Larry gets put through the BoB paces with some strong views on Working From Home, MBAs and Office Nap Pods!

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Right, it's Friday.

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So welcome to this week's business or bullshit quiz with celebrity hairstylist Larry King in the hot seat

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You ready to play a game Larry?

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It's very very quick and easy to play We're gonna say something you have to say whether it's business or bullshit.

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Yeah Deque the music and So we begin.

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Oh, it's a really boring one.

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Work plates Business or bullshit bullshit.

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Ugh.

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I dunno.

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Yeah.

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I'll be interested in your industry.

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'cause workloads I think is slightly a misano.

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It's more like appropriate dress for your industry.

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You know?

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I think, you know, in my industry, you, but when you're a stylist, you have to be fast as being individual and celebrating your own creative.

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But you absolute look smart, right?

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You have to not kind of, no, you have to be creativity.

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No, I think you have to.

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It's an extension of your own personality and creativity as your dress sense.

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But I think also youngsters that are coming into the industry, you know, Clients need to feel like they have a place where they can, you know, like if there's

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an assistant that's in clothes that they can identify or there's a receptionist that are well dressed and they know that they work within the establishment.

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Do you know what I mean?

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So that's how I tend to look at it.

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Yeah, it's almost like dress well or for whatever that means for your, for your thing.

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Flexible working.

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No, bullshit, definitely.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah, definitely.

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Yeah, aren't you the, the, uh, the exact example of a flexible working industry?

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Or no, because...

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No.

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There's a point...

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No, no, no.

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I think all this shit about people working from home, the country needs to get back into your faces.

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It's bollocks.

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Honestly, I don't care how many people tonight, yeah, people want to work from home, so they can have mundane, mundane Mondays, where they

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just do all of their mundane chores, and then they go, fuck it Fridays, where they just fuck off everything, because they've got a hangover.

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But...

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They only work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

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This country is just...

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works three days a week, majority of the time.

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My salon is packed as much on a Tuesday and a Wednesday as on a Saturday.

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Well, so explain that one.

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Yeah, yeah.

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No, I kind of agree with that.

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In fact, um, one of the things that, again, I wasn't that bothered, but the, you know, you get to the bottom of the labour things that we're gonna have...

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Two extra bank holidays for a country that's really struggling with its efficiency.

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I couldn't work that one out.

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I just think people just need to be in offices.

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I think people need to communicate, they need to feel like they get up, get dressed, give a reason to get dressed in the morning.

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Sorry, call me old fashioned and if people really go and attack me on it.

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Then fair enough, but I do think, I think it also mental health causes a lot of mental health issues, people working at home, that isolation.

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I just think people need to just be back in the offices, it's crucial, it's just like I said, it's identifying about mental health, people working hard, if someone says, look, can I work from home this day?

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But it should be asked, it's not like a weekly.

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Yeah, not always.

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Meeting agendas.

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I think people have a lot of meetings and don't move things forward.

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Yeah.

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I think, I speak to people in other companies and they can spend all day on meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting.

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And then I go, how do you actually do the stuff that you have these meetings about?

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Where do you actually do the work and make it happen?

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And nine times out of ten, they only have to do it the three hours after work.

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Yeah.

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Mm hmm.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Sometimes I think meetings can take...

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Productivity, yeah.

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MBAs.

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What does MBA actually stand for?

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Uh, Master of Business Administration.

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Oh, yeah, okay.

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Master of Business Administration.

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Well, that's education, isn't it, at MBAs, aren't they?

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It's like university degrees.

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Yeah, but there's a query about whether they're useful education or not.

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Honestly, again, I believe people sometimes, you know, if you go to university, you get a really good degree.

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My daughter's going to university.

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Or you go into a business start right at the bottom and you work your way up what one's going to achieve the highest level first Yeah, there's a lot to be said to cracking on with it.

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That's for sure Very good diversity quotas.

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Yes.

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I think that is crucial Definitely.

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I think people definitely need to be a diversity is massive and it's crucial for me Definitely everyone's opportunities should be equal to everybody and I think

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it's genomic growth within that world is is much needed Universal basic income, so everybody gets a bit of money regardless of whether they have a job or not.

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The argument is it sort of simplifies...

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Well, they do that, that happens now, doesn't it?

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Not really.

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Yeah, some people argue that, you know, you've got to apply for it through benefits or whatever, but that's one of the advantages.

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Listen, if people need benefits, and they're, you know, they need benefits because of issues, 100 percent they should be having benefits.

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But if there's people that compute, it can work.

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So you would say, because that means everybody gets it, so bullshit maybe.

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I don't know, I quite like the sound of it, so.

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Work for Moe, get, do grand a month, do fuck all, I think, you know, estimations.

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Business estimations, as long as it's within, ballpark figures, as long as it's within the remit of your, your close to it, do you know what I mean?

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You're not sticking it right out there.

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Oh, my business is worth 50 million when you're only turning over 50 grand.

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That's, that's definitely called bullshit.

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No, it's bullshit.

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Business plans.

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Yeah, business plans are great.

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I think they're good.

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They give you guidance.

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And I think you should update your business plans.

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Regularly.

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Yeah, regularly.

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Yeah.

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Because the world changes fast.

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Yes, the world does change fast.

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Office nap pods.

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Yeah, see, I don't, see, I don't mind that.

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Because that's about me saying people going to work and not working from home.

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Because if you don't need them if you're working from home, because you just don't get out of bed till three o'clock in the afternoon.

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Can be true.

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Do you know what I mean?

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Have you heard about these, sorry, just going back to that one.

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Yeah.

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People not getting home.

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People have machines at home that keep their mouses moving.

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Have you heard about that?

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No!

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Yeah, mate.

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To keep them active?

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There's a machine that just moves the mouse?

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Yeah, you just stick the mouse on this machine, it keeps the mouse moving.

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So, online people...

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There's loads of people Googling right now and buying one from Amazon, I imagine.

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I'll swear down, you Google it, this machine, you stick your mouse on it, it makes your mouse move consistently, so you're...

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Company can see that you're online when the fact that you're in bed actually watching movies.

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Oh my god.

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Um, there was a thing on the radio the other day that having 20 minute naps makes you think more clearly, makes you less likely to have dementia.

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But only up to 20 minutes.

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Interesting.

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If you look at that research, if you do more than 20 minutes, then it all...

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20 minutes is fine for me.

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Pivoting.

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Pivoting your business.

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Larry King, he's pivoted his...

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Well, he's kind of pivoted slightly with the, the products.

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Well, it would be more you giving up hairdressing and going into nail salons.

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No, no, no, no, no.

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I think you've always got to refresh your business and look at where you're going and, you know, pivoting is just pivoting it to keep it on path, surely.

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Why don't you diversify into things like nails and stuff?

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That never really happens, doesn't it?

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It does, in some households.

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It's a different industry, a different business.

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It's not the same industry, beauty industry, but it's a...

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You know, it's a different training.

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Yeah, different style.

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Uh, in office fitness classes.

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Yeah, good for mental health.

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Not that I'm the most fittest person, I'm the most unfittest person on the planet, but it also does help with mental health.

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I do believe in that.

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But I have to say, I don't go to the gym until I am.

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Oh wow.

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Do you don't do exercise?

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No, I'm not the most exercising person on the planet, I have to say.

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Okay.

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That's it.

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I mean, we'll do one more for the hell of it.

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We'll do, uh, paradigm shift.

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No.

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Bollocks.

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Yeah.

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Agreed.

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A big, big thank you to Larry for joining us this week, and we'll be back with a brand new episode next Tuesday.

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In the meantime, have a great weekend.