Eddie Grobler - What’s Your Decency Quotient

                                 

This week Duff speaks with Eddie Grobler. Eddie shares how "the answer is in your hands", why you shouldn't "Jerk the knee or shoot the mouth" and why "Your mindset matters...a lot" along with seven other great lessons.

About Eddie Grobler

In July 2019, Eddie established Commerce 2040. The main objective is to use Commerce 2040 as a “platform” for engagement with different stakeholders in the payments value chain with the key focus on payment flows in a dynamic and changing environment. He is currently involved is a number of explorative engagements with stakeholders – mainly start-up organisations and entities who are interested in entering the Australasian market.

Eddie Grobler was the Executive Vice President: Australasia Division from 2008 and in August 2016, he was appointed as Executive Vice President: Realtime Payments. Based in London, he was responsible for the development and execution of Mastercard’s real time payments strategy. Part of this strategy was to acquire a UK real time payments company. Eddie was part of the due diligence team. After the successful acquisition of Vocalink he took responsibility for the integration of the company into Mastercard. This project was successfully completed in November 2018 after which he returned back to Australia. Eddie retired, after 20 years, from Mastercard on 31 December 2018.

Prior to 2008 Eddie was Based in Johannesburg, as the Senior Vice President: Sub-Sahara Division Eddie was responsible for all the Mastercard Africa business operations, in particular, the development of the Mastercard franchise in Africa, sub-Sahara. He was instrumental in the opening of the Mastercard offices in Nigeria, Kenya and Morocco.

Eddie holds two Master's Degrees: one in Business Leadership the other in Psychology.

Episode notes.

Lesson 1: The answer is in your hands 5m 58s.

Lesson 2: Culture matters and always will 8m 58s

Lesson 3: Writing in the snow 12m 08s.

Lesson 4: What’s your decency quotient 14m 35s

Lesson 5: Your mindset matters a lot 18m 03s.

Lesson 6: Far or fast…you choose 22m 58s.

Lesson 7: Make recognition your job 25m 00s.

Lesson 8: Reverse Mentoring 30m 42s

Lesson 9: Your career is not a one-day match. 36m 07s

Lesson 10: Don’t jerk the knee or shoot the mouth 38m 58s.