Relief For Iceland
The World Economic Forum has prepared you a box lunch for the last day of the world's most boring event.
Hey Everyone,
Good morning to everyone. Except for anyone who happens to live in Greenland, who are the subject of this week's news. And a partial good morning to anyone attending the Davos World Economic Forum, because I hear the box lunches are going to be pretty good today, but you still are at the World Economic Forum, and it's still a box lunch. Although a slightly good-er morning for those of you who are heads of state, and thanks for liking and subscribing.
I'll start today off with some good news.
We are not going to invade Iceland. And I'm sure you're relieved, except that Trump thinks you are Greenland, or that Greenland is you.
Davos was an interesting event. It's normally a time to bring the world together and foster economic collaboration across borders. However, it ended up being an episode of The Secret Lives of Mormon Housewives, and this was the episode where everyone was ganging up on Whitney as she accused everyone of various grievances, virtually ruining Mayci's birthday.
Many of the speakers directed their comments critically at Trump.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke about the global order being ruptured by global powers weaponizing their economic might. He urged leaders to come to the table to contain global powers that will make their own rules, saying, "If you are not at the table, you are the menu."
Emmanuel Macron delivered his entire speech while wearing blue-tinted aviator sunglasses, as a reminder that the French have more style than most of the world. He, too, decided to give the US leader a little French dip as he spoke about a globe run by bullies, creating a "world without rules."
Trump's most notable accomplishment from his trip was a deal he struck regarding Greenland.
So far, the deal is not a sure thing. It appears to have been made with someone who was reportedly the secretary to the receptionist of the office manager of NATO, an alliance of countries which includes Denmark, a country of which Greenland is a territory. No word so far from Greenland, the Danes, or the actual office manager.
It's a complicated deal which Trump referred to as a "framework for a future deal which, if consummated, will be a very great deal, the ultimate deal, some would say one of the best deals and would last forever." You see, what Trump is doing is called "anchoring." It gets his opponent to move an inch and feel like they've won, and it lets him pretend he did too.
To restate the deal in everyday terms, essentially, if we were enjoying life at a San Diego, California resort, and I suggested we go to Gary, Indiana, to visit the infamously lame Majestic Star Casino, to eat their greasy chicken and lumpy mashed potatoes, and talked about it for several months, then suddenly, we compromised, and I got you to agree to drive down the street to the Walgreens for some beef jerky and a bag of chips, which you also didn't want to do, you'd probably have an easier time agreeing to the compromise than if I made it my original proposal. You'd call it a win-win. I'd call it the art of the deal.
Meanwhile, back home, in Minneapolis, a five-year-old boy was taken by ICE agents from his driveway as he returned from school. The kid was forced to knock on his door to draw the residents out of the house. And also, a man nicknamed "Sieg Heil" is running for the 1st Congressional district in Indiana, so obviously, everything is pretty great.
That’s it for this week. Now, here’s our latest from the pod.
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If you are an entrepreneur or manager, you probably make a lot of decisions based on intuition mixed with data. Why do you need someone else to charge you to talk you through doing what you do every day? And why are there so many business coaches out there?
As business-coach skeptics, Michael and I talk with Adam Weber, a tech founder turned business coach, about this and ask him to help us with our unbelief.
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