Hardcore MBA Podcast

Hardcore MBA Podcast


Latest Episodes

Never Fear Again with Erlend Bakke
April 02, 2020

We live in a time of death, loss, and fear. The financial markets are crashing, you may have lost or will lose your job or your business is failing. This is only the beginning of the crisis The curre

Fear & how to Master it in Times of Disaster with Tormod Granheim
March 19, 2020

Since this interview was recorded the world has changed a lot. Learning how to master and rationalize your fears is more important now than it has been since the financial crisis of 2008. To understand why social distancing is so important I highly rec...

What You Don´t Measure, You Can´t Manage
March 03, 2020

You cannot manage what you can measure. Are you the kind of person who measures things? When you are in business, numbers is very important, you have to understand what it means. We are in the age o

What Do Programmers Want?
February 11, 2020

In 2017, programmers are an integral part of the business. If your competitor is building a better platform than you have, then you might be outcompeted by them. The benefit of building tech and software into your business is that you can operate more ...

The Perfect To-Do List
January 29, 2020

Erlend is a big fan of the book The One Thing its all about the one most important thing to do today to make everything else easier. And that is not just thinking about today but in the next five

The Importance of Consistency
January 14, 2020

Do you do things on a repetitive basis? In this weeks episode, Erlend will talk about Consistency. Everyone has habits, but a few ones who have good habits, they get the best results. There is no suc

The Daily Update and my Best Productivity Hack
December 11, 2019

  If you have a team and working on a project, don’t have enough time to make things happen, this one technique called “The Daily Update” will save you from being bogged down with micromanagement. Erlend has been using this for 7 years and receiving we...

The Daily Stoic
November 26, 2019

  What I love about the book The Daily Stoic aside that it’s from Ryan Holiday is that you can just sit back and read a portion daily. The book is composed of advice from ancient Roman Stoics about life. Their philosophies are solid and work with a lot...

Peace and Chaos
November 12, 2019

Yin and Yang. I try to control things that I can influence. There is no point in worrying about the things that you can’t control. But what can you control? When I wake up, the day’s outcome should be favorable.

Outsourcing to the Philippines
October 29, 2019

Erlend discovered Outsourcing to the Philippines when he was doing 360 photography and his arms were hurting, needed help but couldnt afford to hire in Norway. So, he started an Ad on a Filipino webs