Stop Wasting Time - Here's How to Think Big | Mario Harik

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Mario Harik is the best CEO's you've never heard of. He learned by working with a living legend and now he's using everything he's learned at his 40,000 employees company. Mario is the CEO of XPO, one of the largest trucking and logistics companies in the world, with a market cap north of $25B. He joined as employee No. 3 and spent years as Brad Jacobs’ right hand before taking over as CEO. In this conversation, Mario shares the test Brad Jacobs taught him for spotting an A player in minutes, how to interview someone and actually determine if they're good, and the one habit that stalls most careers. He walks through how he makes faster, better, decisions, what he does before and during meetings that makes them more effective, and how a rival’s collapse became one of the most important bets of his career. Enjoy! 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:19 How an engineering mindset improves leadership 00:01:58 Using engineering frameworks to execute as CEO 00:03:38 Why perfection is the enemy of effective management 00:05:14 The Brad Jacobs lesson on thinking bigger 00:07:13 The feedback loops that build strong teams 00:08:18 Three qualities to test for in every hire 00:12:50 The service-first strategy behind leading 40,000 people 00:16:21 Running a multi-billion-dollar company on real-time data 00:22:35 Using AI to catch mistakes before the customer does 00:28:35 Coaching through data instead of criticism 00:32:36 The prep work that makes meetings actually work 00:39:48 Going four clicks deep in an interview 00:47:30 What growing up in a war zone taught him about perspective 00:49:27 How an engineer calculates risk 00:50:56 The anatomy of a billion-dollar bet: The Yellow Acquisition 00:55:31 Turning strategy into execution with financial tracking 00:59:23 How to accurately identify A, B, and C players 01:02:12 Why belief is an underrated performance driver 01:04:18 How to give feedback that lands 01:07:33 The only three levers that create all the value Follow Mario Harik: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marioh