HeyJaredMy Life Lessons - The BurgeCast
In 1979, Jeff Burgess was a 22-year-old college dropout drifting through life in a haze of beer, weed, and dead-end jobs. He was the "town clown" with an undeniable work ethic but no clear direction.
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Is My Life 75 Percent Over or Is There Still 25 Percent Left to Fill? (opens the original)
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Somewhere over the Atlantic, somewhere between a too-narrow first-class seat and a four-hour Yes playlist, Jeff Burgess did the math. At 68 years old, if 90 is the target, three-quarters of his life is behind him. His verdict: zero complaints. In this episode, Jeff steps away from business and gets personal. Four kids who turned into four thriving adults. A wife he met on a blind date who has since kept him alive, managed his meds, and remains, by his own account, the most important decision he
Why Smart Bosses Step Back and Win Big Every Time (opens the original)
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Jeff Burgess never had time to micromanage. He had a company to run. And it turned out, stepping back was the best management decision he ever made. In this episode, Jeff makes the case for the hands-off boss, not the checked-out one, but the leader who trusts people enough to let them work, then gets out of the way. He shares how his sales team eventually stopped asking for guidance and started sending him emails about deals he didn't even know they were working on. He took that as the highest
Why These Smart People Made My Computer Industry Success Possible (opens the original)
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Jeff Burgess was the face the customers saw. But behind him were people who made everything work, and this episode is their story. In this episode, Jeff pays tribute to three women from his earliest days in the computer industry: Isabelle Drake, the purchasing agent and fellow Cubs fan who chased him down hallways yelling "Jeffrey" just to give him order updates; Helen Jendroka, the devoutly Catholic billing clerk who once invoiced a customer for 14 cartons of eight and a half inch floppy dicks
Why Timing Is the Only Thing That Matters in Computer Industry Success (opens the original)
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Jeff Burgess landed in the computer industry in 1979. He sometimes wishes it had been 1975. Then again, maybe not. In this episode, Jeff traces the winding, unplanned path that dropped him into a warehouse at TechAids Industries at exactly the right moment, when technology was just sexy enough to consume him, and when his obsessive desire to learn every packing list and receiving ticket could actually mean something. Two years earlier, he argues, none of it would have stuck. From Bill Gates foun
The Why Factor: What Makes You Different in Business and Life (opens the original)
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Anyone can throw a price on a piece of paper. Jeff Burgess never did. He told a story. That story was the why factor, and it opened doors that numbers alone never could. In this episode, Jeff traces how a reputation built on finding anything for anyone became the engine behind decades of deals, from convincing two competing national distributors to sign him up on the same day, to flying to Houston with his banker to explain a fourteen million dollar sale of Hewlett-Packard goods back to Hewlett-
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