I read some of Hancock's earlier stuff like, 20+ years ago. There were some interesting theories about the possibility of civilizations more ancient than we were then aware of having actually existed.
In the time since, as I understand things, we've discovered "evidence" that points to civilizations of some kind 20,000+ years ago, which we didn't seem to have much of back then, and some of which seems to disprove some of Hancock's atlantis-type sophisticated lost ancient civilizations theories, but it was still a moderately compelling, engaging, and fascinating IDEA at the time even if the magnetic poles flipping opposite every 12,500 years was a little hard to swallow.
I'm not sure what he's peddling now, but when he throws out ideas, he's good at making them seem cool, so it could just be keanu is honestly fascinated by whatever concepts the dude is dishing out.
(The sphinx was originally a lion statue 100,000 years ago or whatever)
More like "sales teams are the reason middle managers think ALL employees slack off when not watched."
I get that sales is a SUPER depressing culture, a ridiculously antiquated work environment, and full of some utterly soul-sucking mandates from above, but I have never seen, in any workplace, a team that needs someone constantly riding herd on them like the sales team.
Every place I've worked, every place that a place I've worked has had as a client, and every business I've ever visited had the same problem -- sales people are largely unmotivated because their job has a much higher chance to SUCK OUT LOUD than most of the other jobs at a given company.
When five figure quarterly bonuses, daily friendly team competitions for gift cards, more paid-for-by-the-company outings than the c suites get and pickle ball on company time twice a week aren't enough to hype people up to do their actual job, something is really fucking wrong with the job expectations.