamal Murray Utah Jazz guard. Currently recovering from a devastating ACL tear that caused him to miss the entire 2021-22 NBA season. Interestingly, Murray\u2019s father, Roger, competed in basketball against Lennox Lewis when they were younger and before Lewis started his boxing career. Roger also coached Jamal for a season at Orangeville Prep prior to the younger Murray going on to Kentucky to play for the Wildcats and coach John Calipari in the 2015-16 season. Murray\u2019s 20.0 scoring average is the highest for any freshman in program history and the highest single-season average for any player under Calipari in his time in Lexington. .... I am still trying to research the Canadian high school football rules Sean played under during his prep days and why it became a such a strange mashup of the Canadian and the American gridiron codes. Wikipedia has a \u201cComparison of American and Canadian Football,\u201d but it does not do justice to what we were talking about in this episode. But, if you are not familiar with the code of Canadian football, but know the American code well enough\u2014or vice-versa\u2014this examination is a good start\u2026  ... Game mentioned: 100th Grey Cup November 25, 2012 at SkyDome\/Rogers Centre in Toronto. Toronto Argonauts 35 \u2014 Calgary Stampeders 22 Attendance: 53,208 Halftime show included Canadians: Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen, Marianas Trench, and the ol\u2019 troubadour himself, Gordon Lightfoot.   Sean\u2019s Core Values The Golden Rule The Stockdale Paradox   Sean Kennedy is a youth hockey coach in North Carolina One of Sean\u2019s videos takes the lessons learned from a youth hockey tournament into entrepreneurship. https:\/\/wthtm.com\/entrepreneurship-and-the-new-business\/entrepreneurial-lessons-from-youth-hockey\/547\/ Read Sean\u2019s article and watch the video. He teaches lessons on how coaching translates to the business world. It struck me when Sean mentioned Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour was watching this tournament. I think it was 10U or 11U. One of Brind\u2019Amour\u2019s sons was playing in the same tournament. It stood out because Brind\u2019Amour was one of my favorite hockey players in the 1990s. I\u2019ve never been a big Flyers fan, but I really liked his Flyers team of that era, where he was the second-line centre. Eric Lindros led the \u201cLegion of Doom\u201d line with John LeClair and Mikael Renberg as wingers. I almost exclusively used the Flyers when I played NHL96 on my computer\u2026and I did that a lot at one stage of my life. In real life, that Flyers club made it to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1997 but were eventually swept by the Red Wings (who won the Cup for the first time in 42 years). In that video game, it was hard to choose which future NHL general manager to put in goal for Philly: Ron Hextall or Garth Snow. Coach Terry Murray had a similar problem\u2026both were good tenders. Rod Brind\u2019Amour https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/brindro01.html Brind\u2019Amour is now the coach for the Carolina franchise. It surprised me when I looked up his stats that he played for Carolina for so long, too. Ten seasons for the Canes to 7 as a Flyer. \u201cRod Brind\u2019Amour\u201d is also one of the great names in sports. Hard to type at times but rolls of the tongue nicely.   Better Entrepreneurial Action Network https:\/\/beaction.net\/ Developed by Simbiotrek with the support of Economics for Business, a project of the Mises Institute.   Economics for Business https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/economics-business I only heard about this in the last several days Mises Institute has such a vast catalog of material\u2026   Econ4Business.com https:\/\/econ4business.com\/ Building a business, managing a project, launching an innovation \u2013 these are journeys from your imagination to the marketplace and customer satisfaction. We\u2019ve systematized the journey steps based on the value generation principles of Austrian economics.   Simbiotrek Simbiotrek (sim-b\u0113-\u02c8\u00e4-\u02c8trek) get clarity \u00b7 get alignment \u00b7 get going https:\/\/simbiotrek.com\/   Whatever The Heck That Means (Sean\u2019s Blog) https:\/\/wthtm.com\/ Bikesheds & Dim Sum Entrepreneurship & The New Business Poems & Personal Things Links to YouTube channel   Sean aka MacGyver  @MacGyver on Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/AkaMacGyver \u2026 we never got to ask if the alias has anything to do with Richard Dean Anderson being both a Canadian and a hockey enthusiast\u2026 for another day.   BrianDOLeary.com for more...   ","author_name":"The Brian D. O'Leary Show","author_url":"https:\/\/briandoleary.com\/","html":"