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Brought to you by Collective Campus, Future² is a podcast all about helping people create more impact in the world and live more rewarding lives through sharing insights, case studies and the latest trends and news on the topics of corporate innovation, entrepreneurship and self improvement.
Future Squared is hosted by Steve Glaveski, CEO and Co-Founder of Collective Campus, an innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, that has been home to the likes of Uber and Zomatoand has worked with large organisations such as King & Wood Mallesons, Sportsbet, Mills Oakley, Telstra, National Australia Bank. The organisation helps companies adopt the mindset, methods and tools to successfully explore new business models and disruptive innovation.
Every week Steve interviews a thought leader, author or entrepreneur to help you get the most out of every day and achieve your business and life goals.
Previous guests include thought leaders such as Steve Blank, Neil Patel, Rand Fishkin, Ryan Blair, Whitney Johnson, Jenny Blake, Karen Dillon, Ted Rubin, Ben Yoskovitz and innovation managers from a number of organisations.
This podcast is available on: iTunes: http://apple.co/1QWMgS7 Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Future Squared website and mailing list: www.futuresquared.xyz For more on Collective Campus refer to www.collectivecamp.us Follow Steve on Twitter at @steveglaveski or visit SteveGlaveski.com Email Steve on steve@collectivecamp.us
In this episode, we delve into the complexities of social media influence, authentic leadership, and the pursuit of happiness in entrepreneurship.
Today's guest is the remarkable Taryn Williams, a veteran entrepreneur who founded Wink Models, The Right Fit (exited), The Influencer Agency (exited), and the innovative gifting service, #Gifted.
In a candid discussion, Taryn talks about the challenges and successes she faced building businesses in her 20s and stepping back into a leadership role, and emphasizes the vital roles of self-care, mentorship, and maintaining genuine team connections.
Taryn shares invaluable insights on navigating the influencer economy, the shift towards micro and nano influencers, and the importance of organic growth and audience engagement.
She also reflects on the impact of social media on young people, stressing the need for authenticity over appearance.
We weigh in on the dangers of "struggle porn" and the reality behind the pursuit of universal success through social media platforms, shedding light on the psychological effects of these digital tools on our values and aspirations.
Show Notes:
Instagram: instagram.com/tarynwilliams
#Gifted: www.hashgifted.com
Get your free content audit and strategy: www.sonicboom.vc
Timestamps:
00:00 Founded multiple successful businesses, including Wink Models.
05:00 Supportive network, fair pay, collaborative approach, success.
08:44 Early on, I struggled with delegation.
12:15 Scaling a business requires talented team.
15:18 Founder values cultural fit, technical understanding, learning.
18:33 Consistent follow-up for building and maintaining relationships.
20:00 Act on feedback to gain mentor's support.
24:26 Find market fit, build, test, adapt.
25:53 Planned sabbatical interrupted by successful business venture.
29:32 Regret over past decisions, focus on relationships.
32:40 Self-reflection on motivations for success and happiness.
37:46 Chasing external markers of success leads to unhappiness.
41:29 Navigating societal pressures to pursue personal ambitions.
44:04 Navigating sensitive topics while maintaining authenticity online.
48:38 TikTok sale may change US algorithm. Instagram adapts.
49:41 Brands prefer Instagram over TikTok for control.
54:03 Clarify goals to shape effective marketing strategy.
57:34 Steve invites weekly email subscribers for updates.
Michael Thomsen is a freelancer writer, author, and UFC tragic from New York.
He is the author of Cage Kings: How an Unlikely Group of Moguls, Champions & Hustlers Transformed the UFC into a $10 Billion Industry, which unpacks the rapid rise of the UFC an mixed martial arts, the UFC’s business model and economics, the one man tour de force that is longtime UFC president Dana White, the role of the UFC’s owners over time - SEG, Zuffa and Ari Emanuel, and the organization’s anti-competitive behaviors and adversarial relationship with its fighters, which aren’t employees, but independent contractors - most of whom would earn more working a run of the mill admin job in the public sector.
Thomsen’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Slate, Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast, Aeon, Forbes, Al Jazeera America, Adult, Talking Points Memo, Los Angeles Review of Books, Complex, The Paris Review n+1, Bookforum, The Believer, The New Republic, Kill Screen, The New Inquiry, and The Millions.
With that, here’s my conversation with the one and only, Michael Thomsen.
Show Notes: 1. Twitter: https://twitter.com/mike_thomsen?lang=en 2. Get Cage Kings: https://www.amazon.com/Cage-Kings-Unlikely-Champions-Transformed-ebook/dp/B0BHTM6YRY 3. Email Mike: mikthom@gmail.com
Originally published: 2017
Jason Calacanis is a tech entrepreneur, wildly successful angel investor, and the host of the popular weekly podcast This Week in Startups. He's the founder of a series of conferences that bring entrepreneurs together with potential investors.
As a “scout” for top-tier Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and later as an angel investor, Jason has invested in 150 early-stage startups including four that have achieved billion-dollar valuations (so far) such as Uber, Evernote and Tumblr.
Jason's newly released book "Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups: Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000" puts readers inside the minds of successful angel investors, helping to understand how they prioritize and make the decisions that have resulted in phenomenal profits.
Jason provides a step by step roadmap, revealing how leading investors evaluate new ventures, calculating the risks and rewards, and explains how the best startups leverage relationships with angel investors for the best results.
In this episode we go back to Jason’s rough upbringing in Brooklyn, NY in the early 80s and cover a lot of ground leading up to the present day so you can expect to learn a lot of things, including:
- How to pick a billion dollar founder or startup
- How to bounce back from failure
- What Jason thinks of and what advice he has for corporates investing in startups
All topics discussed:
- Jason’s humble beginnings in Brooklyn, NY
- What got Jason into startup investing
- The alchemy of startup investing
- Why you should always wait for external validation from other investors before investing
- Why ideas are a dime a dozen and you should invest in startups that have demonstrated traction
- The biggest mistake first time startup investors make
- The changing nature of angel investing and venture capital
- On books becoming a business card for many people
- Why building quality deal flow is a popularity contest of sorts
- How to get started investing with little money
- The number one thing Jason looks for in entrepreneurs
- Other factors to evaluate startups and entrepreneurs, including Jason’s ‘four founder questions’
- How Jason navigated his Silicon Valley Reporter going bust during the dot com boom
- How to ask good questions
- What Jason’s views on corporate venture capital are and what advice he has for corporates looking to or already investing in startups
- How to go about taking lots of small bets when diversifying and building your portfolio
- What Jason thinks about ICOs, cryptocurrency and blockchain
Show notes:
- Get the book: https://amzn.to/2QpLqkX
- The book: Angelthebook.com
- @jason on Twitter
- Jason’s podcast: ThisWeekInStartups.com
Oliver Burkeman is a British author and journalist who has written for The Guardian and other publications. He was born in 1975 and has authored several books on topics such as time management, productivity, happiness, and self-help culture.
His works include "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals," "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking,", "Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done", and his most recent book, "Four Thousand Weeks," is a philosophical and practical exploration of time management and how to make the most of our finite lives.
Show Notes:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/oliverburkeman
Web: https://oliverburkeman.com
Niki Scevak is co-founder of Startmate, and founder and partner at Blackbird VC, Australia’s largest venture capital fund, with its 5th fund having raised AUD$1B (US$640M). Blackbird was an early investor in Canva, SafetyCulture, CultureAmp, BugCrowd, RedBubble, and many more, and has to date generated a net internal rate of return of 56%.
Niki joined me today to discuss:
- His life before Blackbird
- Successfully raising his first fund back in 2012, without having a network or any startup successes of his own
- Getting beyond the trough of disillusionment
- How Australian superannuation funds are opening their wallets to VC
- Scaling culture
- Generating deal flow
- Advice for founders and budding VCs on raising capital in a down market
- The AI investment landscape
- The battle between AI-powered indie hackers and venture-backed startups
- Whether sophisticated investor rules preventing retail investors from getting direct exposure to venture capital is just increasing the wealth gap
- Diversity, quotas, and Startmate’s merit-based selection criteria
- And more.
Show Notes:
Email Niki: niki@blackbird.vc
Web: www.blackbird.vc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nikiscevak?lang=en
Contact Steve on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/steveglaveski
Email Steve: hello@steveglaveski.com
Mick Wall has spent over four decades interviewing rockstars and chronicling their amazing stories, and today, we're turning the tables on Mick Wall and unpacking his story in this marathon 3-hour and 40-minute, Joe Rogan-esque interview. Our conversation focuses on the early years, taking in Mick’s childhood all the way through to Sounds magazine, Heavy Publicity, and the inception of the world-famous magazine Kerrang! magazine. We touch on ghostwriting, his feud with Axl Rose, and revelations about the rock 'n roll lifestyle. As you might expect, there’s plenty of sex, drugs n rock n roll, and some valuable life lessons. So strap yourself in for my chat with Mick Wall.
Dennis Savic is a pioneering entrepreneur and innovative thinker in the fields of electric vehicles and sustainable transportation.
As the founder and CEO of SAVIC Motorcycles, he has introduced high-performance, eco-friendly models that cater to a wide range of consumers. Born in Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia, and raised in Australia, Dennis holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and has always been passionate about the intersection of technology, design, and environmental responsibility.
We explored:
- Dennis’ upbringing and inspiration for getting into motorcycle building
- Savic Motorcycles' C-series cafe racer motorcycle
- The company’s journey to $6m in pre-orders
- Its current Equitise crowdfunding campaign
- Challenges faced by EV startups include manufacturing economies of scale, talent acquisition, and competition from established automakers.
- How the future of the motorcycle industry is evolving with the introduction of AI, autonomy, and charging infrastructure.
- How Savic Motorcyles is bringing the manufacture of parts in-house to reduce costs, improve performance, and speed up time to market
- The entrepreneurial mindset
- The most impactful books Dennis has read
- And so much more
Show Notes:
Website: www.savicmotorcycles.com
Crowdfunding campaign: https://equitise.com/offer/savic-motorcycles-offer
Torsten Hoffmann is a media entrepreneur, filmmaker, and technology investor.
He has produced and directed several documentaries, including "Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know It" and the award-winning "Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet"
Torsten joins me today to talk about his forthcoming feature documentary, FORTITUDE: Forging the Trillion Dollar Space Economy, which uncovers how a few influential individuals with utopian ideas and vast fortunes are forging a trillion-dollar off-world industry, while inspiring millions of us back on Earth. In this conversation we unpack:
- The Space economy and its constituent parts
- Space tourism
- Sustainability in Space
- Controversy over Government contracts being awarded to billionaires
- The Colonization of Mars
- The new Space Race with China
- What the significance of SpaceX’s Starship is
- Opportunities for entrepreneurs
- And how you can preserve your DNA on the moon for future generations to discover, and possibly, resurrect you
Show Notes:
- Film: www.fortitudemovie.com
- Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bitcointheendofmoney/fortitude-forging-the-trillion-dollar-space-economy
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Kevin Kelly is a renowned technology writer, futurist, and entrepreneur who co-founded Wired magazine in 1993. He has authored several books on the impact of technology on society, including "The Inevitable" and "What Technology Wants." He is also a sought-after speaker and advisor on emerging technologies and their social and economic implications.
His new book, Excellent Advice for Living: WIsdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier, distils Kelly’s timeless advice on everything from right living to setting ambitious goals, optimizing generosity, and cultivating compassion. He has wisdom for career, relationships, parenting, and finances, and gives guidance for practical matters ranging from travel to troubleshooting.
In this conversation, we unpack:
- How Kevin’s beliefs have changed his beliefs over time
- Kevin’s perspective on success and external validation
- Why we shouldn’t pursue being the best, but being the only
- 3 things Kevin would take with him into the afterlife
- Why you should kill your darlings, and throw out work you’ve labored over
- How Kevin would spend the next 10 years if he was 21 years old today
- Learning how to be more compassionate towards people with views that we find abhorrent
- Why we shouldn’t measure our lives with someone else’s ruler, and how to get better at that
Show Notes:
Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Excellent-Advice-Living-Wisdom-Earlier/dp/0593654528
Kevin on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kevin2kelly
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My guest today is Mike Todasco, former director of innovation at PayPal, and current self-imposed AI-researcher, and co-author of numerous AI-generated books under the pseudonym Alex Irons.
We covered a lot of ground in this conversation, including:
- Generative AI use cases
- The impact of AI on startups and the venture capital ecosystem
- AutoGPT
- The threat of misaligned goals and existential risks posed by AI
- The 6-month development ban proposal
- Regulatory considerations
- Intellectual property challenges and solutions
- The AI Arms Race with China
- And so much more.
Show Notes:
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Alexirons.com
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Mike on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/todasco/
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Rebroadcast: This episode originally appeared in 2019.
James Clear is an author and speaker focused on habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement.
A freak baseball accident put James in a desperate place, fighting to recover from brain damage. The debilitating brain injury forced him to discover a new way of living. Recovery took James to a new understanding of habits and the power of stacking simple, easy habits, one on top of the other, to create momentum and change.
His book, Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results, shares his learnings with the world. It has sold well over one million copies and has been translated into numerous languages.
He is a regular speaker at Fortune 500 companies and his work is used by teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Time, and on CBS This Morning.
We covered numerous topics in this conversation, including, as you might expect:
- How to build good habits and break bad ones
- Why systems are much more important than goals alone; and
- What kind of ‘meta habits’ deliver a massive return in life
We explore this and a whole lot more so strap yourself in for an hour with Mr Atomic Habits himself, James Clear.
Topics Discussed:
- Why are good habits so difficult to form
- Our brain’s desire to optimize for energy conservation
- The three layers of behaviour change
- The four laws of behaviour change
- The power of rewards
- Habit stacking
- Environment design
- The power of small changes
- The path of least effort meets the laws of motion
- Picking the right metrics
- The Goldilocks Zone
- Short feedback loops
- What leaders can do to build better habits in their teams and companies
- Meta habits
- What role identity plays
- Values alignment
Show Notes:
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- @jamesclear on Twitter
- Get the book: https://amzn.to/2DHgN5l
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Dr Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic. Shermer engages in debates on topics pertaining to pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism.
He’s also a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. He is the author of Why People Believe Weird Things, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, and The Moral Arc. His new book is Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality & Utopia.
Shermer is also a member of what’s become known as the intellectual dark web, alongside others such as Sam Harris, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Jordan Peterson.
Having recently appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience and the David Rubin Show, today he appears for the first time on Future Squared.
We covered a lot of ground in this episode, including:
- People’s last words and what we can glean from them about how we live our lives
- Immortality and whether you and I might live long enough to live forever
- Tribalism, identity politics and diversity quotas in tech
This only scratches the surface of what we covered, so sit back and strap yourselves in for an enlightening conversation with the skeptic, Dr. Michael Shermer.
Topics Discussed:
- Michael’s new book, Heavens on Earth
- Our fear of death and how people come to terms with the inevitable
- People’s last words
- The afterlife
- The technotopian quest for immortality
- The intellectual dark web
- Jordan Peterson
- The meaning of life
- Why people believe in God
- Evolutionary advantages of belief
- Morality without religion
- Tribalism and identity politics
- Diversity quotas in tech
- The shortcomings of science
- Why decision outcomes shouldn’t be equated with the quality of the decision
- Stein’s Law
- The value of counterfactuals
Show Notes:
- michaelshermer.com
- skeptic.com
- Twitter: @michaelshermer
- Shermer’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Shermer/e/B001H6MCNY/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1550116103&sr=1-1
My guest today is Daniel Cannizzaro, founder of fintech company Parpera. I invited Dan back on to discuss the difficult landscape that startups find themselves in, and how Parpera has been navigating both macroeconomic challenges, and some very unique technical setbacks. If you’ve ever found yourself or currently find yourself navigating uncertainty and staring at the proverbial abyss, then this conversation serves as a reminder that when we find ourselves going through difficult times, only by focusing on what we can control can we slowly but surely get back on track. We touch on the impact on Dan and his business, the impact on his team and customers, and how to manage relationships with key stakeholders through difficult times when there is little measurable progress to speak of, whilst maintaining a shared belief in your vision. We also touch on the global banking crisis, the impact on startups, and where the economy is headed. Show Notes:
- Parpera: www.parpera.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielcannizzaro
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Chris Themelco is a founding member, singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Australian metal band Orpheus Omega, founder and chief engineer at Monolith Studios, and producer for numerous heavy rock acts. Whether you’re a fan of heavy music or not, this conversation is an absolute must-listen for anybody wanting to make it in a competitive or creative pursuit - be it as a musician, entrepreneur, comedian, content creator, artist, athlete, or ‘influencer’.
We unpacked numerous topics that get to the heart of what it takes to excel at almost anything and cultivate a life doing what you love, including:
- The importance of range, and how creativity is all about connecting dots between our experiences
- The sunk cost fallacy
- Motivation versus discipline
- Emotional regulation
- Why process trumps results
- The value of not having a plan B
- Making the jump from gainfully employed to being your own boss
- Why most things aren’t binary
- Real world guerilla marketing versus digital marketing
- Why showing up when you don’t feel like it matters
- Managing your energy and rhythm throughout the day and year
- The creator economy, and why having several income streams is becoming the norm
- The state of the music industry today, and how some top tier musicians are making more money streaming than they do playing arenas
- The 1000 true fans concept
- And so much more.
Show notes:
Orpheus Omega on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/54Fv7qOKjyLWOWlwMUl2J9
Orpheus Omega on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orpheusofficial/
Monolith Studios: https://monolithstudios.com.au/
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Gloria Mark is a Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. She’s been a visiting senior researcher at Microsoft Research since 2012 and is a recipient of the Google Research Award and the NSF Career award.
She’s the author of the new book, Attention Span: Finding Focus for a Fulfilling Life, which unpacks how our brains operate in the digital world, why we can’t focus, and how we can take back control to find more success in our careers but also more health and wellness in our lives.
We unpacked myriad topics, including:
- The anatomy of attention
- The forces of distraction
- Attentional states and how focused attention differs from flow
- Why our attentional resources diminish over the course of a day
- Night owls v early birds
- Task switching
- The nature of digital agency
- Managing our attentional rhythms
- What organizations, leaders, and individuals can do to reclaim attention spans
- And so much more.
Show notes:
- www.gloriamark.com
- Attention Span book: https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Span-Finding-Fighting-Distraction/dp/1335449418
Theo Cox is Head of Life Itself Labs, a multidisciplinary research institute and consultancy that works across economics, governance, strategy and technology, and innovates systemic solutions to complex global challenges.
Life Itself recently published its web3 and crypto guide - a multi-month project of research and analysis to "make sense" of crypto and web3 and to evaluate the various claims being made for and against.
In this conversation, we unpacked the reports findings, and engage in an honest debate of sorts as to why some of the findings may or may not be justified.
Specifically we looked at:
- Whether Bitcoin should be the new gold standard
- Crypto providing better payment and remittance services
- NFTs and whether crypto can better financialize non-financial value
- The social goods problem; and
- Whether most crypto solutions are searching for problems
Show Notes:
Web3 and crypto guide: https://web3.lifeitself.org/
Theo Cox on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theo-cox-866554172
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Josh Szeps is an Australian media personality, political satirist, and television presenter. He hosts Afternoon with Josh Szeps on ABC Radio, he hosts the incredibly popular podcast, Uncomfortable Conversations, and he has appeared on numerous high profile outlets over the years, including over a dozen appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience.
In this conversation, we explore:
- Josh’s views on Australia Day celebrations
- The breakdown of critical thinking in society
- The media’s role in our shortening attention spans and black and white thinking
- What impact AI might have in this space
- Affirmative action and diversity in the workplace - good or bad?
- Woke corporations
- Tribalism in society; and
- What we can do to become more critical thinkers
Show Notes:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshzepps
Substack: https://uncomfortableconversations.substack.com
Uncomfortable Conversations on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2I6TDCnC5EuGHNhAsBmKl5?si=fd7c66acda0d4a8e
My guest today is Bill Ottman, he’s the co-creator and CEO of Minds - an alternative social media platform based on the blockchain that actively rewards users for their contributions, supports freedom of expression, and unlike many competing platforms, is not incentivized to polarize people for the sake of driving higher engagement. The platform has several million users and is growing fast on the back of a $10 million capital injection in 2021, and growing dissatisfaction with traditional social media platforms.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- The myriad ways social media is broken
- What makes minds different
- Freedom of speech and freedom of expression
- How censorship and deplatforming can backfire
- Why closed source systems are better for humanity
- How Minds rewards users for their attention and contributions
- How Minds business model differs from Twitter’s
- The challenge of overcoming the network effects advantage other platforms have
- The inevitability of interoperable social media platforms
Show Notes:
- Minds: www.minds.com
- Bill on Minds: https://www.minds.com/ottman
- The censorship effect study: https://cdn-assets.minds.com/The_Censorship_Effect.pdf
My guest today is Bill Ottman, he’s the co-creator and CEO of Minds - an alternative social media platform based on the blockchain that actively rewards users for their contributions, supports freedom of expression, and unlike many competing platforms, is not incentivized to polarize people for the sake of driving higher engagement.
The platform has several million users and is growing fast on the back of a $10 million capital injection in 2021, and growing dissatisfaction with traditional social media platforms.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- The myriad ways social media is broken
- What makes minds different
- Freedom of speech and freedom of expression
- How censorship and deplatforming can backfire
- Why closed source systems are better for humanity
- How Minds rewards users for their attention and contributions
- How Minds business model differs from Twitter’s
- The challenge of overcoming the network effects advantage other platforms have
- The inevitability of interoperable social media platforms
Show Notes:
Minds: www.minds.com
Bill on Minds: www.minds.com/ottman
My guest today is Sebastien Borget, co-founder and COO of The Sandbox, one of the world’s biggest and most popular metaverse platforms, with over 2 million wallets connected, and a token with a fully diluted market cap of over US$10 billion. The Sandbox is home to brands and icons such as Snoop Dogg, Adidas, Atari, Steve Aoki, The Walking Dead, and more.
In this rapid fire conversation, we unpack how brands can leverage The Sandbox to:
- Build stronger customer and fan experiences and relationships
- Reward people for engaging with their brands, and
- Generate new revenue streams
This conversation was recorded on relatively short notice on the road, and unfortunately suffered from some technical difficulties resulting in less than optimal audio quality, so I hope you’ll bear with us all the same, because the insights packed into this 20 minute conversation are well worth it for anybody building a brand in web3 or transitioning a traditional brand to the space.
With that, I bring you my conversation with the one and only Sebastien Borget.
Show Notes:
- The Sandbox: www.sandbox.game
- Seb on Twitter: www.twitter.com/borgetsebastien
- Sandbox on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/vAe4zvY
- Metavise: www.metavise.io
Ben Fairbank is the CEO and Founder of RFOX, a web3 platform on a mission to empower everyone to play, create and earn in an immersive metaverse without borders.
RFOX is a team of 100 builders creating a metaverse that acts as a platform connecting whitelabel services in one central hub. Businesses and creators can tap into tools for finance, gaming, VR, NFTs, e-commerce and retail and market to a ready-made audience of users.
In this conversation, we unpack:
- Ben’s origin story
- Ben’s definition of the metaverse
- How far away virtual reality mass adoption really is
- Interoperability in the metaverse
- Hiring for web3 projects
- The shifting capital raising landscape
- Taking the time to get things right versus rushing out the door
- Tokenomics and new incentive mechanisms
- How web3 contributors and users become the new sales and marketing team
- How token economies can redefine the media landscape
- What Ben thinks about what critics think might be negative social consequences of spending a lot of time in the metaverse
- Ben’s views on pure decentralization
- And so much more…
With that, enjoy my conversation with Ben Fairbank.
Show Notes:
- RFOX: www.rfox.com
- RFOX Discord: https://discord.io/RFOX+
- Ben on Twitter: www.twitter.com/bennydoda01
- Metavise: www.metavise.io
- Steve on Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
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Crews Enochs is a core contributor to the product growth community & institutional working groups at Index Coop, a new-age web3 crypto index fund DAO aiming to become the Blackrock of crypto.
Index coop's mission is to build products that make crypto investing simple safe & accessible to all.
In today’s conversation, we discuss:
- How crypto index funds differ from traditional ETFs
- We unpack the inner workings of Index Coop’s business model
- We talk decentralized finance’s big regulatory moment
- And we even touch on music NFTs
Get ready to listen and learn in my conversation with Index Coop’s Crews Enochs.
Show notes:
Web: www.indexcoop.com
Crews Enochs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theyoungcrews
Index Coop on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexcoop
Index Coop community on Discord: https://docs.indexcoop.com/resources/archived/discord-channels
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Jin Kang is deal lead at Global Coin Research, an investment DAO that has poured over US$30M into over 40 deals since just last year, generating an astounding 30X+ return in the process.
In today’s conversation, we talk all about:
- Decentralized autonomous organizations
- How investment DAOs differ from traditional early-stage funding mechanisms
- How GCR sources its deals, and who it has invested in
- The regulatory landscape surrounding investment DAOs
- Trade-offs between centralization and pure decentralization
- How DAOs might encode decision-making hygiene into their smart contracts
- Challenges DAOs face
- How to build and sustain a community in web3
- And so much more.
Show notes:
- GCR: Globalcoinresearch.com
- GCR Discord: https://discord.com/invite/sVC8WXA
- Jin Kang on Twitter: twitter.com/thejinkang
- Steve Glaveski on Twitter: twitter.com/steveglaveski
- Metaverse and web3 consulting: www.metavise.io
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Monty Preston is the Manager of Art Advisory & Curation at Saatchi Art.
Prior to joining Saatchi Art in 2018, she worked at female-led, industry-disrupting startups including Beauty Pie in London, where she managed content and creative, and The RealReal in San Francisco, where she specialized in luxury estate management with a focus on designer apparel and fine art.
As an artist and photographer, Monty has collaborated with renowned talents in the fine art and fashion industries, providing her with the unique insight into the creative process that she brings to her curatorial practice.
In today’s conversation, we are going to explore the world of digital art and NFTs.
You will learn:
- What the hell NFTs or non-fungible tokens are, and why you should care
- Transformational use cases of NFTs
- Why an NFT from digital artist, Beeple, sold for over US$69M
- Some potential downsides or challenges that face the world of NFTs
- How to start thinking about getting your brand into NFTs and the metaverse
- Saatchi Art’s The Other Avatars NFT Project
You’ll learn this and more in this conversation with Monty Preston.
Show Notes:
- Monty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/@_montypreston
- The Other Avatars project: www.saatchiart.com/nft
- Saatchi Art: www.saatchiart.com
- Beeple's US$69M digital artwork: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sfLcWwmYhCUzYYCofVXJoP-1024-80.jpg.webp GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
In this episode, I interview the co-hosts of the popular podcast What You Will Learn, and now co-authors of The Sh*t They Never Taught You, Adam Jones and Adam Ashton, for a conversation on all things books and life.
Show Notes:
Get the book: https://amzn.to/3lkiFXI
Listen to the WYWL podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1oQ6gWZqHHBgsrpIISZiAr
What You Will Learn website: www.whatyouwilllearn.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wywlpodcast
IG: https://www.instagram.com/whatyouwilllearn/
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Jesse Fink is the author of five non-fiction books and has been published in over 20 countries and 13 foreign languages.
His most recent book, Pure Narco: Th real-life tales of Luis Antonio Navia aka 'El Senador', is out now.
In this episode we unpack:
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Fink's rise to prominence as a non-fiction author
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the life and times of Luis Navia, a Cuban-American cocaine trafficker who is estimated to have been complicit in the shipment of up to 300 tons of cocaine, worth US$10B during his 25 years on the run
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Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Narco/dp/178946336X
Jesse on Twitter: @jessefink
Andrew Bogut is one of Australia’s most decorated basketball exports. He was the first overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft, won an NBA championship in 2015 with the Golden State Warriors, and spent 15 years honing his craft in the States, making about US$120M in career earnings.
He also represented the Australian Boomers on three separate Olympic Games.
Away from the court, Bogut has been an outspoken critic of Australia and in particular, the State of Victoria’s lockdown measures.
In this conversation, we unpack:
- Bogut’s early years and what it took to make it in the big leagues
- Social justice politics in the NBA
- Victoria’s lockdown restrictions and civil unrest
- Raising kids to be hungry, despite being born into money
- And more.
We also cover some very important ground, such as Bogut’s favorite Croatian food, and who he would pick to start in a hypothetical Yugoslavia 2021 basketball team.
You can find Bogut on Twitter at @andrewbogut, Instagram at @andrewbogut, and on the Rogue Bogues podcast.
With that, I bring you the one and only, Andrew Bogut.
Show Notes:
- Bogut on Twitter: @andrewbogut
- Bogut on Instagram: @andrewbogut
- Rogue Bogues podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/rogue-bogues-by-andrew-bogut/id1541789772
- Andrew Bogut and the Political Intolerance of the Left article: https://www.nofilter.media/posts/andrew-bogut-and-the-political-intolerance-of-the-left
- Future Squared podcast: www.futuresquared.xyz
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Paul Fenech is an Australian filmmaker, film and television actor, director, producer and writer.
He is best known for writing, directing, producing and starring in the television series Pizza, Swift and Shift Couriers, Housos and Bogan Hunters and the motion picture Fat Pizza.
In this conversation, we unpack:
- Fenech's rise to fame
- Making it in a competitive industry
- Mental resilience, discipline, and toughness
- Diversity quotas v merit
- The modern media landscape
- Cancel culture
- Fenech's new book about the life and times of bikie Phil 'Ugly' Mawson
- Lockdown laws in Australia
Show Notes:
Get the book: UGLY - https://www.amazon.com.au/UGLY-Bikies-Life-Paul-Fenech/dp/1761043722/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Watch Pizza on-demand on 7Plus: https://7plus.com.au/fat-pizza-back-in-business
My new YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKt2q_xi_I3sAYfVC8cH0FQ
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Sometimes you just have to stand up for your values.
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The central idea behind the right to disconnect is that employees don’t have to take calls or read emails after work hours.
It’s a well-intentioned proposal, buoyed on by increasing workplace stress. A report by NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety) found that workplace stress is attributable to excessive workload, people issues, and work-life balance conflicts.
But the right to disconnect is a half-baked solution to a poorly diagnosed problem, one that could do more harm than good.
In this solo-sode, I explore why the right to disconnect is a bad idea, and what we should pursue instead.
Show Notes:
- Online course: https://bit.ly/timerichculture
- Article: https://www.thehrdirector.com/features/future-of-work/why-the-right-to-disconnect-is-a-bad-idea/
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Amy Chan is the Founder of Renew Breakup Bootcamp, a retreat that takes a scientific and spiritual approach to heal the heart. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Heart Hackers Club - an online magazine that focuses on the psychology behind love, lust, and desire. The Observer calls her "A relationship expert whose work is like that of a scientific Carrie Bradshaw" and her company has been featured across national media including Good Morning America, Vogue, Glamour, Nightline, and the front page of The New York Times. Her book, Breakup Bootcamp - The Science of Rewiring Your Heart, published by Harper Collins is available now.
We covered a lot of ground in this conversation, unpacking actionable and practical insights that you can apply to better navigate your emotional world.
Show Notes:
- Instagram Handle: instagram.com/missamychan / www.instagram.com/renewyourheart
- LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/missamychan/
- Twitter Handle: twitter.com/missamychan
- Facebook: facebook.com/renewyourheart
- Book URL: https://amzn.to/3gJOnJi
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Martin Lindstrom is the founder and chairman of Lindstrom Company, a global branding & culture transformation firm, operating across five continents and more than 30 countries.
TIME Magazine has named Lindstrom one of the "World's 100 Most Influential People," and for five years running, Thinkers50, has selected Lindstrom to be among the world's top 50 business thinkers. Among the companies he advises are Burger King, Lowes, Boar's Head, Beverly Hills Hotels, Pepsi, Nestle and Google.
Lindstrom is the author of seven books including several New York Times bestsellers that have been translated into 60 languages. The Wall-Street Journal praised his book Brand Sense as "one of the five best marketing books ever published," and his book Small Data as "revolutionary," and TIME called his book Buyology "a breakthrough in branding."
Lindstrom's much anticipated new book, The Ministry Of Common Sense is all about eliminating bureaucratic red tape, bad excuses, and corporate bullshit - just the kind of thing I love to talk about here on Future Squared.
Show Notes:
Get the book: https://amzn.to/3pKQotM
Website: Martinlindstrom.com
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Brad Feld is an American entrepreneur, author, blogger, and venture capitalist at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. He joined me to discuss his lifelong challenges with depression, and juggling performing at the highest level in his domain.
We discussed what brought him to depression, changes he made to restore balance in life, and web unpacked advice for executives and entrepreneurs struggling with their own mental health.
Show Notes:
Twitter: @bfeld
The Foundry Group: thefoundry.group
Download ebook: steveglaveski.com/downloads
www.nofilter.media
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
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Jonas Altman is a workologist who guides companies to leave politics and posturing behind in favor of transparent and trusting cultures. He is the founder of award-winning design practice Social Fabric, Altman coaches leaders to do their very best work and travels the world tirelessly learning and speaking about the changing nature of work. His chronicles have appeared in The Guardian, Quartz, Fast Company, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times.
As two people who have walked similar paths and though extensively about the nature of work, this was a really fun conversation. We unpacked why so many people are actively disengaged at work, the role of purpose in our lives, the tendency to derive too much identity from our work at the expense of other pursuits, the role of autonomy and short feedback loops when it comes to motivation, the remote work reset button, universal basic income, biological predispositions, and a whole bunch more, so strap yourself in for my conversation with Jonas Altman.
Show notes:
- Shapers: https://amzn.to/39UVfSg
- Web: jonasaltman.com
- The book: shapers.life
- IG: @shapers.life
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This man needs no introduction but I’m going to give him one anyway.
Robert Greene is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law and Mastery.
His highly anticipated sixth book, The Laws of Human Nature, explores people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far.
Having read hundreds of business books myself, perhaps the books that have had the most profound positive impact on how I show up each day and how I conduct myself are books on psychology, behavioural economics, neuroscience and biological evolution. Books that ultimately helped me to understand myself and understand others. As such, I was really excited to read the Laws of Nature and speak with Greene about what is such a fundamental topic.
In addition to having a strong following within the business world and a deep following in Washington, DC, Greene's books are hailed by everyone from war historians to the biggest musicians in the industry (including Jay-Z and 50 Cent).
Expect to learn a ton from this conversation, but in particular, three key take-aways:
1) How having an estimated 80 jobs before becoming an author shaped Greene’s world view and made him a better and more creative writer
2) Why it is our moments of frustration where we often seek out life-changing answers
3) How Greene seeks the path of what is ‘most right’ by looking at questions from multiple angles and contemplating many alternatives
This just scratches the surface of the many enlightening things we discussed - just peek at the topics discussed in the show notes to get a feel for everything discussed - so with that, it gives me much pleasure to present you with one of the most pre-eminent authors of our time, the one and only, Robert Greene.
Topics Discussed:
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How having an estimated 80 jobs before becoming an author shaped Greene’s world view and made him a better and more creative writer
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Greene’s take on ‘strong opinions, loosely held’
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Why books on human behaviour can make you a better entrepreneur than business books
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What The Laws of Human Nature offers that other books don’t
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Greene’s approach to writing books like the 48 Laws of Power and Mastery
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How Greene aims to avoid the narrative fallacy
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Why one should look for their ‘higher purpose’ in life
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The peril of false purposes
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Why it is our moments of frustration where we often seek out life-changing answers
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Imposter syndrome
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Avoiding the ‘counterfeit yes’ in sales
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Napoleon and controlled chaos
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How to become like Marcus Aurelius or Queen Elizabeth I, a leader who people want to follow
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Pericles and emotional regulation
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How Greene seeks the path of ‘most right’ by looking at questions from all angles
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Why activism is often just a fast-track to moral righteousness, sans actually being morally righteous
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Why people wear masks and why it’s their shadows that reveal their true selves
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How to infer what people’s true character, or shadow, is through body language
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How social media can bring out the worst in us and the rise of tech addiction
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Keeping toxic people out of your life or not succumbing to their games
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How to persuade by first confirming people’s self-opinion
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How to persuade by allaying someone’s insecurities
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The irrationality of human beings and why we should increase our reaction time
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Greene’s meditation practice and how it has impacted his life and work
Show Notes:
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The Blog of Robert Greene: www.powerseductionandwar.com
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Twitter: @RobertGreene
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Greene’s Books: https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Greene/e/B001IGV3IS
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The Laws of Human Nature Book: https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Human-Nature-Robert-Greene/dp/0525428143
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“Where books are burned, in the end people will burn”.
19th Century German author and literary critic, Heinrich Heine, spoke these words, and they were more than just a well sounding maxim. Totalitarian regimes thrive wherever ideas contrary to their own are suppressed. They thrive when books are burned.
Harvard literary professor Duncan White echoed these sentiments, penning a piece for the New York Times called The Authoritarian’s Worst Fear? A Book. He referenced authoritarian regimes around the world - those of China, Hungary, Brazil, the Philippines, North Korea - and their attempts to curb the internet and censor books. White critiqued the United States’ diminishing role in standing up against the erasure of intellectual freedom abroad.
He wrote that “wherever authoritarian regimes are growing in strength, literature that expresses any kind of political opposition is under a unique, renewed threat”.
However, he need not look to distant shores for examples of this. North America is facing its own form of authoritarianism and attacks on freedom of expression.
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From humble beginnings with a small supplement retail store in Randwick, Izhar Basha has gone on to create and head internationally recognised and celebrated Australian supplements brand, EHPlabs. After an autoimmune disease diagnosis forced Izhar to leave a successful law career, his mission has been to help people focus on their health and wellbeing.
Izhar was one of the first in the business sector to utilise the power of social media and his flagship product OxyShred has been hailed as the world’s number 1 thermogenic fat burner. Whilst being family focused with two young girls of his own, Izhar continues to develop EHPlabs through the ongoing creation of scientifically backed, high quality products.
This was a fascinating conversation, and touched on:
- Izhar’s upbringing and his family’s troubles in Fiji
- Cultivating a mindset that helped him overcome sub-optimal grades to finish top of his class
- Burning out on 16 hour days at a law firm
- And how this led him to establish a company that today has an enterprise valuation of almost a billion dollars
We discussed this and a whole lot more, so strap yourself in for my conversation with Izhar Basha.
Show Notes:
Web: www.ehplabs.com
IG: @izharbasha
IG: @ehplabs
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In the second installment of the Strong Opinions, Weakly Held series, I'll be tackling DEI programs, and how they can backfire and cause more harm than good.
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David Prior is a lifelong entrepreneur. He founded Baroda Packaging, which was acquired in 2007, before turning his eye to yoghurt, with Five:AM Organics, which after just three years in the market was acquired for $80 million.
A year later, in 2015, David proceeded to invest half of his net worth into the acquisition of Bladnoch Distillery, a 200 year old whisky distillery in the Scottish lowlands that was in administration; destitute and downtrodden, having not produced any Scotch Whisky for almost a decade.
David saw an opportunity to bring life back, not only to the distillery, but to the people of Bladnoch; after the purchase, he returned jobs to everyone who had lost them and was dedicated to restoring value to the community's history and heritage, empowering them for a successful future.
This was a fascinating conversation that unpacked some of David’s business philosophies.
We unpacked:
1 - why your business doesn’t necessarily need a unique value proposition to be successful
2 - why David decided to pour all of his money into Bladnoch and a non-for-profit foundation, instead of sailing into the sunset
3 - how David regulates stress
4 - what it takes to build a successful FMCG business
We covered this, and more, so strap yourself in for my conversation with David Prior.
Show Notes:
- Bladnoch.com
- Priorfoundation.org
- https://www.facebook.com/bladnochwhisky/
- https://www.instagram.com/bladnochwhisky/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVqyvNS5DZQG-3m8ZcBVeVA
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/bladnoch-distillery/
- https://twitter.com/bladnochwhisky
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Gad Saad is a Lebanese-Canadian evolutionary psychologist at the John Molson School of Business who applies evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer behaviour.
His latest book is The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, and it explores the numerous idea pathogens permeating today’s social landscape, such as, but not limited to post-modernism.
We covered lots of ground in this rapid fire 30-minute conversation with Saad, including:
- How dangerous fringe ideas are permeating the mainstream
- The problem with Diversity and Inclusion programs
- Social media censorship and free speech absolutism
- Fake news
- Social justice politics at Google and Spotify
- Falsification theory
- The tyranny of the minority
- How the silent majority can stand up
- And, why rapper 50 Cent is, apparently, no longer black
This was a very important discussion about ideas that hold truth firmly in their crosshairs, and can have devastating consequences on how we work and live if kept unchecked. We can either bury our heads in the sand, or, we can listen, learn, and act, so with that I bring you the one and only, Gad Saad.
Show Notes:
- The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense: https://amzn.to/3ovHsbl
- Website: com
- The Saad Truth on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH7qUqM0PLieCVaHA7RegA
- Twitter: @GadSaad
Previous books:
- The Consuming Instinct https://amzn.to/37QzGTL
- The Evolutionary Biases of Consumption https://amzn.to/31M9WUm
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In this very first instalment of the Strong Opinions, Weakly Held series, I'll be talking about why companies like Disney, and generalists in particular, are thriving in the uncertain world that is the one we find ourselves in today.
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Dan Jovevski is an entrepreneur, and founder of WeMoney, an AI-based financial wellness platform set out to increase financial wellbeing for all Australians. The company closed a $2m round during the pandemic, which speaks volumes about how pronounced the problem of financial wellness, or should that be not-wellness is amongst people today.
This was a fascinating conversation that unpacked Dan’s journey to WeMoney, but also the psychological vulnerabilities that predispose us to making bad financial decisions, and actionable ways we can circumvent them.
So with that, I bring you the one and only, Dan Jovevski.
Show Notes:
- WeMoney: wemoney.com.au
- Dan Jovevski: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieljovevski/
- Ray Dalio’s Principles: https://amzn.to/379XiSG
- Clay Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Life: https://amzn.to/350QXX6
- Dan Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow: https://amzn.to/37bIS4I
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This is a repost of my recent interview with Lucas Aoun on the Boost Your Biology podcast, all about getting twice as much done in half the time.
We unpack myriad actionable ways you can get more done in less time to free yourself up to lead your best life.
Find Boost Your Biology wherever you listen to podcasts, or find it online at www.nofilter.media/boostyourbiology
Show Notes:
Get the book: www.timerichbook.com
Lucas Aoun on IG: @ergogenic_health
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Today’s the day (finally)!
My fifth book, Time Rich: Do Your Best Work, Live Your Best Life, is now available.
The book was originally slated for release in May, but with all of the uncertainty surrounding coronavirus at the time, my publisher (Wiley) and I decided to push it back to October, thinking that the world would have returned to some semblance of normality by then.
While that isn’t exactly the case, the book is perhaps more relevant now than ever, with people spending, on average, 11 hours a day staring at screens since remote work became more than just a fringe startup and freelancer movement, and a reality for almost everybody employed in a white collar profession.
As Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca put it almost two millennia ago, “people are frugal with their money but not with their time”, but unlike money, time cannot be earned back once we’ve spent it and it is by virtue of the shortness of life, the most precious commodity we have.
Time Rich builds upon the foundation laid by my Harvard Business Review article, The Case For the 6-Hour Workday, and provides actionable insights for not only the lone worker, but teams and leaders at large organizations.
It’s about reorganizing how we work - something we’ve never truly learned how to do - in order to not just be more productive and more innovative, but free up time to lead our best lives.
The book has been endorsed by a number of thought leaders, including Adam Grant, Nir Eyal and Whitney Johnson.
Adam Grant (bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take) was kind enough to say that “Steve Glaveski understands something that few leaders have figured out: it’s possible to do less and get more done. This book offers a blueprint for working smarter.”
Nir Eyal (bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable) put it simply; “Steve Glaveski offers countless ways to get more out of each day”.
If you’re looking to get more out of your days - whether that be at work or in your personal life - then I am sure that a modest investment in this book will repay itself in orders of magnitude.
And if you’re not convinced, below you’ll find ten quick tips which scratch the surface of what you will find in Time Rich.
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In this solosode of the Future Squared podcast, I tackle the recent news that Spotify's NYC staffers want the platform to censor one of the world's most popular podcasts today, the Joe Rogan Experience.
This is a recording of an article I wrote on the topic which you can find at https://www.nofilter.media/posts/spotifys-censorship-moment-joe-rogan-podcasts-and-politics
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In this special rebroadcast episode, we go back into the archives for a conversation on the philosophy of Stoicism, and on focusing on what you can control - something of central importance in these trying times of COVID-19.
Massimo Pigliucci is a Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. His research is concerned with philosophy of science, the relationship between science and philosophy, and the nature of pseudoscience.
He received a Doctorate in Genetics from the University of Ferrara in Italy, a PhD in Botany from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. He has published over a hundred technical papers and several books.
Prof. Pigliucci has been awarded the prestigious Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution. He has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science "for fundamental studies of genotype by environmental interactions and for public defense of evolutionary biology from pseudoscientific attack."
In the areas of outreach and critical thinking, Prof. Pigliucci has published in national magazines such as Skeptic, Skeptical Inquirer, Philosophy Now, and The Philosopher's Magazine, among others. He has also been elected as a Consultant for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
Pigliucci penned the wildly successful "Rationally Speaking" blog and podcast (rationallyspeaking.org) and maintains a blog - the namesake of his latest book - called How to be a Stoic.
Towards the end of the show we started chatting about genetically modified and AI augmented humanity which will form the basis of another chat with Massimo in the future, but for now, please enjoy my conversation on Stoicism and how it can help you in your personal and professional life with the one, the only...Massimo Pigliucci.
Topics Discussed:
- The intersection of philosophy and science
- Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius
- How Stoicism can help us lead better professional and personal lives
- Stoicism in the workplace
- Does being Stoic make you emotionless?
- Silicon Valley’s Stoicism movement
- Living a life of virtue
- The decoupling of consciousness and intelligence
- Are human feelings just algorithms
Show Notes:
- Twitter: twitter.com/mpigliucci
- Rationally Speaking blog: rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com
- How to be a Stoic blog: howtobeastoic.wordpress.com
- Footnotes to Plato blog: www.platofootnotes.org
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- How To Be A Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living - https://amzn.to/2MvYuC4
- Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk - https://amzn.to/2x9zkV1
- Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem - https://amzn.to/2paA4oh
- Science Unlimited?: The Challenges of Scientism - https://amzn.to/2pbCGTa
- The Nature of Philosophy: How Philosophy Makes Progress and Why It Matters - https://amzn.to/2xccdJy
- Evolution, the Extended Synthesis (The MIT Press) - https://amzn.to/2pcD0Rs
- Tales of the Rational: Skeptical Essays About Nature and Science - https://amzn.to/2pcDze2
- Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to A More Meaningful Life - https://amzn.to/2phtOeN
- Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes - https://amzn.to/2xe2vGm
- Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology - https://amzn.to/2MCofka
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At the age of twenty-six, John Roa founded a tech-consulting and design firm, ÄKTA, that he sold for a fortune to Salesforce.
His account of his rise from a self-described below-average student, to becoming a poster boy for the ambitious, successful young entrepreneur, to nearly destroying himself in the process is the subject of his book, A Practical Way to Get Rich . . . and Die Trying.
Roa's twenty-year-long journey from being dead-broke to wealth he never imagined is an absurd and often comical story of talent, luck, risk, rapidly changing technology, larger-than-life personalities, sex, gambling, and excessive alcohol and drug consumption.
We covered lots of ground in this conversation, including:
- How Roa went from a six-figure debt to multi-millionaire before the age of 30
- The toxic lifestyle he led while building his company, AKTA
- The psychotic breakdown he experienced, which forced him to sell his company
- And the lessons learned along the way about business and life
Listeners of this show will know that I am an advocate for balance, and Roa’s tale serves as a cautionary one that I hope entrepreneurs listening to this will learn from.
With that, I bring you the one and only, John Roa.
Show Notes:
- Get the book: https://amzn.to/3572aa6
- Twitter: @johnroa
- Instagram: @johnroa
- Web: roa.com
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I've just launched a new narrative form podcast called Battle of the Bands.
If you like Business Wars, and like music, then you'll love Battle of the Bands...at least, I hope you will.
Check it out wherever you find your podcasts, or visit www.nofilter.media/battle
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In this episode of Future Squared, founder of Aussie fintech Parpera, shares his journey from Melbourne's northwestern suburbs to EY and London Business School, before founding up and coming fintech, Parpera.
Show notes:
Crowdfunding campaign: equitise.com
Parpera: parpera.com
Contact Daniel: daniel@parpera.com
Future Squared: www.nofilter.media/futuresquared
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Nick De Mey is founding partner of Board of Innovation, a Strategy & Business Design firm for corporates.
He heads up the Insights team, and recently published an in-depth report on The Low Touch economy, and what organizations can do to adapt to the new normal.
In this conversation, we unpack:
- How to identify quick wins to weather the storm
- How to identify longer term business model shifts
- And what we should really be bracing ourselves for, insofar as business recovery is concerned
With that, please welcome Nick De Mey.
Show Notes:
- Low Touch Economy report: www.lowtoucheconomy.com
- Nick De Mey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdemey/?originalSubdomain=be
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Maria is the author of two New York Times best-sellers, The Confidence Game (Viking/Penguin 2016), winner of the 2016 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (Viking/Penguin, 2013), an Anthony and Agatha Award finalist.
She is a regular contributing writer for The New Yorker, and has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times, Slate, the New Republic, the Paris Review, the Wall Street Journal, Salon, the Boston Globe, the Scientific American, WIRED, and Smithsonian, among many other publications.
Her writing has won numerous awards, including the 2019 Excellence in Science Journalism Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology.
While researching The Biggest Bluff, Maria became an international poker champion and the winner of over $300,000 in tournament earnings.
This was a fascinating conversation, unpacking Maria’s rise from somebody who didn’t know the basics of poker to national poker champion, and what she learned along the way about not only poker but life more broadly.
We unpack lots in this conversation, including:
1 - the role of chance and skill in life
2 - the learning process Maria followed to go from zero to hero on the poker circuit in under a year
3 - the benefit of tackling problems or pursuits with a different perspective and tool-set
Topics Discussed:
- How a run of bad luck inspired the book
- John von Neumann’s Theory of Game and Economic Behaviour
- Parallels between poker and life
- Stoicism
- Chance v skill
- Working with poker legend, Erik Seidel
- Bringing a unique toolset to poker
- What Maria’s grandmother thought about her becoming a poker player
- Maria’s first roll of the dice
- What she learned to go from zero to hero
- How Maria learns
- The value of a beginner’s mind, and “I don’t know”
- High leverage meta-skills for life and poker
- Dealing with the sudden spotlight and magazine covers
- What Maria learned about herself from playing poker
- The role of deliberate practice
- Following your passions
- The ludic fallacy
- The value of fiction
Show Notes:
Twitter: @mkonnikova
Instagram: @grlnamedmaria
Web: mariakonnikova.com
Get the book: https://amzn.to/2V7ML3V
NOFilter Media: www.nofilter.media
K-Startup Grand Challenge: https://www.k-startupgc.org/
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Steve Glaveski: steveglaveski.com
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Steve's book: employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Mark Mathews is a professional big wave surfer who has made a living surfing waves up to 50 feet big.
He is a Red Bull athlete, has won three Oakley Big Wave Awards, and has featured in several documentaries, including Fighting Fear, alongside UFC fighter Richie Vaculik, and the forthcoming On The Other Side of Fear.
While surfing in Tasmania, fifteen feet in front of a cliff in cold, shark infested waters, Mark hit a reef and instantly blacked out. Neck braced and hospital-ridden, he didn’t know if he could ever surf again.
We unpacked a whole lot in this 80 minute conversation, including:
- Mark’s childhood in the Sydney beachside suburb of Maroubra
- What makes a big wave surfer
- Near death experiences
- Recovering from a life and career-threatening injury
- Cultivating discipline and resilience in the surf and in life
You can also check out the video version of this podcast, complete with surf footage Mark and I refer to, at the new Future Squared YouTube channel.
With that, I bring you the one and only, Mark Mathews.
Topics Discussed:
- Childhood
- Where the motivation to surf big waves came from
- Affiliation with the Bra Boys
- What it’s like to ride and wipe out on a big wave
- Becoming a professional surfer
- Near death experiences
- The psychology of flow
- Goal-setting and feedback loops
- Getting back on the board after a near death experience
- Cultivating mental resilience
- Suffering a life and career threatening injury
- Mental and physical rehabilitation, and what Mark learned during this time
- An attitude of gratitude
- The Other Side Of Fear documentary
- Surfing at Jaws, Cyclops, and Shipstern’s Bluff
Show Notes:
IG: @markmathewssurf
W: www.markmathews.com
LI: www.linkedin.com/in/mathewsmark
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Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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In this episode of Future Squared, I interview my now 69-year-old mom, Miljana Glaveska.
While she doesn’t come to the show with the same kinds of credentials or pedigree that many of my former guests do, she comes to the show with something many don’t have, almost three-quarters of a century of life experience, and a unique story to tell.
We unpacked:
- Early life in socialist Yugoslavia
- Being raised by deaf parents
- Leaving her family behind to start a new life in Australia
- Being a non-English speaking migrant in Australia in the 1970s
- Losing a child
- Developing resilience
...and so much more.
I learned so much in this conversation, and I hope you take something out of it too.
So with that, I bring you a conversation with my one and only...literally...Miljana Glaveska.
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Stemming from chronic illness, health coach Stefan Filippo has made it his mission to learn about how the human body functions with the aim of improving his own health as well as educating and empowering others to evolve into their best self.
From his immersion into the world of biohacking, nutrition, herbalism, naturopathic medicine, spirituality and more Stefan approaches health and optimisation from many angles.
This was a wide-reaching conversation on all things detox, unpacking:
- What is detox, really?
- The body’s natural detoxification system
- How we can augment this system
- Detox fads: are they fact or fiction
- Detoxing protocols: what you can do to rid your body of harmful toxins
We unpacked this and so much more...so strap yourself in for a detoxifying conversation with Stefan Filippo.
Topics Discussed:
- Stefan’s origin story
- The definition of detox
- Phase 1 and 2 detox
- What are toxins?
- The body’s detox system
- Augmenting the system
- Fact and fiction: Detox trends
- Fasting
- Sleep
- Plants
- Nervous system detox
- Mindfulness and meditation
- Cold showers
- Ketone binding
- Being less wrong
- Conflicts of interest in medicine
Show notes:
- www.stefanfillipohealth.com.au
- IG: @stefanfillipohealth
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
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Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Tony Nash is co-founder and CEO of Booktopia, which employs 260 people, generates over $170M and sells one item every six seconds.
Tony’s story, however, really starts when he dropped out of college to travel the world for three years - what he now credits to being his version of a degree.
It paved the way to founding several businesses across different domains, one of which was sold to a listed company, before several strokes of serendipity led Tony to found Booktopia in 2004.
We unpacked numerous topics in this conversation, including:
- How to build great teams
- Why you should just start, instead of waiting for a great idea
- The value of a positive and empowering outlook
...and so much more that Tony credits with the success of Booktopia.
This is a must listen for anybody trying to build anything great and enduring, so without further ado, I bring you the one and only, Tony Nash.
Note: We’ll have Tony back on the show in the near future to talk going from zero to $170M in part 2 of the conversation, with all of the struggles and challenges overcome along the way.
Topics Discussed:
- Playing ZORK
- Dropping out of college
- Lessons learned traveling the world for three years in his 20s
- Recruitment and people
- How to attract and retain great talent
- What Tony looks for in new hires
- Questions to ask when hiring
- Why Tony set up his own firm instead of working for someone else
- How an SEO company evolved into Booktopia
- Building company culture
- Starting Booktopia as a side hustle on $10 a day
- Not raising capital
- Thriving through disruption to the book landscape
- Tony’s most impactful books read
Show Notes:
Booktopia.com.au
We are the only company to make the AFR/BRW Fast 100 for 8 years from 2009 to 2017. We are ranked in the Power Retail Top 100 websites.
From 2013 to 2018 Booktopia was a finalist across multiple categories for the Online Retailer Industry Awards and won Best Online Store in 2018.
We are proudly 100% Australian owned and love what we are achieving here. I started Booktopia in February 2004 on a budget of $10/day as a side project. All of this has been accomplished with no external investment. We simply sold more books and reinvested the proceeds.
I have been in business with my brother, sister & brother-in-law for the past 21 years.
Booktopia has 13,000 sqm of office and warehouse and it is our stock holding of 150,000 titles and ability to ship books immediately that is proving to separate us from any local competitors.
We also have a flat fee of $6.95 per order for as many books as you want.
Our philanthropic program has donated $750K of books & cash to literacy based projects, writers' festivals & readers' conferences including indigenous literacy programs.
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Alexandra Carter is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School. She has spent the last eleven years helping thousands of people negotiate better, build relationships and reach their goals. In 2019, Alex was awarded the Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University’s highest teaching honor.
Alex believes that negotiation is for everyone. She is a world-renowned negotiation trainer for groups and individuals from all over the world—including the United Nations, Fortune 100 companies, the U.S. government, foreign governments, not-for-profit organizations, universities and private law firms. Through the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School, Alex and her students provide free conflict resolution services and training to many people and organizations who otherwise would not be able to afford it.
Negotiation is more important now than ever, as entrepreneurs and business executives scramble to renegotiate contracts amidst the uncertainty we find ourselves navigating thanks to COVID-19.
We unpacked:
- Why negotiation starts with defining first what we want
- How to prime yourself to successfully navigate any situation
- Key questions to ask to get closer to the deal
...and a whole lot more, so strap yourself in for my conversation with the one and only, Alexandra Carter.
Topics Discussed:
- Working through adversity during COVID-19
- How Alex got into negotiation
- The definition of negotiation
- How negotiation has changed since the 20th Century
- Positive sum v zero sum
- Why ‘what?’ is better than ‘why?’
- The power of questions
- Questions to ask yourself before a negotiation (the mirror)
- Questions to ask others during a negotiation (the window)
- Dealing with feelings
- The two big hidden emotions
- Why we need emotion to make decisions
- How to overcome objections and concerns
Show Notes:
Web: Alexcarterasks.com
Twitter: @alexbcarter
Web: alexcarterasks.com
Get the book: https://amzn.to/2AFBtME
IG: @alexandrabcarter
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
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Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Lydia Denworth is a contributing editor for Scientific American and writes the Brain Waves blog for Psychology Today. She’s the author of three books, including the newly published Friendship: The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond, which demonstrates how friendship goes deeper than our emotional responses, and affects us on a cellular level.
We explored the psychology of friendship, and in particular looked at:
- What makes a good friend
- Whether digital friendships and Zoom calls are a substitute for the real thing
- Why loneliness can kill and how friendship makes us healthier people
- How to toe the delicate line between parent and friend
- Friendship at work, and how it can help us to cultivate trust and support innovation
We unpacked that, and more, in this fascinating conversation with today’s guest, Lydia Denworth.
Topics Discussed:
- Definition of friendship
- Foundations of a strong friendship
- Evolutionary foundations
- Physiological impacts
- Loneliness
- Digital friendship
- Neuroscience of friendship
- Friendship in lockdown
- Circles of friendship
- Benefits of friendship
- Trust and group cooperation
- Friendship across gender lines
- Meaningful work and meaningful relationships
- Loneliness in the workplace
- The good life
Show Notes:
Twitter: @lydiadenworth
Web: lydiadenworth.com
Get the book: https://amzn.to/2yDpSxe
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This episode is brought to you by Collective Campus brand new online innovation courses. Whether you want to learn about business models and testing ideas with Alex Osterwalder, building a corporate startup with Dan Toma, or learn about topics such as design thinking, and agile fundamentals, head to www.collectivecampus.io/online
I’ll also be running a 2-hour webinar on remote work and productivity in early July, based on the popularity of my five levels of remote work article, which you can learn more about at bit.ly/fivelevelswebinar
And to today’s episode.
Dr. Alexander (Alex) Osterwalder is one of the world's most influential strategy and innovation experts, a leading author, entrepreneur, and in-demand speaker whose work has changed the way established companies do business and how new ventures get started.
Ranked No. 4 of the top 50 management thinkers worldwide, Osterwalder is known for simplifying the strategy development process and turning complex concepts into digestible visual models.
Together with Yves Pigneur, he invented the Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, and Business Portfolio Map - practical tools that are trusted by millions of business practitioners from leading global companies including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, MasterCard, Sony, Fujitsu, 3M, Intel, Roche, Colgate-Palmolive, and many more.
He returned to the podcast to talk about what leaders can do to build truly invincible companies and weather storms that are a result of technological and social change, financial market shocks and of course, viruses.
We explored:
1 - what defines an invincible company
2 - how companies can balance a portfolio between exploration of new business models and exploitation of existing ones
3 - what companies like Amazon, IKEA and Logitech have done to play the long game and stay relevant
4 - and finally, how one such invincible company profiled in the book, Airbnb, might weather the storm of COVID-19
With that, I bring you the one and only, Alex Osterwalder.
Topics Discussed:
- Lockdown in Switzerland
- Alex’s new book
- What is an invincible company
- The wakeup call we needed?
- Cashflow runway and business model reinvention
- Case studies and success stories
- Tools for managing innovation
- Leading indicators v trailing indicators
- Hilti
- Bosch
- Culture lags systems
- The optimism bias and the narrative fallacy
- Transcending boundaries
- Explore v exploit portfolios
- When to kill a project
- Why entrepreneurs are more risk averse than the general public
- Why market validation isn’t a conclusive test, but an indicative one
- The ‘science vs art’ of innovation and entrepreneurship
- How to use patterns to shift from outdated business models
- Questions to ask when assessing business opportunities
- How to play the long game amidst ROI uncertainty
- Metered funding
- Innovation Project Scorecard
- Placing many bets, and how
- Testing business ideas
- The culture map
- Values alignement and intrinsic motivation
- Delegations of authority
- Airbnb in crisis mode and why they’ll come out of it
Show Notes:
Online courses: www.collectivecampus.io/online
Remote work webinar: http://bit.ly/fivelevelswebinar
Strategyzer: Strategyzer.com
The Invincible Company: https://amzn.to/2Lg2tEM
Testing Business Ideas: https://amzn.to/2YLSpLo
Twitter: @alexosterwalder
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Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Michael Fox is an entrepreneur and investor, best known for co-founding Shoes of Prey, the online retail startup that raised US$25M and grew its team to 200 people, before lagging demand forced the company to famously call it a day in 2019. Today, he heads up plant-based meat alternative company, Fable Foods Co.
Michael joined me to unpack the Shoes of Prey journey, the highs, the lows, the lessons learned and on being a proverbial phoenix rising from the ashes.
We touched on so many big ticket items, but three that stood out for me were:
1 - how so-called market validation can lead startups astray if it is not performed carefully
2 - why raising venture capital isn’t always necessary for startup success and can sometimes come at a detriment to it
3 - how Michael consciously uncoupled from his wife Jodie but continued to work together as co-founders at Shoes of Prey for another 7 years
We unpacked this and a ton more, so strap yourself in for an enlightening conversation with the one and only, Michael Fox.
Topics Discussed:
- Michael’s early years as a lawyer and why and how he got out
- The early days of Shoes of Prey
- Organic growth v venture-backed growth
- Market research and validation - how it can set you astray
- Conscious customer feedback v unconscious reality
- What Michael would do differently next time
- Ethical manufacturing
- Media backlash
- Laying staff off empathetically
- Ethical manufacturing
- The cost of employee engagement and retention
- Being transparent without compromising employee motivation
- The importance of not deriving your entire self worth from one thing
- Conscious uncoupling
- Humility and ego amidst turmoil
- Why it can be darkest before the dawn
- Why 2019 was Michael’s best year
- Fable Food Co and its mission of ending industrial agriculture
Show Notes:
Twitter: @mmmichaelfox
Fable Foods: fablefood.co
IG: @fablefoodco
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
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Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Paul McIntyre is the host of ABC Radio’s ‘Medical Matters’ and has more than two decades of experience at ABC Radio. He is also a playwright and author. His book, Use It or Lose It, is a guide to remaining vital through mid-life and beyond.
While this conversation represents a slight departure from the usual fare on Future Squared, I figured it would bring a lot of value to listeners when it comes to both living a long and healthy life yourself, as well as caring for any seniors in your life who you may not be able to physically be with during this time of COVID-19.
We unpacked many topics from the book, including:
- Why body and mind is a false dichotomy
- What to eat for a ripe old age
- Exercise and mobility
- The connection between sleep, anxiety and neurodegenerative disease
- Community and the value of a flourishing social life
- Maintaining meaning after retirement
- The importance of learning
- Activities seniors can perform to ward off dementia
- How we can engage seniors and look after them during COVID-19
Show Notes:
Get the book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Use-Lose-Paul-McIntyre-ebook/dp/B07P18SDD4
Twitter: @pauldavidmc
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Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
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Steve Blank - considered by many to be the father of modern entrepreneurship - returns to Future Squared to talk COVID19 virus survival strategies for business.
Steve is credited with spearheading the customer development movement, which was popularised by his former pupil’s Eric Ries book, under the guise of the lean startup.
We discussed the specific steps that startup CEOs, and to an extent leaders at large organisations too, should be taking in order to not just survive COVID19, but with some luck, come out the other side stronger.
Specifically, we talked:
- Startup runway, and why it’s no time to move slowly if yours is short
- Whether COVID19 is a 3 month, 1 year or 3 year problem
- Whether you need a new business model and operating plan
- New opportunities presented by COVID19
- Managing board and investor expectations
- Compassionate leadership
- and more…
So with that, it is with much pleasure that I welcome back to the show, the one and only, Steve Blank.
Show Notes:
Blog: https://steveblank.com/2020/03/17/the-virus-survival-strategy-for-your-startup/
Blog 2: https://steveblank.com/2020/03/19/action-today-for-cfos/
Twitter: @sgblank
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Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Today I welcome back to the show biohacker, naturopath and human guinea pig, Lucas Aoun, who you might remember from episode 342.
Today, Lucas’ purpose and mission is to assist and empower people to reach their fullest potential, which he does through his company, Ergogenic Health.
Given the rapidly evolving and uncertain times we find ourselves in, I invited Lucas back onto the show to talk about the kinds of things we can be doing to boost our immune system. This is not to say that doing anything discussed in this show will prevent you from contracting COVID19 or will help you to recover quickly should you contract it, but that they are a number of precautionary measures that you could be taking, not just for COVID19, but to live a healthy and optimised life in general.
We touched on various immune boosters, such as:
- Sleep
- Nutrition
- Supplements; and
- Movement
So with that, strap yourself in for an immunity boosting conversation with Lucas Aoun.
Medical Disclaimer
This episode and the content therein is not a substitute for professional medical advice and should not be relied on as health or personal advice. Always seek the guidance of your doctor or other qualified health professional with any questions you may have regarding your health or a medical condition.
Show Notes:
Instagram: instagram.com/ergogenic_health
Facebook: facebook.com/ergogenic_health
Website: www.ergogenichealth.com.au
Cistus tea: https://www.ergogenichealth.com.au/product/cistus-incanus-tea BPC-157: https://www.ergogenichealth.com.au/product/bpc-157
Free sleep webinar: https://optimal-health-masterclass-series.teachable.com/courses/enrolled/799510
Supplements discussed:
Vitamin A, B6, B complex, C, D3, E, K, Monolaurin, Nigella Sativa, NAC, Zinc, Cordyceps, BPC-157, Ecklonia cava
Foods discussed:
Chicken, pomegranate, pumpking seeds, coconut oil, garlic, organ meats (liver, kidneys etc)
More info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UR4Vus4EzVkcyQZld6HJl3PtfQqxzIDaPP2OaV-A67s/edit
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Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
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Many of us the world over now find ourselves in isolation, either forced to shelter in place as is the case in large parts of California, or practice social distancing and effectively spend more time at home.
While Counterstrike gamers and Netflix bingers might’ve been unknowingly in training for this moment their entire lives, for most of us — even the introverts among us — this period might test our emotional fortitude, all the more so because there is uncertainty around when this experiment in social isolation will end.
According to The Depression Project, isolation has the capacity to and is already triggering a number of mental health issues as a result of:
- decreased financial security
- social withdrawal and loneliness
- fear the health of our loved ones
- anxiety over catching COVID19
- a survival mindset
- less distractions
- lack of control and feelings of hopelessness
It’s no wonder that solitary confinement is used as a form of punishment at many prisons — one that has been found to cause anguish, provoke serious mental and physical health problems, and work against rehabilitation.
In this episode, I unpack what you can be doing to come out the other side a strong, better version of yourself.
Show Notes:
medium.com/@steveglaveski
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Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Successfully building a company is a Herculean feat at the best of times — 95% of startups fail and most small businesses close their doors before they turn five.
With that in mind, it might seem near impossible to do so when there’s a global pandemic shutting down the world’s economy.
Nobody knows for sure when we will emerge out of this black hole and markets will resume normal programming — estimates ranging from several months to several years.
What we do know is that unlike the global financial crisis of 2008 which pointed to internal problems in our financial markets, COVID-19 represents an external event, and so it stands to reason that we should expect a rapid recovery once the crisis subsides — or at least we hope so.
Based on this, if your company has less than 24 months runway left, it’s time to calmly delineate between what you can control and what you can’t, and focus on the former.
As such, I’ve taken the time to prepare the following 23 steps — many of which are applicable to both startups and small businesses — to increase liquidity, decrease burn rate, increase runway and ultimately increase thee chances of surviving the so-called apocalypse.
Show Notes:
medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steveglaveski.com
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Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2N77FLx
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COVID-19 has had a deleterious effect on our world as we know it.
First, it sent sharemarkets into a downward spiral, then it put countries such as Italy into lockdown, and forced the cancelation of festivals such as SXSW(something the author of this article was going to attend — bummer!).
Oh, and who can forget ‘toiletgate’ — Australians, embarrassingly for me, stripping grocery stores bare of necessities such as toilet paper, hand sanitiser, pasta, rice and Vegemite. I have since warmed to the southern European institution that is the bidet!
Show Notes:
- medium.com/@steveglaveski
- Timerichbook.com
- Steveglaveski.com
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Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2N77FLx
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
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David Meerman Scott is an internationally acclaimed business strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, and public speaker.
He is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten previous books, including The New Rules of Marketing & PR, Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead, and The New Rules of Sales & Service.
His latest books, Fanocracy: Turning Fans into Customers and Customers into Fans, unpacks how some brands attract word-of-mouth buzz and radical devotion around products as everyday as car insurance, b2b software, and underwear. They embody the most powerful marketing force in the world: die-hard fans. The book has been endorsed by the likes of Seth Godin and its foreword was written by Tony Robbins.
We discussed:
- The difference between a fan and a customer
- How neuroscience plays a significant role when it comes to turning people into fans
- How to build your tribe, even if you’re a completely virtual company
We explore examples of fandom ranging from companies such as Me Undies, Hagerty Insurance, Microsoft, through to the Grateful Dead, Iron Maiden and Radiohead, so strap yourself in for a conversation on how to build your tribe of devoted fans.
Show Notes:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Fanocracy-Turning-Fans-into-Customers/dp/0593084004
Audiobook: https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Fanocracy-Audiobook/0593148517
Web: Fanocracy.com | Davidmeermanscott.com
Twitter: @dmscott
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Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2N77FLx
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
Seth Godin needs no introduction but I am going to give him one anyway.
He is the author of 19 books, and over 8,000 blog posts.
He’s a pre-eminent name in the world of entrepreneurship and marketing.
He has founded several companies including altMBA, The Marketing Seminar, Squidoo, and YoYoDyne which he sold to Yahoo! For US$30M.
In 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame.
With such an enormous body of work, it was hard to know where to start preparing for this interview, but I spent our 45 minutes together trying to shine a light on apparently conflicting beliefs.
How do we strive for more, while also accepting who we are?
Does having a Plan B mean that we don’t go all in on Plan A?
Does hiring for culture fit mean that we destroy creativity?
We explored questions like these that transcend both life and business, so strap yourself in for some rapid-fire learning with the one, the only, Seth Godin.
Topics Discussed:
- Striving for more versus acceptance of self
- Having a Plan B versus going all in on Plan A
- Navigating uncertainty
- Overcoming rejection and adversity
- Build an MVP or build something remarkable?
- How to identify your smallest viable market
- How to save time for rewarding pursuits
- Persist or quit in the face of negative feedback?
- Hire for culture fit or diversity of thought?
- Does setting up shop in Silicon Valley kill creativity?
- Why Netflix and Apple don’t make good benchmarks for early-stage entrepreneurs
- Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 true fans
- The K12 school system and what’s broken with education
- Signaling: good signal v bad signal?
- Why social media followers aren’t real followers
- Why depriving employees from the ability to make decisions is wrong
Show Notes:
Web: seths.blog
IG: @sethgodin
Biz: AltMBA, TheMarketingSeminar
Pod: Akimbo.me
The Growth Faculty Seminar:
SYDNEY 15 May 2020
International Convention Centre
9:00 - 1:15
MELBOURNE
18 May 2020
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
9:00 - 1:15
Tickets at thegrowthfaculty.com
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Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2N77FLx
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
Andrew Ross is the founder of URBNSURF, Australia’s first surf park, which opened its doors to the public in January of 2020 to much fanfare.
Prior to opening URBNSURF, Andrew spent twenty five years in various legal, corporate finance and investment banking roles before merging his profession and his passion to ultimately find his purpose, as you’ll learn in this conversation.
As you might imagine, building a two-hectare large surf park, that generates 1,000 ocean-like waves per hour is a Herculean feat, and one that delivers lots of both business and life lessons, lessons we unpack, so strap yourself in for my hour-plus long conversation with the founder of URBNSURF, the one and only, Andrew Ross.
Topics Discussed:
- What is URBNSURF?
- Andrew’s origin story
- How investment banking prepared Andrew for entrepreneurship
- Where the inspiration for URBNSURF came from
- Challenges faced in turning the dream into reality
- Build it and they will come?
- The value of resilience
- Raising $30 million from investors
- How to overcome objections
- Risk management and redundancy
- How URBNSURF compares to ocean surfing
- Sacrifice and managing family expectations
- Company culture, trust, speed and innovation
- The value of short feedback loops
- Night surfing
- Board selection for URBNSURF
- Celebrity customers
- How Andrew stays on top of his mental and physical game
Show Notes:
- Web: URBNSURF.COM
- Instagram: @URBNSURF
- The book Andrew mentioned: Barbarian Days - https://amzn.to/2TSr087
- The peptide I mentioned: https://www.bigboyz.store/products/regenotropin-bpc157
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Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2N77FLx
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
Scott H Young is a writer, programmer, traveler and avid reader of interesting things. For the last ten years he has been experimenting to find out how to learn and think better.
He’s the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate…
Whether it’s learning a new talent, staying relevant, reinventing yourself, or adapting to whatever the workplace throws your way, Scott’s book offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly.
We explored why self-education is so important today, common learning pitfalls, and techniques you can apply to accelerate your own learning efforts, including a simple method that can help you to increase your retention by a factor of four.
With that, I bring you the one and only, Scott H Young.
Topics Discussed:
- What is ultralearning?
- How Scott got into learning about learning
- Why ongoing self-education is so important today
- What’s wrong with our old ways of learning?
- How Scott completed a 4 year MIT program in just 12 months
- The power of retrieval
- Common learning pitfalls to avoid
- How to increase retention through spaced repetition
- Why we should attack our weaknesses
- The power of a learning project
- The forgetting curve
- The importance of feedback and learning into difficulty
- How our intuition can fool us into thinking we know things
- The 80/20 principle
- Peer learning
- Personalised learning
- Habit building
- How to read more books in 2020
- How to beat procrastination
Show Notes:
- W: scotthyoung.com
- T: @scotthyoung
- Ge the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2R1UezT
- Get the audiobook on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Ultralearning-Audiobook/0062945149
- Steve’s HBR article on L&D: https://hbr.org/2019/10/where-companies-go-wrong-with-learning-and-development
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2N77FLx
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
James Clear is an author and speaker focused on habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement.
A freak baseball accident put James in a desperate place, fighting to recover from brain damage. The debilitating brain injury forced him to discover a new way of living. Recovery took James to a new understanding of habits and the power of stacking simple, easy habits, one on top of the other, to create momentum and change.
His book, Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results, shares his learnings with the world. It has sold well over one million copies and has been translated into numerous languages.
He is a regular speaker at Fortune 500 companies and his work is used by teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Time, and on CBS This Morning.
We covered numerous topics in this conversation, including, as you might expect:
- How to build good habits and break bad ones
- Why systems are much more important than goals alone; and
- What kind of ‘meta habits’ deliver a massive return in life
We explore this and a whole lot more so strap yourself in for an hour with Mr Atomic Habits himself, James Clear.
Topics Discussed:
- Why are good habits so difficult to form
- Our brain’s desire to optimize for energy conservation
- The three layers of behaviour change
- The four laws of behaviour change
- The power of rewards
- Habit stacking
- Environment design
- The power of small changes
- The path of least effort meets the laws of motion
- Picking the right metrics
- The Goldilocks Zone
- Short feedback loops
- What leaders can do to build better habits in their teams and companies
- Meta habits
- What role identity plays
- Values alignment
Show Notes:
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- @jamesclear on Twitter
- Get the book: https://amzn.to/2DHgN5l
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- Steve Glaveski: steveglaveski.com
- Medium: medium.com/@steveglaveski
- Steve's book: employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Branko Milanovic is a Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center and a senior fellow at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. He obtained his Ph. D. in economics from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He served as lead economist in World Bank Research Department for almost 20 years and as a senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington from 2003 to 2005. He has held teaching appointments at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1997-2007).
He is the author of Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World. In it, he argues that capitalism has triumphed because it works. It delivers prosperity and gratifies human desires for autonomy. But it comes with a moral price, pushing us to treat material success as the ultimate goal.
In what is becoming an increasingly polarised world, I really enjoyed getting somewhat out of my comfort zone to talk economics with Branko.
We went an inch deep a mile wide in this conversation and covered numerous topics, including:
- The merits of capitalism, its criticisms and what could be improved
- Equality of outcome versus equality of opportunity
- Whether inequality is an avoidable feature of nature
- Job automation and UBI; and
- Inequality in sports, namely professional soccer
With that, I bring you my conversation with Branko Milanovic.
Topics Discussed:
- Why capitalism prevailed
- What capitalism gets wrong
- How capitalism could be improved
- What really influences inequality
- Is inequality necessary?
- Equality of outcome v equality of opportunity
- Trickle down effects
- Egalitarian capitalism
- Why taxes are not the answer
- The link between taxes and innovation
- Political capitalism (China) and its pitfalls
- Automation and UBI
- The decrease in inequality between countries, but the growing inequality within them
- Political polarisation
- Plutocracy and populism
- The perils of materialism
- Inequality in soccer
Show Notes:
Twitter: @brankomilan
Capitalism, Alone: https://amzn.to/34v2GvJ
Global Inequality: https://amzn.to/2OQET2M
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2N77FLx
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Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" and "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life."
He has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing on technology, psychology, and business appears in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.
In a world of distraction, the ability to become indistractable offers us a serious competitive advantage.
Nir and I unpacked numerous topics on this show, including:
- Why our being so easily distracted goes deeper than our devices
- How toxic workplace cultures sacrifice our potential to do great work; and
- Nir’s four-step, research-backed model to become indistractable
With that, I bring you Nir Eyal.
Topics Discussed:
- Why most distractions come from within
- Why the ability to disconnect is the true scarce resource of the day
- Internal triggers
- External triggers
- Variable rewards (a slot machine in our pockets)
- Why time management is pain management
- Evolutionary programming
- How identify can influence behaviour
- How do we re-imagine the internal trigger?
- How to build new habits
- The 10-minute rule
- Traction v Distraction
- Hacking back external triggers
- Dysfunctional company cultures and productivity
- What people can do to take back their time in the workplace
- Making pacts
Show Notes:
- Hooked: https://amzn.to/33rYLP3
- Indistractable: https://amzn.to/37HBrzO
- Twitter: @nireyal
- Web: NirandFar.com
- Book info: NirAndFar.com/Indistractable
- Schedule Maker: https://nirandfar.com/schedule-maker/
- Summary article: https://www.nirandfar.com/skill-of-the-future/
- Distraction Guide: https://www.nirandfar.com/distractions/
- Habits vs routines article: https://www.nirandfar.com/habits/
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2N77FLx
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
Find out more about my new kids book, Lemonade STand: From Idea to Entrepreneur: https://bit.ly/lemonadestandbook
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
YouTube:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor and investor. Marc was co-founder of Netflix, serving as their founding CEO, as the executive producer of their web site, and as a member of their board of directors.
Marc recently released his book, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea.
Although best known for starting Netflix, Marc's career as an entrepreneur spans more than four decades. He's founded or co-founded more than half a dozen other successful start-ups, mentored rising entrepreneurs including the co-founders of Looker Data which was recently sold to Google for $2.6B, and invested in numerous successful tech ventures.
He is a frequent speaker at industry events, works extensively with young entrepreneur programs, sits on the board of the environmental advocacy group 1% for the Planet, and chairs the National Outdoor Leadership School's Board of Trustees.
This was a wide-reaching conversation about the lessons learned from the early days of Netflix, back when they were still wrestling with making VHS and then DVD by mail, a compelling business model.
Expect to take many gems of wisdom and memorable anecdotes out of this one, including:
- Why Netflix turned down an 8-figure acquisition offer from Amazon after just a year of operating and before they had anything resembling a sustainable business model
- What happpened when Blockbuster turned down the opportunity to buy Netflix for just $50M;
- What truly differentiates success from failure at a tech startup - hint, it’s not genius; and
- How Netflix went about scaling its freedom-oriented, high performing culture from 7 people to 7,000
WIth that, strap yourself in for my conversation with the co-founder of Netflix, Marc Randolph.
Topics Discussed:
- Surfing
- What the initial inspiration for Netflix was
- Why ceativity is having many at bats
- Calamities that characterised Netflix’s early days
- Why business plans don’t survives a collision with a real customer.
- Why Netflix cannibalised its video sales revenues (most of its revenue) to pursue video rental by mail (none of its revenue)
- Turning down an acquisition offer from Amazon, even when Netflix had little going for it
- Being turned down by Blockbuster
- On stepping down from CEO and letting Reed Hastings take over
- How to fight the complacency that comes with success
- How to attract the best talent to your company, even if you can’t afford them
- Why culture is what you do, not what you say
- Why leadership is about helping people find their own way to the destination
- How to empower peopple to make decisions, instead of suffocate them with process
- How to scale culture
- Firing your team, even after they had made large sacrifices to join you
- What was the breakthrough that catapultued Netflix from startup to an actual business?
- Why Marc left Netflix shortly after its IPO in 2002
- What two very important things everybody should learn about themselves
- Marc’s date night and dedication to balance at Netflix
- Why more money doesn’t equal more happiness
Show Notes:
Book: https://amzn.to/2W5NuSl
Twitter: @mbrandolph
Instagram: @thatwillneverwork
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
Don Wettrick is the President and Founder of StartedUP, an organization dedicated to help transform the school culture toward innovation and enable student-led entrepreneurship.
He’s also Innovation Coordinator at Noblesville High School, and author of "Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level." Wettrick has worked as a middle school and high school teacher; educational and innovation consultant; CEO, and podcast host.
Don has lectured across the US, Europe, South America and Africa about collaboration, social media use, and work environments that enable innovation. Through his travel, he has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley to Ghana, and seeks to bring that entrepreneurial mindset into our classrooms. His podcast, StartEdUp, has featured some of the most successful entrepreneurs, authors, and thought leaders in the world- focusing on educational change.
Given my work with the Lemonade Stand program, I really enjoyed my conversation with Don, as we riffed on all things student entrepreneurship.
We covered myriad topics, including:
- The difference between teaching entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking
- Why the current tendency to play the victim card instead of take ownership is limiting the potential of today’s students and their contributions to the world; and
- Where today’s K12 school system falls short, and how to plug these gaps
This only scratches the surface of what was discussed, so sit back, and enjoy my conversation with the one and only, Don Wettrick.
Topics Discussed:
- Don’s mission
- Today’s jobs that didn’t exist 20 years ago
- The hedgehog theory
- Skills v attitude
- Conflicts of interest in the school system, often between parents and their children’s interests
- Open-source learning in the K12 classroom
- Creative ways to work within the constraints your current budget and system
- Collaborating with experts and mentors to augment the K12 learning experience
- Is STEM overrated?
- Can teachers only teach children to become teachers?
- Developing emotional fortitude and moving kids away from entitlement
- The school system often prepares kids to be compliant and execute set procedure, but not to challenge the status quo and adapt to changes
- Trojan Horse thinking
- Always be testing
- Create value for others first if you want to create value for yourself
- Strong opinions, weakly held
- The folly of standardized testing
- Why giving our youth comfortable upbringings can be their undoing in adult life
Show notes:
- StartEdUp: www.startedupinnovation.com
- StartEdUp Foundation: https://startedupfoundation.org/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donwettrick
- Don’s book, Pure Genius: https://amzn.to/2BjSMQB
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
Kale Brock is an award nominated writer, filmmaker and speaker.
He’s the author of several books, including The Gut Healing Protocol, The Art Of Probiotic Nutrition, and Mandy Microbe’s Big Gut Adventure.
In his second documentary, The Longevity Film, Kale travels to the world’s ‘blue zones’, longevity cultures, to investigate the dietary & lifestyle factors which cause such unprecedented health statistics in these areas.
We unpacked Kale’s journey into the heart of these blue zones to unpack how their inhabitants attitude, community, nutrition and movement sees them living lives, on average, 5 to 10 years longer than those of us in the west.
We challenge many long-held beliefs about health and wellness, and also attempt to answer that big question - what is happiness?
With that, sit back and enjoy, my conversation with Kale Brock.
Topics Discussed:
- Surfing
- The meaning of happiness
- Why happiness, the chemical state, is a pointless goal
- Longevity communities: Ikaria, Okinawa
- The value of stress
- The diminishing of our tribes
- Depression in the west
- The Meditteranean diet
- Human connection and deep conversation
- Reconciling contentment with ambition
- Devices and social media as a surrogate for self worth
- Veganism and fanaticism
- Why loneliness is worse than smoking
- Finding meaning in suffering
- Western wellness band-aids
- Nutrition in the blue zones
- Identity politics and tribalism
Show Notes:
- Web: kalebrock.com/longevityfilm
- Instagram: @kalesbroccoli
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
Blake J. Harris is the bestselling author of Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation, which is currently being adapted into a mini-series by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
He’s also the author of History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality.
But we spent the better part of this conversation being nostalgic and unpacking the war that served as a backdrop to our childhood, that of Nintendo v Sega.
Expect to take out numerous business lessons from this one:
- The value of open v closed ecosystems
- How to differentiate yourself and dominate the market, even with a much smaller budget
- Why parent companies meddling in the affairs of their subsidiaries often ends in disaster
We unpack this and a whole lot more, so sit back and reminisce, as I bring you the one and only, Blake J Harris.
Topics Discussed:
- The gaming landscape in the 1990s
- Nintendo’s dominant business model
- Nintendo’s closed ecosystem
- Sega’s open ecosystem
- Why it’s challenging to maintain market share when you’re ahead of the pack
- How Nintendo faltered
- What SEGA did to diffeerentiate itself, despite small budgets, and knock Nintendo off its perch
- Mortal Kombat
- How SEGA blundered
- SEGA’s meddling parent company
- The Console Wars documentary and mini-series
- Identity politis at Oculus
- On becoming a writer, and following one’s passions
- Writing tips
- Dell v Compaq
Show Notes:
- https://amzn.to/33jgw3f
- https://amzn.to/2MqPZdt
- Twitter: @blakejharris
- Web: blakejharris.com
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
Neil Sahota is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations A.I. subject matter expert, professor at UC Irvine, and globally-recognized speaker and author. Neil is a founding member of the UN’s Artificial Intelligence for Social Good Committee, and he’s here to talk about the ways we can harness the power of AI and use it for social good. Neil is also the author of Own the A.I. Revolution, providing a future-forward look at A.I., focusing on how businesses can use it to commercialize while doing good in the world.
This was a wide-reaching and fascinating conversation in which we went down numerous rabbit holes, such as what true AI looks like, how AI can adopt our biases and prejudices, the impact on the future of work, AI developing consciousness, whether fears about AI’s capacity to destroy us are legitimate, augmented humanity and our cyborg future, developing countries leapfrogging the west, why philosophy and the arts matter when it comes to designing technology for humans, how organizations can start to take advantage of AI today, and so much more.
With that, strap yourself in for my conversation with the one and only, Neil Sahota.
Topics Discussed:
- What is AI? How do we define it?
- How far away is General AI, really?
- IBM Watson isn’t actually AI
- How AI makes decisions
- Encoding AI with human biases
- Decision-making challenges: how do you control for luck?
- 47% of U.S. jobs risk being automated by 2050 -- how will this affect me?
- Will we create more jobs than we destroy?
- What will humans do?
- The critical importance of philosophy and the arts
- The paperclip problem and perverse instantiation
- Will AI develop consciousness?
- At what point do augmented humans stop being humans and start being cyborgs?
- What aspects of the value chain can companies augment with AI today?
- How should they go about that?
Show Notes:
W: www.neilsahota.com/futuresquared/
T: neil_sahota
IG: neil_sahota
Get the book:https://amzn.to/328pz6o
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
Aaron Aldred is movement based performance trainer situated in Melbourne. With a Bachelors degree in Sports Science, he is currently training clients out of Focus Fitness Yarraville, a gym located in the inner west of Melbourne. Aaron runs 4 week Mobility workshops which provide a wealth of knowledge on optimising movement mechanics, self myofascial release (SMR) and body recovery.
Aaron has been a competitive athlete for the majority of his life in a range of sportsand currently a national level player in lacrosse.
We explored the importance of mobility, the effects of a sedentary lifestyle on the body and the mind, and what you can do to add more movement to your day, especially if you work in an office.
With that, please enjoy my conversation with Aaron Aldred.
Topics Discussed:
- What is mobility and why it matters
- The effects of a sedentary lifestyle
- Mobility for the office worker
- How to test how mobile you are
- Exercises you can incorporate into your day
- How to train for longevity
- Foam rollers, saunas and ice baths: myth or reality
- Stoicism
- Prehab v rehab
- The truth about standing desks
- How to get a better night’s sleep
Show Notes:
- Instagram: @aldred.performance
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
Paul Roos is a former Australian rules footballer and senior coach in the Australian Football League (AFL). Roos represented Fitzroy and Sydney during the 1980s and 1990s, playing 356 games over 17 seasons. Roos was the senior coach of the Sydney Swans and Melbourne Football Club from 2002 to 2010 and 2013 to 2016 respectively.
Roos was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2005. He has won many accolades throughout his career: he was named All-Australian seven times; received the league's most valuable player (MVP) award; and represented Victoria on 14 occasions in State of Origin.
After finishing as a player, Roos went on to become a successful coach at Sydney, guiding the Swans to the 2005 Premiership, their first in 72 seasons.
Today, Roos is a media commentator and also works with businesses and people to help them perform at a highest level.
We unpacked numerous lessons on leadership that transcend the athletic and business domains and impact the way we live our lives.
Expect to take lots of golden nuggets out of this conversation, including:
- Early life as a footballer in the suburbs
- How to lift the spirits of an underperforming team of people
- Why accountability and ongoing feedback is key
- Why leadership isn’t about having all of the answers
- Why you can do everything right and still lose or do everything wrong and still win
- Why we should focus on the process instead of the decision
- How to ensure people don’t become complacent after a big win
- The value of authenticity and vulnerability
- Keeping yourself accountable as a leader
- Creating space for serendipity
- Behaviour v talent
- Putting yourself in the shoes of your team
- Technical ability v leadership ability
- How to scale culture
- How to manage ego
- Daily rituals and routines
… and so much more!
This is a ninety minute long episode, but it could have just as easily been twice as long, as Roosy, as he is affectionately known by the AFL public, brought almost half a Century of competing at the highest level to the conversation.
With that, strap yourself in, for a conversation with the one and only, Paul Roos.
Show Notes:
- Performancebydesign.co
- Roosmensclub.com
- Nurture360.com.au
- Nurtureher.com
- Dylanrooscoaching.com
- Instagram: @paulroos1
- Get Paul’s book ‘Here It Is’: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/here-it-is-9780143793502
- 25 coaching points to success: https://www.1000manifestos.com/paul-roos-25-points-success/
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
This past weekend I went snowboarding at Australia’s Mount Hotham.
While I have been a longtime skateboarder, and a short-time surfer, I’d never been snowboarding.
While my skating skills were somewhat transferable, it didn’t stop my ass from hitting the white powder about 50 times.
But that was okay.
It just meant that I had to get up 51 times.
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Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Scott Belsky is the author of the international bestselling book MAKING IDEAS HAPPEN and his latest book, The Messy Middle, explores finding your way through the hardest and most crucial part of any bold venture. Scott has spent his career making the creative world more productive, connected, and adaptive to new technologies.
He founded Behance, the leading online platform for the creative industry to showcase and discover creative work, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012 for $150 million.
He is a Venture Partner with Benchmark, and is an early advisor and investor in Pinterest, Uber, sweetgreen, Cheddar, and Periscope as well as several others in the early stages.
Scott also founded 99U, a publication and annual conference devoted to productivity in the creative world and serves on the Board of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Scott is currently serves as Adobe's Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud.
In this episode, we many topics, inlcuding:
- How to keep your team motivated, even when there is little cause for celebration
- How to build a culture of transparency and psychological safety
- Why organizations who make fast decisions are more likely to win; and
- What the most sustainable competitive advantage you can have is
We explored this and a whole lot more so strap yourself in for a conversation with the one and only, Scott Belsky.
Topics Discussed:
- Why the media glorifies starting up and exiting, but not scaling up
- Why entrepreneurs shouldn’t conflate raising capital with success
- Why its about how you respond to peaks and valleys that matters most
- Why being resource strap breeds resourcefulness
- Why scaling is so much harder than starting
- The importance of self awareness
- How being the master of your devices gives you an advantage in the attention economy
- Engineering small wins into your team culture
- The role of luck in success, and the narrative fallacy
- Why it pays to have tension in your workforce
- Minimum viable bureaucracies
- How to build a culture that values people over process
- How to make fast decisions and why you should
- Why longevity requires knowing your weaknesses
- On transitioning from Behance to Adobe
- On Adobe’s aquisition of Behance and what they did right
- On making the leap from Goldman Sachs to Behance
Show Notes:
Web: scottbelsky.com | themessymiddle.com
Twitter: @scottbelsky
Instagram: @scottbelsky
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President.
Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. His book, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann, itself has sold over 850,000 copies and it has been translated into 28 languages.
Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic, and is a past member of the Board of Directors of Furry Friends Adoption, Clinic & Ranch in his town of Jupiter, Florida.
We unpacked the following in this conversation:
- The five laws of the go giver way - value, compensation, influence, receptivity and authenticity - and how applying them can benefit you in business and in life
- Why it’s not what you sell, but the value it delivers that matters most - and why that value need not always be direct or monetary; and
- How to get past objections and determine the conditions required to sell your product
We also touched on cognitive biases and how to get better at mastering them, the left-right political divide and how to better persuade people to your line of thinking, and the value of free markets.
WIth that, please enjoy my conversation with the one and only, Bob Burg.
Show Notes:
- Website: www.gogiverway.com
- Twitter: @bobburg
- Podcast: https://thegogiver.com/podcast/
- Get Bob’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Bob-Burg/e/B001IGSYSK%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
Other:
- Mistakes Were Made but Not By Me book: https://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/1491514132
- Chris Voss - Never Split the Difference book (“counterfeit yes”): https://www.amazon.com.au/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/0062407805
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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“There is nothing permanent except change”.
Heroclitus’ dictum is over 2,500 years old, and it’s more relevant than ever.
Moore’s law, the doubling of computing power every 18 months, is fifty years old. In 1971, Intel’s 4004 contained just 2,300 transistors. Today’s microprocessors contain over 20 billion.
The meteoric rise in computing power is rendering businesses big on process, five year plans and consensus seeking meetings unable to adapt fast enough.
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In this episode of Future Squared, I bring you two executives from Bank of New Zealand - Lannon Durant - Senior Manager in BNZ’s Partnership Team, and Connor Shelley, Head of Transformation and Innovation.
Bank of New Zealand recently partnered with Collective Campus to run a startup partnership program, whereby we scoured the globe to find, connect with and evaluate startups and scaleups that could help BNZ solve specific business challenges.
In this episode, we unpack lessons learned from the program that can be beneficial for both startup founders looking to sell to large organizations, as well as corporate executives looking to drive innovation and partner with startups.
With that, I bring you Connor Shelley and Lannon Durant.
Show Notes:
- Startup Partnerships with Collective Campus: www.collectivecampus.io/innovate/corporate-startup-partnerships
- BNZ Ventures and Partnerships: www.bnzvap.co.nz
- BNZ GoSMEGrow: gosmegrow.collectivecampus.io
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In this episode of Future Squared, I bring you two executives from Bank of New Zealand - Lannon Durrant - Senior Manager in BNZ’s Partnership Team, and Connor Shelley, Head of Transformation and Innovation.
Bank of New Zealand recently partnered with Collective Campus to run a startup partnership program, whereby we scoured the globe to find, connect with and evaluate startups and scaleups that could help BNZ solve specific business challenges.
In this episode, we unpack lessons learned from the program that can be beneficial for both startup founders looking to sell to large organizations, as well as corporate executives looking to drive innovation and partner with startups.
With that, I bring you Connor Shelley and Lannon Durrant.
Show Notes:
- Startup Partnerships with Collective Campus: www.collectivecampus.io/innovate/corporate-startup-partnerships
- BNZ Ventures and Partnerships: www.bnzvap.co.nz
- BNZ GoSMEGrow: gosmegrow.collectivecampus.io
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
“How Big Is Your Company?” Human beings are social animals.
Henceforth, like a peacock signaling reproductive fitness with its large and colourful tail, human beings signal through our haircuts, clothes, the cars we drive, the places we live, what we eat (or choose not to eat — here’s looking at you vegans and intermittent fasters), when we wake up, how often we work out, and the titles on our business cards — among a plethora of other things.
If you’re an entrepreneur or leader, then you’ve probably felt the urge to signal how many people you have working for you. At the very least, you’ve no doubt been asked the status gathering question, “how big is your team?” before.
The thing is, the answer to this question no longer means what it once did.
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Jonathan Rosenberg is the former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Alphabet Inc. CEO Larry Page.
Alan Eagle is the Director of Executive Communications at Google.
The pair co-wrote How Google Works, and the newly released Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell, alongside longtime Google CEO and Chairman, Eric Schmidt.
Trillion Dollar Coach unpacks management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value.
Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt. In addition, this business genius mentored dozens of other important leaders on both coasts, from entrepreneurs to venture capitalists to educators to football players, leaving behind a legacy of growing companies, successful people, respect, friendship, and love after his death in 2016.
We unpacked many of Campbell’s teachings in this episode, including:
1 - Why it’s not your title, but your people who make you a leader
2 - How to build trust into the fabric of your organization so that it avoids the debilitating politics that plagues many organizations today
3 - The value of taking a people and team first approach
4 - Why it’s not what potential hires did in the past that matters, but how they did it
5 - First principles thinking
6 - Why the process can sometimes matter more than the outcome
7 - How to get the best out of people who might be underperforming
...and so much more.
With that, strap yourself in for a fascinating conversation on what it takes to build a culture that gives organizations the best chance of thriving in the 21st Century, with my guests, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle.
Topics Discussed:
- Who Bill Campbell was
- Trip reports
- Team first
- Why every sports team needs a coach
- NBA basketball and the Warriors
- What exactly is a coach?
- What does it take to be coachable?
- Why your people make you a leader, not your title
- How to deal with aberrant geniuses
- Why tension in the machine can be a good thing
- The rule of two - a decision and relationship building mechanism
- The smart creative
- Asking ‘how’, not ‘what’, when hiring
- How to create an environment that empowers great people to succeed
- Sir Alex Ferguson
- Firing geniuses
- First principles thinking
- Process v outcome
- Radical transparency and the elephant in the room
- Mitigating the toxicity of politics
- Commitment over consensus
- Decisiveness
- Vulnerability and trust
- What to look for in new hires
- Caring for your team
- Building relationships first
Show Notes:
- Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/ericschmidt/trillion-dollar-coach-book-bill-campbell
- The book website: www.TrillionDollarCoach.com
- Jon on Twitter: @jjrosenberg
- Alan on Twitter: @aeaglejr
- Get the book:https://amzn.to/30rMxVl
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Matthew Belair is a life long martial artist, knowledge seeker and explorer. He has travelled the world to train with masters, which include meditating with monks in Nepal, training MMA in Thailand and trekking Mount Everest and studying Shaolin Kung Fu with 34th Generation Shaolin Masters in China.
He shares his knowledge in his podcast, the Matt Belair Podcast: Master Mind, Body & Spirit, as well as his coaching, workshops and programs.
He’s the author of Zen Athlete: A Guide to Self Mastery, which demystifies the art of mental training, flow and peak performance. It is designed to empower world class athletes, leaders, executives, peak performance junkies and knowledge seekers with tried and tested strategies for achieving your highest potential in all areas of life.
Matt and I covered a lot of ground in this conversation, including near death experiences, flow states, how to smash self limiting beliefs, how to overcome fears, visualisation, meditation, habit forming, the philosopher of happiness - Epicurus, native elders, mixed martial arts, snowboarding, Australian motorcross champions and a hell of a lot more…
So strap yourself in with a conversation with the Zen Athlete, Matt Belair.
Show Notes:
Web: Mattbelair.com
Web: Mattbelair.com/masters-your-flow/
Web: Zenathlete.com
Book: https://amzn.to/2XB2R9j
Twitter: @Matt_Belair
Instagram: @Mattbelair
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When I launched this show I remember looking at other podcasts that had published over 300 hundred episodes and thinking that was truly insane….and here we are 3 and a half years later with 350 episodes.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for listening.
In this installment of Fast Fix Friday, we unpack Japanese swordsman and philosopher, Miyamoto Musashi's famous maxim, "if you know the way broadly, you will see it in all things".
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Remi Adeleke is many things, former royalty, an ex-Navy Seal, an author, entrepreneur and producer.
But most of all, he’s a symbol of perseverance.
Having gone from Nigerian opulence at the age of five to drug-dealing on the streets of the Bronx as a teenager, Remi knows a thing or two about tough times, and how to overcome them with nothing but sheer tenacity and hard work.
Remi is the author of Transformed: A Navy SEAL's Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds; the title a play on words on his most recent acting credit in Transformers.
Expect to take lots out of this conversation, including:
1 - Remi’s fascinating story of going from rock star to rock bottom and back again
2 - Why it’s often darkest before the dawn; and
3 - Why if you know the way broadly, you will see it in everything.
We also geek out on early 90s hip-hop wars and the Eddie Murphy classic, Coming To America.
But this doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what we explored in this conversation, so strap yourself in for an hour with the one and only, Remi Adeleke.
Topics Discussed:
- Losing his father and the throne at the age of 5
- Growing up in the Bronx
- Running scams and dealing drugs as a teenager
- Starting his first record label
- The East-West hip-hop wars of the early 90s
- The crack epidemic of the late 80s / early 90s
- Hitting rock bottom
- Joining the Navy
- Making it as a Navy Seal
- Hell Week
- The benefit of having people believe in you
- What Remi learned about himself in the Navy
- What leadership means to Remi
- How to get the best out of your people
- The challenges of becoming an author and writing his first book
- Becoming a Hollywood actor
- Why what stands in the way becomes the way
- How to deal with and overcome adversity
- If you know the way broadly, you will see it in everything
- Remi’s morning routine
Show Notes:
1: Get the book: https://amzn.to/2J8Dnaw
2: Instagram: @remiadeleke
3: Twitter: @remiadeleke
4: LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/remi-adeleke-56900075/
5: Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/pg/Remi-Adeleke-129399157227652/
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Self-awareness is a hot topic nowadays.
You can hardly open a business or psychology book without coming across numerous mentions of emotional intelligence, EQ or self-awareness.
The theory of objective self-awareness goes back to 1972, when it was published by Shelley Duval and Robert Wicklund. Daniel Goleman’s definition of self-awareness, immortalized in his best-selling book Emotional Intelligence, simply puts it down to “knowing one’s internal states, preference, resources, and intuitions.”
I’ve written previously that we probably shouldn’t trust our intuitions, because they are a byproduct of evolutionary programming, genetics, fetal conditions, infancy and upbringing, past experience, microbiome activity and our current environment.
Given this, there is immense value in being self-aware. Knowing that a feeling in our gut willing us not to do something we really need to — like make an important presentation in front of a large audience — is really just evolutionary programming which is trying to mitigate our chances of being ostracised from our tribe so that we can survive. Perhaps that made sense thousands of years ago — when we relied upon our tribes for survival — but no so much today.
With self-awareness, we are better able to navigate the world without always falling victim to involuntary reactions that serve to sabotage us, rather than serve us.
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Niccolo Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’, written in the early 16th Century whilst living in exile, was a gift to Lorenzo Medici — defacto ruler of the Florentine republic — arguably as a means to earn his place in society as a statesman again.
The Prince is to this day considered one of the earliest works of modern philosophy, and indeed of modern political philosophy, and is the book that spawned the use of the term Machiavellian to refer to cunning and unscrupulous, especially in politics.
However, the book, which only numbers some 120 pages, is full of lessons that one can apply in leadership roles, in business and more broadly, in life.
This installment of Fast Fix Friday unpacks one such lesson.
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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When most people think of a successful entrepreneur, typically they think of a charismatic, outgoing, and brilliant leader; Jobs, Bezos or the flamboyant Richard Branson might come to mind.
Rarely is introversion conflated with entrepreneurial success. This is because society has a cultural bias towards extroverts, according to Susan Cain, and also because an entrepreneur must interact and influence numerous people — their team, their customers, their partners, and the media.
Having said that, there are several significant advantages that introverted founders — let’s call them intropreneurs — have over their extroverted peers.
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With a writing career spanning 19 years, Mezrich has authored twenty books, with a combined printing of over 4 million copies, including the wildly successful Bringing Down the House, which spent sixty-three weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, and sold over 2 million copies in fifteen languages and was adapted into the #1 Box Office movie 21.
His book, The Accidental Billionaires was adapted into the movie The Social Network which was #1 at the box office, won Golden Globes for best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay, best score, and was nominated for 8 Oscars, winning 3 including Best Adapted Screenplay. Mezrich and Aaron Sorkin shared a prestigious Scripter Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as well.
Ben Mezrich cracked the Hollywood Reporter’s annual hot list: Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors. This power list of authors touted to be “the industry’s most sought-after word nerds” is based on stats like Mezrich’s multiple movie deals in production such as Woolly, Seven Wonders, Once Upon a Time in Russia, and The 37th Parallel.
Ben’s newest book Bitcoin Billionaires chronicles the second act of wonder twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss as they claw their way through Silicon Valley and come out on top as the first bitcoin billionaires after an unlikely-to-win battle with the omnipotent Empire–Facebook.
This was a wide-reaching conversation with Ben, and we explored:
- Ben’s ascendancy to the top of the writing game, and numerous lessons learned along the way that anybody aspiring to great heights can learn from
- His new book Bitcoin Billionaires, in which we unpacked who Mark Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss Twins really are; and
- We talk about crptocurrency more broadly, and the role that tech companies play in our lives today
Ben rattled off countless value bombs in this conversation, so if you’re sitting down, grab a pad and pen, take some notes, and please enjoy, my conversation with the one and only, Ben Mezrich.
Topics Discussed:
- Ben’s upbringing
- How Ben got his start in writing
- Influences on Ben’s writing
- Originality, and where it comes from
- How Ben wrote 9 books during college, none of which were very good
- On having several published books perform poorly before gaining success with Bringing Down the House
- On developing a healthy relationship with rejection
- The role of luck and serendipity
- Writing to keep people’s attention in an age of attention deficit
- Bringing Down the House
- Accidental Billionaires
- Bitcoin Billionaires
- The more at bats you have, the more home runs you hit
- Early exchanges with Eduardo Savarin and an eventual restraining order
- On playing the long game, and maintaining energy and enthusiasm for work
- Tackling a blank page, and overcoming writer’s block
- How Ben chooses his projects
- How Ben gets into the flow state
- What makes a good story
- Introversion, and playing a role
- Who Mark Zuckerberg really is
- Who the Vinklewoss twins really are
- Cryptocurrency
- Big tech companies and our attention
Show Notes:
- Books: amazon.com.au/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ABen+Mezrich&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1
- Twitter: www. twitter.com/benmezrich
- Website: benmezrich.com
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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” — Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President The spirit of Coolidge’s quote has been echoed time and time again by high performers across many domains on my podcast, whether it was Robert Greene, Michael Shermer, Ryan Serhant, or Georges St Pierre; they all say that resilience is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, factor underpinning success.
This is why venture capitalists invest in people first. Veteran Israeli VC Yossi Vardi, who has exited 30 of 86 investments, told CNBC that when he started investing he thought ideas were overrated — now he thinks they’re irrelevant. “It’s about execution and the personality of the people, rather than about the idea”.
In sports, UFC legend Georges St Pierre told me that “confidence plus skill equals success”.
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From a very young age, Lucas Aoun became interested in the effects of certain foods and herbs on his own physiological and psychological performance. When he was playing soccer, he found himself monitoring his performance very closely and discovered that some supplements were having a drastic effect on reaction times, decision making and ability to the "read" the play. This then sparked a passion to spend copious amounts of his "spare time" to research various ergogenic aids.
Having battled with his own health issues, he began to biohack his way out, getting to the root cause of his issues. Through relentless experimentation and research, he has optimised his baseline to consistently perform at a solid level.
Today, Lucas’ purpose and mission is to assist and empower people to reach their fullest potential. He does this by being an information portal and teacher, giving others the knowledge that they need to manipulate their own physiology and behaviours.
We settled in for a wide-reaching conversation in which we ventured down many a rabbit hole, including:
- Naturopathy v western medicine
- Nootropics and cognitive enhancers
- The gut-brain connection
- Sleep
- Dopamine enhancement; and…
- Why men should ice their gonads.
With that, please give it up for an up and coming star in the space of human performance optimisation, Lucas Aoun.
Topics Discussed:
- Lucas’ backstory
- Naturopathy
- Nootropics and biohacking
- Biomarkers
- Blue blockers and sleep
- Maximising growth hormone
- Improving testosterone levels
- Purpose
- Rapid experimentation
- The gut-brain communication axis
- Criticisms of naturapathy
- Dogma
- Dopamine enhancmenet
- Serotonin suppression
- GDAs
- Infrared saunas
- Cold exposure
Show Notes:
Instagram: instagram.com/ergogenic_health
Facebook: facebook.com/ergogenic_health
Website: www.ergogenichealth.com.au
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
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I recently concluded an intense but rewarding podcast tour in support of my now newish book, Employee to Entrepreneur.
Having appeared on over 50 podcasts, I thought I had been asked just about everything on the topic of making the aforementioned leap. That was until I spoke with Erik Fisher of the Beyond the To Do List podcast. Erik took a different approach and asked me whether or not an employee can be an entrepreneur.
I rattled off some initial thoughts that came to mind, but the first thing that comes to mind isn’t always the best, so I continued to ponder the question after the interview.
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Daniel Paisner is one of the busiest collaborators in publishing. He's written over sixty books, on topics ranging from business and sports, to politics and popular culture, including sixteen New York Times best-sellers.
His work has been profiled in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, ESPN: The Magazine and on National Public Radio. (In a recent New York Magazine article on how to write someone else's memoir, he was referred to as the "most prolific living ghost" - a title that may or may not have been meant as a back-handed compliment.)
He is co-author of best-selling books with tennis champion Serena Williams, Ray Lewis, Denzel Washington, Steve Aoki, Whoopi Goldberg...and even Ivanka Trump.
We spent little time talking about his new releases and spent most of the conversation unpacking:
- How Daniel came to be the most prolific living ghost
- What he has learned about success from over 35 years as a ghost writer who has worked with big names from across myriad domains; and
- What Daniel’s creative process looks like
We unpacked that and more so sit back and enjoy my conversation with 16-times NYT bestselling author, Daniel Paisner.
Topics Discussed:
- Daniel’s backstory
- How Daniel got his big break in writing
- Luck v talent v persistence
- How to maintain energy and enthusiasm for your work
- What characteristics successful people share
- The common pitfalls of success
- The arrival fallacy
- Steve Aoki
- Bringing diverse experiences to writing
- Sleep and creativity
- Daniel’s creative process
- How Daniel gets into the flow state
- How to overcome blank page terror
- How to capture the voice of your subject as a ghost writer
- How to tell better stories
- The value of seekking out uncertainty and novelty
- Why ‘the book finds you’ in writing, business and in life
- How to develop a growth mindset when embarking on new, challenging endeavours
Show Notes:
Twitter: @danielpaisner
Web: danielpaisner.com
Books mentioned:
1 - The Ball - https://amzn.to/2YAh1nj
2 - Ray Lewis - https://amzn.to/2Yoqcae
3 - Steve Aoki - https://amzn.to/2YrTp47
4 - Daymond John - https://amzn.to/2VBATcx
5 - Game 7, 1986 - https://amzn.to/2YCgNft
6 - Izzy Paskowitz - https://amzn.to/2YsIBCF
7 Mourning Wood - https://amzn.to/2YAtzLn
8 Serena Williams - https://amzn.to/2YzNUR1
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
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Raj Nathan is a hypeman - no, he doesn’t wear a clock around his neck like Flavor Flav - he’s a startup hypeman, and his mission us to help companoes not suck at pitching and telling their story, so they stand out to customers and investors, and stand apart from competitors and pretenders.
He’s the founder of Startup Hypeman, host of the Startup Hypeman podcast, and, as you’ll learn, he’s also a rapper, and yoga instructor.
We explored a number of topics in this conversation, including:
- How to tell better stories to sell what you do
- What the ideal sales call looks like, especially in the SaaS space; and, most importantly
- The merits of old skool v new skool hip-hop
With that, give it up for my guest, straight outta Chicago, Illinois, Raj Nathan.
Topics Discussed:
- Raj’s background
- 80s v 90s v 00s hip-hop
- The compelling intersection of entertainment and business
- Why stories matter
- How to tell better stories
- SaaS demo calls
- Elevator pitches
- The Hamilton Broadway show
Show Notes:
- Wen: com
- Twitter: @rajnation / @startuphypeman
- Insta: @rajnation / @startuphypeman
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell was an absolutely gripping read about a legendary coach and business executive, whose mentoring of the likes of Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos, amongst other tech luminaries, played a major role in the success of their companies.
While Bill was a private person — he passed away in 2016 — who instead preferred to shine the spotlight on the entrepreneurs and executives he worked with, three of his mentees, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle, decided that his invaluable teachings needed to be shared far and wide, in order to have the biggest impact that they possibly could; so they captured his wisdom in this easily digestible 191-page book (a welcome reprieve after having previously ground through a series of 400–600 page books).
Somewhat surprisingly, Bill took no cash, no stock…and no shit, and until I picked this book up, I didn’t realize people like Bill existed.
The book was packed with value bombs and what follows are some excerpts from the book, and my own notes, which I thought I’d publish to, again, amplify the reach of Bill’s teachings.
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Steve Brophy is a passionate and innovative educator with 17 years of experience both locally and internationally in K-12 schools. In his role as the Director of ICT & eLearning at Ivanhoe Grammar School, Steve is responsible for overseeing the digital strategy and development of the school. Steve was recipient of the 2017 Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria (DLTV) Outstanding Leader of the year award. He is the co-host of the TeachTechPlay web-show, organiser of the TeachTechPlay conference and co-host of the Design and Play podcast.
Steve is also the founder of Thrive Capacity, which offers peak performance coaching for individuals and businesses on focus, productivity, habits, and flow, and he recently returned from a week away in San Jose’s Redwoods with Jamie Wheal of the Flow Genome Project, so he was primed and ready to deep dive into this thing called flow and unpack (1) why flow is fundamental to living an optimised life and reaching self-actualisation, (2) what the many barriers to flow are in our day to day lives, and (3) how we can get to and spend more time in flow.
We geeked out so much in this episode, so much so that after I had officially signed off on the episode, Steve and I kept chatting about flow for another 10 minutes. Fortunately, I kept recording, so I decided to bring you those ‘off-air’ takes as well.
With that, please enjoy my conversation with Steve Brophy.
Topics Discussed:
- What is flow
- Why flow matters
- Why willpower isn’t enough
- Michael Jordan and Larry Bird
- Create an environment to get you into flow
- What surfing and motorbikes have to do with flow
- Cognitive load
- The neuroscience behind flow
- How to build habits
- The power of momentum
- The challenge skill gap
- The value of high consequences
- Why rapid feedback is key to flow
- How flow can leave us feeling more fulfilled and content
- The impact of sleep on creativity, memory and mood
- How organisations sabotage flow
- The value of spaced repetition
Show Notes:
- Get tickets to Steve’s event in Melbourne: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-science-of-living-an-optimised-life-going-beyond-the-pale-tickets-60863997856
- Twitter: @stevebrophy3
- Thrive Capacity: thrivecapacity.com
- Steve’s website: stevebrophy.com
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
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How often do you find yourself in flow like the rock climber above; that place where you are so immersed in a solitary task that the rest of the world seems to just slip away? Turns out that being in this headspace not only makes us up to five times more productive and a lot more creative, but also measurably happier too. And no, you don't need to be risking life and limb to get there.
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
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Andrew Tarvin is obsessed with efficiency. In fact, that's why he goes by Drew Tarvin, it's more efficient. As the world's first humor engineer, he teaches people how to get better results while having more fun. Combining his background as a project manager at Procter & Gamble with his experience as a stand-up comedian, he reverse-engineers the skill of humor in a way that is practical, actionable, and gets results in the workplace.
Through his company, Humor That Works, Dew has worked with more than 35,000 people at over 250 organizations, including Microsoft, the FBI, and the International Association of Canine Professionals.
He is the bestselling author of three books, including Humor That Works: The Missing Skill for Success and Happiness at Work. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and FastCompany and his TEDx talk has been viewed more than four million times.
Having recently ventured down the standup comedy open mic circuit in Melbourne, this was a timely conversation, and one I really enjoyed.
Andrew dropped a lot of value bombs in this conversation, including:
- How to make work more fun
- The power of constraints in humor and innovation
- How to reframe your relationship with failure
With that, enjoy my conversation with the one and only, Andrew Tarvin.
Topics Discussed:
- Andrew’s start in comedy
- Why humanity needs humor
- Why everybody can be funny
- Why people find standup scary
- Practice and repetition
- Why funny is everywhere
- Improve tenets: Yes and… and Don’t Block
- Humor strategies
- How humor helps organisations perform better
- How humor can make us more successful
- How humor can help us sell better and get deals across the line
- How to promote fun in the office
- Andrew’s ‘one smile per hour’ philosophy
- Why failure is just data
- Introversion and how it can make you a better comic and innovat
- Why standup is a great tool to help you build a relationship with adversity
- The Reticular Activating System (RAS)
Show Notes:
Andrew’s business: www.HumorThatWorks.com
Andrew’s personal site: www.AndrewTarvin.com
Get the Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PN74BJG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
Twitter: @andrewtarvin
TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdZAMSyn_As
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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In life, we will inevitably face setbacks - we will come face to face with adversity, be it in our professional lives, or in our personal lives, especially if we’re working towards big hairy audacious goals.
But how you choose to interpret and respond to those setbacks can make all the difference.
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Ryan Serhantis a costar on Bravo's hit show Million Dollar Listing New Yorkand the star of Sell It Like Serhant. Ryan fell into real estate by accident after giving up his acting career. He made just over $9,000 his first year in the business. Ten years later, Ryan leads a team of 60 brokers and averages a billion dollars in sales every year, making him one of the most successful real estate brokers in the world.
He is the author of Sell it like Serhant - How to Sell More, Earn More, and Become the Ultimate Sales Machine, which has gone on to become a Wall Street Journal bestseller.
This was a short but rewarding conversation with Ryan, and we unpacked his rise from having his debit card declined to leading a billion dollar brokerage, why having lean beginnings can be a blessing rather than a curse, and of course, we unpacked a number of techniques that Ryan uses to build longterm relationships and close deals.
With that, please enjoy my conversation with the one and only, Ryan Serhant.
Topics Discussed:
- Sell It Like Serhant
- Ryan’s lean beginnings
- Overcoming adversity
- Ryan’s relationship with money today
- Why fear can be your friend
- How to build confidence
- The power of persistence
- The four W’s
- How to prepare for a sales meeting with a new prospect
- The follow up, follow through and follow back
- How to get indecisive prospects over the line
- Overcoming social anxiety
- Ryan’s approach to time management
Show Notes:
Twitter: @ryanserhant
Web: www.ryanserhant.com
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Sell-Like-Serhant-Ultimate-Machine/dp/0316449571
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Tom Ziglar is the proud son of Zig Ziglar and the CEO of Ziglar, Inc. He joined the Zig Ziglar Corporation in 1987 and climbed from working in the warehouse, to sales, to management, and then on to leadership. Today, he speaks around the world; hosts The Ziglar Show , one of the top-ranked business podcasts; and carries on the Ziglar philosophy:
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
He is the author of Choose To Win: Choose to Win: Transform Your Life, One Simple Choice at a Time, which shows you how to achieve massive change without massive upset. His revolutionary plan guides you through making one small choice at a time through a sequence of easy-to-follow steps in seven key areas: mental, spiritual, physical, family, finance, personal, and career. The result is a more productive, more fulfilling, and more meaningful life.
As a long-time fan and beneficiary of Zig Ziglar’s teachings, I really enjoyed my conversation with Tom. Expect to learn, among other things:
- What the fastest way to success is
- The power of asking questions
- Why it’s not happiness that we should be pursuing but something else
With that, please enjoy my conversation with the son of the legendary Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar.
Topics Discussed:
- Zig Ziglar as a father
- Zig’s timeless quotes
- Why instant gratification sabotages our goals
- How knowing someone’s values helps us to win their support and agreement
- Why most success is cumulative
- The power of habits and how to form good habits
- Why happiness shouldn’t be pursued - and what to pursue instead
- The seven choices to a fulfilling life
- Why it all starts with attitude
- How to find your why
- The power of questions
- Goal-setting - flexible or specific?
- Why persistence and grit are omnipotent
- The peril of a false purpose
Show Notes:
Ziglar Inc: www.ziglar.com
Twitter: @tomziglar
Podcast: www.ziglarshow.com
Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400209544/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Try one new thing a month.
This has been my mantra for several years now, and it has seen me try all manner of things, from rock-climbing and surfing to a barista course and learning the art of whisky making, to jumping out of planes and trying hip-hop yoga. I’ve found that trying new things to get out of your comfort zone helps keep your ego in check, strengthens your relationship with adversity, and above all, increases your appreciation of life.
In retrospect, it’s not the comfortable times that we remember, the times we find ourselves sitting on the couch watching Netflix. No, we remember doing things that were marred by friction; we remember the uncomfortable — the long, painful hike, getting wiped out by a huge wave, or giving a talk in front of 500 people for the first time. Greatness is reserved for people who are comfortable with adversity, so the more comfortable you can get being uncomfortable, the more likely you will be to take the steps required towards said greatness.
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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How often have you caught yourself uttering these words? If you really enjoy what you do, and are aligned with its purpose, you actually look forward to getting stuck into things on a Monday morning and might lament that "there aren't enough hours in the day".
And while loving what you do and deriving positive energy from it is a great place to be, carving out ample time for rest and play is fundamental to your sustaining your efforts in the office or wherever you happen to get sh*t done. Not only that, but nobody said "I wish I worked longer hours" when their time on Earth was coming to an end.
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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In the wake of the Christchurch shootings and the disturbing video that made the rounds on social media afterward, Australia’s Government expeditiously passed new legislation that puts the onus on tech companies to remove violent material from their platforms or face criminal charges.
In this episode, I explore why this is wrong on so many levels.
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
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Adam Fisher grew up in Silicon Valley playing Atari, programming computers, and reading science fiction. He still lives in the Bay Area but now spends his time thinking about the future, tracing it's origins, and writing about it – for Wired, MIT Technology Review, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Valley of Genius is his first book
A candid, colorful, and comprehensive oral history that reveals the secrets of Silicon Valley -- from the origins of Apple and Atari to the present day clashes of Google and Facebook, and all the start-ups and disruptions that happened along the way.
So how did this omnipotent and ever-morphing place come to be? It was not by planning. It was, like many an empire before it, part luck, part timing, and part ambition. And part pure, unbridled genius…
We explored a number of areas in this conversation, including:
- The origins of Silicon Valley and the influential role of Doug Englebart and the US Government
- Noel Bushnell and Atari
- The infamous XEROX PARC story
- What cities around the world can learn from SIlicon Valley in their own attempts to recreate the magic; and
- In an era where people are finally pushing back against big tech, and the economic tide is turning towards China and Asia, what lies in store for the Valley going forward
It took us a little while to warm up in this conversation, but once we did, around the 20 minute mark, we unpacked some awesome insights on not only Silicon Valley, but on what makes a thriving ecosystem, anywhere.
With that, I bring you my conversation with the one and only, Adam Fisher.
Topics Discussed:
- What it took to cobble together a fluid conversational narrative from over 200 interviews
- The origins of Silicon Valley
- Government and DARPA
- Doug Englebart
- Atari and Noel Bushnell
- Kevin Kelly and Wired Magazine
- Apple, Steve Jobs and XEROC PARC
- Netscape
- The Startup Culture of the Valley
- Changing Tides and China
- The decentralisation of Silicon Valley culture and activity
- The Future of Silicon Valley
Show Notes:
Twiter: @adamcfisher
Get the book: www.valleyofgenius.com
Amazon: Add amazon affiliate link
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
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Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
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Since our prehistoric ancestors used stone tools to start fires and hunt for prey, technology has made us more efficient and effective at what we do. It has brought us convenience, improved communication, and — relatively speaking — long and comfortable lives.
However, any good thing taken to the extreme becomes bad. Aristotle knew this, proposing that to achieve happiness and success, people should cultivate virtues at intermediate levels between deficiencies and excesses. Sleep is good for you. Sleeping for 16 hours, not so much. The Buddha too was a proponent of “the middle path.” In the same way, technology usage left unchecked can also have a devastating effect on our productivity and well-being.
HBR article: https://hbr.org/2019/03/stop-letting-push-notifications-ruin-your-productivity
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Welcome back to Future Squared for yet another installment of Fast Fix Friday, although this one is another not so fast fix edition.
In this episode, I aim to shine a light on the deceptive practices being carried out by digital agencies across the globe, and whilst I will be speaking specifically about practices pertaining to serving corporate innovation clients, the same set of practices are affecting young startups and entrepreneurs everywhere.
I feel it my obligation, as somebody who works in the space of innovation and entrepreneurship, to ring the warning bell. If it means that one less person, or one less organisation, ends up not spending tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars on inferior applications that don’t serve to move the needle an inch forward, and in fact go on to compromise the individual or organization’s desire to bring something new into the world, then I will consider this a very worthy use of my time.
Of course, not all digital agencies are created equal, just like not all innovation consultants, are created equal. There is good and bad in every industry, but having seen first hand through my work on too many times to count, digital agencies over-charging and under-delivering, I couldn’t sit idly by any longer.
To make my point, I first need to take you back to the mid 19th Century to a rural town in the Australian State of Victoria by the name of Ballarat.
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Stephen Warley is the founder of Life Skills That Matter. After being laid off 18 years ago, Stephen has interviewed over 500 people in professions as diverse as defence, finance, health, marketing and entrepreneurship, read over 200 books about personal development and conducted countless lifestyle design experiments.
Then he began to wonder, how did they do it? So he started looking for common patterns in how these individuals transformed their lives. A core set of skills kept popping up time and time again - he calls these the life skills that matters - and he teaches people, through his podcast, his 30-day challenges and his accelerator programs, to leverage these skills to become actualised versions of themselves.
We discussed many topics, including:
- Why ‘secure work’ is, paradoxically, not so secure anymore
- Stephen’s battle with chronic anxiety and how he overcame it by focusing on doing work that aligned with his values and natural inclinations; and of course
- The life skills that matter
With that, please enjoy my conversation with the one and only Stephen Warley.
Topics Discussed:
- Stephen’s battle with anxiety
- On becoming a reluctant entrepreneur
- The changing nature of work
- Why ‘secure work’ is no longer secure
- Motivation
- Habit formation
- Minimum viable product hangovers
- Purpose and false purpose
Show Notes:
Stephen’s website: Lifeskillsthatmatter.com
Podcast: Find Life Skills That Matter wherever you find your podcasts
Twitter: @stephenwarley
Patreon: www.patreon.com/thesteveglaveski
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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in this episode, we bust three leadership myths.
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Brad Mulvey is the founder of Millennial Mastermind and host of the Millennial Mastermind Podcast.
His mission is to build a community of highly motivated millennials who want to build amazing lives for themselves and each other. By connecting with the already successful, I am digging into their journeys and uncovering the proven strategies that they used to achieve massive success. In doing so, I will share with you a formula for your own success.
We explored myriad topics in this conversation, but we specifically deep dived into:
- Millenials being the participation trophy generation
- Weaknesses and strengths that millenials embody and how to best circumvent or leverage these in the workplace
- What Brad learned interviewing the CEO of his company, Speedeon Data
Show Notes:
Website: www.millennialmm.com/
Facebook: facebook.com/millenialmm
Twitter: @bradmulvey
Instagram: @bradmulvey -----
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Mike Vardy is an author, speaker, and productivity and time management strategist.
He’s the founder of Productivityist, and the company's mission is to help people stop 'doing' productive and start 'being' productive through a variety of online and offline resources.
He is the author of "The Front Nine: How to Start the Year You Want Anytime You Want” and most recently "The Productivityist Playbook."
He has served in an editorial capacity for The Next Web and is a contributor to The Huffington Post, GTD Times, 99u, Lifehacker, and SUCCESS Magazine.
Expect to learn a number of techniques that you can begin to apply today to see an immediate impact on your own productivitiy, including:
1 - how to avoid the hefty cost of task-switching by batching tasks on your calendar
2 - why frameworks give you freedom; and
3 - techniques for letting technology be your slave, rather than your master
With that, enjoy my conversation with the productivityist, Mike Vardy.
Topics Discussed:
- Mike’s purpose
- What ‘productivity’ actually means
- Batching tasks
- Avoiding the cognitive switching penalty
- Frameworks
- The psychology of flow
- Asynchronous communication
- Inbox zero
- Meetings
- Digital minimalism
- Prioritisation
Show Notes:
- Mike’s books:
- Mike’s podcast:
- Productivityist: productivityist.com
- Special offer for Future Squared listeners: productivtyist.com/glaveski
Patreon: www.patreon.com/thesteveglaveski
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Hanging out with people just like us might be comfortable, but it doesn't do anything to expand our world view or make us more tolerant and creative.
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This is just a quick announcement-isode to let you know that the audiobook of Employee to Entrepreneur has just landed.
Check it out on Audible at https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Employee-to-Entrepreneur-Audiobook/1980035253?ref=a_typ_c1_lProduct_1&pf_rd_p=c2ff329e-8198-47fc-a709-32a47cceb95b&pf_rd_r=QX2D9SHX048ERRT1SR69&
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Walker Deibel is an acquisition entrepreneur. He has cofounded three startups and acquired seven companies. He currently serves as the President of EDC, which helps companies with multiple locations manage their supply chain through sourcing, inventory, and fulfillment management.
Walker is the Managing Director for Centra, which currently owns and manages three companies. In addition Centra is a partner in over a half dozen firms covering: distribution, manufacturing, education, childcare, film and television production, enterprise software, online content, and eCommerce.
Walker is the bestselling author of Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game, released by Lioncrest Publishing.
He has also produced almost a dozen films and had premieres at some of the world’s most esteemed festivals, including Sundance, SXSW, and Toronto International Film Festival.
Listeners of this podcast would have learned all about building new ventures from the ground up, but not as much on acquiring ventures with a foundation to build upon, so it was great to get some fresh perspectives from Walker on a topic I haven’t explored in depth on this show.
We unpacked lots of lessons, including:
- When buying first makes more sense than building first
- How raising capital for an acquisition opportunity can become a virtual walk in the park when compared with raising capital for a startup; and
- How to identify and evaluate acquisition opportunities
With that, enjoy my conversation with Walker Deibel.
Topics Discussed:
- Why you should buy an existing company rather than starting from scratch
- How to raise capital for an acquisition
- What to look for in an acquisition target
- Where to find target companies and how to build your own deal-flow
- How to value an acquisition target
- What to look for in yourself before acquiring a company
- The CEO mindset
- What to glean from the seller of the target company
- Jim Collins’ hedgehog theory
- How to transition leadership post-acquisition
- How results fuel motivation and passion
Show Notes:
Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Employee-Entrepreneur-Earn-Freedom-Matters/dp/0730363864
Web: Buythenbuild.com
Twitter: @walkerdeibel
Patreon: www.patreon.com/thesteveglaveski
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Beth Comstock is change maker who has helped people grapple with rapid-fire change and open up their companies to transformation. Before she ever led the reinvention of a team or a business, she learned to rely on her curiosity to provoke change in herself. She infused her life with the habit of discovery, seeking out new ideas, people and places and in turn she built a career path from storyteller to chief marketer to GE Vice Chair. And now author. Beth knows what it is like to work on the front lines of change. In nearly three decades at GE, she led efforts to accelerate new growth and innovation, initiated GE's digital and clean-energy transformation, developed new businesses and increased GE's brand value. She created GE Ventures, oversaw GE Lighting, and was the company's Chief Marketing Officer. As President of Integrated Media at NBC Universal, Beth oversaw ad revenue and the company's digital efforts, including the early development of hulu.com. Earlier in her career, she held a succession of marketing and communications roles at GE, NBC, CBS and Turner Broadcasting/CNN. Beth is a director at Nike, trustee of The National Geographic Society and former board president of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum. She graduated from the College of William and Mary with a degree in biology.
We touched on many a topic in this conversation, including:
1 - How Comstock went about shifting the culture from seeking perfection before releasing anything to the public to one that embraced the minimum viable product
2 - Roadblocks she faced in rolling out the Fastworks program and the leans startup methodology across GE insofar as policy and procedure was concerned and how to overcome this; and
3 - What really happened when she and longtime CEO Jeff Immelt resigned from the company on the back of activist investors pushing for change, and why she thought it happened
Topics Discussed:
- Why change is hard at an organizational and individual level
- How to get buy-in internally
- Speaking the same language and translating messages
- Rolling out the lean startup at GE
- Why culture and process needs to adapt to support new capabilities
- Leading indicators versus trailing indicators
- Roadblocks and lessons learned
- What really happaned in GE’s executive shake-up
- Shorttermism and how it can plague innovation at listed companies
- How a long-term tenure in one organization (27 years in Comstock’s case) doesn’t need to come at the cost of creativity or learning
- The three buckets of innovation and how GE invested across the three
- Why marketing is what you do at the beginning, not at the end
- Why the lean startup can be applied to anything from engine turbines to medical C-arm devices
- Why short feedback loops are key to learning and moving towards product market fit for new ideas, and how bloated organisational procedures can sabotage this
Show Notes:
- Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Imagine-Forward-Courage-Creativity-Change-ebook/dp/B078LJW4G4
- Web: bethcomstock.info
- Twitter: @bethcomstock
Patreon: www.patreon.com/thesteveglaveski
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"We're wrong about most of our ideas most of the time" - Michael Shermer.
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Dr Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic. Shermer engages in debates on topics pertaining to pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism.
He’s also a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. He is the author of Why People Believe Weird Things, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, and The Moral Arc. His new book is Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality & Utopia.
Shermer is also a member of what’s become known as the intellectual dark web, alongside others such as Sam Harris, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Jordan Peterson.
Having recently appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience and the David Rubin Show, today he appears for the first time on Future Squared.
We covered a lot of ground in this episode, including:
- People’s last words and what we can glean from them about how we live our lives
- Immortality and whether you and I might live long enough to live forever
- Tribalism, identity politics and diversity quotas in tech
This only scratches the surface of what we covered, so sit back and strap yourselves in for an enlightening conversation with the skeptic, Dr. Michael Shermer.
Topics Discussed:
- Michael’s new book, Heavens on Earth
- Our fear of death and how people come to terms with the inevitable
- People’s last words
- The afterlife
- The technotopian quest for immortality
- The intellectual dark web
- Jordan Peterson
- The meaning of life
- Why people believe in God
- Evolutionary advantages of belief
- Morality without religion
- Tribalism and identity politics
- Diversity quotas in tech
- The shortcomings of science
- Why decision outcomes shouldn’t be equated with the quality of the decision
- Stein’s Law
- The value of counterfactuals
Show Notes:
- michaelshermer.com
- skeptic.com
- Twitter: @michaelshermer
- Shermer’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Shermer/e/B001H6MCNY/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1550116103&sr=1-1
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A method I used to overcome my own anxiety, leading up to podcasts, that you might use to battle most forms of anxiety that you might be experiencing, both inside and outside the office.
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Dr. Mercola is a board certified family physician that has treated 25,000 patients from around the world. He encourages and educates people about safe and inexpensive nutritional, lifestyle and exercise options to radically reduce their risk of dying prematurely from dangerous drugs and surgeries. He is also the founder of Mercola.com which has been the most visited natural health site on the internet for the last ten years with over 15 million unique visitors every month.
His goal is to catalyze a complete transformation of the fatally flawed health care system that is responsible for prematurely killing thousands of people every day. He’s the author of numerous books including Fat For Fuel, The No Grain Diet, Superfuel and his new book which comes out in April, KetoFast: Rejuvenate Your Health with a Step-by-Step Guide to Timing Your Ketogenic Meals.
We explored myriad topics in this episode, including:
- Why fat isn’t necessarily bad for you and paradoxically, how it can be good for you and what kind of food you should be eating
- A much more manageable alternative to 3 day-water fasts that has as many, if not more benefit
- Why cancer may have a lot to do, not just with damaged DNA, but also metabolic dysfunction, and how fasting and a ketogenic diet can help you live a longer, healthier life
Joseph picked up a number of my own previously flawed beliefs in this conversation so I’m sure you will learn a thing or two, if not many more, to help you optimise your health and performance.
Our audio connection wasn’t the strongest so the conversation does drop in and out occasionally, but there is so much gold in this episode that I hope you’ll put up with it.
Topics Discussed:
- Joseph’s many books and his early inspiration
- How our food is making us sick
- Why (the right kind of) fat is good for you
- Is cancer a result of damaged DNA or metabolic dysfunction?
- The role of mitochondria
- How the Big Food lobby essentially pointed the finger at fat in order to sell more cheap carbs
- How dangerous documentaries like ‘What The Health’ may force people down an unhealthy line
- Exercise and fasting - when should you eat, and should you train in a fasted state?
- The afternoon crash and how to avoid it
- When your body needs carbs
- The difference between a cyclical and conventional keto diet
- Cold showers and mitochondrial function
- Evolutionary biology and fasting
- Should you supplement your diet with MCT oils and keytone esters?
Show Notes:
- Mercola.com
- Twitter: @mercola
- KetoFast: https://www.amazon.com/KetoFast-Rejuvenate-Step-Step-Ketogenic-ebook/dp/B07K3VFWRJ/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1549918698&sr=1-1&keywords=ketofast
The Yeast Connection: https://www.amazon.com/Yeast-Connection-Medical-Breakthrough-ebook/dp/B00486U8HC/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1549919150&sr=1-3&keywords=the+yeast+connection
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Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Sergei Revzin is a Venture Investor at the NYU Innovation Venture Fund where he leads the university’s technology investments. He has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs all over the country through his work with Venture for America, and has been an early employee and founder at tech companies in NYC and Boston. Vadim Revzin is an Entrepreneur in Residence at GenFKD, a national non-profit, where he teaches entrepreneurship at State University of New York. He’s advised hundreds of startups, and has been both a founder and leader across several early and growth stage startups. Sergei and Vadim co-host a weekly podcast called The Mentors, featuring stories from successful founders and creators.
Show Notes:
- https://thementors.co/
- Sergei Revzin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergeirevzin/
- Vadim Revzin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vrevzin/
We're now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC63t7PVnhh6YaS1OSzELGng
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Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Whilst I was in LA last month, or Orange County to be precise, I caught up with James McKinney, host of The Startup Story podcast, for a conversation on my transition from employee to entrepreneur.
James previously has previously had the likes of the founder of E! Entertainment Larry Namer on his show who sold his company for 10 figures so I had to dig deep to bring it during this conversation.
Fortunately, James asked really great questions and the interview has been hands down one of my favorites from my physical and virtual book tour so far, so much so that James was kind enough to let me re-publish it on Future Squared.
To check out the startup show and find out more about the awesome work that James is doing, visit thestartupshow.co
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Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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If you have not yet had the opportunity to check out episode #313 with Jonathan Levi, I implore you to give it a listen - it is full of value bombs on learning and memorisation, among myriad other topics.
In this instalment of Fast Fix Friday, I share three important take-aways on learning and memorisation from the episode.
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Jonathan Levi is an experienced entrepreneur, angel investor, and lifehacker from Silicon Valley. Since 2014, Jonathan has been one of the top-performing instructors on Udemy, with his course Become a SuperLearner™earning him over 60,000 students. He has since snowballed this success into the launch of his rapidly growing information products company, SuperHuman Enterprises, which produces such products as the award-winning Becoming SuperHuman Podcast; the bestselling "Become a SuperLearner™" print, digital, and audiobooks; and numerous online courses. He's also the founder of SuperLearner Academy™ and Branding You™ Academy, two private, online academies where he teaches premium-level masterclasses in accelerated learning, productivity, and entrepreneurship. He is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
In addition to publishing his own bestselling book, Levi has been featured in such publications and programs as the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, TEDx, Entrepreneur On Fire, Mixergy, Dream. Think. Do, Nana10 Television, The Silicon Valley Business Journal, The SoloPreneur Hour, The Smart People Podcast, and Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit from Their Success, among other blogs, podcasts, and publications.
Jonathan is a voracious learner which will probably comes as no surprise, and I enjoy chatting with him and going down all sorts of rabbit holes pertaining to optimising human performance to excel in both business and have a more rewarding experience of life.
We went down many rabbit holes in our hour long conversation, including:
- Jonathan’s battle with ADD and depression and how he overcame both of them
- What we can glean from evolutionary biology insofar as learning and memorisation is concerned
- Building successful online courses
Jonathan also offered some tips on how I can accelerate the development of my surfing skills.
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On a recent flight from Melbourne en route to Bangkok for the Innov8rs Conference, I was reading author Robert Greene’s new magnum opus, Laws of Human Nature. I had the honor of speaking with Greene on my podcast Future Squared recently and was struck by something he said during our conversation about the notion of masks and shadows. Greene says that each of us wears a mask in order to gain social acceptance. This mask hides our dark side, or, our shadow, which can be a true but suppressed representation of our personalities.
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Here's a sneak peak into my brand new book, Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work That Matters.
I'm heading into the studio today to record the actual audiobook, so this serves as a practice run.
Enjoy!
Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
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Thanks to Jetstar, I got to test my character and make lemonade out of lemons recently.
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Sometimes in entrepreneurship, in innovation, and in life, you have to do whatever it takes. Sometimes it’s easier to just throw in the towel and quit, but if you want to do something bad enough, you’ll do whatever it takes. Having a whatever it takes mindset empowers you to always be looking for alternatives, for plans B and C, for solutions to seemingly impenetrable problems.
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Kate McCready is a designer, coach and podcaster whose mission is to activate the potential in people and organizations to consciously craft their work for better lives and a better world..
She says that conscious work-lives are not just about business. They are not just about a job or a role. They are about how we show up and evolve as individuals across our careers. How we align who we are, with what we do and how we live. Whether we work for someone else or run our own business. Whether we operate solo or lead an organization of thousands. Whether we are the CEO or the work experience kid.
Working as an Innovation Catalyst in State Government (yes, that was really her title), then jumping over to the corporate world to work in innovation at Deloitte- she eventually stumbled across the wonderful world of human-centred design, and took the leap into becoming an /experience designer where she could tap into her passion for the human side of business.
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In this episode, I ponder the sometimes unintended benefits of wasting time and procrastinating.
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I’ve had a crazy whirlwind week this week with my book, Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work That Matters, finally dropping, having done book launched events in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, an additional 12 podcast interviews and shortly, I’ll be catching a flight to San Francisco for the US leg of my book tour.
Speaking of podcasts, I’ve appeared on quite a few in recent weeks, including Mixergy’s Startup Stories, Becoming Superhuman, No Ego, Productivityist and What You Will Learn. You can find those episodes wherever you get your podcasts and in the show notes to this episode.
The book has officially sold out on Amazon, literally less than 24 hours after going on sale, which I will try and take as a good thing. However you can still order your copy online and find it at your local bookstore - and if they haven’t got it in stock, ask them to order it in.
Of course, there are many ways you can support the launch, all of which are outlined over at employeetoentrepreneur.io/support
Now for today’s episode, which is a recording of a fireside chat with my good friend and colleague, Shay Namdarian, as well as an audience Q&A, at the Melbourne leg of the Employee to Entrepreneur book launch.
Show Notes:
Support the Book Launch
www.employeetoentrepreneur.io/support
Podcast Appearances
Startup Stories: https://collectivecamp.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c675fe6ab1a62dc586da0b61d&id=99ff1a93f1&e=366f85aef3
Becoming Superhuman: https://becomingasuperhuman.com/making-the-transition-to-becoming-an-entrepreneur-steve-glaveski/
No Ego: https://collectivecamp.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c675fe6ab1a62dc586da0b61d&id=6b44cde947&e=366f85aef3
Corporate Escapees: https://collectivecamp.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c675fe6ab1a62dc586da0b61d&id=d104a11604&e=366f85aef3
The Power of Bold: https://collectivecamp.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c675fe6ab1a62dc586da0b61d&id=0cdfadf9e8&e=366f85aef3
Grit & Hustle: https://gritandhustle.co/steve-glaveski/
The Hustle & Flowchart Podcast: https://collectivecamp.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c675fe6ab1a62dc586da0b61d&id=915fcb425e&e=366f85aef3
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It’s book launch day!
Today is the day...my brand new book, Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work That Matters, is out now at bookstores, both physical and digital, all over the world.
I’ve been celebrating the launch of the book at events across Australia’s eastern seaboard this week...kicking off in Brisbane on Tuesday night, Melbourne last night and Sydney this evening.
Next week, I’ll be in San Francisco and Los Angeles - details for remaining book tour dates can be found at employeetoentrepreneur.io
If you’ve been a long-time, or even a short-time, listener of Future Squared, and if you have gotten some value out of listening to this show, then I would absolutely love it if you could take a minute to give back and throw some support behind my book launch.
You can help me make the book a success by doing one or more of the following four things:
1 - of course, you could pick up a copy of the book on Amazon and wherever good books are sold
2 - you can leave a review on Amazon
3 - you can share the book on social media; and
4 - you can tell your friends, colleagues and associates about the book
If you do one or more of these things, tweet a screenshot to @steveglaveski and you’ll go into the running to win a 2 hour private mentoring session with me.
To make things easier, I’ve set up a support page at www.employeetoentrepreneur.io/support where you’ll find links to these options to make it as easy as possible to support the book.
Book website: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
Support the book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io/support
Amazon link: https://amzn.to/2SC8PjN
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I hope you had a fantastic festive season and are ready to crush it in the new year! I'd like to take this moment to wish you and yours an awesome, blessed, fulfilling and healthy 2019! I'm kicking off the year with the worldwide release of my brand new book, Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work That Matters, which comes out globally on January 9! I've been on a mad podcast tour and will be embarking on a good old fashioned physical book tour as of tomorrow, hitting Brisbane, Sydney, my home town of Melbourne, San Francisco and Los Angeles. I'm so excited to see this book finally come to fruition and hit bookshelves, as it is a journey that started more than 15 months ago. I hope you'll help me kick my year off with a bang and throw some support behind my book - even a simple review on Amazon goes a really long way. I'll share some info on how you can best support the book launch once it goes live on January 9.
Book website: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
Amazon link: https://amzn.to/2SC8PjN
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Today, as we embark upon a new year, I thought it would make sense to channel Cicero, Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who said that “all great things start from small beginnings”.
Whatever you’re looking to achieve this year, realise that they all start with small steps, so set yourself small, manageable goals, that it is almost impossible to fail at, and go from there.
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Adam Ashton and Adam Jones met as two young blokes while attending Monash University, studying commerce and structural engineering respectively. Both were keen on making the most of their advantaged access to education as Australian citizens, ready to start their first job in the big city. They looked to books to answer some big questions such as ‘how do I make the most of my life?’ and ‘how do I get people to like me in the office?’. They found more than they bargained for.
Since June 2016, they’ve committed to reading and reviewing a new book each week, hosting the What You Will Learn podcast, that has seen them interview everyone from Scott Adams and Dan Pink to Robert Cialdini and Annie Duke.
I enjoyed catching up with the guys on the 2nd of January, as we dusted off the cognitive cobwebs of the holidays and settled in for an hour long discussion on all things life-changing books, mindset and philosophy.
With that, strap yourselves in for a conversation with the hosts of What You Will Learn, Adam Jones and Adam Ashton.
Topics Discussed:
- The backstory
- Why books?
- Learning from leaders
- Collecting dots
- Aiding retention and recall
- Positive serendipity
- Escapism through books
- The inverted U and reading toomuch
- Non-fiction v fiction
- Mindset and philosophy
- Why reading non-business books helps you become a better entrepreneur
- How to limit the downside
Show Notes:
- Website: whatyouwilllearn.com
- Top 50 books of all time: https://whatyouwilllearn.com/top50/
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Reflecting on and setting new goals for a new year.
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This man needs no introduction but I’m going to give him one anyway.
Robert Greene is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law and Mastery.
His highly anticipated sixth book, The Laws of Human Nature, explores people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far.
Having read hundreds of business books myself, perhaps the books that have had the most profound positive impact on how I show up each day and how I conduct myself are books on psychology, behavioural economics, neuroscience and biological evolution. Books that ultimately helped me to understand myself and understand others. As such, I was really excited to read the Laws of Nature and speak with Greene about what is such a fundamental topic.
In addition to having a strong following within the business world and a deep following in Washington, DC, Greene's books are hailed by everyone from war historians to the biggest musicians in the industry (including Jay-Z and 50 Cent).
Expect to learn a ton from this conversation, but in particular, three key take-aways:
1) How having an estimated 80 jobs before becoming an author shaped Greene’s world view and made him a better and more creative writer
2) Why it is our moments of frustration where we often seek out life-changing answers
3) How Greene seeks the path of what is ‘most right’ by looking at questions from multiple angles and contemplating many alternatives
This just scratches the surface of the many enlightening things we discussed - just peak at the topics discussed in the show notes to get a feel for everything discussed - so with that, it gives me much pleasure to present you with one of the most pre-eminent authors of our time, the one and only, Robert Greene.
Topics Discussed:
- How having an estimated 80 jobs before becoming an author shaped Greene’s world view and made him a better and more creative writer
- Greene’s take on ‘strong opinions, loosely held’
- Why books on human behaviour can make you a better entrepreneur than business books
- What The Laws of Human Nature offers that other books don’t
- Greene’s approach to writing books like the 48 Laws of Power and Mastery
- How Greene aims to avoid the narrative fallacy
- Why one should look for their ‘higher purpose’ in life
- The peril of false purposes
- Why it is our moments of frustration where we often seek out life-changing answers
- Imposter syndrome
- Avoiding the ‘counterfeit yes’ in sales
- Napoleon and controlled chaos
- How to become like Marcus Aurelius or Queen Elizabeth I, a leader who people want to follow
- Pericles and emotional regulation
- How Greene seeks the path of ‘most right’ by looking at questions from all angles
- Why activism is often just a fast-track to moral righteousness, sans actually being morally righteous
- Why people wear masks and why it’s their shadows that reveal their true selves
- How to infer what people’s true character, or shadow, is through body language
- How social media can bring out the worst in us and the rise of tech addiction
- Keeping toxic people out of your life or not succumbing to their games
- How to persuade by first confirming people’s self-opinion
- How to persuade by allaying someone’s insecurities
- The irrationality of human beings and why we should increase our reaction time
- Greene’s meditation practice and how it has impacted his life and work
Show Notes:
- The Blog of Robert Greene: powerseductionandwar.com
- Twitter: @RobertGreene
- Greene’s Books: https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Greene/e/B001IGV3IS
- The Laws of Human Nature Book: https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Human-Nature-Robert-Greene/dp/0525428143
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According to Robert Greene, real purpose leads us upward, to a more human level. We improve our skills and sharpen our minds; we realize our potential and contribute to society. False purposes lead downward, to the animal side of our nature—to addictions, loss of mental powers, mindless conformity, and cynicism.
In this installment of Fast Fix Friday, we explore false purposes and why you should beware of it, both in yourself and in others.
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Tom Heffner is a podcaster, author, speaker, and innovation expert. His goal is to help you thrive at work and in life and believes that every day, purposeful habits and practices are vital to this pursuit. He spent 15 years as an engineer, helping to design complex military systems to protect US and coalition soldiers around the world and is the host of The Next Year Now Podcast.
We unpacked:
- How low-fidelity prototypes are being used to test life or death Defence systems
- Why the comforts of today are making us less resilient and how to overcome this
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How military strategies can help you become a better entrepreneur and person Show Notes:
- TomHeffner.com
- nextyearnowpodcast.com
Employee to Entrepreneur podcast on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast
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Why we sleep...there's a lot more to it than you might think. ---
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Ari Meisel is an entrepreneur, author, CEO, TED speaker, real estate developer, green building consultant, and productivity expert. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, he was diagnosed with Crohn's disease while building his prpoerty development business in 2007.
Crohn's is an incurable disease of the digestive tract. Ari's case was severe, and required over a dozen daily medications and several hospital visits. After reaching a personal low point in hospital, Ari decided he would do everything in his power to strengthen his by then weak body. Through a combination of yoga, nutrition, natural supplements and rigorous exercise (Triathon and Crossfit) he was able to fight back the symptoms of Crohns until he was finally able to suspend his medication.
Eventually Ari was declared free of all traces of the 'incurable' disease, and competed in Ironman France in June of 2011. Ari has since spoken at seminars and at a regional TED Talk about his struggle against a seemingly insurmountable opponent. Through the process of data collection, self tracking, and analysis, Ari helped develop Less Doing. This was a way of dealing with the daily stresses of life by optimizing, automating, and outsourcing all of his tasks in life and business.
Expect to learn some transformation things in this episode, including:
- Why business founders should make themselves replaceable
- Ari’s proprietary productivity framework, OAO; and
- One single word that can open you up to 10Xing your productivity and giving you more time for life
Topics Discussed:
- Ari’s fight with Crohn’s
- Why you should optimise, automate and outsource your life
- The one word that will change your life
- Ari’s books
- Why being busy is no badge of honour
- Ari’s 3D decision matrix
- The value of asynchronous communication
- Ari’s favourite biohacks and supplements
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How Ari uses machine learning to help him qualify prospects
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Ari’s business, Less Doing: www.lessdoing.com
- Twitter: @arimeisel
- Ari’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Ari-Meisel/e/B003BWZ3QA/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
Books:
- Art of Less Doing
- The Replaceable Founder
- Idea to Execution
- Less Doing, More Living
- Intro to Biohacking
Employee to Entrepreneur podcast on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast
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Celebrating 300 episodes of Future Squared with a simple reminder of why we 'grind'.
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Welcome back to Future Squared for a special mid-week double trouble episode, as I bring you not one, but two guests.
Joe Fier is a creative who came to the table with a video editing turned outsourcing business. He’s damn good at creating custom marketing roadmaps to skyrocket client sales results. Matt Wolfe is a systems and tech optimization guy who is a fanatic about content repurposing strategies. He’s famous for SEO, data analysis, split-testing and conversion optimization. Together, they are the founders of Evergreen Profits, which they’re building to become the largest online content marketing platform this side of Neil Patel.
They also host the popular Hustle & Flowchart podcast, which I was fortunate enough to appear on just last week.
I’ve enjoyed getting to know both Matt and Joe and had a lot of fun geeking out with them about all sorts of topics, including:
- What the secret to their enduring business relationship is (they’ve worked together for more than 10 years)
- How the guys go about systemitizing their business so that they can focus on what they call their zones of genius; and
- How to build authority in a particular domain when you’re starting from ground zero
Employee to Entrepreneur podcast on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Ajit came from humble beginnings. Born to a middle-income family in Jaipur, India, he grew up in an extended family of 23 other people under one roof. Space and money were scarce, and so as a little boy, he dreamt of abundance. He made a decision to plant himself where he could grow. From starting as a trainee in a non-profit, he has held various roles including as CEO of Mindvalley, Co-founder of Mindvalley Teach, Co-founder of Global Grit Institute and Co-founder of EPIC Businesses. He’s the author of the bestselling book, The Book of Coaching an the forthcoming Live Big: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Passion, Practicality and Purpose.
Expect to learn:
- Ajit’s story of triumph over adversity and how he built the confidence needed to build several multi-million dollar companies
- Mental shifts that can transform your experience of life
- The fears that hold entrepreneurs back and how to cope with entrepreneurial anxiety
- Productivity hacks
- How to build a team that will want to work with you for twenty years, not just 24 months
Show Notes:
- Ajitnawalkha.com
- Twitter: @ajitnawalkha
- Mindvalley.com
- Evercoach.com
Employee to Entrepreneur podcast on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
What is happiness? It's not just a dopaminergic hit. It's about something much deeper than that, that too many of us never truly reflect on.
Show Notes:
- Basecamp.com (project and team communications software)
- Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Doesnt-Have-Be-Crazy-Work/dp/0062874780
- Twitter: @jasonfried
- Medium: @jasonfried
- Jason’s TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/jason_fried_why_work_doesn_t_happen_at_work?language=en
- Why We Sleep book: https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501144316
Employee to Entrepreneur podcast on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
Jason Fried thinks deeply about collaboration, productivity and the nature of work. He's the co-founder of project management platform Basecamp. Founded in 1999, Basecamp has been recognised by Forbes as one of America’s best small businesses. His 2010 TED talk on ‘Why Work Doesn’t Happen At Work’ has been viewed over 5 million times.
He’s also the co-author of Rework, which is about new ways to conceptualize working and creating, as well as the brand new ‘It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work’, in which he rejects the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today. The Economist called the book funny, well-written and iconoclastic and by far the best thing on management published this year.
As somebody who shares many of Jason’s philosophies on work, I really enjoyed this conversation. Organisations are projected to invest US$2T into digital transformation by 2022 to make them more efficient, but they could reap what I would argue are vastly greater rewards, not only in terms of productivity but in terms of employee wellness, if they just changed the way they work today.
Jason and I unpacked many lessons on productivity from his book, including:
- Why is everybody ‘so, so busy’?
- Why more people doesn’t mean faster or better outcomes; and
- A handful of simple changes that you can make today to radically increase your productivity and enjoyment of work and life
With that, I bring you the one and only, Jason Fried.
Topics Discussed:
- Why being busy has become a badge of honour
- The dangers of not getting enough sleep
- The peril of managers and meetings
- Brook’s Law
- Why 80 hour work weeks aren’t spent actually working
- Facilitating outcomes with a remotely distributed team
- Jason’s notion of a ‘calm company’
- Why Basecamp has rejected hundreds of offers from venture capitalists and investors
- Why raising capital shouldn’t be conflated with success for startups
- Setting realistic deadlines
- So-called perks that are designed to keep people in the office
- How to defend your time
- Commitment, not consensus
- Using work as an excuse not to live
- Overcollaboration in the workplace
- Outsourcing accountability and blame
- How to say no
- Jason’s rituals and routines
Show Notes:
- Basecamp.com (project and team communications software)
- Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Doesnt-Have-Be-Crazy-Work/dp/0062874780
- Twitter: @jasonfried
- Medium: @jasonfried
- Jason’s TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/jason_fried_why_work_doesn_t_happen_at_work?language=en
Why We Sleep book: https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501144316
Employee to Entrepreneur podcast on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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No, I'm not talking about those winter jackets - although that's a useful visual mnemonic, what I’m talking about is a deliberate productivity framework that will 10X your output and quality of life.
What I’m talking about is deliberate Prioritise, economies of scale and alignment, Cut, Outsource, Automate, Test and Start; or PeaCOATS.
Let’s explore each step in a little more detail.
Peacoats framework: https://medium.com/@SteveGlaveski/how-to-not-be-busy-and-be-10x-more-effective-55b3cdc7924f
Employee to Entrepreneur podcast on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
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Ryan Helms is a full-time corporate warrior and part-time freedom chaser. He has a passion for financial freedom and creating great things. He is the author of The Side Hustle Journal, host of the Hustle to Freedom Podcast and co-founder of Legacy Podcasting.
I decided to get Ryan on the show for listeners who might be gainfully employed but are thinking about starting a side hustle. We explored the ins and outs of side hustling whilst stilll kicking butt in your dayjob.
Expect to learn:
1 - Why you don’t need a perfect idea from the get go and instead you just need to start
2 - How having a side hustle can change your relationship with your day job; and
3 - The number one thing Ryan has learned from interviewing almost 100 side hustlers
With that, here’s Ryan Helms.
Topics Discussed:
- Atlanta Braves Baseball
- How Ryan got started side hustling
- How Ryan ran a successful Kickstarter campaign
- Why you need to go on a journey to for the path to present itself
- How Ryan went from zero to 20,000 podcast downloads per month in several months
- How side hustling changed Ryan’s relationship with work for the better
- The molehill system
- The power of having a co-founder
- The number one thing Ryan has learned interviewing 100 side hustlers
- What productivity really is
- Why you don’t need to know how to do everything to get started
- Employee to Entrepreneur podcast on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast
- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0
- Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
- Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
- Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
- Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
- NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
For over 30 years, Peter Bregman has worked with CEOs and senior leaders to help them create accountability and inspire collective action on their most important work. He helps leaders to develop their leadership skills, build aligned, collaborative teams, and overcome obstacles to drive results for their organizations.Peter is the author, most recently, of Leading with Emotional Courage: How to Have Hard Conversations, Create Accountability, and Inspire Action on Your Most Important Work (July 2018). His book, 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller, winner of the Gold medal from the Axiom Business Book awards, named the best business book of the year by NPR, and selected by Publisher's Weekly and the New York Post as a top-ten business book. He is also the author of Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Replace Counter-Productive Habits with Ones That Really Work, a New York Post "Top Pick for Your Career" in 2015, Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change and a contributor to six other books.Peter is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the areas of leadership development, organizational change, productivity and emotional courage. He is the host of the Bregman Leadership Podcast, which offers insightful conversations with industry thought leaders on how to become more powerful, courageous leaders. He is also a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and his articles and commentary appear frequently in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Psychology Today, Forbes, The Financial Times, PBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, and FOX Business News.
We unpacked many topics on leadership from his book, including:
- How to have hard conversations
- Why being a leader doesn’t mean having all the answers; and
- How to focus on the most important things
This just scratches the surface of what we explored.
Due to some technical difficulties, the introductory banter I normally engage in with my guests was lost so we pick this conversation up at my very first question which was people getting into leadership positions purely based on technical prowess, without having thought too much about how to truly motivate people, take ownership in times of crisis, embrace difficult conversations or develop emotional intelligence….
Topics Discussed:
- What is emotional courage?
- Why leadership isn’t about having all the answers
- How to focus on the most important things
- Radical transparency: good or bad?
- Staying the course v deluding yourself: how to navigate the delicate balance
- Contributor track v management: why management isn’t for everyone and what to do instead
- Procrastinating on difficult conversations
- Why soft skills differentiate successful leaders from the rest
- The four Cs of great leadership
- The Big Arrow model
- The power of vulnerability
- Making decisions without all of the information
- Projecting confidence without all of the answers
- Influencing others without official authority
- The value of decentralised control
Show Notes:
- Get Peter’s boks: https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Bregman/e/B002BMD8SQ/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1541547659&sr=8-2-ent
- Website: Bregmanpartners.com
- Bregman Leadership Podcast: https://bregmanpartners.com/resources/podcast/
- Twitter: @peterbregman
- Big Arrow Model: http://bregmanpartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/BigArrowStrategyGuide.pdf
Employee to Entrepreneur podcast on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
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Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Almost every successful person I speak to says that focus is one of the key ingredients to their success, not only the entrepreneurial domain but almost any domain you could care to mention.
As Warren Buffett put it, "the difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."
And I agree, wholeheartedly.
However this doesn't mean you can't excel at more than one thing.
Employee to Entrepreneur podcast on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Scott Anthony is a Managing Director at Innosight.
In his time with Innosight, Scott has advised senior leaders in companies such as Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, SingTel, Kraft, General Electric, LG, the Ayala Group, and Cisco Systems on topics of growth and innovation. He has extensive experience in emerging markets, particularly in India, China, and the Philippines.Scott’s new book is called Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future and his previous efforts include'Seeing What's Next, 'The Innovator's Guide to Growth, 'The Silver Lining, 'The Little Black Book of Innovation and 'Building a Growth Factory.' He has authored or co-authored numerous articles on innovation and strategy, and regularly contributes to the Harvard Business Review online blog.
Scott is a featured speaker on topics of innovation and growth. He has delivered keynote addresses on five continents and has appeared on Good Morning America, Channel News Asia, CNBC, and FOX Business.Prior to joining Innosight, Scott was a senior researcher with Clayton Christensen, managing a group that worked to further Christensen's research on innovation.I went on a bit of an expedition in my conversation with Scott, looking to bust many of the widely held myths that are often inhibiting and sabotaging the innovation efforts of large organisations across the world.
We explored myriad topics, including:
- Why conflating ideas with innovation is wrong
- How to overcome the inertia that plagues most large organisations
- What to do if your organisation just doesn’t want to play ball
And Scott also recounts a delightful story, featuring none other than his seven-year-old son, which teaches us a valuable lesson on how our environment can shape our behaviour.
With that, it gives me much pleasure to bring you one of the most pre-eminent names in the innovation landscape today, Scott Anthony.
Topics Discussed:
- Scott’s origin story
- What Scott thinks the best place in the world to create change is
- Whether corporate startup accelerators are worth it
- The downside of it never being easier to start a business
- How to overcome corporate inertia
- Innovation theatre and the tendency to look for quick fixes
- What dual transformation is
- The metered funding approach to innovation
- Getting the right people on the bus
- The Four C’s
- The dangers of token innovation initiatives
- Selling the vision
- Why getting the foundational environment right is key
- A handful of Scott’s own case studies
Show Notes:
- Innosight: Innosight.com
- Scott’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Scott-D.-Anthony/e/B001JP81F6
- Twitter: @scottdanthony
- Scott’s HBR articles: https://hbr.org/search?term=Scott+D.+Anthony
Employee to Entrepreneur podcast on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
- GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching
- GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack
In this week’s installment of Fast Fix Friday, I’m going to bring you the very first episode of the Employee to Entrepreneur podcast, that I launched earlier this week. You can find it on Apple and Google Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you listen to podcasts.
This weekend, I’ll be bringing you my conversation with Scott Anthony, managing partner at Innosight, which of course is one of the world’s preeminent innovation consultancies, founded by Mr Disruptive Innovation himself, Clayton Christensen. Looking forward to bringing you that one….but for now, here’s the Employee to Entrepreneur podcast.
Employee to Entrepreneur podcast on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Long time listeners of the show will know that I have a book coming out called Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work That Matters. The book is scheduled to hit bookstores globally on January 9 through Wiley.
Former Future Squared guest and New York Times best-selling author, Adam Grant, says of the book: "If you’ve thought about making the leap to become an entrepreneur, this is a manual for making it happen.”
I’ve just launched a new podcast called Employee to Entrepreneur. The podcast will unpack stories from the book as well as key lessons learned during my transition to what has now been seven years in entrepreneurship after almost a decade in the corporate world. You can find it wherever you listen to your podcasts or just visit bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast - I’ll include that link in the show notes of this episode.
If you’re a listener of Future Squared, check out Employee to Entrepreneur, and if you like what you hear, please subscribe to the show and maybe, leave a review….if you reaeeeallly love it, then perhaps share it with a friend who is looking to make the leap themselves.
To find out more about the book and download some free resources, simply hit up www.employeetoentrepreneur.io
Employee to Entrepreneur podcast on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/employeetoentrepreneurpodcast
Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
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Mick Wall is an author, journalist, film, television and radio writer-producer, who’s worked inside the music industry for over 35 years. He is widely considered to be to music journalism what Keith Richards is to guitar.
Since cutting his teeth for rock magazine Sounds in 1976, Wall went on to work for the likes of Kerrang!, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Mojo and Classic Rock magazine. He has also hosted various TV and radio programmes and co-produced several TV documentaries for the BBC, including When Albums Rules The World.
Mostly, though, Wall is now best-known as a biographer and author. He has published numerous bestsellers which draw from his time on the road with bands such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne, Guns n Roses, Metallica, Motorhead, Iron Maiden and many more.
His latest book is a fully revised edition of When Giants Walked the Earth: 50 years of Led Zeppelin, released to mark the 50th anniversary of the formation of Led Zeppelin — and the 10th anniversary of this their most widely acclaimed definitive biography.
We explored a number of topics in this conversation, including:
- Wall’s early years as a music journalist and the struggles he had to overcome to make it
- Tales from the trenches on why sheer talent usually isn’t enough to succeed
- The conditions for creativity, particularly when it comes to writing iconic rock albums
- Fascinating anecdotes from Wall’s time on the road with bands like Guns n Roses
- And of course, his new and revised version of his Led Zeppelin biography, When Giants Ruled The Earth
There were a number of other topics I wanted to explore with Wall but we ultimately ran out of time, however I plan on having Wall back on the show in the near future to close the loop on his days on the road with notorious rock bands, as well as deep dive into his views on the music industry today and how he approaches writing.
Nonetheless, this episode is jam-packed with not only hilarious anecdotes from life on the road, but also lots of life lessons.
So with that, I bring you the one, the only, Mick Wall.
Topics Discussed:
- Wall’s early days trying to make it as a music journalist
- How pressure creates diamonds
- The power of no Plan B
- What role luck played in Wall’s success
- Why talent alone isn’t enough
- Creating conditions for creativity in music, technology and entrepreneurship
- Sex, drugs and rock n’roll
- Working with Guns n Roses
- The Led Zeppelin biography
- How he stays on top of his game at the ripe age of 60
Show Notes:
- Twitter: @wallmick
- Amazon: www.amazon.com/Mick-Wall/e/B001JRREE8
- Web: mickwall.com
Listen on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0
Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud
Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski
Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski
Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz
Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com
Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
NEW Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/
Terminator clips sourced from www.terminatorfiles.com and remain the intellectual property of Tristar Pictures.
Gn'R Sweet Child Of Mind sample: Danilo Vicari - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y6dpShya2M
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I just had the honour of interviewing the one and only Mick Wall, who is to music journalism what Keith Richards is to guitar. He has worked with everyone from Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath to Guns n Roses and Bon Jovi.
During our conversation, I enquired about his own success as well as the success of the bands that he covered.
What drove them to greatness?
What drove Black Sabbath’s guitar player, Tony Iommi, to create his own fingertips after slicing them off under a sheet metal press in a factory in the early 70s?
What drove Def Leppard drummer, Rick Allen, to learn to play the drums all over again - with his feet, after losing an arm in a car accident?
Where does Wall, today 60, still derive the energy and enthusiasm to keep going after four decades in the business?
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Brittany Hennessy is the author of Influencer: Building Your Brand in the Age of Social Media, she’s the first-ever Senior Director of Influencer Strategy & Talent Partnerships for Hearst Magazines Digital Media, and the co-founder of Carbon.
In 2007, after graduating from Rutgers University with a degree in journalism, Brittany created ChiChi212.com, which was nominated by Paper Magazine for “Best Nightlife Blog,” and became an influencer for Bacardi, Popchips, Svedka, and the Gap. When she was flown to Germany as the North American ambassador for Nivea just to hang out with Rihanna on a cruise ship and tweet about it, she knew it was time to make the switch from journalism to social media.
She has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Business of Fashion, Digiday, Business Insider, Cosmopolitan, Glossy, Girlboss, Mobile Marketer, Al Jazeera and other publications.
In this episode, we explored the world of influencers.
Expect to learn:
- What an influencer is, why influencers are important and why you should consider becoming or leveraging influencers
- How to build your community and create great content; and
- The dark side of social media; how to grow your online persona without becoming addicted to technology, depressed or neglecting to invest in your real life
Topics Discussed:
- Brittany’s background
- What an influencer is and why they’re important
- Why you should consider becoming more influential
- How to build your community
- How to create great content
- How to distribute your content
- How to engage your audience
- How to leverage influencers to build brand awareness
- The power of authenticity
- Big butts on social media
- Influencer burnout
- The dark side of social media
Show Notes:
- Twitter: @2Legit2Britt
- Instagram: @mrsbrittanyhennessy
- Web: BrittanyHennessy.com
- The Book: Influencerthebook.com
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Terminator clips sourced from www.terminatorfiles.com and remain the intellectual property of Tristar Pictures.
When evaluating someone's idea, it's always tempting and easy to point out the myriad reasons why it won't work, instead of to add value and encourage. It's how we're wired. But humanity depends on our encouraging wild ideas, not shooting them down. Otherwise, we'd still be in the stone age.
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Moresh Kokane is the founder of real estate crowdfunding company Estate Baron and co-founder of next-generation distributed share registry, Konkrete.
This conversation is very much a tale of two halves.
The first 50 minutes we explore the mindset of the entrepreneur, what it takes to succeed and various schools of philosophy that can help someone not only become a better entrepreneur or business leader, but a better person. We explore the book that changed Moresh’s life, Atlas Shrugged, as well as its philosophy of objectivism. I challenge Moresh on whether or not people are really in control of their choices and we dive into why a healthy relationship with adversity is one of the key determinants behind anybody’s success.
The next 30 minutes we explore blockchain, the decentralisation of money and Moresh’s startup Konkrete, which - full disclosure - Collective Campus is a JV investor in, but what we explore is an innovative, fully compliant fundraising method that Konkrete is leveraging and something that blockchain-based startups can learn from.
So with that, please enjoy this 90 minute deep dive with Konkrete’s Moresh Kokane.
Topics Discussed:
- Moresh’s trials and tribulations as an entrepreneur
- Going from employee to entrepreneur
- Mindset of an entrepreneur
- Are entrepreneurs born or made?
- Atlas Shrugged and the philosophy of Objectivism
- Objectivism v Determinism (we are the product of our choices, but are we in control of them?)
- Stoicism
- How to reconcile ambition with calm and centeredness
- Strong opinions, loosely held
- Leading from the front
- Life and business lessons from history and military strategy
- The decentralisation of money
- The crypto hype cycle and the subsequent bloodbath
- Regulating blockchain-based startups
- The history of money
- Konkrete and the compliant Offer Information Statement (OIS) as an alternative fund-raising mechanism for blockchain-based startups
Show Notes:
- Konkrete: www.konkrete.io
- Estate Baron: www.estatebaron.com
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This week’s inspiration comes from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ 2018 shareholder letter.
The annual letter, which Bezos has published every year since 1997, is widely considered a must-read by business professionals for its rich detail around the Amazon CEO's management principle and long-term thinking.
In the letter, Bezos stressed the importance of having high standards in running a business.
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Humans beings are an interesting bunch. What we yearn for one day, we take for granted the next. Over the past one hundred years, we’ve learned to take electricity, running water, healthcare and the fact that we have an abundance of food that comes from all corners of the globe for granted. We have a tendency to normalise any positive experience after repeat exposure to it, eventually nullifying it. We find ourselves bored with what once filled us with joy and seek out longer, more intense experiences, forever ‘chasing the dragon’ and that high of the first time. In this post, I explore how we can deliver memorable experiences, as a leader, an entrepreneur and as a lover.
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New York Times bestselling author and hospitality entrepreneur, Chip Conley is a leader at the forefront of the sharing economy. At age 26, the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality took an inner city motel and turned it into the 2nd largest boutique hotel brand in the world. After being CEO of his innovative company for 24 years, Chip accepted an invitation from the founders of Airbnb to help transform their promising home sharing start-up into the world's largest hospitality brand. In four years as Head of Global Hospitality & Strategy, he taught his award-winning methods to hundreds of thousands of Airbnb hosts and created the world-renowned Airbnb Open. Chip's books share his theories on transformation and meaning in business and life. In WISDOM@WORK: The Making of a Modern Elder (September 2018) he shares experiences from his tenure at Airbnb. Chip is also the founder of Fest300 (part of Everfest), San Francisco's annual "Celebrity Pool Toss" that has raised millions for children and families, and the Hotel Hero Awards that shine a light on outstanding hospitality employees. He is the recipient of hospitality's highest honor, the Pioneer Award, and holds a BA and MBA from Stanford University, and an honorary doctorate in psychology from Saybrook University. He serves on the boards of the Burning Man Project and the Esalen Institute, home of the Conley Library.
Chip brought a wealth of modern elder wisdom with him into this conversation so expect to learn lots, including:
- The critical importance of a beginner’s mind
- How Chip reinvented himself and joined a company whose product he had never used, where the average age was half his own and their way of doing things was not always what he was used to
- How to separate from your self-imposed identity so that you can support personal reinvention in midlife, especially after you have invested decades into your skills, your career and your brand
This is a must listen for anybody listening to this who is beyond the age of 35 or so, in fact, there’s lessons in this for all ages, because we are all living in a world that is constantly changing, and in order to survive, we must reinvent.
With that, I bring you Chip Conley.
Topics Discussed:
- Why life gets better after 50
- The concept of a ‘midlife atrium’
- Being invited to join Airbnb at age 52
- What is a ‘modern elder’
- Operating at the intersection of mentor and intern
- How to disassociate from ego to support personal reinvention
- Why a beginner’s mind and curiosity is critical
- Asking the right questions
- How to get respect from people half your age
- Modern pushback against the tech elite and how the wisdom of modern elders can help turn the tide
- The number one skill people in their 50s need to learn to reinvent
- Why regulating technology early is not a good idea
- Ethics in technology
Show notes:
Get the book: https://amzn.to/2po9tUM
Twitter: @ChipConley
Web: www.ChipConley.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-died-10-years-ago-today-my-life-started-over-chip-conley/
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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I explore human motivation.
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Melbourne born and educated, Richard Champion de Crespigny got his first taste of a future flying career as a 14-year-old when his father took him on a tour of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Academy at Point Cook in Victoria.
In 1975, aed 17, he joined the RAAF: One year later, he started flying. During his 11 years flying transport, jet and helicopter aircraft with the RAAF, he was seconded as AIde-de-Camp to two Australian Governors-General, Richard remained with the RAAF until 1986 when he joined Qantas, flying Boeing 747, Airbus A330 and A380 jet aircrafts.
In 2010 he was the Captain on board Qantas Flight QF32 when it suffered a catastrophic explosion. His multi-award winning and bestselling book QF32 is a blow-by-blow story of what went right when things went wrong in the air.
Richard still flies the AIrbus A380, delivers presentations on the elements of resilience to governments, agencies and fortune 500 companies. IN 2016, Richard was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his significant service to the aviation industry, both nationally and internationally, particularly to flight safety and to the community.
This was a deeply insightful two hour long deep dive conversation with Richard on a number of topics that pertain to not only surviving a crisis situation in the air, which - fortunately - few of us will have to do, but how to apply the elements of resilience to better navigate crisis in our own lives, embrace adversity and thrive, whether in a business setting or even when it comes to our own interpersonal relationships.
As you’ll discover, Richard thinks critically about a wide range of disciplines that each serve to aid his understanding of the world and his decision making, characteristics that were key to the safe landing of the aircraft.
Amongst the plethora of topics we discussed, expect to learn:
- Why you need to first understand your mind if you want to master it
- What the eight elements of resilience are and how to use them to your advantage
- How to understand risk and make better decisions, particularly in crisis situations when our threat-detecting amygdala is often prone to hijacking the more rational part of our brain and wire us to react instead of respond
Expect to learn this and a whole bunch more in my far reaching conversation with the one and only Richard De Crespigny.
Topics Discussed:
- De Crespigny’s early inspirations
- How our brains work
- Understand your mind to understand yourself
- Negativity bias and mainstream media
- The eight elements of resilience
- Why we’re living in the best times ever
- Leaning into adversity and being prepared for anything
- Risk management
- Decision making
- Crisis management
- Making sense of the wealth of knowledge at our disposal
- Responding with intelligence instead of reacting with impulse
- Leadership, empowering your people and radical transparency
- Systems 1 and 2 thinking
- Effective teamwork
- Learning how to learn
- Balancing short-term and long-term incentives
- Brand management, transparency and personal guarantees
- What happened aboard QF32
- Air France flight 447
- Turning brand defectors into brand advocates
- NASA, SpaceX, Hyperloop and Autonomous Vehicles
- Robotics and emerging technologies
- Embracing ambiguity and thriving in uncertain conditions
Show Notes:
Fly the Book: https://flythebookcom.wordpress.com/
Richard’s blog: http://qf32.aero
Twitter: @RichardDeCrep
Get Fly! the book On Amazon: https://amzn.to/2p9Xavz
Get QF32 the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Oarcdg
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Oftentimes in life, you need to run in the rain.
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Steve Hughes is an internationally renowned stand up comedian who tells it like it is, refusing to shy away from the confonting and what is often interpreted as controversial. Steve is incredibly observant, bringing with him worldly insights into the bleeding obvious and comes armed with what he says is more issues than an Occupy movement.
Steve spent the first half of his career as a heavy metal drummer for bands such as Mortal Sin before burning up the international comedy circuit, which he has been doing for more than 12 years now, having toured throughout Europe, Australia, USA, Canada & New Zealand to rave reviews and mutinous laughter.
However, don’t be fooled, this conversation goes way beyond the realm of just comedy and heavy metal and we spend the majority of the two hours exploring topics such as political correctness and identity politics, Steve’s battle with depression, free will, the suppression of freedom of speech, preference falsification, feminism, disidentification with ego, leaning into adversity and bombing onstage, the state of the music industry, drugs, technology addiction, participation trophies and much much more.
A word of warning, this podcast is not safe for work, and is not for the faint at heart.
With that, let’s kick off my two hour deep dive with the inimitable Steve Hughes.
Note: This podcast episode is NSFW.
Topics Discussed:
- Political correctness
- Identity politics
- Steve’s battle with depression
- Free will
- The suppression of freedom of speech
- Preference falsification
- Disidentification with ego
- Leaning into adversity
- Bombing on stage
- The state of the music industry
- Australia’s tall poppy syndrome
- Beware of people bearing absolutes
- Legislating feelings
- Why the crowd is your barometer
- Leading with your heart
- Buddhism and non-dualism
- Drugs
- Taking ownership and victim mentalities
- Why being offended is a choice
- Living with Jim Jefferies
- Technology addiction
- Participation trophies
- Colonial regulations and Conservatism in Australia
- Steve’s views on general practitioners
- Steve’s early days on the metal scene
- Steve’s early days on the comedy circuit
Show Notes:
Steve’s website: www.SteveHughes.net.au
Get the book: www.employeetoentrpreneur.io
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Hustle #BeastMode #GetAfterIt
These are all hashtags that I have been guilty of using from time to time.
However, as I am now in the seventh year of my own entrepreneurial journey, I’ve come to realise that it is easy for ambitious types tuned in to the online ecosystem of entrepreneurs, life coaches, hustlers and the like to aspire to be ‘great’, and that in order to be ‘great’, think that they need to embody idols who preach 16 hour work days, doing away with friends who don’t ‘serve you’ and the relentless pursuit of what are often one-dimensional goals.
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Fresh off the back of the success of Sapiens and Homo Deus, Professor Yuval Noah Harari has returned with another book, not quite for the ages, but for the 21st Century.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century cuts through the information overwhelm and muddy waters of the online world and confronts the most urgent questions on today’s global agenda.
I was excited when I received my copy of the book in the mail, courtesy of Penguin Books, and couldn’t wait to get my head buried in it. And by all accounts, i.e. mine, it didn’t fail to disappoint.
Harari confronts today’s 21 big questions throughout its 21 chapters and after having read and highlighted the book, distilled its 300 pages down to 16,000 words of notes, and then further distilled those notes down to 5,000 words of key lessons and take-aways, I decided to bring you my third book summary.
This was one of my more enjoyable reads this year, and while many for the concepts introduced here weren’t overly new to me, given my voracious appetite for multi-disciplinary learning, which will come as no surprise to listeners of this show, Harari has a way of packaging key concepts up in a way that not only makes for entertaining reading, but also makes you better appreciate what you already knew.
If I had to give this book a score, I’d give it a 9/10, and I would recommend it to every listener as an accomplice to take with you into your 21st Century journey.
Show Notes:
Get the book: https://amzn.to/2pffuDd
Innov8rs Sydney coupon code: 8Steve
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Dan Toma is the co-author The Corporate Startup: How Established Companies Can Develop Successful Innovation Ecosystems. Puzzled by the questions ‘why are innovative products mainly launched by startups?’, Toma focuses on enterprise innovation strategy - specifically on the changes blue-chip organizations need to make to allow for new ventures to be built in a corporate setting, and has worked with the likes of Deutsche Telekom, Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover, Bayer, John Deere or Allianz. Dan holds a dual degree MBA from Bradford University and TiasNimbas Business School while being certified lean startup acceleration specialist by Columbia University through the Lean Launchpad program.
We riffed on all things corporate innovation, viable alternatives to common pitfalls and given Dan’s Romanian heritage, the 94 Romanian World Cup team.
On corporate innovation, expect to learn about:
- An innovation thesis and why your company needs one
- Why it’s imperative to get the plumbing right by building an innovation ecosystem
- The importance of getting the metrics right and going beyond mere activity metrics to what Dan calls impact metrics
We covered a lot more ground in this conversation that will be of serious interest to intrapreneurs so sit back, relax or enjoy your walk, workout or wherever you happen to be listening to this, for my conversation with yet another critical thinker on the topic of corporate innovation and on thriving under conditions of uncertainty, Dan Toma.
Topics Discussed:
- Dan’s background
- Why companies need an innovation thesis
- The paradox of innovation within a large company
- What is an innovation thesis and why do companies need one?
- Why startups aren’t a smaller version of a large company and vice versa
- Lessons from venture capital
- How to build an innovation ecosystem
- Why metrics for sustaining innovation don’t support adjacent or disruptive innovation
- Diversity not just of what you can see, but what you can’t see - in particular, how people think
- Budgeting for corporate innovation
- Lean leadership
- Success stories and case studies
- The value of premortems and retrospectives to get buy-in for ‘iterative’ ways of doing things
- How to support the taking of lots of small bets instead of few large ones
Show Notes:
- Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/dantoma/
- Get Dan’s book, The Corporate Startup: https://amzn.to/2Nx63tC
- Twitter: @Danto_ma
- Dan’s site and consulting: danto.ma
- Innov8rs Sydney conference: innov8rs.co/sydney
- Get the book, Clarity First: https://amzn.to/2NyNJjP
- Coupon code: 8-steve
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As a huge fan of both the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and Elon Musk, I (and millions of other people across the globe) could barely contain my excitement once I heard that Musk would be appearing on the show last week, and it didn’t fail to live up to expectations with more than 10 YouTube views within 4 days of release, not accounting for the millions of podcast listens.
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I express some frustration at how the mainstream have responded to the interview and leave you with some words of wisdom from Musk himself.
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Welcome back to Future Squared for episode #274... and a half.
The purpose of this episode is to announce what you might have noticed already, and that is the brand and direction refresh for the show.
When I started the show almost 3 years and 274 episodes ago, it was all about entrepreneurship and corporate innovation.In the time since, the show has evolved quite a bit to explore myriad disciplines including technology, psychology, philosophy, economics, sociology, politics, biology, motivation, management, leadership, health, fitness and productivity.
As the new intro track says, the show is about more than just helping you innovate, it’s about helping you to think in a multi-disciplinary way so that you can make better decisions, kick goals in your professional and personal life and better navigate what is fast becoming a Huxleyian Brave New World.As such, the new brand was inspired by the Terminator movies and those eight simple words that Arnold Schwarzenegger utters as the T-800 cybernetic organism... "come with me if you want to live", a reflection of this show’s underlying purpose.
This change gives me the freedom to explore said topics without feeling like I'm alienating corporate innovation or entrepreneurship listeners and also opens the show up to a much larger audience, many of whom mistakenly think that Future Squared is just for the latter, when for a long time, it has been about so much more than that.
If you’ve been a long time listener, you shouldn’t expect any major changes to the content. I’ll continue to bring you a wide range of guests, as I have been doing for a long time now, and it was about time that the brand reflected that.
And of course, I couldn’t resist but incorporate a little heavy metal music into the intro to go with the vibe of the show.
If you have any comments or thoughts on the new brand and direction, I’d love to hear from you on Twitter. Just tweet me at @steveglaveski.
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Oren is Director of Capital Markets at investment bank Intersection Capital where he manages its capital raising platform. From 2003-2008 as he applied his pioneering approaches to raising capital and incorporating neuroscience into the capital markets programs, Oren raised over $2B in investor capital from high net-worth individuals and financial institutions for entrepreneurs.
His bestselling book, Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading and Winning the Deal, has been considered by many to be the sales bible and it’s a book I read when first embarking on my entrepreneurial journey, return to often and it is amongst the books I have gifted and recommended most to other entrepreneurs and sales executives.
We discussed:
1: How to place yourself into a position of power when selling, regardless of the social context
2: How to sell to large organisations who insist on dragging out things and involving various people and committees in the decision making process
3: How to get past people’s innate fear of uncertainty and the unfamiliar when selling new technologies and ways of doing things
I was really looking forward to this conversation as a long time fan of Oren’s book, Pitch Anything, and might come across as a bit of a fanboy in this episode so...apologies for that. A heads up, our connection dropped in and out throughout this conversation, however the value bombs that Oren dropped throughout the chat are well worth listening in through to the end.
Expect to not only learn lots about the science of persuasion but also hear some delightful profanity laden stories and learn about Oren’s extensive motorcycle collection.
With that, I bring you, the one and only, Oren Klaff.
Topics Discussed:
- Selling to large organisations
- How to best qualify prospects so you don’t waste your time
- How to use the moral authority frame to get the deal done
- How to sell ‘new things’ that threaten your prospect’s sense of control and certainty
- How to put yourself forward as the prize
- Traps to look out for when selling
- How to seize situational status
- Oren’s vast collection of motorbikes and cars
- Oren’s new book, Persuade Anyone
Show Notes:
Oren’s website: PitchAnything.com
Twitter: @PitchAnything
Online Course: PitchMastery.com
Get the Book: https://amzn.to/2NtNfLO
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Oren Klaff is the author of the classic bestseller on the science of persuasion and getting the deal done, Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading and Winning the Deal. Since its release in 2011 it has been considered by many to be the sales bible and it’s one of the books I have recommended the most to fellow entrepreneurs, sales professionals and people who just want to get better at, well, persuasion, having first read it when embarking upon my own entrepreneurial journey back in 2012.
Unlike most of the books on my overflowing bookcase, I return to Pitch Anything often.
Today, Oren is the Director of Capital Markets at investment bank Intersection Capital and founder of Pitch Anything. Oren has applied his neuroscience-based approach to capital raising to secure over $2BN from high net-worth individuals and financial institutions for entrepreneurs.
After learning about Oren’s extensively mind boggling collection of motorcycles and cars, we delved into the nitty gritty of doing deals, and it was an opportunity to ask questions based on my own first hand experiences, particularly when it comes to B2B sales and selling to large enterprise.
I’ve captured seven of the many key lessons I personally took from my conversation with Oren. You’ll find a hell of a lot more by listening to the entire conversation on Future Squared when it goes live on September 8, and can find a number of resources at the bottom of this post to explore further.
With that, I bring you, seven big lessons on B2B sales from my conversation with Oren Klaff.
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Jeffrey Gitomer is an author, speaker, podcast host, entrepreneur and the self-professed King of Sales.
Jeffrey has penned a number of books including the best-selling Sales Bible, which I am personally a huge fan of, the Little Red Book of Sales as well as Customer Satisfaction is Worthless. His forthcoming book,Truthful Living: The First Writings of Napoleon Hill, represents a brief departure from sales books. You’ll likely be familiar with Napoleon Hill as the author of the magnum opus Think and Grow Rich which went on to influence generations of people and personal development gurus that came after him. The book explores Hill’s self-help legacy, his long-lost original notes, letters and lectures - now compiled, edited and annotated for the modern reader.
If you’re looking for a proverbial kick up the backside, then you’ve come to the right place.
Jeffrey and I riff on many of Hill’s teachings and our own personal observations of them, and touch on topics such as:
- Adversity being a blessing, not a curse
- The magic key - a formula that will open the door for health and wealth; and
- Why whatever your goals - it will never be ‘the right time’
With that, strap yourselves in for a conversation that I really enjoyed with the one and only, Jeffrey Gitomer.
Topics Discussed:
- Who was Napoleon Hill and why was he such a seminal figure
- Napoleon Hill’s influence on Jeffrey’s own lifeHow the first writings of Napoleon Hill were uncovered
- Positive affirmationsIt will never be the right time
- Through struggles comes growth
- Why success is a choiceHow to thinkAdversity is a blessingDelaying gratification
- The magic key
- Why you create your own luck
- Individualism v collectivism
- Responsibility v entitlement
- Why you should give first with no expectation of getting in return
- The value of learning how to learn
- Operating on 5 year windows
- Keeping a positive attitude
Show Notes:
- Gitomer Learning Academy: Gitomer.com
- Sell or DIe podcast with Jennifer Gluckow: sellordiepodcast.com
- @gitomer on twitter
- Pre-order Truthful Living: https://amzn.to/2PAEL74
- Get The Sales Bible: https://amzn.to/2wjUn63
- Get Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich: https://amzn.to/2N98L8q
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In life, we grow up thinking that the more of a good thing we get, the better. More money, more education, more friends. But too much of a good thing is not only too much, but can actually be bad for us and have debilitating consequences.
In his book, The Paradox of Choice, psychologist Barry Schwartz asserts that sure, while having no choices tends to be undesirable, having too manychoices can render us paralysed by choice and never fully committing to a decision we’ve made because we might wonder whether we could have done better. This shows up in various aspects of life, whether it’s deciding what to eat at a Japanese restaurant, choosing which job offer to take, determining a place of abode, which product to buy or which romantic partner to settle down with; ahem, of course… I’m not talking about myself here.
Schwartz puts forward the case that there are two types of people in the world — no, not people who divide the world into two types of people and those who don’t — maximisers and satisficers.
Satisficers tend to settle for the good enough option whilst maximisers look for the best possible option. Schwartz says that while maximisers tend to make what on paper is the better decision more often, they are generally unhappier than satisficers because their decisions are usually laced with regret and a grass is greener complex. Compare this with the satisficer fully commits to a decision once it has been made, resulting in a generally more contented and happier existence.
Schwartz captured this notion beautifully in the following inverted-U curve.
Lately, I’ve been seeing inverted-U curves everywhere. This came to a head at a Startup Grind meetup last week in Melbourne where on three separate occasions I found myself saying “it’s like an inverted U-curve” to people in reference to how much sleep one gets, the pros and cons of startups raising funding and the benefit of going to such networking events.
So it got me thinking, where else does the inverted U-curve show up in life?
This article is the result of said ponderings. I stopped myself at nineteen examples as almost endless and shows up everywhere because it is essentially a byproduct of universal laws such as the Pareto Principle (the 80/20 principle) and the Law of Diminishing Returns. Why nineteen examples instead of a nice round number like twenty? Refer to #8 on channel capacity.
I hope that this article serves as a reminder not only that too much of a good thing is indeed bad for us, but that not enough of a subjectively bad thing can be bad for us too. By becoming more conscious of how the inverted-U curve might show up in our own lives, we’ll be in a better position to determine whether we should scale down or scale up depending on where we find ourselves on the curve.
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Larry Keeley is an innovation strategist who has worked for over four decades to develop more effective innovation methods. Larry is President and co-founder of Doblin Inc, an innovation strategy firm best known for the Ten Types of Innovation framework.
Since 1979 Keeley has worked with many global companies on innovation effectiveness, among them American Express, Apple, Boeing, Coca-Cola, Ford, Gillette, GE, Hallmark, Mars, Mayo Clinic, McDonald's, Novartis, P&G, Pfizer, Rockefeller Foundation, SAS, Shell, Sony, Target, Whirlpool, and Zurich Financial Services.
BusinessWeek named Keeley one of seven Innovation Gurus that are changing the field, and specifically cited Doblin for having many of the most sophisticated tools for delivering innovation effectiveness. They also separately selected Keeley as one of the 27 most influential designers in the world. Keeley teaches graduate innovation strategy classes at the Institute of Design in Chicago, the first design school in the U.S. with a Ph.D. program, where he is also a board member. He lectures in executive education programs at Kellogg Graduate School of Management and is an adjunct faculty member for their core MBA and their Masters of Manufacturing Management programs. He also lectures at University of Chicago, plus business schools worldwide.
I enjoyed tapping into Larry’s incredibly vast reserves of knowledge gained from over four decades in the space of design and innovation. In a corporate innovation landscape that is absolutely awash with charlatans, it’s always refreshing to speak with a critical thinker like Larry who appreciates that ideas are just a tiny part of the battle and that it’s the execution that matters.
Expect to take many things away from this conversation, including:
1 - What large companies can do to balance the core business with the exploration of emerging business
2 - Why the focus on building a culture of innovation is misguided and what companies should be doing instead
3 - Three things one must do to become a successful innovator
You’ll learn this and more in my thought provoking conversation with the one and only, Larry Keeley.
Topics Discussed:
- How Larry first got into the space of design and innovation
- Is today’s fear mongering about tech disruption justified or is this a common pattern that Larry has seen come and go in waves in his four decades in the space?
- Why the Ten Types of Innovation has stood the test of time
- Case studies of large organisations successfully balancing the core business with emerging business
- Why creativity and innovation are two different things
- Why the pre-occupation of executives in this space with design thinking is short sighted
- How the human tendency to stick with what’s familiar and do what’s easiest sabotages innovation
- What slows down large organisations from moving at the pace required to innovate
- Common misconceptions about innovation
- How to attract, engage and retain the right talent
- What more progressive companies in this space are doing differently
- Why you should build a platform, not a product
- The importance of empathy in business
Show Notes:
Doblin Consulting: Doblin.com
Buy the book - Ten Types of Innovation: https://amzn.to/2MpxKYT
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The late Stephen Hawking famously said that “intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”.
If you’re reading this, then it’s no secret that the world is changing fast thanks to Moore’s Law and its impact on technology and consequently, the way we do business. The challenge for organisations that were founded in the previous Century is updating their way of doing business to suit and stay competitive. Failure to adapt ultimately results in extinction.
Such organisations are responding with their balance sheets. Investment on digital transformation alone is set to hit US$7 trillion worldwide by 2021, according to IDC. However, big investments open the door for costly failures, and 84% of digital transformations go on to fail. Organisations are investing big on innovation initiatives that are said to build a culture of innovation but ultimately amount to little more than innovation theatre, despite their best intentions.
As human beings, we tend to optimise for the easiest solution, the one that carries the least cognitive load. As Chris Chatham writes, Occam’s Razor - the principle that the simplest solution tends to be the right one - is actually a medieval relic. “It is literally a historical artefact: William of Ockham employed this principle in his own 13th century work to topics resistant to scientific methods.” He says the continuing use of such thinking in science is akin a cardiologist resorting to bloodletting when heart medication doesn’t work.
It’s time to move past the medieval and borrow a page out of Robert Sapolsky’s book Behave, in which he says that “we have to think complexly about complex things”. Wow, who would’ve thunk?!
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Show Notes:
Article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-kill-corporate-innovation-theatre-get-serious-steve-glaveski/
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Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising and coaching, Marty Cagan served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay.
Marty is the author of Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, which explores lessons from top tech companies, how to get the right people on the bus, product management and development, and how to build a culture that underpins success.
During his career, Marty has personally performed and managed most of the roles of a modern technology product organization, including product management, software development, product marketing, user experience design, software testing, engineering management, and general management.
Marty speaks at major conferences and top companies across the globe and brings with him a wealth of knowledge from more than three decades in the industry.
After spending the first half of this conversation riffing on what companies, in particular established incumbents are doing wrong, when it comes to building a truly innovative culture and taking new products to market, we spent the second half exploring several case studies and some techniques that people in the industry can begin to employ to start breaking the inertia, that, almost ten years after concepts like agile and the lean startup started making waves, seems to still be all too common in the modern organisation.
This is an incredibly worthwhile conversation for anybody involved in building new products, or trying to build new products in an environment that perhaps isn’t all that conducive to doing a good job of it.
So please, sit back, strap yourselves in and enjoy my conversation with Marty Cagan.
Topics discussed:
- What people can learn from Inspired
- Marty’s early days at HP in the 80s and the fundamental lessons he learned about product
development early in his career * The importance of aligning culture, process and people * Why average talent + great culture and leadership = better results than top talent * Pushback on lean startup and agile: is it warranted? * Inertia in the modern organisation * How to get buy-in from sales and engineering teams * Great companies lead academia, they don’t follow it. * The tendency of executives to look for silver bullet solutions like ‘design thinking’ or ‘lean startup’ instead of thinking holistically about what’s really required to drive innovation at a firm * Case studies from Netflix and Google on getting stakeholder buy-in and supporting disruption * The role of the product manager and why the role has lost its way * Should the product manager be involved in all customer usability and insight gathering activities? * Whether ‘agile-but’ or ‘scrum-but’ are effective applications or a bastardisation of the spirit underlying these methodologies * High integrity commitments * Parallels between the 90s and today insofar as technology is concerned and Marty’s views on AI and blockchain
Show Notes:
- Get Marty's book “INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love”: https://amzn.to/2MRJgLR
- SVPG: www.svpg.com
- Marty on Twitter: @cagan
- Bill Campbell’s ‘Stratechery’: https://stratechery.com/
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Dr. Jason Selk is a best-selling author, psychologist and two-time World Series winning sports psychologist with the St Louis Cardinals. In fact, while serving as Director of Mental Training for the Cardinals, Selk helped the team win their first World Series in over 20 years, and in 2011 he assisted the Cardinals in the historic feat of winning their second World Championship in a six-year period.Selk is a regular contributor to Forbes, INC, Success, Shape, and Self Magazine; ABC, CBS, ESPN, and NBC radio and television; and has been featured in USA Today, CNBC, and Men’s Health. Dr. Selk’s second book, Executive Toughness, is a best-selling business book and his first book, 10-Minute Toughness, is on pace to be one of the best-selling sport psychology books of all time. Selk’s latest book Organize Your Team Today has been ranked by Bloomberg as a Top 10 leadership book for 2018.
We discussed a number of very important topics on this show, including:
1: How to develop your confidence, even after long periods of purported failure
2: How to maintain your focus in an age of distraction
3: How to create and maintain a positive, empowering and mentally tough outlook in just two minutes a day
These topics were just the tip of the iceberg. I really enjoyed speaking with Jason as he is a psychologist whose views are grounded in hard science and he drew from his time with the St Louis Cardinals as well as his work in applying sports psychology to business which provided for lots of valuable take-aways.
And as he suggests, if you can take just one thing from this conversation, remember it and apply it, then that’s better than trying to take ten things away and forgetting all of them, as we often tend to do in this age of content overload.
With that, I bring you the one and only, Dr Jason Selk.
Topics Discussed:
- Problem centric thought
- Relentless solution focus
- The power of breathe
- Visualisation and personal mantras
- Dealing with the unexpected and overcoming adversity
- Working with the St Louis Cardinals
- Channel capacity and cognitive load
- Learn more by learning less
- Focus on doing the right things
- Mental workouts
- Managing expectations
- Attracting and engaging top talent
- Tech addiction and how to overcome it
- How to develop your confidence
Show Notes:
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Get Jason’s books:
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10-Minute Toughness: The Mental Training Program for Winning Before the Game Begins - https://amzn.to/2BL0O7Z
- Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance - https://amzn.to/2MAD9MR
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Organize Your Team Today: The Mental Toughness Needed to Lead Highly Successful Teams - https://amzn.to/2LoSmuM
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Twitter: @jason_selk
- Web: www.Jasonselk.com
- Company: www.EnhancedPerformanceInc.com
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If you’re not familiar who Georges St Pierre aka GSP is, he is arguably the ‘GOAT’, that is, the greatest of all time mixed martial artist. He is a former welterweight and middleweight UFC champion, and still holds the record for most consecutive wins in the UFC, tied at 20, and boasts a professional record of 26 wins with just 2 losses, both losses coming in championship fights relatively early in his career against Matt Hughes and Matt Serra, and both losses avenged relatively quickly as GSP, reflected, learned and applied the lessons to overcome his adversaries the second time around.
Find here ten life lessons from GSP that I obtained from his 90 minute talk in Melbourne recently.
For a blog version, visit www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
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If you’re not familiar who Georges St Pierre aka GSP is, he is arguably the ‘GOAT’, that is, the greatest of all time mixed martial artist. He is a former welterweight and middleweight UFC champion, and still holds the record for most consecutive wins in the UFC, tied at 20, and boasts a professional record of 26 wins with just 2 losses, both losses coming in championship fights relatively early in his career against Matt Hughes and Matt Serra, and both losses avenged relatively quickly as GSP, reflected, learned and applied the lessons to overcome his adversaries the second time around.
Find here ten life lessons from GSP that I obtained from his 90 minute talk in Melbourne recently.
For a blog version, visit www.medium.com/@steveglaveski
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As I’ve gone deeper and deeper into entrepreneurship and leaership roles in the past few years, I’ve develoepd an interest in learning from juxtaposed fields - whether it be sports, the arts or military strategy. I was just about to get out Having grown up reading about the likes of Alexander the Great, the Viking Age and Sun Tzu and having enjoyed novels such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, I had already started to develop an appreciation for how military strategy can be applied to reaching your personal and professional goals. I was just about to burn a small hole in my pocket buying a number of military strategy books online when, as I was scanning the shelf at the Melbourne Airport bookstore on route to Los Angeles a couple of months ago, I stumbled upon Robert Greene’s 33 Strategies of War. You might be familiar with Robert Greene from his classic business and personal development book, the 48 Laws of Power.
The 33 Strategies of War is is described as a "guide to the subtle social game of everyday life informed by the ... military principles in war" It is composed of discussions and examples on offensive and defensive strategies from a wide variety of people and conditions, applying them to social conflicts such as family quarrels and business negotiation.
In this book summary, I aim to bring you some of my key take-aways, but please, don’t leave it there, the 33 Strategies of War is a must have for any bookshelf devoted to developing a better understanding of the world and how to best navigate in it to achieve desired outcomes.
Show Notes
Get the book: https://amzn.to/2Pwo2BP
Robert Greene on Twitter: @robertgreene --- hope you enjoyed this episode. If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just leave your details at www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe and you’ll receive the very next one.
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If you’re not familiar who Georges St Pierre aka GSP is, he is arguably the GOAT, that is, the greatest of all time mixed martial artist. He is a former welterweight and middleweight UFC champion, and still holds the record for most consecutive wins in the UFC, tied at 20, and boasts a professional record of 26 wins and just 2 losses, both losses coming in championship fights relatively early in his career against Matt Hughes and Matt Serra, and both losses were avenged in relatively quick succession as GSP, reflected, learned and applied the lessons to overcome his adversaries the second time around.
GSP grew up in Montreal and studied and trained in Kyokushin Karate as a child. In early adulthood, whilst trying to make ends meet so he could invest in his training and his career, Georges spent time bouncing at nightclubs, worked as a garbage cleaner, slept on the floor of a dilapidated apartment and caught freezing cold trains to the Bronx in NYC to train with the best.
As listeners of this show will appreciate, talent will only get you so far. The world is awash with naturally talented people who never truly fulfilled their potential or came anywhere close to the success they could have achieved if they persisted. Persistence is everything. As such, I was keen to understand what got GSP through those early days when he was sleeping on the floor. What kept him going in the face of supposedly insurmountable odds when even those closest to him thought he was crazy to even think that he could one day be a UFC champion.
Show Notes:
GSP: www.gspofficial.com
GSP on Twitter: @GeorgesStPierre
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In life, we’re often taught to think of having options as a good thing, but like most things, abundance usually creates scarcity elsewhere in our lives, and so the same holds true when it comes to choice.
In this episode, we explore how more usually means less - less happiness, less satisfaction, less success.
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Melissa Ambrosini is the bestselling author of Mastering Your Mean Girl and Open Wide, a keynote speaker, entrepreneur and self-love teacher.
In her signature straight-talking style, Melissa teaches women how to master their inner Mean Girl, smash through limiting beliefs, and ditch the self-doubt so they can start living the life of their dreams.
Named a 'self-help guru' by Elle Magazine her mission is to inspire women across the globe to create a heart-centred life one that’s wildly wealthy, fabulously healthy and bursting with love.
We discussed a number of topics, including:
1 - Why being a dancer at Paris’ Moulin Rouge and an actress, among other things, ultimately left Melissa unfulfilled and depressed - and how in life, oftentimes reaching the proverbial goalposts doesn’t bring us joy
2 - How Melissa overcome her fight with depression and an eating disorder to become a top podcaster and best-selling author
3 - Melissa’s strategy for silencing her inner critic
We covered a whole lot more ground in this conversation so strap yourselves in for a conversation with Melissa Ambrosini.
Topics discussed:
- How to silence your inner critic
- Feeding your intuition
- Finding your purpose
- The arrival fallacy and why reaching the proverbial goal posts might not leave you feeling fulfilled
- Melissa’s struggles with depression, an eating disorder and how she bounced back from it
- Shaping your reality by being intentional about what goes into your mind
- How to keep the fire burning when it comes to a venture or a lover
- Melissa’s notion of responding to adversity with grace and calm
- Melissa’s three set strategy for silencing her inner critic
- Self-love
- Mindfulness and meditation
- Showing gratitude
- Authors and books that most inspired Melissa
- Her podcast
Show Notes:
- Podcast: The Melissa Ambrosini Show
- Melissambrosini.com
- Twitter: Mel_Ambrosini
- Instagram: @melissaambrosini
- Facebook: MelissaAmbrosiniTribe
- Pinterest: mel_amrbosini
- YouTube: MelissaAmbrosini
- Get Melissa’s books:
- Open Wide: https://amzn.to/2o8aQ9F
- Mastering Your Mean Girl: https://amzn.to/2MWs349
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If you’re anything like me then you have a thirst for knowledge and consume a lot of content, whether it be through books, audiobooks, podcasts, blog posts, keynotes, conversations or a combination of all of the aforementioned. And if you’re anything like me you wish you retained more of what you actually consumed so that you could easily recall it later, either to support your work or a conversation you are having.
I have previously published an article on learning how to learn in which I detailed some of the different methods I use to retain more of what I consume which included techniques like typing out the notes I highlight in a book, incorporating what I’ve learned into a blog post, otherwise teaching others what I’ve learned and best of all, applying what I’ve learned.
However, while the aforementioned techniques all work really well for remembering bits and pieces of a book for example, it didn’t help me to retain all of the key points. So I’ve decided to start writing book summaries, not only to aid my own learning and retention of key pieces of information, but also to help you accelerate your learning.
While I am definitely not at the level of some autodidacts I know, during a typical year I read about 40 books, listen to about 20 audiobooks, listen to at least 500 podcast episodes, read countless blog posts and have over 100 conversations on my podcast with thought leaders in their field.
As such, I hope to bring you a lot of value by doing these books summaries, which will also be available on my podcast.
I’ve decided to kick things off with neuroendocrinologist Robert Sapolsky’s 2017 book, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, which has been the best book I’ve read this year by far. I distilled the 680 page book into 40 Google Doc pages of notes and now aim to further distill some of the key points into this blog post for your consumption.
The one thing I absolutely loved about this book is that it clearly demonstrates how taking sides in life is fraught with folly. Time and time again throughout this book Sapolsky will point to various studies and arguments that convince you of one position, only to pull the rug out from underneath your feet with an equally compelling counterargument.
Becoming more comfortable with the notion of ‘strong opinions, weakly held’ and seeking out information not only to prove or validate your view but also to discredit and invalidate it, will lead to the ‘more right’ solution. However, when it comes to almost anything, we can almost never say we are absolutely right because there are so many potential variables and bits of information that we’re just not taking into account.
We can only ever make the ‘most right’ decision in the moment based on the information that we have at our disposal, how we choose to interpret that information, what our goals are and over what period of time we wish to achieve them.
Author: Robert Morris Sapolsky (born April 6, 1957) is an American neuroendocrinologist and author. He is currently a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, neurosurgery, at Stanford University. He has appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience.
Length: 680 pages
Premise: The book aims to answer, or at least help us to better understand the possible answers to the question, “why did the chicken cross the road?” The chicken of course is proverbial for us, human beings.
Rating: 11/10 (this goes up to eleven!)
Get the book: https://amzn.to/2NgxCXY
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In poker, your bankroll represents how much money you’ve set aside exclusively to play.
Former World Series of Poker champion, author and decision strategist Annie Duke says that you should always play withinyour bankroll. If you have $2,000 in your pocket but have bills and outgoings totalling $1,500 then you don’t have $2,000 to play with, you have $500, and you should not play beyond that.
By playing within your bankroll you’re less likely to fall victim to the sunk cost bias - our tendency to chase our losses - or to bet more than you can afford to lose.
How much are you willing to lose?
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Ben Greenfield is a biohacker, human body and brain performance coach, ex-bodybuilder, Ironman triathlete, professional Spartan athlete, anti-aging consultant, speaker and author of the New York Times Bestseller “Beyond Training: Mastering Endurance, Health and Life”.
In 2008, Ben was voted as NSCA’s Personal Trainer of the year, in 2013 and 2014 was named by Greatest as one of the top 100 Most Influential People In Health And Fitness, and Ben's articles, podcast and videos reach over a million unique views each month.
With nearly two decades of experience working as a strength and conditioning coach, exercise physiologist and biomechanist, Ben is also the man responsible for maximizing performance, recovery, fat loss, digestion, brain, sleep and hormone optimization for CEO’s, ultra-endurance competitors, and a wide variety of professional athletes, including poker champions, tennis players, motocross competitors, the NFL, the NHL, the UFC and beyond. Using his vast knowledge of science and research, in-the-trenches experience, and unique set of cutting-edge brain and body biohacking techniques, Ben cuts through the clutter, confusion and snake oil and instead delivers total human optimization in the fastest, cleanest and safest way possible.
We managed to pack some vital take-aways into this short conversation which will help you to:
- Get your day off to the right start and avoid the afternoon crash
- Get a better night’s rest
- Improve your general health markers and longevity
Also, find out the one metric you should be measuring to stay on top of your game.
With that, please welcome to the show, the one and only Ben Greenfield.
Topics Discussed:
- Staying active throughout your day
- Why short bursts of intense exercise won’t offset your risk of various diseases if it’s followed by long periods of sedentary states
- How to stay sufficiently active throughout your day, even if you work in an office
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
- Sleep Hacks
- Diet and Nutrition
Show Notes:
- Website: bengreenfieldfitness.com
- Connect with Ben on Twitter: @bengreenfield
- Ben’s Instagram: @bengreenfieldfitness
- Get Ben's books:
- Beyond Training: https://amzn.to/2BLpXiR
- The Low-Carb Athlete: https://amzn.to/2o9LS9S
- 30 Ways to Reboot Your Body: https://amzn.to/2BMkBUH
- Weight Training for Triathlon: https://amzn.to/2MLpvFT
- Get-Fit Guy's Guide to Achieving Your Ideal Body: https://amzn.to/2NhzbEV
- 100 Ways To Boost Your Metabolism: https://amzn.to/2P6RvkF
- 10 WAYS TO GROW TINY SUPERHUMANS: https://amzn.to/2P6JBIe
- SECRETS OF THE SUPERHUMAN FOOD PYRAMID: https://amzn.to/2oaqeT3
- HOW TO BIOHACK THE ULTIMATE HEALTHY HOME: https://amzn.to/2MOXDQV
- IT BAND FRICTION FIX!: https://amzn.to/2MQFRgg
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In this instalment of Fast Fix Friday I bust three innovation myths.
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Alex is an entrepreneur, speaker and business model innovator. He is co-founder of Strategyzer, a SaaS company that helps organizations develop new growth engines, better value propositions and powerful business models via online applications and facilitated online courses.
In 2015 Alex won the strategy award by Thinkers50, called the “Oscars of Management Thinking” by the FT, and ranks #15 among the leading business thinkers of the world. In 2013 he won the inaugural Innovation Luminary Award by the European Union.
Alex is lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design, which sold over a million copies in 37 languages. USA Today named Business Model Generation among the 12 best business books of all times. The German edition was named Management Book of the Year 2011. Fast Company Magazine named it one of the Best Books for Business Owners in 2010.
Alex invented the Business Model Canvas, a strategic management tool to visualize, challenge and (re-) invent business models. Leading organizations and start-ups around the world use it.
Previous start-ups include netfinance.ch and Arvetica. Alexander holds a PhD from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland, and he is a founding member of The Constellation, a global not-for-profit organization aiming to make HIV/AIDS and Malaria history.
We explored a number of topics in this episode, including:
- How much of R&D corporations should invest into disruptive innovation
- Why what got you here won’t get you there and how disruptive innovation requires different methods and behaviours
- The value of taking a portfolio approach to corporate innovation investments
You’ll learn this and a lot more in this conversation with the one and only, Alex Osterwalder.
Topics discussed:
- How much of R&D corporations should invest into disruptive innovation
- Why what got you here won’t get you there and how disruptive innovation requires different methods and behaviours
- The value of taking a portfolio approach to corporate innovation investments
- Setting up an innovation team
- Empowering people to make and act on decisions
- The different types of innovation
- Why it’s much riskier not to innovate
- Why early stage innovation isn’t expensive
- Why receiving large bags of funding up-front can inhibit innovation
Show notes:
Alex’s website: http://www.alexosterwalder.com
Strategyzer: http://www.strategyzer.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/alexosterwalder (@AlexOsterwalder)
Get his books:
- Business Model Generation: https://amzn.to/2Ni7zQ9
- Value Proposition Design: https://amzn.to/2NirVJ9
- The Big Pad of 50 Blank, Extra-Large Business Model Canvases and 50 Blank, Extra-Large Value Proposition Canvases: https://amzn.to/2P2TTZC
- Business Model You: https://amzn.to/2BKEMlP
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In this instalment of Fast Fix Friday I explore how the real reason traditional large companies struggle to innovate could be physiological.
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Rand Fishkin is the founder of SparkToro and was previously cofounder of Moz and Inbound.org. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through the Whiteboard Friday video series and his blog. If you feed him great pasta or great whisky, he’ll give you the cheat code to rank #1 on Google.
Long time listeners of Future Squared might remember Rand from episode #22, when we discussed content marketing for large organisations as well as more importantly perhaps, Australia's Sullivan’s Cove whisky. One thing we also touched on in that conversation was Rand’s tussle with depression and how he ultimately had to step down as the CEO of the company he founded.
While Rand has gone on to start another company, he hasn’t done so without coming to a number of confronting realisations about building a company that he has captured in his brand new book, Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World.
This book will form the basis of today’s conversation and with so much “Rah rah overnight success stories” out there, arguably polluting the public’s perception of startup life, it’s refreshing to read the take of a respected founder like Rand on the truth about building a company and how it’s not all unicorns and ping pong tables. Having read the book and found it very informative, I couldn’t wait to get linked up with Rand again, after more than 2 years, to dive in, so with that, I bring you the one and only Rand Fishkin!
In this episode we discussed:
- Why startups don’t need venture capital to get going
- Why founding a top 5% startup won’t necessarily make you rich
- The benefits of starting with a service based business before building a product
- The importance of values alignment in hiring and firing
- How to keep your energy and enthusiasm levels high
- Radical transparency
- Hiring for diversity of what you can’t see, not just what you can
- SparkToro
Show Notes:
Twitter: @randfish
Get his books on Amazon:
- Lost and Founder: https://amzn.to/2BSOSRA
- The Art of SEO: https://amzn.to/2PAGt8m
Rand’s new company: Sparktoro.com
Open source funding document: sparktoro.com/blog/raised-a-very-unusual-round-of-funding-were-open-sourcing-our-docs/
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Oftentimes when we first embark upon something, be it a new romantic relationship, or a new business, our dopamine receptors are super-active. However, over time, they get blunted and require a higher frequency or intensity of exposure to that thing that got us buzzing in the first place. So many entrepreneurs get excited when they start something but their investment and energy tapers off once that initial buzz wears off.
With that in mind, How might you maintain the enthusiasm and energy required to maintain your investment and effort in X?
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I explore 12 tools and techniques that can help you to stay focused long after the initial buzz o the honeymoon period wears off.
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James Nguyen is the co-founder and managing partner of Anti-Hero Capital, the first investment fund exclusively dedicated to investing in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies using evolutionary science. He previously founded the global app agency M5859 Apps, is a contributing writer at Forbes and is somebody that I would consider deeply introspective and curious, as you’ll discover in today’s episode.
Having known James for a few years, we decided to record a podcast episode together after catching up for brunch on a relatively cold Melbourne morning. Our gameplan? Talk about life.
And talk about life we did, getting into flow and exploring a number of topics in our two hour conversation, breaking a Future Squared record in the process previously.
We discussed:
- The Critical Importance of Finding Purpose and Meaning
- How to Break Out of Moulds of Societal Convention
- How to Stay the Path When Giving Up is Easier
- Decision Making and How to Avoid Paralysis Analysis
- First Principles
- Evaluating Orders of Consequence
- Imposter Syndrome
- Values Alignment and Personal and Professional Relationships
- Biological Evolution and Neuroscience
- Getting into Flow
- The Intimacy Vacuum
- How to Maintain Your Enthusiasm for Things Once the Initial Shine Wears Off
Show Notes:
- James on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-nguyen-b3a41aa2/
- Anti-Hero Capital: www.antiherocapital.com
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesnguyenahc
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Many have credited Optus for taking ownership with the advertisements it took out on page two of newspaper across Australia, admitting its “monumental stuff up” and announcing that it would be refunding Floptus, er, Optus Sport subscribers and giving them an additional six weeks of free access to the service after the World Cup comes to a close in mid-July.
But was this a case of extreme ownership or of simply being backed into a corner?
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In this funisode of Future Squared, I welcome back into the fold my colleagues Sean and Shay to talk about, well...everything we wanted to.
Namely, we explored, or ranted rather, about:
- End of Financial Year shenanigans
- Political correctness and the intellectual dark web
- The problem with labels and putting things into neatly demarcated buckets
- Phone addiction and the impact on humanity
- The Charter Hall PropTech Accelerator and Village Xperience Accelerator
- World Cup 2018 and Floptus Sport
- Our new Nitro coffee tap
- GDPR and Privacy
- People being “busy" but not really
- UBER's win in London and Rydo
- ICOs and Cryptocurrency
- Sensory deprivation tanks
- My forthcoming book
- New ebooks we’ve published
- AI and existentialism
- Standup comedy
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This week I explore existing literature on strategies of war, and discuss many of them that are relevant to the workplace as well.
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I cringe when I hear of school debates that advise students to argue a position even if the factual information they use isn’t 100% accurate, so long as it serves their position. School debates tend to be based students never changing their mind, and sadly, this misguided thinking has graduated and is pervasive in today’s corporate and political arenas, where they often have devastating effect on the common good.
This week I explore the notion of 'strong opinions, loosely held' and why it is one of the most profound philosophies you can take with you in business and life.
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This week, I tell the 100 word version of the Odyssey and relate it to entrepreneurship.
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Mike Todasco is the Director of Innovation at PayPal responsible for increasing the creative output of employees across the company. Prior to that Mike spent time at PayPal in Product Management, Product Marketing, Product Launch and Product Analytics roles.
Before joining PayPal he was the Founder and CEO of the eCommerce marketplace, Sketch Maven. Additionally, Mike spent over four years as the Director of Strategy, heading up mergers & acquisitions and strategic planning at NewPage, a portfolio company of the private equity firm, Cerberus Capital.
He has an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business and a BS in Finance from the University of Illinois. Mike has filed over 100 US patents since 2013 covering payments, online and offline commerce, beacon/BLE technologies, biometrics, and many other areas.
We discussed a number of topics in this episode including:
- PayPal’s objectives and challenges
- PayPal’s global innovation labs
- What’s behind PayPal’s stock price doubling in the past 12 months
- How PayPal goes from ideation to experimentation and commercialisation
- How PayPal momentarily lost touch with its entrepreneurial roots and what it has done to recover
- Blockchain and cryptocurrencies
- The value of innovation champions in large organisations
- Mike’s previous business, SketchMaven
Show notes:
Twitter: @todasco
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/todasco
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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I explore the value of traveling solo all the way from sunny Lincoln, Nebraska.
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It seems that everybody wants to build the next UBER, the next unicorn, but do you need to?
Would you not be happy generating a six-figure income doing what you love and having freedom over your decisions, not having to report to a boss who is simply in that role due to political maneuvering or length of tenure?
You’ve got to be clear on defining what kind of business you want to build.
For the purposes of this book, you either want to build:
- A multi-hundred million dollar global company in search of unicorn status
- A company with several million dollars in revenues with global or local reach
- A lifestyle business that earns you a six-figure income
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Dr. Sherry Walling is the life force behind ZenFounder. She is a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience treating stress-related problems in high achieving people. She is an academic and professional powerhouse with master’s degrees in psychology and theology, formal training as a yoga teacher, and a PhD in clinical psychology.
She has extensive experience treating PTSD in combat veterans, working with families trapped in family violence, and supporting the mental health needs of physicians and police officers. She’s also one of the early professionals to creatively combine yoga and psychotherapy.
Already an accomplished professional, Sherry began working with entrepreneurs when her husband, Rob Walling, launched his first start-up more than 10 years ago. Being a life partner in an entrepreneurial family, she has lived the frenetic pace of a tech startup. Pairing her professional training and personal experience, she’s helped countless founders and their families work through burnout, conflict, transition stress, and crisis.Sherry is the author of the newly released book The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together: How to Run your Business Without Letting it Run You. Seth Godin says this book is "a personal, generous and incredibly useful guide to staying sane and changing the world at the same time, an demands that you should read it before you think you need it". Sherry also hosts the Zen Founder podcast which is now 164 episodes young.
We explored so many topics in this conversation.
Expect to learn more about:
- the stresses of entrepreneurship and whether the crush it mentality really serves us
- what the optimum amount of hours to work is
- how much sleep you should be getting
- how to manage relationships with a significant other while building your business
- tools and techniques you can use to bring you more clarity and control; and
- the power of self awareness and understanding your strengths and a hell of a lot more.
So with that, let’s get stuck into today’s conversation with Sherry Walling.
Topics discussed:
- Sherry’s book
- What stress related problems look like for entrepreneurs
- Are 16 hour days really the path to success?
- Coping strategies
- How entrepreneurs self sabotage
- How to deal with the loneliness of entrepreneurship
- How to manage overwhelm
- Why becoming more self aware is the key to clarity, control and results
- Separating work from the rest of your life
- Tools and techniques to help you navigate emotional overwhelm and anxiety
- How to build and sustain a relationship if your partner isn’t an entrepreneur
- Do certain types of personalities lend themselves to entrepreneurship more than others?
- Why you should identify your strengths
Show Notes:
- Web: Zenfounder.com
- Podcast: Zen Founder, on Apple Podcasts and all places good podcasts are found
- Get the book "The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together": https://amzn.to/2BMWTaJ
- Twitter: @zenfounder
- StrengthsFinder Test: /www.gallupstrengthscenter.com
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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I get vulnerable and reveal a personal story on how I got fired from my first real job...and more importantly, how I responded.
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Jeremy Heimans is the co-founder and CEO of Purpose, an organization headquartered in New York that builds and supports social movements around the world. He is the co-founder of GetUp!, an Australian political organization with more members than all of Australia's political parties combined. He has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business and received the Ford Foundation's 75th anniversary Visionary Award. With Henry Timms, Jeremy is co-author of the book NEW POWER: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World -
and How to Make It Work for You, forthcoming April 2018 from Doubleday. Their thinking on “new power” was featured as the Big Idea in Harvard Business Review, as one of 2014’s top TED talks with over 1.25 million views, and by CNN as one of the Top Ten Ideas to Change the World in 2015.
We explored a number of topics during our conversation, including:
- What new power is, how it differs to old power and what it means for today’s organisations
- How new power can be used for good and evil
- Lessons from the likes of LEGO, TED and Boaty McBoatface
You’ll learn that and much more in my conversation with the one and only, Jeremy Heimans.
Topics discussed:
- Jeremy’s book
- Jeremy’s upbringing and involvement in politics from the age of 8
- What new power values and models are and how they differ from old power
- How large, traditional organisations are stuck in old power models and what the consequences of this might be
- Why radically transparent organisations have an edge over secretive ones
- The characteristics of a new power organisation
- Parallels between movements and methodologies like Agile and new power values
- The power of feedback loops and how to use them in a new power economy
- How the blockchain might support organisations looking to become more collaborative and decentralised
- How dark movements such as ISIS are co-opting new power
- How Facebook operates a new power model with old power values, perhaps to the detriment of society
- Why you should...occupy yourself?
- Why organisations need to commit if exploring new power and not just pay lip service to it as was the case with Boaty McBoatface
- How LEGO and TED use new power
Show Notes:
- Purpose: Purpose.org
- HBR article: https://hbr.org/2014/12/understanding-new-power
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- New Power: How It's Changing The 21st Century: https://amzn.to/2PEVNRq
- New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World: https://amzn.to/2Ls20g4
- Twitter: @jeremyheimans
- GetUp!: https://www.getup.org.au
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In this week's instalment of Fast Fix Friday, I talk about the number one thing holding back your organization from innovating.
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Grant Cardone is a New York Times bestselling author and an internationally renowned speaker on leadership, real estate investing, entrepreneurship, and finance. His 5 privately held companies have annual revenues exceeding $100 million. Cardone is a savvy private multifamily investor and holds a portfolio of over 3,800 apartment units throughout the U.S. with transactions valued at over $500 million. As CEO of the #1 Sales Training Platform in the World, Cardone consults with Fortune 500 companies and customers such as Google, Northwestern Mutual, Morgan Stanley, and more. He’s a Top 5 Social Media Expert and one of the Top 10 Most Influential CEOs today. He is also the Executive Producer and star of two reality TV shows, and creator of the first online entrepreneur and business TV network, Grant Cardone TV.
Expect to learn a number of things in this episode, including:
- Grant’s early days and the struggles he had to overcome
- Why 10% better or 10% cheaper isn’t enough
- What the principles of massive action are that will help you to 10X your business and life
- Why being adaptable is overrated and what you should strive for instead
- Why Grant thinks that building wealth is simple and why so many people miss the point
So with that, I bring you, the one and only, Grant Cardone.
Show notes:
- Grantcardone.com
- GrantCardoneTV.com
- CardoneUniversity.com
- Twitter: @GrantCardone
- Get Grant's books:
- The 10X Rule: https://amzn.to/2BZb3pF
- Sell or Be Sold: https://amzn.to/2BOYqNK
- Be Obsessed or Be Average: https://amzn.to/2wpjZyu
- If You're Not First, You're Last: https://amzn.to/2P6asnv
- Sell To Survive: https://amzn.to/2PEFh3H
- The Closer's Survival Guide: https://amzn.to/2P309kf
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For many years China was considered a basketcase with its population, resigned to a life of poverty in the rice fields .
Yet today, 120 million Chinese tourists go abroad each year, often snapping up all of the latest trinkets of luxury brands like YSL, Prada and Chanel.
In the last ten years alone, China’s GNP has increased from US$4.6T to over US$12T dollars, in fact, in 1985, that number was less than $500B. Less than 25 times what it is today.
To put this into perspective, in the same timeframe, the United States’ GNP has little more than doubled, from US$8T in 1989 to about $17.5T today.
So how did this happen and what can corporate innovators learn from this?
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Fears that once helped keep our ancestors alive, today, more of often than not, serve to limit our experience of life.
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Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated teacher for four straight years. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers and the world's top 40 business professors under 40. Adam is the author of three New York Times bestselling books translated into 34 languages, including Originals, Give and Take and Option B which he co-wrote with Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and Lean In fame.
As a contributing writer on work and psychology for the New York Times, Adam’s op-eds on raising a moral child and a creative child have each been shared over 300,000 times on social media. His research focuses on generosity, motivation and meaningful work, championing new ideas, personality traits like introversion, and leadership, collaboration, culture, and organizational change. His studies have been highlighted in David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell, Drive by Dan Pink, Quiet by Susan Cain, and Thrive by Arianna Huffington. Adam is a member of the Lean In board, the founder of the Authors@Wharton series, and the co-director of Wharton People Analytics. He has received the Excellence in Teaching award for every class he has taught.
He is also a former magician and junior Olympic springboard diver!
We unpacked as many insights as we could in our 30 minute conversation.
Expect to learn a number of things, including:
- How to deliver radically transparent feedback without coming across like an asshole
- The value of maintaining humility, even before you’ve made it to the top; and
- How to 10X your organisation’s brainstorming efforts.
We explored these topics and more in my conversation with the one and only, Adam Grant.
Topics Discussed:
- Radical transparency: what it is, why it matters and how to become more transparent
- Ghosting
- What a confident leader really looks like
- Humility in the workplace
- Kobe and Shaq
- How to use objections in your favour
- Why considering yourself an expert is a precursor to stagnating
- Burstiness
- How ‘ego threat’ shows up in the workplace
- How long it takes for teams to gel, then fall behind
Show Notes:
AdamGrant.net
A=WorkLife podcast (Apple Podcasts, Google Play etc.) - no, not on fax machines
TED.com
@AdamMGrant
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Today, I want to talk why you should leave things unfinished.
What's that you say? This doesn’t sound like the Steve we know. And you’d be right to think that, but please hear me out in this instalment of Fast Fix Friday. You might be pleasantly surprised!
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On 17 January 1944, the Office of the Strategic Services of the CIA issued the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. The manual remained classified for decades, becoming declassified in 2008.
The purpose of the manual was to present suggestions for inciting and executing sabotage.
The manual is full of 1940s references such as ‘axis nationals’, the latter no doubt falling victim to many of the manual’s methods.
The manual breaks methods down into a number of categories such as Buildings, Manufacturing and Organisations. For example, on Buildings it states: whenever possible, arrange to have a fire start after you have gone away").
What’s striking about this section of the manual is its section on Interference with Organisations. Their suggested methods sound a lot of the dated management practices that plague large organisations today.
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I’m going to read out 5 ways you might be sabotaging your organisation.
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Arj started his career in comedy after graduating from high school in 1989. His first gigs were at an old café called Caffe Nuvo in downtown San Anselmo where he hosted stand-up night every Sunday throughout the early 1990s.
Barker has appeared on Premium Blend, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Glass House. He twice hosted Comedy Central Presents and was featured in Comedy Central's animated series Shorties Watchin' Shorties.
Barker appeared in the HBO sitcom Flight of the Conchords and has enjoyed success in Australia for a number of years since first appearing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2000 and is currently in Melbourne as part of his We Need To Talk tour.
You might be wondering why I invited a comedian to appear on the show. For one, there are many parallels between making it as a comedian, a musician, an athlete and an entrepreneur and we explore them in today’s conversation. That and Arj’s show, which I was lucky enough to catch on the Saturday night before this conversation, was heavy on tech talk, making fun of our tendency to become furious by 5 minute UBER wait times in this, the age of instant gratification.
Arj only had 30 minutes to spare for our show, but we managed to explore a number of topics, including:
- Arj’s early days on the comedy circuit in California
- The power of silencing your inner critic
- Positive feedback loops
- How Arj tests new material and iterates
- Taking risks when you have nothing to lose
- The support of family
- Staying present and getting into flow when performing live
- Relating to and connecting with people
- Showing up, even when nobody’s watching
There’s many lessons in this one for entrepreneurs to learn from, and Arj even throws in one joke from his set, so with that….strap yourself in for the one and only, Arj Barker.
Show Notes:
Arj’s tour dates: ArjBarker.com
Get Tickets: ComedyFestival.com.au
Do It Myself TV on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL2TgeKrcWyKHq1ZTJDYOfg
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Brian Ardinger is the founder of NXXT, the InsideOutside.io podcast, and the Inside/Outside Innovation Summit. For over 25 years Brian has been helping entrepreneurs and enterprises navigate and compete in a world of change and disruption. He has led efforts with startups and corporations to engage the latest trends, tools, and tactics to accelerate innovation, launch new ideas, and build better products.Before NXXT, Brian founded the seed-stage accelerator NMotion and co-founded the corporate innovation consultancy Econic. He served as Chief Marketing Officer at Nanonation working with some of the best brands in the world including Apple, Pepsi, Target, Nike, and Harley-Davidson. Brian has worked in Silicon Valley and Asia where he built out the consulting practice for Gartner and led the creation of Asia’s first dedicated customer experience lab as director of research at Ion Global, a Hong Kong-based technology firm.He is currently involved in driving the Midwest's innovation ecosystem through initiatives such as the Rise of the Rest, StartupWeek, Lean Startup Circle, PIPELINE Entrepreneurs, and the JumpStart Challenge.
Expect to learn more about:
- The startup and corporate innovation ecosystem in America’s midwest
- Whether the types of ideas and innovations coming out of the midwest differ from that of say, Silicon Valley
- How the startup ecosystem in general is seeing a shift away from low hanging fruit B2C products to bigger problems rooted in traditional industry
- What it takes to get conservative investors to invest in early stage startups
- Why corporates should partner with startups
So with that, I bring you, Brian Ardinger.
Show notes:
- Summit: www.theiosummit.com
- Podcast: www.Insideoutside.io
- NXXT: www.nxxt.co
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/ardinger
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ardinger/
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On October 23, 2001, using the slogan “1000 songs in your pocket”, Steve Jobs introduced the original iPod which left us enamoured and with it he ushered in a new age that, with the launch of the iPhone six years later in 2007, would go on to fundamentally change the way we interact with the world around us.
This is a Fast Fix Friday instalment on tech addiction and how to overcome it.
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Jon Satterley is an experienced entertainment & media industry executive and thought leader. I have been recognized as an innovator with expert knowledge of new products, emerging technology and digital business strategy.
When he was just 17, Jon started a record label and wound up signing hundreds of bands while studying to get his law degree. Jon led digital strategy for Roadrunner Records: growing from a small independent record company to become one of the world’s leading labels.
Today, Jon is the Chief Digital Officer at Village Roadshow, and we’ve been working together on the Xperience Accelerator, a program that brings together startups working with VR/AR and Village to develop new applications for the entertainment industry.
We explored lots of questions during this conversation, often going off on tangents, and three things you can expect to learn:
- Why Jon decided to pursue his record label instead of a career in law and what helped him shun societal expectations in favour of taking the path less traveled
- How to be a successful intrapreneur in a large organisation; and
- What the future of VR and AR looks like.
Of course, as a big heavy metal fan myself, we also spent some time talking about Jon’s time at Roadrunner Records.
Topics discussed:
- eSports: what it is and where it’s going
- Jon’s background
- How to be an intrapreneur at a large company
- How to get buy in from senior executives
- The question of morality and emerging technology
- What the future of VR/AR is
- Other trends entertainment companies should look out for
- Metal!
Show Notes:
- Jon Satterley: https://au.linkedin.com/in/satterley
- Xperience VR/AR Accelerator: www.xperienceaccelerator.cc
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York: https://amzn.to/2P7GgIB
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In the early days of Collective Campus, like most new organisations, we kept ourselves afloat by taking part time jobs on the side and working with a number of small clients who paid us just enough to keep the lights on.
After building up enough case studies and collateral working with smaller organisations, we worked our way up and eventually hooked our first big A-list client, a global law firm with over 1,200 employees and revenues in excess of US$1B.
Long story short, we f*cked up.
In this instalment of Fast Fix Friday, I reveal how we screwed up and what we did about it that was a critical juncture in our organisation's 'growing up'.
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Annie Duke has leveraged her expertise in the science of smart decision making to excel at pursuits as varied as championship poker to public speaking. Her first book for general audiences, “Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts” has just been released and has become a national bestseller in the US. In this book, Annie reveals to readers the lessons she regularly shares with her corporate audiences, which have been cultivated by combining her academic studies in cognitive psychology with real-life decision making experiences at the poker table.
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For two decades, Annie was one of the top poker players in the world. In 2004, she bested a field of 234 players to win her first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. The same year, she triumphed in the $2 million winner-take-all, invitation-only WSOP Tournament of Champions. In 2010, she won the prestigious NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Annie has also made appearances on the Celebrity Apprentice and raised $730,000 for Refugees International.
She now spends her time writing, coaching and speaking on a range of topics such as decision fitness, emotional control, productive decision groups and embracing uncertainty.
I’m always looking to challenge my own assumptions and make better decisions so I really enjoyed this conversation with Annie.
Just some of the many learnings you’ll walk away with include:
- Why the quality of a decision doesn’t always relate to the quality of an outcome
- How to avoid decision biases and groupthink
- How to make good decisions when we don’t have all the facts (we almost never have all the facts)
- And why asking simple questions like “what’s the worst possible outcome?” can open up your life to new possibilities
With that, I bring you the one and only, Annie Duke.
Topics discussed:
- Annie’s poker career
- The relationship between logic and emotion
- Working alone together
- Seek truth, not being ‘right’
- Why you will never have all the facts
- Why your intuition generally doesn’t lead to better decisions
- The power of counterfactuals
- The concept of ‘resulting’ and how it plagues decision making
- How to avoid ‘paralysis analysis’
- Planning poker
- Why you should have strong opinions, weakly held
- The power of “I don’t know”
- How to deal with ambiguity
- How to hire employees who thrive under conditions of uncertainty
- Why you can’t make your own luck
- The story of ‘Nick the Greek’
- The story of Pete Carroll and Superbowl 49
- Why the quality of a decision doesn’t always relate to the quality of an outcome
- How to avoid decision biases and groupthink
- How to make good decisions when we don’t have all the facts (we almost never have all the facts)
- And why asking simple questions like “what’s the worst possible outcome?” can open up your life to new possibilities
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What are you fighting for?
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In this episode of Future Squared, I welcome back DAVID BURKUS, named one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50 last year.
His forthcoming book, FRIEND OF A FRIEND, offers readers a new perspective on how to grow their networks and build key connections—one based on the science of human behavior, not rote networking advice. He is also the author of UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT and THE MYTHS OF CREATIVITY. David is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and his work has been featured in Fast Company, the Financial Times, Inc magazine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and CBS This Morning.
David’s innovative views on leadership have earned him invitations to speak to leaders from a variety of organizations. He’s delivered keynote speeches and workshops for Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Stryker and governmental and military leaders at the U.S. Naval Academy and Naval Postgraduate School. His TED talk has been viewed over 1.7 million times.
When he’s not speaking or writing, David is in the classroom. He is associate professor of leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University where he was recently named one of the nation’s “Top 40 Under 40 Professors Who Inspire.”
I enjoyed reconnecting with David and learned a lot, some of which I applied the day after the interview with positive results.
You’ll learn:
- Why the best way to grow your network might not be by introducing yourself to strangers at cocktail parties, but by finding strength in weak ties
- Why the biggest opportunities lie, not inside tight knit communities or clusters, but in between them; and
- And how to 10x the effectiveness of your warm introduction requests
With that, welcome back to the show... 220 episodes later, the one and only, David Burkus.
Topics Discussed:
- Why the best way to grow your network might not be by introducing yourself to strangers at cocktail parties, but by finding strength in weak ties
- Why the biggest opportunities lie, not inside tight knit communities or clusters, but in between them; and
- And how to 10x the effectiveness of your warm introduction requests
- What to say instead of “so, what do you do?”
- Why the best networking events have nothing to do with networking
- How to identify opportunities in your network
- Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
- Jane McGonicall and becoming a power broker
- Tim Ferriss and the illusion of majority
- How to leverage influencers to amplify your reach and impact
- Why people who have more than one type of relationship have stronger ties
Show Notes:
- Website: https://davidburkus.com/
- Twitter: @davidburkus
- Bonus: davidburkus.com/future/
- Episode #9: http://www.futuresquared.xyz/podcast/episode-9-david-burkus-on-rethinking-business-as-usual
Get David's books:
- Friend of a Friend...: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Your Career: https://amzn.to/2P6Dwv4
- The Myths of Creativity: https://amzn.to/2BLlBbN
- Under New Management: https://amzn.to/2NhKlcR
- The Portable Guide to Leading Organizations: https://amzn.to/2PGB1RB
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While spreading the butter thin might be good for the waistline, it won’t be as good for your business or career.
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Today, I am speaking with Nicole Forsgren.
Nicole is an IT impacts expert who is best known for her work with tech professionals and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She is a consultant, expert, and researcher in knowledge management, IT adoption and impacts, and DevOps. In a previous life, she was a professor, sysadmin, and hardware performance analyst. Nicole has been awarded public and private research grants (funders include NASA and the NSF), and her work has been featured in various media outlets, peer-reviewed journals, and conferences. She holds a PhD in management information systems and a master’s degree in accounting. Nicole is CEO and Chief Scientist at DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA).
Her first book, Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps explores the topic of Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations.
I had a great time chatting with Nicole and learning about, not only her Swedish ancestry, her favorite ice cream flavour and her love for working out - which might have something to do with the ice cream, but learning more about what makes a high performing team tick.
You will learn lots in this conversation, including:
- Why traditional performance measurement metrics such as utilisation and lines of code are flawed and what to use instead
- What characteristics differentiate high performing teams from low performing team and how to start embedding these characteristics into your organisation; and
- How to effectively drive culture change
This just scratches the surface of what we discussed so please sit back, walk, run or whatever it is you do when you listen to podcasts and enjoy my conversation with Nicole Forsgren.
Topics Discussed:
- What DevOps is and why it matters
- Waterfall and stage gate versus agile and DevOps
- Why speed is fundamental to success
- The research behind the book
- What differentiates high performers from low performers
- How to effectively measure performance
- Flaws in common measurement approaches
- Maturity models v capability models
- Change advisory boards
- How to do QA in a fast-moving team
- Breaking down silos
- The power of cross functional, self organised teams
- How to drive culture change
- Continuous delivery
- How to build a truly engaged organisation
- How to avoid burnout
- Simple things companies can do to transition
Show Notes:
- Get the Book: Pre-order on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/2wtaIW9
- Web: Nicolefv.com
- Twitter: @nicolefv
- DORA: http://devops-research.com
- The Business Case Alternative ebook: http://bit.ly/bizcaseebook/
- Nudge (book): https://amzn.to/2Nh9ofX
- Thinking Fast and Slow (book): https://amzn.to/2LruWVI
- The Undoing Project: https://amzn.to/2BO8IO9
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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I talk about something that we are all liable to be blindsided by.
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Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University.
He is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter which was named "the best political book of the year" by the New York Times, he wrote Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, and the newly released, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money, which forms the basis of today’s conversation.
He is currently collaborating with Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Zach Weinersmith on All Roads Lead to Open Borders, a nonfiction graphic novel on the philosophy and social science of immigration, and writing a new book, Poverty: Who To Blame.
His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, and Intelligence, and appeared on ABC, Fox News, MSNBC, and C-SPAN.
We went an inch deep and a mile wide in this conversation. Discover why:
- Bryan, a celebrated career academic himself, thinks that the education system is a waste of time and money
- How today’s education system teaches for short-term memory retention, not comprehension
- Two solutions Bryan has proposed to help solve the problems with today’s education system
I didn’t agree with Bryan on a number of topics, namely, he seems to completely disregard the threat of technology and automation on employment, suggesting that there is a lack of evidence on this and using the fact that we’ve always created more jobs than we’ve destroyed in the past to forecast the future of employment. The thing about the past is that we never had technology like the kind we possess today and the kind we’ll possess in the near future.
He also says that people can’t learn how to learn. On the latter point, I suspect that this had more to do with the way I framed the question so as to not elicit the response I was expecting. A simple example of getting better at learning is teaching someone else what you’ve read in a book, rather than just reading the words on a page. This is more likely to aid comprehension and retention, at least in the short term.
Nonetheless, as you’ll hear Bryan suggest in the lightning round, it’s important to collect evidence and opinions from different fields, from different people, to get all sides of the story and challenge your own belief system and avoid confirmation bias. This is one of the reasons why I enjoy hosting this show so much - because I get to interview and speak with experts in their own fields who contradict experts in other fields - it forces me to expand my own view of the world.
And when it comes to learning, Socrates was right, the more we know, the more we know that we don’t know. And that is why we keep learning. And that is why I keep interviewing thought leaders across a range of disciplines.
With that, enjoy today’s conversation on the case against education with Bryan Caplan.
Topics Discussed:
- Why the education system is a waste of time and money
- Why College grads earn more than high school grads, on average, in the US
- Learning skills versus signalling employability
- The three traits that education signals
- Whether education and entrepreneurship go hand in hand
- Social desirability bias
- Summer learning loss
- Comprehension v Memory
- The threat of AI and automation on employment and how this impacts education
- Education ecosystem challenges
- Vocational learning
- Education spending cuts
Show Notes:
- Bryan’s website: Bcaplan.com
- Bryan on Twitter: @bryan_caplan
- Faculty page: https://economics.gmu.edu/people/bcaplan
- Bryan on Econlog: http://econlog.econlib.org/authorbcaplan.html
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If you’re asking for a warm introduction to somebody, you might do what I’ve done successfully a number of times, which is to browse your contact’s LinkedIn connections, find people of interest and then reach out with a connection request. However, when your contact has thousands of connections, this can become quite the task, nor is there any way to find out just how well connected they are to these people - I often get the response “oh, I don’t actually really know the person of interest”, as is the case with most social networks.
Find out what to ask instead in today's instalment of Fast Fix Friday.
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Alex Hutchinson is National Magazine Award-winning journalist who writes about the science of endurance for Runner’s World and Outside, and frequently contributes to other publications such as the New York Times and the New Yorker. A former long-distance runner for the Canadian national team, he holds a master’s in journalism from Columbia and a Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge, and he did his post-doctoral research with the National Security Agency.
He’s just released his third book, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, which has been praised by the likes of Malcolm Gladwell, simply as “amazing”.
As somebody who has always experimented with different ways to optimise my own physical and mental condition, I really enjoyed this conversation with Alex and trust that you will learn a lot from it, including:
- The false dichotomy of body and mind
- What our limit breakers are
- How to expand those limits
- Which is better high fat diets or carbo loading
- And also, a number of memorable stories of human triumph over self imposed walls.
Topics discussed:
- Alex’s definition of endurance
- Mind over matter: is it that simple?
- What our tangible limit breakers are
- The story of Tom Boyle lifting a car of an injured bicycle rider
- The power of purpose
- Ketogenic diets v carbo loading
- Tricking your brain to perform
- Tools and tactics to expand your limits such as mindfulness, self-talk, journaling, brain stimulation, VR and more
- The importance of getting the basics right: sleep, exercise, nutrition
- Which neural characteristics separate elite endurance athletes from the rest of us
- The power of belief effects versus placebo effects
- Nike’s ‘Breaking 2’ campaign
- The most surprising findings from the book
Show notes:
- Alex’s website: https://alexhutchinson.net/
- Articles: runnersworld.com/sweat-science and on www.outsideonline.com
- Twitter: @sweatscience
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- Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: https://amzn.to/2oavJRB
- Big Ideas: https://amzn.to/2wo6crT
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The OODA loop was a tool developed by military strategist John Boyd. Boyd was a US Air Force fighter pilot and Pentagon consultant whose theories have been highly influential in not just the military, but in sports, business and litigation.
The OODA loop explains how individuals and organizations can win in uncertain and chaotic environments.
It is an Acronym that explains the four steps of decisions making: Observe, Orient, Decide Act.
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- Faculty page: https://web.stanford.edu/~bailenso/
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Jeremy Bailenson is founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and a Faculty Leader at Stanford’s Center for Longevity. He earned a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University.
Bailenson studies the psychology of Virtual Reality (VR) and has been in the space of VR since 1999, in particular he studies how virtual experiences lead to changes in perceptions of self and others. His lab builds and studies systems that allow people to meet in virtual space, and explores the changes in the nature of social interaction. His most recent research focuses on how VR can transform education, environmental conservation, empathy, and health.
He’s just penned his second book, Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do, which forms the basis for our conversation.
Expect to learn a number of things in this show, including:
- What some of the applications for virtual reality are, including how it might be used to quell biases and reshape a person’s worldview
- What some of the risks and potential downsides might be and as such, what virtual reality companies need to be thinking about
- How far away we are from mainstream adoption
Topics discussed:
- Superbowl Sunday
- How VR can be used to hone our imagination, make us more empathic, improve our performance, improve learning and recover from trauma
- Different applications for VR
- Potential risks and downsides
- Why VR is not an ‘either or’ proposition
- How VR can help us better understand biases to help with creative work
- Challenges to mainstream adoption and parallels to the past
- How Jeremy is using VR to train NFL teams and the German national football team
Show notes:
- Twitter: @StanfordVR
- Faculty page: https://web.stanford.edu/~bailenso/
- Get Jeremy's books:
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- Infinite Reality: https://amzn.to/2BKIg7U
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I recently interviewed Alex Hutchinson, author of Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance.
Almost a decade ago, Ross Tucker and his colleagues at the University of Cape Town published a striking graph showing the average pacing strategies in men’s middle- and long-distance track world records over the past century:
The patterns are remarkably consistent. In the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, the first and last parts of the race are the fastest—of the 66 records set in the modern era in these two events, only once (Paul Tergat in 1997) has any kilometer other than the first or last been the fastest.
Alex calls this tendency to speed up as we approach the finishing line ‘the finishing kick’, and it can be found not only in endurance sports, but weightlifting, and if you look closely enough, the workplace.
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Primavera De Filippi is a permanent researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She is faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where she is investigating the concept of "governance-by-design" as it relates to online distributed architectures.
Most of her research focuses on the legal challenges raised, and faced by emergent decentralized technologies —such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain-based applications —and how these technologies could be used to design new governance models capable of supporting large-scale decentralized collaboration and more participatory decision-making.
Primavera obtained a Master degree in Business & Administration from the Bocconi University of Milan, and a Master degree in Intellectual Property Law at the Queen Mary University of London.
Primavera is involved in several organizations dedicated to promoting the free culture and open data.
She is the co-author of Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code, which comes out in April and explores the regulation of cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, ICOs and distributed autonomous organisations.
Except to learn a treasure trove of things in this conversation, including:
- Whether the blockchain should be regulated and how
- Why we need to rethink organisational structures to create more value for society via the blockchain
- what the distributed autonomous organisation might look like...
- What the impact of the blockchain might be on traditional professional services firms in the legal and accounting industry
There was so much more I wanted to explore in this conversation with Primavera, but blockchain is one of those rabbit hole topics, and we could only cover so much in the one hour we had.
I would have loved to have explored not only the downsides of ICOs but also the upsides around liquidity, business continuity and the democratisation of early stage startup investment.
With that, I trust you’ll enjoy this conversation with Primavera De Filippi.
Topics discussed:
- Governance by design, what it is and why it matters
- Shifting to new organisational structures
- Distributed autonomous organisations
- The impact on professional services firms
- How blockchain supports more efficient operations
- Security on the blockchain
- Key legal challenges to blockchain adoption
- Regulating the blockchain versus regulating its uses
- How to regulate the blockchain
- ICOs
- Last mile human effort and the blockchain
Show notes:
- Twitter: @yaoeo
- Pre-order the book: https://amzn.to/2NzbjjK
- Primavera at TEDx Cambridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYOPcHRO3tc
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May 29, 2000. I still remember this day like it was yesterday.
I was 16 years old and had eagerly been awaiting the new release from one of my favourite bands for months.
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I tell a story that encapsulates a worrying trend signifying the end of not only deep work, but also deep leisure.
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Today, I talk discipline, and how small decisions made repeatedly could be the difference between a super fulfilling life and a less than rewarding one.
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Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph.D. Certified Speaking Professional, is an author and global speaker hailed as a “champion for introverts.” Her bestselling books The Introverted Leader, Quiet Influence, and The Genius of Opposites have been translated into 16 languages and help introverts throughout the world expand their leadership capacity.
Jennifer has deepened her knowledge and appreciation for introverts through her work as a learning and development professional and speaker at leading organizations like General Electric, Freddie Mac, NASA, Turner Broadcasting, the US Centers for Disease Control, the American Management Association and TedX Centennial Park Women.
She has been invited to deliver keynote speeches and seminars in Australia, Vietnam, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, and Paraguay. Jennifer has also been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. She serves on several professional boards and derives joy from being a mom and grandmother and serving as a mentor to many professional women. She is based in Atlanta, GA.
Expect to learn lots in this episode, including:
- Why introversion can actually be a strength in leadership, drawing on examples from some world renowned introverted leaders
- How to circumvent the sometimes debilitating, negative side effects of introversion (such as the anxiety leading up to a public speaking gig)
- How introverts and extroverts can better understand each other to work together more effectively
All topics discussed:
- The definition of leadership
- What people can learn from the new, expanded edition of The Introverted Leader
- What introverts can do to reset and recharge
- Why introversion can actually be a strength in leadership, drawing on examples from some world renowned introverted leaders
- How to circumvent the sometimes debilitating, negative side effects of introversion (such as the anxiety leading up to a public speaking gig)
- How introverts and extroverts can better understand each other to work together more effectively
- On introverts playing a ‘role’ when it’s showtime
- Six strengths of the introvert
- Why radical candor and setting expectations is key to introverts thriving in the workplace
- The four P’s to manage introversion as a leader
- How introverts can be more creative and innovative
- Disadvantages to being an introvert
- Cultural nuances in the workplace introverts need to be cognisant of and how to manage them
- The neuroscience behind the introvert’s brain and how it differs from an extroverts
Show Notes:
Jennifer’s website: www.JenniferKahnweiler.com
Jennifer’s books:
- The Introverted Leader: https://amzn.to/2wXUcxC
- Quiet Influence: https://amzn.to/2N0gMk4
- The Genius of Opposites: https://amzn.to/2CyRNQ4
- Shaping Your HR Role: https://amzn.to/2CK25wS
Jennifer on Twitter: @JennKahnweiler
Quizzes: www.jenniferkahnweiler.com/quiz/
Antoinette Tuff prevents school shooting: https://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/22/us/georgia-school-shooting-hero/index.html
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First up, to Future Squared listeners downunder, happy Australia Day, I trust that your day will be jam packed with cold beers, lamb chops and for the vegeterians in the pack, some epic quinoa, kale and haloumi salads or maybe an Impossible Burger made of fake meat - for more on that, and this isn’t a sponsored bit but a shout out for companies doing good things, check out impossiblefoods.com
Now, for today’s instalment of Fast Fix Friday, let's talk why ideas and why they're overrated.
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Welcome to Future Squared for episode #211, our first guest interview of the year. I’m absolutely psyched to be bringing you Adam Alter.
Adam is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Psychology at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and the author of Drunk Tank Pink, a New York Times bestseller about the forces that shape how we think, feel, and behave, and Irresistible, a book about the rise of tech addiction and what we should do about it.
Alter was recently included in the Poets and Quants “40 Most Outstanding Business School Professors under 40 in the World,” and has written for the New York Times, New Yorker, Wired, Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other publications. He has shared his ideas at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and with dozens of companies around the world.
Alter received his Bachelor of Science with Honors in Psychology from the University of New South Wales and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University, where he held the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Dissertation Fellowship and a Fellowship in the Woodrow Wilson Society of Scholars.
We cover a lot of ground in this episode but expect to learn:
- How software companies are deliberately designing technology to exploit a vulnerability in human psychology
- How big a problem tech addiction is and its impact on our productivity, mental wellbeing and experience of life
- What practical steps we can take to counteract tech addiction and take back our time
This is one of those episodes that can raise the human consciousness and change your relationship with not only technology, but by virtue of that, the work you do and the people in your life so strap yourself in for an enlightening conversation with the one and only, Adam Alter.
Topics discussed:
- How big a problem is tech addiction?
- How much time people spend using their phone each day
- Strategies software firms use to engineer addictive technology
- The adverse impact on creativity and innovation
- The mental implications of tech addiction
- Children and tech
- Why Silicon Valley executives don’t let their kids use tablets
- What tech addiction means for productivity
- How some companies are engineering their email servers to mitigate tech addiction and improve employee welfare
- Why software companies are forced to do ‘whatever it takes’ to hit targets and meet investor and society’s definition of success
- Why boredom is good for us
- The instant gratification generation
- How the window to combat this addiction is short as generational shifts take hold
- What we can do to mitigate the adverse effects of technology in our lives and be its master rather than its slave
Show notes:
Adam’s website: www.adamalterauthor.com
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Adam’s books:
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- Drunk Tank Pink: https://amzn.to/2QhEXbG
Adam’s TED talk: www.ted.com/talks/adam_alter_why_our_screens_make_us_less_happy
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80:20 should be nothing new to listeners of Future Squared but breaking it down in order to identify and leverage your highest value customers to dramatically grow your business might be.
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In this episode of Future Squared, we welcome back Sean and Shay from Collective Campus to talk about our musings, ponderings and predictions for 2018 when it comes to technology and innovation.
Topics discussed:
- Blockchain, cryptocurrencies and ICOs
- AI and automation
- Autonomous and electric vehicles
- Augmented and virtual reality
- Ride sharing
- Net neutrality
- Smart devices and home assistants
- Technology addiction
- Privacy
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Welcome back for another big year of Future Squared and a very happy new year to you, I hope that this year brings you prosperity, growth, fullfillment and fun both in your professional and personal life!
In the very first instalment of Fast Fix Friday for the year, I thought it would make sense to talk about your goals for the year - not only how to set them but some things you might want to put into place to help you achieve them!
We’ve all made resolutions, or quote unquote committed to achieving certain goals in the past, but often fallen short - I’ve talked about cognitive biases in previous episodes of the show, and the optimist illusion, which bitcoin and cryptocurrency expert Andreas Antonopolous reminded us of in episode #167, often lulls us into thinking we’ll achieve said goals and therefore we rely too much on willpower, which oftentimes, especially when there’s so many other things going on in our lives, simply isn’t enough.
In this episode, I talk setting goals and putting in place measures of accountability and creating the right environment to help you achieve them!
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Welcome back for episode #207 of Future Squared for what is the last instalment of Fast Fix Friday, in fact the last instalment of Future Squared for the year.
2017 was a huge year for the entire team here at Collective Campus.
Before I get into this week’s fast fix insights, I’d just like to extend a very warm thank you for listening this year. Without you, this show simply wouldn’t exist because there would be no purpose in it existing.
“There is nothing worse than doing the wrong things right” - Peter Drucker.
In recent times when Eric Ries met with senior executives at Toyota, famed for their lean production system, they echoed Drucker’s words and said “we’ve got a system for efficiently producing widgets but we don’t have a system for deciding what to produce in the first place”.
Yes, whatever decision you are making in life it’s important to determine whether you are focusing on the right decision in the first place.
Thus is the nature of today's instalment of Fast Fix Friday.
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Every day we’re tasked with making decisions. Most of the time, these decisions are small (like deciding whether or not to floss today). However, small things done consistently poorly versus consistently well over the long-term can have a devastating impact on where you end up, whether in business or in life. It’s kind of like the power of compound interest. I’m no dentist but it’s pretty common knowledge that if you decide not to floss every single day then you’re staring down the barrel of bleeding gums, halitosis, premature tooth loss and yellow teeth, not to mention the link made between flossing and cancer prevention. Similarly, within the context of the office, if I decide to check my email every 10 minutes it might seem like no big deal. “It only takes a second!” you insist. But if checking my email, every 10 minutes, every single day, means that I’m constantly distracted by responding to other people’s demands on my time, and I never give my brain the space to get into ‘the zone’ and engage in what author Cal Newport calls deep work - which is where most worthwhile work is done - then over the long-term I’m unlikely to move the needle on any significant commercial or creative pursuits. For more on getting into and staying in the zone, check out How To Increase Your Productivity by 500% Yet, how often do we really think through our decisions as opposed to base them on how we’re feeling in that precise moment, by past experiences, by jumping to conclusions, through groupthink, by choosing whatever decision requires the least thinking or falling victim to one of the other 32 cognitive biases that plague our decision making. In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I'll provide one way we go about making decisions at Collective Campus, which admittedly, works best when working in a team of at least three trustworthy, radically honest people who have enough experience in said areas to facilitate a constructive process. That’s not to say you can’t use it when making your own decisions. I do all the time (as somebody who suffers from FOMO, has a tendency to chase furry rabbits and struggles with the plethora of choices on a Mexican restaurant menu, I have no choice but to use this method), and it’s a better approach than how I’ve made the majority of decisions in my 34 years on this planet. I’m not suggesting it’s perfect but I’d go as far as saying that it’s better than the way more than 99% of decisions are made based as it aims to mitigate many of those limitations of the mind and of the environment I outlined earlier. This framework tries to strike the fine balance between making sensical, rational decisions and analysis by paralysis, something that a fast moving, fast growing company like ours can ill afford. --- Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Tim O’Reilly popularised the terms Open Source and Web 2.0
He is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media which delivers online learning, publishes books, runs conferences, urges companies to create more value than they capture, and tries to change the world by spreading and amplifying the knowledge of innovators.Tim has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. In 1998, he organized the meeting where the term “open source software” was agreed on, and helped the business world understand its importance.
In 2004, with the Web 2.0 Summit, he defined how “Web 2.0” represented not only the resurgence of the web after the dot com bust, but a new model for the computer industry, based on big data, collective intelligence, and the internet as a platform.
In 2009, with his “Gov 2.0 Summit,” he framed a conversation about the modernization of government technology that has shaped policy and spawned initiatives at the Federal, State, and local level, and around the world.
He has now turned his attention to implications of AI, the on-demand economy, and other technologies that are transforming the nature of work and the future shape of the business world. This is the subject of his new book WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us.In addition to his role at O’Reilly Media, Tim is a partner at early stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) and on the boards of Maker Media, Code for America, PeerJ, Civis Analytics, and PopVox.
Expect to learn a hell of a lot in today’s conversation and prepare to listen to it multiple times to capture as much value from it as you can.
Three key things you will learn:
Tim’s views on net neutrality What companies absolutely need to be doing to best prepare for the new economy; and What Tim’s views are on whether the fourth industrial revolution will leave most of us unemployed or not Expect to learn that, and more, in this conversation, with the one and only Tim O’Reilly.
Topics Discussed:
The Book: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up To Us Whether companies like Amazon and Facebook are capturing more value than they’re creating and are they becoming dangerously monopolistic Why traditional maps of the world such as financial statements and short-term shareholder value need to be revisited What Tim thinks about the FCC winding back net neutrality What businesses need to think about to map out their business model for the next economy Will technology take our jobs? AI and its impact on humanity Government 2.0
Show Notes:
O’Reilly Media: www.oreilly.com
Twitter: @timoreilly
Tim: http://tim.oreilly.com
The book: www.wtfeconomy.com
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Collective Campus in its third year now and in that time I’m proud to say that, unlike other consultancies and education providers that have come (and gone already in many cases), we didn’t start out with fundraising as a key priority. It still isn’t. We started by focusing on finding our value proposition and delivering on it in a cashflow positive way. Over the course of the first 18 months we built a seven figure business, then with what was just a team of four (soon to be a team of nine), but the purpose of this blog is not to chest-beat, it is to paint a picture and deliver some important lessons. By not tapping into funding early, we were operating under conditions of serious constraint. Both my co-founder Sean and I didn’t pay ourselves anything in the first 12 months of operating, opting instead for side gigs and part time shows to keep the lights on - literally - and we had to be creative with hiring, incentivisation and marketing - opting for free third party platforms and quid pro quo arrangements where possible. Most of all, we ran countless short and fast experiments across our entire business model - and still do to this very day - across product, service, customer segment, distribution channel, price point, marketing channel, target geography, sales strategy, messaging and so on, in order to land on a model that delivered value to customers and therefore also created monetisable value for us. But because we hadn’t taken on external funding, we had the freedom to try different things and fundamentally decide one day to change the direction of the company entirely by ditching public facing workshops and instead focusing on corporate consulting, training and accelerator programs. There are significant lessons in this not only for startups but also for corporate innovation teams who often seek out funding, way beyond what is necessary - often through business cases - to build and test ideas, when far less would not only suffice but would be far more likely to get people thinking and acting like resource constrained early stage entrepreneurs, and therefore result in a more diligent application of those dollars and a higher likelihood of finding product market fit for new ideas. This isn’t to say that you can’t do that if you take on funding early, but oftentimes, taking on especially large amounts of funding early on can be a curse dressed up as a blessing. In this episode of Fast Fix Friday we unpack the five ways that investment can KILL innovation. --- Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Perry Marshall is one of the world's most expensive and sought-after business consultants, endorsed by FORBES, INC Magazine, and the most respected entrepreneurs in the world. Clients in 300 industries seek his capacity to integrate sales, engineering, art and psychology.
He founded the $5 million Evolution 2.0 Prize, staffed by judges from Harvard, Oxford and MIT. The prize aims to solve one of the leading mysteries in science.
His Google AdWords books laid the foundations for the $100 billion Pay Per Click industry. Techniques he pioneered are best practices today. More recently, he's turned "80/20" into a verb. 80/20 is not just a fact about your business, it's an action you take on your business.
His works include the world's most popular book on web advertising, Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords, 80/20 Sales & Marketing; Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising and Ultimate Guide to Local Business Marketing. These are textbooks at a number of universities. Direct Marketing maverick Dan Kennedy says, “If you don’t know who Perry Marshall is — unforgivable. Perry’s an honest man in a field rife with charlatans.”
He wrote Industrial Ethernet, and his book Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design applies his digital expertise to science's most debated question.
I started off with every intention of exploring Perry’s books on Facebook and Google advertising but we quickly went off on a number of otherwise rewarding tangents as you’ll discover.
We explored:
The blurring of the lines between sales and marketing Why a little bit better or a little bit cheaper is a fatal combination The number one question that we, as human beings, should be asking How startups often try to scale prematurely before finding product market fit; and How to unlock the different emotional hooks and motivations for buying You’ll learn that and much more in today’s conversation with the one and only Perry Marshall.
Topics discussed:
Inbound lead generation and direct marketing How Facebook has finally got its act together as a marketing platform Why you shouldn’t quote and what to do instead Why the problem you’re solving usually isn’t the problem at all The person asking good questions is usually in the lead Why a little bit better or a little bit cheaper is a fatal combination Why you need to be “500%” better and what that means Underserved and over-served markets Why we over-estimate what we can do in 6 months and underestimate what we can do in 6 years How most people are doing social media wrong The value of AB testing across many potential variables and assumptions Unlocking different emotional hooks and motivations for buying The blurring of the lines between sales and marketing How to maintain cadence of a fast moving, experiment driven sales and marketing team in a departmentally silo’d large organisation The power of osmotic communication Why understanding where information comes from is critical Most people just solve the problems they know they can solve Why we should be asking questions like “what is the problem nobody thinks anybody can solve?” The US$5M Evolution 2.0 Prize
Show Notes:
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On this podcast I’ve been fortunate enough to speak to a lot of thought leaders, and what becomes clear, after having spoken to almost 100 of them so far, is that no matter how educated, experienced or accomplished they are, oftentimes, they hold contradictory views. And these views are often colored by the circles they run in, their associates, the information they consume and so on. We all make decisions based on the evidence presented, based on past experience, based on belief systems we’ve grown up with and based on over 100 cognitive biases that plague our decision making. In this instalment of Fast Fix Friday, I talk the most valuable thing I've learned hosting this podcast. ----- Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
As you may know Collective Campus is powering the Charter Hall PropTech Accelerator, Asia-Pac’s first proptech startup accelerator. As part of the promotion for the program, I recently hit the road and facilitated roadshows in Sydney and Melbourne, hosting panels in both cities. In this episode of Future Squared, I bring you our Melbourne panel discussion which took place at Collective Campus and featured Gabrielle McMillan of Equiem, Josh Rowe of realAs, David Hodges of Loc8 and of course, Aidan Coleman, CIO/CTO of Charter Hall. I’ll dig a little deeper into the bios of each of our panelists during the conversation. In today’s conversation we not only discuss what the future of real estate looks like but also uncover insights on what it takes to get a startup from zero to one. If you’d like to find out more about the Charter Hall accelerator program and apply you can do so at www.charterhallaccelerator.cc So with that, enjoy this conversation on the future of real estate.
It's a very special milestone episode number 200. It seems like just yesterday I was sitting down with my co-founder and bashing out episode #1. That was now over 20 months ago and in that time I’ve been lucky enough to speak with and learn from the likes of Kevin Kelly, Steve Blank, Tim Harford, Jason Calacanis, and countless others - it just blows my mind how far this show has come in a short amount of time, picking up the Australian people’s choice award for best business podcast earlier this year and amassing a following of thousands.
So with that, I would just like to say a big THANK YOU for listening to the show, whether you’ve been with us from the start, whether you discovered the show 100 episodes in or whether this is the first time listening to the show - thank you so much - of course, if you have been a fan all of this time, I look forward to bringing you another 200 episodes and if you’d like to show some love, simply take a minute to leave a rating on iTunes, Stitcher or Google Play - it goes a long way to ensuring that the show gets into as many ears as possible.
What I’m doing on this show ultimately aligns with our mission at Collective Campus: to unlock people’s potential to create more impact for humanity & lead more fulfilling lives and I just hope that through these episodes you’ve been inspired to act and create change or add value to your life and the lives of people around you in ways both great and small.
So with that, it’s time to introduce today’s guest. Professor Scott Galloway.
Scott is a clinical professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, and a public speaker, author, and entrepreneur. He was named one of the world's 50 best business school professors by Poets and Quants. He has just released The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google which is already a New York Times and USA Today Bestseller.
In it Scott deconstructs the strategies of the Four that lurk beneath shiny veneers. He shows how they manipulate the fundamental emotional needs that have driven us since our ancestors lived in caves, at a speed and scope others can’t match. And he reveals how you can apply the lessons of their ascent to your own business or career.
You will learn:
How the big four tech titans got to where they are today and why we’re wrong about how we think they got there Whether the big four are too big to fail and what the broader social and economic implications of their dominance are; and How to apply lessons from the big four to accelerate your career
Topics discussed: - Scott predicting the Amazon Wholefoods acquisition - How Amazon made money on the acquisition, almost immediately - How companies like Amazon have a competitive advantage by getting big on "someone else's credit card" - Why investors are so forgiving to companies like Amazon, Tesla and Facebook despite high profile crises that would destroy other companies - How these companies got so big - Are the big four 'too big to fail'? - Has Google gotten so big and collected so much data that it's almost impossible for a second entrant to compete? - How companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, UBER and Facebook concentrate wealth in Silicon Valley, much to the detriment of social safety nets everywhere - How big four companies are doing much more with much less - How behemoths like Amazon and Google get away with paying effectively no tax while small companies end up paying much more on a per capita basis - In the wake of high profile anti-trust breaches, sexual harassment cases and multi-billion dollar fines, are the big four's companies political fortunes on the decline? - Jeff Immelt's ousting at GE and how the market was less forgiving for a traditional company than a Tesla - How we can apply the lessons of the big four to our own lives
Show Notes: 1) Book website: www.thefourbook.com 2) Twitter: @profgalloway 3) Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Scott-Galloway/e/B001KCK57K
As more large companies begin to embark upon audacious transformation plans and set up innovation teams, more corporate professionals are being introduced to a world in which terms like design thinking, lean, agile, pivot, experiment, fail, adapt and so on are used almost interchangeably. Many fall victim to the law of the instrument bias and after attending a one day design thinking workshop, load all of their eggs into that one basket, maintaining a firm belief that design thinking is the silver bullet solution for their innovation woes, but as I detailed in a previous blog post, design thinking is only one step in the process. With that, I often get asked by professionals new to the space what the difference between design thinking, the lean startup and agile is and the answer forms the basis for this instalment of Fast Fix Friday. --- Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Alison Stratten is co-author of 4 best selling business books, co-owner of UnMarketing Inc and co-host of The UnPodcast - the other half of that co, her husband Scott, who was named one of the Top 5 Social Media Influencers in the world by Forbes.com. Alison’s books include QR Codes Kill Kittens, UnSelling, UnMarketing and the newly released UnBranding: 100 Branding Lessons for the Age of Disruption. The book provides lessons from 100 branding stories that will challenge your assumptions about business today and teach valuable, actionable lessons. Expect to learn three things in this episode, including: The number one questions executives and founders need to ask themselves before innovating How to stand out from the crowd in a world where marketing messages are around every corner The importance of trust in building and maintaining your audience Topics Discussed: Meeting her husband on Twitter! The definition of branding What Alison’s new book, UnBranding, brings to the world that other business books don’t Lessons on positive and negative branding from United Airlines, Gatorade and Patagonia How to stand out from the crowd Why you should build your personal brand How to maintain relevance in an age of fast changing consumer behaviour and taste The number one question you should answer before innovating The importance of trust in building and maintaining your audience Show Notes: Alison’s company: www.UnMarketing.com Alison on Twitter: www.twitter.com/UnAlison Facebook group: www.facebook.com/UnMarketing UnBranding on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/UnBranding-100-Branding-Lessons-Disruption/dp/1119417015 Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
--- Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Sean is the Senior Environmental Strategist at City West Water where he works across a range of areas including climate change, renewable energy, resource recovery and sustainability. More recently, Sean has managed City West Water’s Innovation Fund. In establishing and managing the Innovation Fund, Sean has worked across City West Water to build employee engagement, identify innovative ideas and prioritise their prototyping and implementation. He holds a degree in Biomedical Science and a Masters in Environment and Sustainability both from Monash University. We explore a number of topics in this episode, including: How to get and maintain buy in for innovation at a large Government owned agency City West Water’s innovation process Trends and developments in water innovation Show Notes: City West Water: www.citywestwater.com.au Sean’s LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/sean-hanrahan-63b00253 Steve’s keynote at City West Water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFFtcvTrknY Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
More often than not, senior management and the C-suite assume that exploring disruptive innovation is incredibly risky, and it is. It’s often a key bugbear to getting senior management buy-in for corporate innovation initiatives. However, that high risk doesn’t necessarily need to translate to high cost, especially not in the early stages of the innovation lifecycle (below). In fact, the cost of notexploring disruptive innovation can be much higher with countless companies having paid the ultimate price in recent years for neglecting it. In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, we explore the corporate innovation trade-off between risk and reward. --- Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Collective Campus recently announced the AsiaPac’s first virtual and augmented reality startup accelerator, the Village Roadshow Xperience Accelerator, in collaboration with Microsoft. We’re big believers in the value and power of combining startup grit, speed and experimentation with the core assets, access and scale of a large company so we’ll be scouting Australia wide looking for 8 to 10 entertainment startups using VR or AR to change the face of entertainment. To celebrate and raise awareness, we hosted launch nights in both Melbourne and Sydney last week. Our Melbourne event drew well over 120 people and a fun evening was had by all, made all the more fun by augmented reality enabled popcorn boxes which when scanned revealed Marty McFly being eaten by an CGI shark in 1989’s Back To The Future, which served as one of the movie’s many accurate predictions of the future. Collective Campus co-founder Sean Qian, who you might remember from some of the early episodes of Future Squared, hosted a panel on the evening to discuss emerging trends in the mixed reality sector and how it will enhance the entertainment industry. The panel was made up of Jon Satterly, Chief Digital Officer at Village Roadshow and former head of Roadrunner Records Australia, Lawrence Crumpton, Microsoft’s HoloLens Evangelist and Tony Simmons, CEO and Founder of Mrktplace Ventures. If you couldn’t make it then you’re in luck because that conversation is the focus of today’s episode. For more information on the Xperience Accelerator head to www.xperienceaccelerator.cc So with that, strap yourself in, arm yourself with some popcorn and enjoy an enlightening conversation on the future of entertainment. Show Notes: Xperience Accelerator: www.xperienceaccelerator.cc Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
I recently had the pleasure of appearing on the Design and Play podcast with Steve Brophy and Dean Pearman, two teachers that are actively raising awareness for and doing their best to drive much needed change in K12 education in Australia. The guys were happy enough to have me republish it on Future Squared. We talk about my podcast journey, including growth hacks I used to make Future Squared an iTunes chart-topper. We take a deep dive into the power of virtual assistants to reduce administrative workload and I provide insights into my own approach to learning. We discuss the value of going analog to help with managing distractions, as well as the power of extreme ownership when it comes to leadership. Authentic learning in K12 schools and learning by doing are throughlines for this whole episode. Show Notes: Design & Play podcast: /designandplay.podbean.com/ ---- Podcastfail - https://twitter.com/hashtag/podcastfail Virtual Assistants Fiverr - https://www.fiverr.com/ Upwork - https://www.upwork.com/ Feedly - https://feedly.com/ Harvard Business Review - https://hbr.org/ Enterprise Innovation -https://www.enterpriseinnovation.net/ Pareto Principle - https://stevebrophy.com.au/2017/08/12/to-do-lists-live-frogs-and-the-pareto-principle/ EduChange - http://www.educhange.com.au/ Peter Hutton - https://twitter.com/Tempcol EdRevolution - http://edrevolution.hutton.education/ Distractions and notifications - https://innovativepedagogy.wordpress.com/2017/07/21/is-the-buzz-of-a-notification-good-for-you/ Extreme Ownership - https://www.amazon.com.au/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs-ebook/dp/B00VE4Y0Z2 Jocko Podcast - http://jockopodcast.com/ Jocko - Good - Jocko Motivation "GOOD" (From Jocko Podcast) Clayton Christensen- http://www.claytonchristensen.com/ Innovators DNA - http://www.claytonchristensen.com/books/innovators-dna-mastering-skills-disruptive-innovators/ Future skills - http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/09/27/what-skills-do-students-need-to-be.html?cmp=soc-tw-shr Kevin Kelly - http://kk.org/ The Inevitable - http://kk.org/books/the-inevitable/ Future Squared podcast interview with Kevin Kelly - http://www.futuresquared.xyz/podcast/episode-161-kevin-kelly-on-the-inevitable Tim Ferriss - https://tim.blog/podcast/ Learning how to learn : DiSSS (deconstruction, selection, sequencing, and stakes) - https://tim.blog/2016/10/06/the-art-and-science-of-learning-anything-faster/ Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
I’ve been using virtual assistants for several years. Today, virtual assistants are a big part of the reason why I can maintain what people consider a very high output (in the past two years - in addition to running an innovation consultancy - I founded a children’s entrepreneurship program, published two books, launched a podcast that as of writing is 187 episodes strong and still maintain a solid social life, daily fitness routine, have ample time to learn and maintain interests outside of work - my team will tell you I’m rarely in the office past 7pm and rarely work weekends). With this in mind, I give you my 101 on virtual assistants in this instalment of Fast Fix Friday. --- Show Notes: Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Bernard Leong is currently the Head of Post Office Network & Digital Services in Singapore Post, an angel investor within the Southeast Asia entrepreneurial ecosystem and founder of the Analyse Asia podcast where he interview thought leaders across Asia and the US on business, media & technology. He is also an entrepreneur-in-residence for INSEAD Business School where he advises MBA students on product development, connecting to the local startup & venture community. Expect to learn many things in this episode including: 1 - How Bernard secured buy-in from internal stakeholders and regulators for new initiatives 2 - The power of quick wins 3 - What a large company needs in order to support entrepreneurial thinkers Topics Discussed: The two factors Bernard says make up the innovation DNA of an organisation How stripping away 99% of the features in a product spec led to breakthroughs How to get and maintain buy in from key stakeholders Which metrics to use to monitor the success of innovations during the early stages SingPost’s drone delivery experiment, Smart Post office rollout and POPStation parcel lockers How to get buy-in from otherwise slow moving regulators How being an innovator inside a large company can be just as, if not more, challenging and rewarding as building a startup on the outside How SingPost goes about ideation and prototyping Bernard’s podcast, Analyse Asia Note: Bernard’s opinions are his own and do not reflect the opinions of Singapore Post. Show Notes: Website: www.bernardleong.com Podcast website: www.analyse.asia Twitter: @bernardleong LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/bleongcw Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/start-with-why-podcast/id544422719?mt=2 Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
The world is changing faster than ever and up to 60% of today’s jobs are likely to be automated in the next 10-15 years, yet most of what children learn in school is still geared towards traditional roles, and still forces them to become adept at reading, remembering and regurgitating as opposed to more transferable and relevant skills such as resilience, embracing and thriving in ambiguity, critical thinking and problem solving. Given all of uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity and volatility we’re facing as an economy and society going forward, as technology begins to play an ever greater role in our lives, I was asked what I thought the number one skill children need to learn is. For me, it’s not coding. While coding and having literacy in the language of the machines will be important, it may effectively become the blue collar job of the future. Commoditised by millions of people in economies such as India who can do the same job for a cheaper price. The value in learning coding aside from using it to build things, is the hacker mindset and the type of thinking that it supports. But in a world where things are constantly changing, the number one skill children need to learn, I said, is learning how to learn. So how do we learn how to learn? That is the focus of today's episode. --- Show Notes: Charter Hall PropTech Accelerator: www.charterhallaccelerator.cc Village Xperience Accelerator: www.xperienceaccelerator.cc Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
David Mead is an author and igniter for Simon Sinek, author of three best-selling books: Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last and Together is Better. Simon and David have just penned and released Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team. Everything David does is designed to propel people toward a better version of themselves, so they can more meaningfully touch the lives of others. Specializing in organizational culture and leadership, David shifts perceptions about the reasons why organizations really exist, what leadership is and how human biology plays into it all. David believes that every one of us deserves to wake up inspired to go to work, feel safe while we’re there, and come home at the end of the day fulfilled by the work we do. He works with leaders to help them create an environment where people show up to work because they want to, not because they have to. Expect to learn many things in this episode including: 1 - How to embed a ‘start with why’ mindset in a fast growing team 2 - What to do if your Why sounds just like your competitors 3 - How to deal with team members who don’t buy into your organisation’s why Topics Discussed: How the collaboration with Simon came about Why this book exists Why finding your why is difficult for most people Passion v purpose Going beyond the individual why towards the organization’s why Having multiple whys in an organisation How to deal with employees who don’t believe in your why The three levels every business must function on in order to survive How to embed a start with why mindset in your team Show Notes: Website: www.startwithwhy.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/djmead Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Find-Your-Why-Practical-Discovering/dp/0143111728 Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/start-with-why-podcast/id544422719?mt=2 Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Winning buy-in from senior and middle management for corporate innovation initiatives is one of the biggest challenges intrapreneurs face. Oftentimes, intrapreneurs resort to presentations and meetings with executives in an effort to convince them why they should explore new initiatives. Sometimes this works. Most times it doesn’t. Such pursuits fall flat because the recipients have an inherent lack of incentive to explore innovation, a preconceived notion that innovation is riskyand expensive and ultimately, don’t understand or connect with the proposition. In this episode I tell a story about a smell that changed the path of English economic history. Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Liz Wiseman teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is president of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development center headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Liz is the author of the NYT bestseller "Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter," the WSJ bestseller "Rookie Smarts: Why Leading Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work," and "The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools." The Wiseman Group conducts research in the fields of leadership and learning and publishes articles in the Harvard Business Review and a variety of business and educational journals. A former executive at Oracle Corporation, Liz worked over the course of 17 years as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a Masters of Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University. Topics discussed: The two types of leaders 5 disciplines that distinguish multipliers from diminishers On creating the right environment Extreme ownership The mindset required to become a multiplier Show notes: Liz’s website: Thewisemangroup.com On Twitter: @lizwiseman Get the book: multipliersbooks.com Take the quiz: Are you an accidental diminisher? multipliersbooks.com/multipliers/take-the-quiz/ Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
What gets measured gets managed. When it comes to corporate innovation, it’s easy to focus on metrics such as ideas captured by an idea challenge, the number of prototypes developed or experiments run. But with most corporate innovation initiatives quickly degenerating into theatre, failure rates are running high (eg. 80-90% of innovation labs fail). Such failures ultimately lead to senior stakeholders withdrawing their support while intrapreneurs become increasingly dissatisfied and leave the organisation to seek out greener, more innovative pastures elsewhere. This really hurts a company’s prospects for innovating in the long-term - something few companies can ill afford in today’s climate. Corporates need to get more adept at identifying and monitoring the metrics that matter when it comes to their innovation programs if they are to avoid such pitfalls. --- Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Today, we welcome to the show for a 3rd time, the one and only Tim Harford. Tim is an economist, author, TED speaker, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of “Messy” and the million-selling “The Undercover Economist”, a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4’s “More or Less” and host of the popular BBC podcast, “50 Things That Made the Modern Economy”, which is incidentally enough, the name of his new book and the subject of today’s conversation. From the plough to artificial intelligence, from Gillette disposable razor to Ikea’s Billy bookcase, Tim recounts each invention’s own memorable story and introduces you to the characters who developed them, profited from them, and were ruined by them. Former Future Squared guest and widely respected economist and custodian of MarginalRevolution.com, Tyler Cowen, says that Tim’s new book “reaffirms his status as one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics”. Tim and I go an inch deep and a mile wide in this episode. In particular, we discuss 3 key topics: Why most companies that invest in technology and innovation fail and what those that succeed do differently What should Government’s role be in developing and regulating technology Why we shouldn’t be looking at emerging technologies in isolation and how the most transformative technologies often aren’t the most glamorous I really enjoyed my last two conversations with Tim as well as the 50 Things podcast so couldn’t wait to have him back on the show to broaden my thinking so with that, I bring you, Tim Harford. Topics discussed: The inspiration for the podcast and book How inventions and innovations often have far reaching and unexpected implications UBER getting banned in London Government intervention and regulation of technology: how much is enough? Government: an unlikely source of technology innovation? How the gramophone gave rise to the ‘superstar economy’ How the superstar economy goes beyond musicians and athletes and today includes big business Elizabeth Billington and the English Premier League What do air conditioning, computers, the subway, skyscrapers, Dubai and Singapore have in common? Technology creates winners and losers Can we truly forecast the impact of technology? Why companies need to change the entire system around a technology to truly leverage it and capitalise on promised performance gains (this feeds into why most digital transformation projects today fail) Key lessons for corporate executives How the plough started everything Show notes: TimHarford.com @TimHarford on Twitter Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Inventions-Shaped-Modern-Economy/dp/0735216134 Listen to the podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b1g3c Vote for the 51st thing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4Y4Gn8gbQvp4X87wGLV3n4N/vote-for-the-51st-thing Get ‘Adapt - Why Success Starts With Failture’: https://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Success-Always-Starts-Failure/dp/1250007550 Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I share a personal story about a childhood friend of mine and why teaching entrepreneurship to kids is about a lot more than teaching them how to solve problems or make money. --- Show notes: THAT photo: bit.ly/2xJoTrK Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Cy Wakeman is a dynamic international keynote speaker, business consultant, New York Times bestselling author, and global thought leader with over 25 years experience cultivating a revolutionary new approach to leadership. Named one of the “Top 100 Leadership Experts to Follow” on twitter, Wakeman’s influence continues to build. Participants consistently rank her programs as the single most impactful training they have ever received. An expert blogger on FastCompany.com, Forbes.com and The Huffington Post, Wakeman’s ideas have been featured on the TODAY Show, The Social, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Insider, Huffington Post, The Daily Muse, Success.com, and SHRM.com. She’s written three books, Reality-Based Leadership, The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace and the newly released: No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results. In No Ego, she points out that Ego-driven behaviors are the #1 source of drama in workplaces today, and it’s costing organizations billions annually. She says the philosophy of “perfecting the environment” to create employee engagement just feeds the ego and generates huge amounts of drama and emotional waste. This was an enjoyable free flowing conversation on a hectic book launch day for Cy and we covered a lot of ground and there are lots of takeaways from this conversation. In particular, expect to learn: Why the ego can keep us from achieving our professional and personal goals How to silence our ego Why elaborate employee engagements programs may be a source of entitlement and can actually be detrimental to company performance All topics discussed: Cy’s new book, No Ego Why our organisations must be in a constant change of readiness How the ego keeps us from being our best How to silence our egos Why suffering is a choice The cost of emotional waste Why choosing to do one new thing each month makes us resilient How learning to say “yes” to more can be a source of growth The cost of drama in our organisations What the real cost of comparing ourselves to others is The power of depersonalisation What “BMW driving” is and how it applies to your company Don’t think change, think next Why employee engagement programs can be a bad thing Why we should stress accountability over engagement How to identify and attract emotionally inexpensive and effective employees Why a company’s or a person’s circumstances shouldn’t be used as an excuse Show Notes: Cy’s website: Realitybasedleadership.com Cy’s books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cy-Wakeman/e/B003N7AM0A @cywakeman on Twitter and Instagram Cy on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChEOp127ZAQAz7MMarBmygA Cy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CyWakeman/ Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
While we - human beings - like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, the truth is we are anything but. We are prone to over 100 cognitive biases that may subconsciously shape our perceptions, beliefs and decisions. As one might imagination, innovation and entrepreneurship is not immune from said biases. Becoming aware of them is step one to designing workarounds so that your company is not over-investing in the wrong idea or under-investing in the right one. In this episode I unpack just three of the 36 cognitive biases I've identified that can stifle your innovation efforts, how they might apply to the field and a proposed solution or mitigant for each. For the full list of all 36 cognitive biases that inhibit innovation and what you can do to combat them head over to: https://www.collectivecampus.com.au/blog/36-cognitive-biases-that-inhibit-innovation Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Jason Calacanis is a tech entrepreneur, wildly successful angel investor, and the host of the popular weekly podcast This Week in Startups. He's the founder of a series of conferences that bring entrepreneurs together with potential investors. As a “scout” for top-tier Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and later as an angel investor, Jason has invested in 150 early-stage startups including four that have achieved billion-dollar valuations (so far) such as Uber, Evernote and Tumblr. Jason's newly released book "Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups: Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000" puts readers inside the minds of successful angel investors, helping to understand how they prioritize and make the decisions that have resulted in phenomenal profits. Jason provides a step by step roadmap, revealing how leading investors evaluate new ventures, calculating the risks and rewards, and explains how the best startups leverage relationships with angel investors for the best results. In this episode we go back to Jason’s rough upbringing in Brooklyn, NY in the early 80s and cover a lot of ground leading up to the present day so you can expect to learn a lot of things, including: How to pick a billion dollar founder or startup How to bounce back from failure What Jason thinks of and what advice he has for corporates investing in startups All topics discussed: Jason’s humble beginnings in Brooklyn, NY What got Jason into startup investing The alchemy of startup investing Why you should always wait for external validation from other investors before investing Why ideas are a dime a dozen and you should invest in startups that have demonstrated traction The biggest mistake first time startup investors make The changing nature of angel investing and venture capital On books becoming a business card for many people Why building quality deal flow is a popularity contest of sorts How to get started investing with little money The number one thing Jason looks for in entrepreneurs Other factors to evaluate startups and entrepreneurs, including Jason’s ‘four founder questions’ How Jason navigated his Silicon Valley Reporter going bust during the dot com boom How to ask good questions What Jason’s views on corporate venture capital are and what advice he has for corporates looking to or already investing in startups How to go about taking lots of small bets when diversifying and building your portfolio What Jason thinks about ICOs, cryptocurrency and blockchain Show notes: Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Angel-Invest-Technology-Startups-Timeless-Investor/dp/0062560700 The book: Angelthebook.com @jason on Twitter Jason’s podcast: ThisWeekInStartups.com Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Today, an important observation I’ve made this week. Regular listeners will know that I’m a prolific blogger, if I can use that term, of sorts, having published over 200 blogs in the past couple of years. Some perform really well, others not as well - and that’s just the nature of creative pursuits. And more recently, I noticed an influx of people post long-form, often narcissistic status updates on lInkedin following a predictable formula, separating each line by an entire line spacing and often running about 30 lines long. It turns out that Linkedin picks up on this in its algorithm and serves it up to a much wider audience and therefore such posts have the ingredients to go viral. This can be both a blessing, for content creators who are taking advantage, but also a curse, because Linkedin, seemingly makes no effort to distinguish between quality content and for lack of a better word, garbage. I recently posted a tongue in cheek status update on Linkedin calling out everybody posting such long-winded, devoid of substance posts, and did so using the same formula...and low and behold, this rant, which took me all of 20 seconds to think up, has now amassed in just 3 short days almost 1,000 likes and 100,000 views. Meanwhile, a 3,500 word article I published a week earlier on an alternative to business cases to explore disruptive innovation is sitting at just over 100 likes and has not been getting anywhere near the same level of distribution from Linkedin even though hours of critical thinking and years of learning and experience went into it. The lesson here is, be intentional about where you consume your content from and don’t place too much faith in algorithms to serve up the best, most value adding and relevant content - not yet anyway. As the late, great Zig Ziglar used to say - you are who you are because of what you put into your mind - so guard your mind with your life! That’s it for another week of Fast Fix Friday, have an epic weekend! Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Disruptive ideas usually don’t see light of day at large companies. And when they do, it’s not for long. This is because traditional financial metrics such as NPV, IRR and RoNA are used as measures of success. In addition, the allocation of capital for new ideas hinges on business cases that ask us to forecast indicators such as the target market, the market size, the payback period and aforementioned financial metrics - all factors that can’t be reliably predicted when it comes to disruptive innovation which is inherently uncertain and chaotic. In the odd case that capital is allocated to a potentially disruptive idea, it’s usually pulled prematurely because the financial metrics or assumptions that made up the crux of our business case were faulty - which is to be expected for almost any truly disruptive idea because if you’re reliably estimating what every variable looks like from day one, you’re either a prophet, have a crystal ball or are just pursuing incremental innovation, the opportunities for which are much more visible and obvious, so too the underlying assumptions. So what’s the alternative? Listen to find out or read at: https://www.collectivecampus.com.au/blog/the-business-case-alternative-how-to-support-disruptive-innovation-at-a-large-company If you've got any thoughts on this model then I'd love to hear from you at: @steveglaveski on Twitter or email me on steve@collectivecamp.us Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us
Get out of the building from day one they say. It will be fun they say. The whole concept of coming up with an idea, writing a problem or solution interview script and speaking to prospective target customers from day one has gained popularity in recent years as Steve Blank’s customer discovery model and later, Eric Ries’ lean startup movement have taken hold. While we can sometimes get away with online testing, we often have to face up to the much more socially confronting task of interrupting strangers simply going on about their business on the street, which is no easy feat to say the least. I talk strategy on coming up with effective incentives to boost engagement by 400%! Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us
Gretchen Rubin is the author of The Happiness Project, Happier at Home, Better Than Before, and her newest book, The Four Tendencies - The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better Too), which comes out this September. Her books have sold almost three million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. She is the host of a popular, award-winning podcast, "Happier with Gretchen Rubin" and blogger who writes daily about her adventures in happiness and habit-formation. In The Four Tendencies, a groundbreaking analysis of personality type, bestselling author of Gretchen reveals the one simple question that will transform what you do at home, at work, and in life. In this episode you will learn many things including: What that simple aforementioned question is What the four tendencies are and how your tendency shapes every aspect of your behavior How to use Gretchen’s four tendencies framework to make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress, and engage more effectively. All
Topics Discussed: What the four tendencies are How to identify your own tendency Can you be more than one tendency? How the four tendencies compares to other personality tests Where entrepreneurs fit in the four tendencies framework How to pick a job that would suit your own tendency How to identify other people’s tendencies Which tendencies work best together at the office, at home or at play How to design your environment to circumvent your tendency’s shortcomings Upholder rebellion How to deal with the different tendencies
Show Notes: Preorder the book: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Tendencies-Indispensable-Personality-Profiles/dp/1524760919/ref=la_B001IZTAPW_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503108203&sr=1-1 Gretchen’s other books: https://www.amazon.com/Gretchen-Rubin/e/B001IZTAPW Gretchen’s Twitter: @gretchenrubin Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast: www.gretchenrubin.com/podcast/ Gretchen’s blog: www.gretchenrubin.com Better App: www.betterapp.us Find out your tendency: http://gretchenrubin.com/happiness_project/2015/01/ta-da-the-launch-of-my-quiz-on-the-four-tendencies-learn-about-yourself/
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I left the corporate world years ago not only because I managed to raise funding to pursue my own startup ideabut mostly because there was little to no incentive for managers to encourage new ideas or change. Managers were simply incentivised to deliver simply what was in their position description and more often than not, that had nothing to do with discovering new ways of doing things, much like the organisations they work for. Change is risky after all, or so they say. Many managers wonder why on earth they should take a risk on change when they’re sitting pretty on a six figure salary, probably have mouths to feed, are comfortable with “the way things have always been done around here” rhetoric and have no real desire to rock the boat. But with more than 50% of today’s S&P500 facing replacement in the next 10 years alone and with one in three listed companies at risk of being de-listed in the next five years, it’s no secret that organisations need to start incentivising innovation if top-down calls from senior executives to “be bold, be innovative!” are to be heeded. This need is even more pronounced at a middle manager level which can either be the lifeblood or ring the death knell of corporate innovation. The question often becomes one of how to incentivise innovation without compromising the core business model. After all, the core business model is where we make money today (but not necessarily tomorrow - just ask Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders, Compaq and countless others who have fallen by the wayside thanks to technology and/or business model disruption). I delve into the key considerations in this episode of Fast Fix Friday. Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us
Brad Stulberg writes about health and the science of human performance. He is a columnist with Outside Magazine and New York Magazine and has also written for Forbes, NPR, The Los Angeles Times, Runner's World, and The Huffington Post. Brad is widely known for his ability to merge the latest science with compelling personal stories, offering readers practical insights that they can apply in their own lives. Brad is the co-author of Peak Performance - Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success, which bestselling author Adam Grant calls a transfixing read and Arianna Huffington called an essential playbook for success and happiness. The book combines inspiring stories of top performers across a range of domains – from athletic to intellectual to artistic – with the latest science on the cognitive, neurochemical, and physiological factors that underlie mastery. In doing so, Peak Performance uncovers unique and powerful insights that can help you take your game to the next level, whatever your game may be. Previously, Brad worked as a consultant for McKinsey and Company, where he counseled some of the world's top executives on a broad range of issues. This was the second time we recorded this conversation with Brad, because the first hour plus conversation we had fell victim to technical difficulties in the manifestation of a corrupt audio file and yes, I should have and always record backups of my conversations and it just so happened that the one time I didn’t, lightning struck….Brad however was kind enough to give make another 40 minutes free to re-record the chat and I tried to cram as much value as possible into a tighter window so you might find me jumping around quite a bit and trying to go an inch deep and a mile wide in this conversation. As such, expect to learn a lot of things, including: A simple equation that you can use to support your growth What the world’s number one performance enhancer is; and How to silence technology’s demands on our attention so that we can get into the kind of deep focus work that can create more value in four hours than in 12 hours of shallow, interrupted work All topics discussed: Peak Performance, the book Body and mind: a false dichotomy The growth equation Agile project management Ideation and brainstorming Mindset How to thrive in the moment How to get into flow and do deep work Productivity hacks The power of purpose Priming techniques Nootropics and smart drugs Mindfulness and meditation The importance of rest Show notes: Get the book on Amazon at amazon.com/Peak-Performance-Elevate-Burnout-Science/dp/162336793X Book website: Peakperformancebook.net Learn more at www.bradstulberg.com Twitter: @Bstulberg
Recently staying in a hotel I had a less than perfect experience, being moved rooms at my inconvenience and a few power outages. Although incredibly polite the staff then asked for a five star review, and I wondered how that would affect others staying at the hotel in the future. It highlighted to me Why Honesty and Transparency underpins the Sharing Economy today. Have a listen to why in this episode of Fast Fix Friday! Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us
If you’re a long-time listener you’d be very familiar with the three lightning round questions I ask my guests at the end of each show - one of which is on the daily rituals and routines they maintain to stay on top of their games.
I’ve taken the time to revisit our back catalogue of almost 80 interviews to bring you some of the best answers I could find from leaders in their field - we’re talking world class authors, entrepreneurs, artists, neuroscientists, political strategists, philosophers and innovators - answers run the gamut from physical exercise,m mindfulness, diet and nutrition, productivity hacks and more.
Guests featured include Jamie Wheal, Jordan Harbinger, Rand Fishkin, Steve Blank, Massimo Pigliucci, Tim Harford, Tyler Cowen, Alec Ross, Susan David, Jake Knapp, Carrie Green and more.
I’m sure you’ll find many tactics in this episode that you can apply to your own life today in order to start reaping immediate benefit.
If you’re intrigued by any of the guests in this episode, then you can always go back into the Future Squared archives and revisit the full episode.
Guests Appear in this order: Jamie Wheal Ryan Blair Andreas Antonopoulos Steve Blank Susan David Jordan Harbinger Massimo Pigliucci Emilie Wapnick Jacob Morgan Tyler Cowen Lawrence Levy Erik Wahl Tim Harford Alec Ross Parag Khanna Jenny Blake Brad Feld Andy Molinsky Carrie Green Gary Bolles Ash Maurya Pascal Finette Robert Kegan Matthew E May Brian Christian Rand Fishkin Whitney Johnson Jake Knapp Ted Rubin
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When it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship, a number of core qualities or attributes are fundamental to success, which are best encapsulated by the four Ps unpacked in this episode of Fast Fix Friday!
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In this episode of Future Squared, I answer a number of questions that have been posed to me, either from workshop participants or from emails and tweets I’ve received from listeners. If you like this AMA, I’ll bring you more of them in future and if you have any questions you’d like answered hit me up on Twitter at @steveglaveski or email steve@collectivecamp.us
Topics discussed: How much data is enough when running an experiment? How to get everyone thinking and acting like an innovator? Is the lean startup a full blown product development methodology? How to get buy in for corporate innovation How to prioritise between ideas and features Favourite outsourcing and automation tools Morning routines Biggest lessons learned Internal v external corporate innovation initiatives - which is better?
Show notes: Jobs to be done prioritisation tool: http://innovatorstoolkit.com/sites/innovatorstoolkit.com/files/techniques/jtbd_outcome_expectations_prioritization.png Collective Campus innovation resources: https://www.collectivecampus.io/tools
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In this episode, I talk how I'm feeling right now and a big choice I had to make when waking up, post holiday this morning.
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Collective Campus hosted Disrupt the Public Sector, its annual conference on innovation in Government, for the third time this year as part of the Australian Government’s Innovation Month 2017. I had the pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion on the topic of how to ‘make things happen’ in Government - which loosely translates to how to we transform Government to one that attracts top talents, is adaptable in the face of rapid change and uses its position to create more impact in society, rather than hide behind the veil of using taxpayer dollars as an excuses not to innovate which is incorrectly perceived as being risky (it is if you take few large bets instead of many small ones) and outsourcing accountability.
Public sector spending in the Australian state of Victoria has almost doubled in the past 10 years, whereas in the private sector we see organisations like Netflix (entertainment), Khan Academy (education) and Minute Clinic (healthcare) achieving much more with much less in this time thanks to their ability to spot trends and opportunities and use emerging technologies to enable creating impact with less capital investment.
Imagine a Government, with its wealth of resources, that moved just a little bit more like a Netflix?
About our panelists: Jamie Skella Entrepreneur, futurist & strategist Jamie Skella is considered a thought leader in technology design, building and advising businesses across AI, blockchain, exports, and even future food. Jamie is an Executive Director at MiVote, who are redesigning government to give people the opportunity to vote on policy issues as they arise - not just for policy packages every few years. MiVote: www.MiVote.org.au
Alvaro Maz Alvaro is Co-founder and Managing Director of Code for Australia. Code for Australia is helping Australian Government’s move towards a platform that allows citizens, public servants and industry to come together and work on issues that affect us all.
Alvaro is also a social entrepreneur with a passion for public issues, technology and social change. In 2013 he launched Creative Suburbs, an online platform to help more people make a difference in their cities. He embarked on Code for Australia in late 2014 which led to launching Code for Aotearoa and a strong interest in government Every now and then he writes on urban issues for TrendCity. Code for Australia: www.codeforaustralia.org TrendCity: www.trendcity.org
Janna McCann Janna is currently the General Manager at BizLab, for the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. Bizlab has recently been established with the mission to support the Federal government's national innovation agenda through driving innovation within the public sector to facilitate engagement with industry and assist Australian innovators in becoming more competitive both locally and on the international stage.
Topics discussed: -Key challenges to innovation in the public sector -Experiences in overcoming challenges -Procurement policies at odds with startup engagement -The merits of an open government v a closed one -What will Government look like in 20 years - does its role change? -Blockchain in Government -The perils of ‘not invented here’ -Why doing nothing costs taxpayers a lot more than changing
Show notes: Watch the full video with audience Q&A at facebook.com/collectivecampus
Welcome to Future Square
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Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and well-respected figures in bitcoin. He is the author of "Mastering Bitcoin", published by O’Reilly Media and considered by many to be the best technical guide to bitcoin.
As an engaging public speaker, teacher and writer, Andreas makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. As an advisor, he helps startups recognize, evaluate, and navigate security and business risks. Andreas was one of the first to use the phrase “The Internet of Money” to describe bitcoin and its potential impacts on humanity.
As a bitcoin entrepreneur, Andreas has founded a number of bitcoin businesses and launched several community open-source projects. He serves as an advisor to several bitcoin and crypto-currency companies. He is a widely published author of articles and blog posts on bitcoin, is a permanent host on the popular Let’s Talk Bitcoin Podcast, and a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide.
He is also the CTO of Third Key Solutions which offers consulting and cryptographic key management solutions for companies using decentralized digital currencies.
Expect to learn a number of things in this episode, including: The impact of blockchain on financial services and whether or not what large fincos are doing to respond is enough Whether cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum are a good investment The role of regulation and Government when it comes to blockchain
Topics Discussed: The impact of blockchain on financial services companies Whether cryptocurrencies are a good investment Regulating bitcoin The world’s unbanked and why the number is far greater than the 2 billion reported Foreign remittances and combating corruption Why bitcoin is to blockchain what email was to the internet Bitcoin price volatility Blockchain’s cyber-security risks and the DAO Distributed autonomous organisations Energy demands of the bitcoin network How to best protect your bitcoin(s)
Show Notes: Web: Antonopoulos.com Twitter: @aantonop Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast Andreas’ books: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Unlocking-Digital-Cryptocurrencies/dp/1449374042 Andreas’ WIRED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AVRVfw-8nE
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Large organisations are engaging startups in growing numbers, due in part to a realisation that companies have not been built to respond to the accelerating pace of change in a timely manner, and that short of restructuring the entire organisation from the ground up, partnering with startups who are unencumbered by bureaucracy, short-term shareholder demands and employee incentives, is an easier way to tap into emerging technologies, business models and talent.
This makes sense for most large organisations given that startups tend to explore disruptive innovations - usually low margin, small market and high risk to begin with - don’t support short term and often large company growth targets, but if left unchecked, may be the source of dwindling market share a few years down the track (here’s looking at you Blockbuster for passing up the opportunity to buy Netflix for US$50M - the company is today worth 140 times that).
In this episode I run through eight ways that corporates can connect with startup ecosystems and engage startups to work collaboratively towards their mutual goals - some light touch and others that require a more serious commitment of time and money.
Sam Walker is The Wall Street Journal’s deputy editor for enterprise, the unit that oversees the paper’s in-depth page-one features and investigative reporting projects. A former reporter, columnist, and sports editor, Walker founded the Journal’s prizewinning daily sports coverage in 2009.
He is the author of Fantasyland, a bestselling account of his attempt to win America’s top fantasy baseball expert competition (of which he is a two-time champion). Walker attended the University of Michigan. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
Sam just released The Captain Class - The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams, in which he profiles the greatest teams in history and identifies the counterintuitive leadership qualities of the unconventional men and women who drove them to succeed.
In it, he let’s us in on a little secret.. The secret to winning is not what you think it is. It’s not the coach. It’s not the star. It’s not money. It’s not a strategy. It’s something else entirely. Find out what it is and more in this episode of Future Squared with Sam Walker.
Topics Discussed: -The one thing the 16 most successful sports teams in history all had in common -The 7 core qualities behind an effective leader -Whether sports teams make for a good reference point for startups and corporate teams -Sam’s book and the methodology behind whittling down over 1,000 teams to 16 -Why leaders break the rules -The value of dissent and conflict -Dissent at Pixar -Emotional intelligence -Netflix’s culture deck on being a sports team, not a family -The Russian hockey team of 1980 -The 1996 Cuban women’s volleyball team -The 2009 French handball team -Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs
Show Notes: Sam’s books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sam-Walker/e/B001IU2T1O Twitter: @samwalkers WSJ - The Seven Leadership Secrets of Great Teams: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-seven-leadership-secrets-of-great-team-captains-1494595600 Web: BySamWalker.com
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I facilitated a panel discussion on innovation in Government recently and was asked whether or not Government has a responsibility to keep its workforce employed in the face of technological change.
In this week's episode I ponder this question and welcome your thoughts.
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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a New York Times op-ed contributor, a visiting lecturer at The Wharton School, and a former Google data scientist. He received a BA in philosophy from Stanford, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and a PhD in economics from Harvard. His research—which uses new, big data sources to uncover hidden behaviors and attitudes—has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics and other prestigious publications and has just surfaced in his new book, Everybody Lies - New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, which explores what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world.
Expect to learn a number of things in this episode of Future Squared, including: - Topics Discussed: - What kinds of things we usually tell Google that we wouldn’t tell our loved ones - The connection between the school you go and your level of success in life - How AI and machine learning can behave in a way that may be construed as racist - Correlation and causation - How companies can use data to build better products - Why customer surveys don’t work - What most startups get wrong about AB testing - How much data is enough when testing assumptions underpinning a new product idea - How your Google search history can be used to identify health risk factors and diagnose users - Are we collecting too much data to the point where it’s difficult to extract anything meaningful? - Are ‘online echo chambers’ are actually a thing? - How data can be used to mitigate decisions that stem from our personal biases and entrenched belief systems - Why the real us often shows up at 2am on PornHub
Show Notes: Web: Sethsd.com Twitter: @SethS_D Amazon: www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856
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Mark Twain famously said that “whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, stop and reflect”.
It’s easy for us to get sucked into the matrix and grind out work, day after day, and look around at our colleagues all doing the same thing and assume that ‘this is the way it’s supposed to be’ without really ever taking the time to reflect on what we really want and whether or not we’re truly happy and fulfilled in our work.
Every few months i perform a sanity check to assess whether or not I need to make any changes to the kind of work I’m doing or how I’m doing it, and I’ve found the following six Fs serve as a helpful guide.
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Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.
From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news.
He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy, the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control, a graphic novel about robots and angels, The Silver Cord, an oversize catalog of the best of Cool Tools, and his summary theory of technology in What Technology Wants (2010).
His new book is The Inevitable - Understanding the 12 Technological Forces that will Shape Our Future, which is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
This was a fascinating conversation with one of the most influential names in technology, entrepreneurship, digital media and future thinking.
Expect to learn a number of things throughout the podcast but specifically Kevin and I cover: Whether humanity will find new things to do or simply live an unfulfilling existence once most of today’s jobs are automated or made redundant What large companies can do to prepare for what Kevin Kelly refers to as The Inevitable What we should do to combat online recommendation systems that serve to harden our minds to particular tastes or beliefs
All topics discussed: Kevin’s travels to Uzbekistan and his views on the national dish How Kevin landed on 12 technological forces that will shape our inevitable future Why there’s never been a better time to start a business Why we all be endless newbies going forward, regardless of age or experience The number one skill people need to learn to succeed in the future Will humanity find new things to do once we automate most of what we already do? Why trying to ban the inevitable (and companies like UBER or Airbnb) backfires Will we have jobs in the future?
Show notes: Kevin Kelly’s blog: www.kk.org Cool Tools: www.kk.org/cooltools Book: www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089 Twitter: @kevin2kelly
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This week I had a conversation with Kevin Kelly, of Wired fame, on education.
Find out why we need to keep learning, every damn day, in this episode of Future Squared and listen to my chat with Kevin Kelly this weekend in episode #161 of Future Squared!
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Andy Molinsky is a Professor of International Management and Organizational Behavior at Brandeis University's International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. Andy’s second book, Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence, came out earlier this year, and it makes a case for successful people not necessarily wanting to do the things most of us fear but having found their own way to do them. Andy received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and M.A. in Psychology from Harvard University. He also holds a Master's Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. in International Affairs from Brown University.
Andy's current work focuses on the challenges people face when adapting behavior in foreign cultural settings. His research has also explored the dynamics of psychologically demanding tasks, including necessary evils and organizational change. He has published widely in many top academic journals, and his work has also been featured in media outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, the Economist, Fast Company, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and on NPR.
Topics Discussed: -Why the comfort zone is a beautiful place but nothing grows there -Andy’s new book, Reach -Why fear can often be our guide -The 5 key challenges that underpin our avoidance tendencies -The perils of self censoring -How to identify and bridge the gap in our behavioural styles that ultimately keep us back -Why being honest with yourself is so important -The 3 questions people should ask to get themselves out of their comfort zone -How to deliver bad news -Why you should do the things you find the hardest first -Andy’s personal journey outside his own comfot zone
Show Notes: Andy Molinsky - www.andymolinsky.com On Twitter - twitter.com/andymolinsky Get Reach on Amazon - www.amazon.com/Reach-Strategy-Outside-Challenge-Confidence/dp/0399574026
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This is a special midweek bonus episode!
I joined Bernard on his popular Analyse Asia podcast to talk corporate innovation in Asia Pacific. We discussed the concept of corporate innovation, how companies from Asia Pacific are thinking about disruption as a whole and a lot more.
Bernard was kind enough to have us republish the episode on Future Squared so here it is!
Show Notes: Analyse Asia podcast: https://analyse.asia
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Some words of wisdom on learning from Epictetus and introducing our brand new podcast!
Check out Corporate Innovation School on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher and Google Play!
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Sean Ellis is CEO and founder of GrowthHackers.com, the number one online community built for growth hackers. He coined the term "growth hacking" in 2010, after using it to ignite growth for Dropbox, Eventbrite, LogMeIn and Lookout - each now worth billions of dollars.
Sean also founded and sold customer insights company Qualaroo, growing it to millions of dollars in recurring revenue with customers such as Uber, Starbucks and Amazon.
Sean is co-author of Hacking Growth, How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success. He regularly speaks to startups and Fortune 100s and has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, WIRED, Fast Company, Inc.com, and TechCrunch.
Topics Discussed: -Sean’s definition of growth hacking -On being the first marketer and Dropbox and how the company went viral -North Star Metric (NSM) -Can large, traditional organisations hack growth? -Is Growth Hacker the new VP of Marketing? -GrowthHackers.com and how to select and prioritise from the treasure trove of growth hacks found there -Sean’s new book, Hacking Growth -Pre-ordering Teslas
Show Notes: Twitter: @seanellis Website: GrowthHackers.com Get the book: amazon.com/Hacking-Growth-Fastest-Growing-Companies-Breakout/dp/045149721X LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/seanellis
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In this episode of Future Squared, Steve is joined by colleagues Shay Namdarian and Sean Qian atop the balcony of a Singapore high rise on a slightly inebriating Thursday night to talk about all things tech, innovation, food, culture, psychology, growth hacking, building networks, innovation theatre and mobility services or lack thereof.
Parental discretion is advised.
Special thanks to Chivas Regal and Bombay Gin for the sustenance.
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This week we're going to talk how to stop your innovation lab from failing. 10 new labs opened their doors each month from March to October 2016 globally. One in three corporations has some kind of innovation lab, but are they working, or is it just theatre?
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Jordan Harbinger is an entrepreneur, talk show host and world-renowned social dynamics expert.
As co-founder of The Art of Charm, Jordan has helped develop one of the leading self-development programs in the world, with a special expertise in social capital, relationship-building and authentic rapport. He is also the host of The Art of Charm Podcast, where he interviews leading entrepreneurs, celebrities, writers and experts about psychology, performance, life and success. For all his work in the field, Forbes named Jordan one of the 50 best relationship-builders in the world, and Inc. Magazine recently called him “the Charlie Rose of Podcasting.”
Jordan has shared his ideas around the world as a speaker and consultant. His work has been presented in Silicon Valley (at companies such as Google, Apple, Twitter, and Square) and to various government branches and agencies (including all branches of the U.S. Military, the Department of State, and Department of Defense). He has also given talks on security, social-engineering and psychology to BlackHat, DEFCON and Harvard Business School, and has advised private companies and law-enforcement agencies on their security and communications.
A former U.S. State Department employee and Wall Street attorney who speaks five languages, Jordan has spent several years abroad in Europe and the developing world, including South America, Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Middle East. He has worked for various governments and NGOs overseas, traveled through war zones, led several trips through North Korea, and been kidnapped—twice. (The only reason he’s still alive and kicking is because of his ability to talk his way into (and out of) just about any situation.)
Topics Discussed: - How Jordan went from lawyer to social scientist and podcasting ‘royalty’ with The Art of Charm - What people usually get wrong when it comes to building relationships and social capital -How to effectively apply relationship development and influencing theories without looking like a robot and sabotaging yourself - The Doorway Drill: what it is, how and why you should do it - The art of charm in sales - ABG: Always Be Giving - Covert Contracts - The power of warm introductions - Making a great first impression online - The importance of soft skills in today’s world - How people can get better at managing change, instability and fear - How to keep your childlike curiosity
Show Notes: Website and podcast: Theartofcharm.com Twitter: @theartofcharm
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Just yesterday, one of Australia’s long running broadcast networks, TEN, went into voluntary administration after reporting a $232 million loss - another sobering reminder that the once mighty will fall unless they begin to not only challenge but replace their existing business models.
Corporate innovation is all the rage right now.
Companies are scrambling to stay relevant - or at least look like they’re trying to stay relevant - amidst a storm of growing uncertainty and unpredictabilty.
The hard truth of the matter is that there are no silver bullets when it comes to corporate innovation. And anybody who tells you there is is LYING.
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Massimo Pigliucci is a Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. His research is concerned with philosophy of science, the relationship between science and philosophy, and the nature of pseudoscience.
He received a Doctorate in Genetics from the University of Ferrara in Italy, a PhD in Botany from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. He has published over a hundred technical papers and several books. Prof. Pigliucci has been awarded the prestigious Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution. He has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science "for fundamental studies of genotype by environmental interactions and for public defense of evolutionary biology from pseudoscientific attack."
In the areas of outreach and critical thinking, Prof. Pigliucci has published in national magazines such as Skeptic, Skeptical Inquirer, Philosophy Now, and The Philosopher's Magazine, among others. He has also been elected as a Consultant for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Pigliucci penned the wildly successful "Rationally Speaking" blog and podcast (rationallyspeaking.org) and maintains a blog - the namesake of his latest book - called How to be a Stoic.
Towards the end of the show we started chatting about genetically modified and AI augmented humanity which will form the basis of another chat with Massimo in the future, but for now, please enjoy my conversation on Stoicism and how it can help you in your personal and professional life with the one, the only...Massimo Pigliucci.
Topics Discussed: The intersection of philosophy and science Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius How Stoicism can help us lead better professional and personal lives Stoicism in the workplace Does being Stoic make you emotionless? Silicon Valley’s Stoicism movement Living a life of virtue The decoupling of consciousness and intelligence Are human feelings just algorithms
Show Notes: Twitter: twitter.com/mpigliucci Rationally Speaking blog: rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com How to be a Stoic blog: howtobeastoic.wordpress.com The book on Amazon: www.amazon.com/How-Be-Stoic-Ancient-Philosophy/dp/0465097952
We have a bit of fun in this instalment of Fast Fix Friday!
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This instalment of Future Squared is a little bit different. I had two big name guests lined up this week but both had to reschedule their interviews to a later date. So I was left scrambling with only 4 days to go until our normal go live every Sunday. I left an update on my Linkedin seeking anybody doing cool things in the corporate innovation, entrepreneurship or personal development space and woke up to find over 40 nominations waiting for me.
After much deliberation, I decided to interview someone doing awesome things in the space of venture investing, diversity, impact, inclusion and female led businesses.
Drew Koven is the Managing Director of LDR Ventures. He has successfully incubated, operated, turned around, advised and invested in Fashion & Consumer Lifestyle brands worldwide for over twenty years.
His investments include the likes of Thrive Market, Pledgling and Australian fashion startup, Fame & Partners.
He is widely regarded as a pioneering force in E-commerce, M-commerce, Omnichannel Retail and a thought leader for Innovative Technologies which support fashion and retail. He is recognized as a: Top 25 Retailer by Apparel Magazine, Top 3 Mobile Marketer by Mobile Marketer Magazine, Boston Business Hall of Fame Inductee, Virgin Atlantic Entrepreneur of the Year, 40 under 40 Recipient, YEO charter member & 2 Chapter President and Advisory Board Apparel Magazine. Given the tight timelines, I had little time to prepare for Drew but got to know him very quickly in what was a fun episode to record so here we go, from Los Angeles, California, I bring you Drew Koven.
Topics Discussed: -Introducing Drew -LDR Ventures -The state of retail -What Drew looks for in entrepreneurs -Common pitfalls entrepreneurs make -Thrive Market, Pledgeling and Fame & Partners -Impact investing -Diversity and inclusion -The future of e-commerce and how the big boys can keep up
Show Notes: LDR Ventures: Ldrventures.com Drew on Twitter: @andrewdrewkoven Thebizfix.com (itunes)
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We have a bit of fun in this instalment of Fast Fix Friday!
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We bring you not one, but two guests, in this week’s episode of Future Squared.
First, Joel Gerschman. Joel is a leading coach, author and educator in the field of business growth, management and leadership.
Drawing on more than 15 years of battle-tested experience running multiple fast-growing technology start-ups and learning under some of the world’s leading business gurus, including Michael Gerber, author of The E-myth Revisited, Joel has helped thousands of business leaders to achieve more stability, more financial freedom and more time… for life.
Joel also brings a unique perspective to managing the people-side of business growth. With his background as a commercial Lawyer and years of experience as Mediator and university lecturer in negotiation, conflict resolution and influential communication, Joel is an expert in the psychology of influencing human behaviour.
Joel is the founder and CEO of a leading business coaching company called The Change Coach, as well as a co-creator of The Mindful Entrepreneur’s Growth System - a proven, step-by-step system designed to grow your revenue, your free time & your sense of fulfilment (mindfulentrepreneur.co).
Joel lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and four children.
Howard Finger is the CEO of VinciWorks. Founded in 2004, VinciWorks is the world's leading provider of online compliance and risk management solutions for the legal and financial markets.The company is on a mission to create a safer, fairer and more honest world by facilitating competitive businesses to collaboratively develop better, non-competitive solutions. The Mindful Entrepreneur chronicles the story of how Howard, the entrepreneur, Joel, the business coach, and Aryeh, the rabbi, worked together to not only turn around Vinci Works but turn around Howard’s life in the process.
Please enjoy a conversation with the two of the main characters and co-authors of The Mindful Entrepreneur, Joel Gerschman and Howard Finger.
Topics Covered: -The Mindful Entrepreneur and how the book came about -Why McDonalds sells average burgers better than anybody -Prioritising the important over the urgent -Working on the business, not in the business -Howard’s journey from being all-consumed by his business and an emotional wreck to turning around the business and the quality of his personal life -The importance of defining your core purpose -Why you should set measurable goals and create action plans -How it felt getting ousted as CEO of a company Howard helped build -Balance in entrepreneurship -How The Mindful Entrepreneur differs from other books -Why we should be more conscious of our emotions and intentional with our actions, not just in business, but in everyday life
Show Notes: The book and resources: MindfulEntrepreneur.co Howard’s business, VinciWorks: VinciWorks.com Joel’s business, The Change Coach: TheChangeCoach.co
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This week, I’m going to pass the mic over to my colleague and go to guy for all things CX and design thinking Mr Shay Namdarian, who you might remember from episode #75 which was all about customer experience. Shay spent a decade consulting with the likes of EY and CapGemini before founding two successful fashion startups and joined Collective Campus a year ago to combine and leverage his talents working across big corporate and startups.
In this episode, Shay’s going to share his thoughts on employee performance reviews, why they’re broken and what you can do to fix them.
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Brad Feld has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding venture capital firm Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars, the global startup accelerator program that has incubated over 1,000 startups since inception that have collectively raised US$3.3B.
In addition to his investing efforts, Brad has been active with several non-profit organizations. He currently is chair of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and on the boards of Path Forward, the Kauffman Fellows, and Defy Ventures.
Brad is a writer and speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship. He's written a number of books as part of the Startup Revolution series and writes the blogs Feld Thoughts and Venture Deals.
Brad holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from MIT. Brad is also an art collector and long-distance runner. He has completed 24 marathons as part of his mission to finish a marathon in each of the 50 states.
Brad provided a wealth of knowledge in the 50 or so minutes of time he was gracious enough to invest, but there were so many more questions I wanted to ask him on a number of topics so I’ll try and tee up a follow up interview in a few months time.
In the interim, please enjoy what I hope will be part 1 of my interview with Brad Feld, recorded between 1 and 2am Melbourne time, so if I didn’t sound like I was 100% on top of my game, despite cranking out 100 pushups and downing an espresso before this interview, you now know why.
Nonetheless, Brad brought the value bombs so please enjoy, the one and only, Brad Feld!
Topics Covered: Techstars Adelaide The Australian startup ecosystem What makes for a successful corporate accelerator The trend of large organisations paying massive premiums for startups to offset their corporate innovation woes Why being “the next Silicon Valley” does a disservice to Silicon Valley and the city making such bold proclamations Brad’s book, Venture Deals The #GiveFirst philosophy Depression in the startup ecosystem The digital Sabbath Show Notes: Feld Thoughts: Feld.com Foundrygroup.com Techstars.com Twitter: @bfeld Brad’s books on Amazon
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In an era where every large company is under pressure to innovate, or at least show that they’re being innovative, it can be all too tempting to take an old meeting room, turn it into an ‘innovation lab’ by throwing some bean-bags around the place and setting up a fussball table and running a hackathon.
Oftentimes though, these hackathons amount to little more than team-bonding activities, with little focus on identifying and validating problems and solutions that are worthy of subsequent exploration.
In order to get the most out of a corporate hackathon and generate some quick wins that organisers and innovation champions will be able to use to build a case for subsequent initiatives and further development of ideas, taking the time to consider and prepare the following 13 things can make a world of difference.
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Jeb Blount is a Sales Acceleration Specialist who helps sales organizations reach peak performance fast by optimizing talent, leveraging training to cultivate high-performance sales culture, developing leadership and coaching skills, and applying more effective organizational design. His last book, Fanatical Prospecting, has been the number one ranked Sales and Marketing textbook on Amazon since its release two years ago.
Through his companies Sales Gravy, Channel EQ, Level 4 Training, and Innovate HCG—Jeb advises many of the world’s leading organizations and their executives on the impact of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills on sales, leadership, customer experience, channel development, and strategic account management.
Jeb spends more than 250 days on the road each year delivering keynote speeches and training programs to high-performing sales teams and leaders across the globe.
As a business leader, Jeb has more than 25 years of experience with Fortune 500 companies, SMBs, and start-ups. He has been named one of the top 50 most influential sales and marketing leaders (Top Sales Magazine), a Top 30 social selling influencer (Forbes), a top 10 sales experts to follow on Twitter (Evan Carmichael), a top 100 most innovative sales blogger (iSEEit), a top 20 must-read author—People Buy You—for entrepreneurs (YFS Magazine and Huffington Post), and the most downloaded sales podcaster in iTunes history; among many other accolades.
He is the author of seven books.
Topics Covered: -Jeb’s books -Why emotional intelligence matters in sales -Why the sales profession finds itself in the middle of a perfect storm -What ultra-high performers - the top 1% of salespeople - are doing differently -How to align your selling process with the buying process -The 5 most important questions in sales -How to decrease corporate sales cycles -Aligning stakeholder expectations -The power of micro-commitments and reciprocity -How to measure and increase your sales EQ
Show Notes: Sales Gravy website: www.salesgravy.com Jeb on Twitter: @salesgravy Jeb on Instagram: @salesgravy Jeb on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jebblount Sales Gravy podcast: www.salesgravy.com/jeb-blount-sales-podcast Jeb’s website: www.jebblunt.com
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Technology is not just an enabler of new business models. It’s an enabler of young talent and the earlier we encourage kids to start exploring the possibilities, the likelier they are to succeed and have their own A-team moment.
In this episode, I tell the tale of Tommy, my best friend in the third grade, how small decisions lead to devastatingly different outcomes and how tech might help us to avoid this.
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Emilie Wapnick is a writer, career coach, blogger, and community leader. She is the founder and creative director at Puttylike.com, where she helps multipotentialites (people with many passions and creative pursuits) integrate all of their interests to create dynamic, fulfilling, and fruitful careers and lives. Unable to settle on one path herself, Emilie studied music, art, film production and law, graduating from the Law Faculty at McGill University. Emilie’s TED talk has been viewed over 3.6 million times, and has been translated into 36 languages. She’s been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Financial Times, The Huffington Post, BBC, and Lifehacker. Her book How to Be Everything: a Guide for Those Who (Still) Don’t Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up, comes out with HarperCollins in May 2017.
Topics Covered:
Emilie’s book Emilie’s TED talk How Emilie’s foray into music, web design, filmmaking, writing, studying law, coaching and developing a TV pilot prompted her to coin the term multi-potentialite Why we do our best and most rapid learning when we first dive into something new Why multi-potentialism is a strength in a fast changing economic and technological landscape, not an attention deficit disorder Why people might find it hard to chase their potential and instead choose the path frequently traveled and how to break out of this The world has forced us to choose ONE thing, but we can be MANY T-shaped individuals How to handle multiple projects at once
Show Notes:
Emilie’s book on Amazon: www.amazon.com/How-Be-Everything-Guide-Those/dp/0062566652 The book’s website: www.howtobeeverything.com Emilie on Twitter: twitter.com/emiliewapnick Emilie’s company: www.puttylike.com Emilie’s TED talk: www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_t_have_one_true_calling
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It’s been well documented by the likes of Steve Blank and Clayton Christensen that if you want explore disruptive innovation in a large company, you have to redesign or create parallel processes, systems and values internally in order up to support behaviours critical to innovation - think moving fast and experimentation. Failing that, take innovation outside of the building by spinning out a company with its own processes, systems and values.
But the kicker here is to not treat the spin off as an independent startup, otherwise you might be better off simply setting up a corporate venture capital arm to invest in startups.
A better approach is to leverage your relative strengths to mutual benefit. A large corporate will bring domain expertise, networks, distribution channels, customers and resources to the table.
Listen to hear how to identify synergies to accelerate growth.
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Jon Acuff is the New York Times Bestselling author of five books including his most recent, Do Over: Make today the first day of your new career. For 19 years he’s helped some of the biggest brands in the world tell their story, including The Home Depot, Bose, Staples, and the Dave Ramsey Team. Most recently he’s spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences, colleges, companies and churches. Featured regularly on national media, Jon has been seen on CNN, Fox News, Good Day LA and several other key outlets. In addition, Jon is also a big proponent of social media with blogs that have been read by 4 million people and more than 280,000 twitter followers. In 2010 he used his influence with his tribe to build two kindergartens in Vietnam. Jon lives with his wife Jenny and two daughters in Nashville, TN.
Topics discussed: Jon’s books Jon’s personal do over Why it’s important to have a do over ‘advocate’ The 4 things that you will eventually encounter in your career 70% of people feel dissatisfied with their jobs and careers so what should they base career moves on do overs on? Advice for corporate professionals considering becoming corporate refugees The importance of a support network Resources the book provides to help people embark upon their own do over 5 rules Jon and his wife Jenny gave their 13 year old daughter when she joined Instagram The Phoenix Suns and the Boston Celtics (just for fun!) Show Notes: Jon’s website: Acuff.me Book website: Doover.me Twitter: @JonAcuff Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorjonacuff/ Jon’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Acuff/e/B002Q36ZTE Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us
Recorded in a hurry in transit at Kuala Lumpur airport, this Fast Fix Friday delves into 10 ways to get buy in from executives for corporate innovation initiatives and projects. Try them at home!
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In today’s episode of Future Squared, we welcome back Evangelos Simoudis, a recognized expert on big data strategies and corporate innovation who first joined usin episode #20 of Future Squared when we discussed corporate VCs, incubators and startup acquisitions .
He has been working in Silicon Valley for 25 years as a venture investor, entrepreneur, and corporate executive. Evangelos is the co-founder and Managing Director of Synapse Partners, a venture firm that invests in early-stage startups developing big data applications, and an advisor to global corporations on big data strategies and Startup-Driven Innovation.
Since last chatting with Evangelos he has penned and released a new book entitled The Big Data Opportunity in our Driverless Future which explores the magnitude, extent and timing of the disruption that autonomous vehicles will bring, the role that data will play in the enabling the next generation of mobility and how both startups and corporates can position themselves to take advantage of the emerging opportunities.
Topics Covered: - Drivers of automotive disruption - The impact of urbanisation on vehicle ownership and use - Pollution and climate change - The rate at which we can expect autonomous vehicle adoption to play out - Development of the ecosystem required to support autonomous vehicles - The different levels of automation; from 0 to 4 - The applications of big data in autonomous vehicles - Implications for auto insurers - Ethical questions - Companies at the core of the autonomous vehicle and mobility movement Uber, Zipcar, Google, Tesla - Traits companies successfully exploring mobility share - Corporate startup partnerships - Five recommendations for disrupting with big data - Why companies should leverage their scale when partnering with startups - Innovation outposts, incubators and accelerators
Show Notes: 1) The book:www.amazon.com/Big-Data-Opportunity-Driverless-Future/dp/0998067717 2) Synapse Partners: http://synapsepartners.co/team/evangelos-simoudis/ 3) Evangelos on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evangelossimoudis 4) Evangelos’ blog: http://corporateinnovation.co/ 5) Episode 20 with Evangelos - http://futuresquared.xyz/podcast/episode-20-evangelos-simoudis-on-corporate-vcs-incubators-and-startup-acquisitions
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If you’re a corporate innovator or a startup entrepreneur, reliant on funding to get going, then you need to do one thing, no it’s not raise funding, it’s educate your prospective investors or ensure that they are already educated. What do I mean by that? Listen to find out.
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By his 35th birthday Mike Michalowicz had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. Confident that he had the formula to success, he became an angel investor... and proceeded to lose his entire fortune.
Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. Among other innovative strategies, Mike created the "Profit First" formula, a simple and extremely effective ways for businesses to ensure profitability from their very next deposit forward.
Mike is now running his third million dollar venture, Profit First Professionals , is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal; is the former MSNBC business make-over expert; is a popular keynote speaker on innovative entrepreneurial topics; and is the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, which BusinessWeek deemed "the entrepreneur's cult classic."
Mike is also a guest lecturer for collegiate entrepreneurial programs such as Babson, Boston College, Columbia, Copenhagen Business School, Emerson, Harvard, Penn State, Pepperdine and Princeton. His books are in the core curriculum for entrepreneur students at Pepperdine, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford University, and universities across the country.
Topics Covered: - 80s hair bands \m/ - Lessons learned from building two multi-million dollar businesses and losing the lot - Mike’s new book, Profit First - The profit first formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses - 4 simple principles for managing money and putting profit first - Why this flies in the face of “you’ve got to spend money to make money” and how to strike a balance - Why raising funding is not indicative of startup success - Why small profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving at its top line - Putting profit first in enterprise - 3 Sheets of paper to you need to launch and grow a business
Show Notes: 1) Mike’s website: www.mikemichalowicz.com/ 2) Mike’s facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MikeMichalowiczFanPage 3) Mike’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/MikeMichalowicz 4) Profit First Book: www.profitfirst.com 5) Mike’s other books:www.mikemichalowicz.com/books/
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I’d like to take a quick moment to share that I will be taking part in the CEO Sleepout this June to raise awareness of and funds for the homeless. I’m trying to raise $5,000 and if you can spare just $5, I’d love your support. You can donate at bit.ly/sleepoutsteve - every dollar counts.
In other news, Collective Campus has just announced a mixed reality startup accelerator in partnership with Microsoft. We will be on the hunt for startups playing in the space of virtual and augmented reality so if you think your organisation could benefit from being involved, we are on the lookout for a one or two partners to come on board so just head to corporateaccelerator.cc to express your interest.
A couple of days ago I posted an article called Why Design Thinking is Never Enough in HBR’s Linkedin group and it’s already pushing over 400 likes so clearly it resonates with people so I thought I’d repurpose it for the listeners of Future Squared
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Jacob Morgan is a best-selling author, speaker, and futurist. He explores what the future of work is going to look like and how to create employee experiences so that people want to show up to work. Jacob has presented his ideas to organizations such as IBM, Disney, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Mastercard, Microsoft, and many others. He has written three books. His most recent book is The Employee Experience Advantage. Prior books include The Future of Work and The Collaborative Organization. He is frequently cited by and contributes to major business publications.
He recently penned The Employee Experience Advantage - How to Win the War for Talent by Giving Employees the Workspaces they Want, the Tools they Need, and a Culture They Can Celebrate, which came out on March 27.
Backed by an extensive research project that looked at over 150 studies and articles, featured extensive interviews with over 150 executives, and analyzed over 250 global organizations, this book clearly breaks down the three environments that make up every single employee experience at every organization around the world and how to design for them.
Topics discussed: - why organisations who rank highly on employee experience outperform those that don't - how to balance freedom with organisational control - cultural, technological and physical environments - why expensive employee engagement programs fail - why yoga and massages aren't enough - the negative impact of short-termism - how to create a place where employees want to show up to work versus need to show up to work - what to do if you have limited budget for employee experience - how to measure the employee experience - dress code - the future of employee experience
Show notes: 1) The book: www.amazon.com/Employee-Experience-Advantage-Employees-Workspaces/dp/111932162X 2) Get the first 30 pages of the book free: Email jacob@thefutureorganization.com 3) Website: thefutureorganization.com 4) Twitter: @jacobm 5) Youtube: jacobmorgan8 6) Podcast: thefutureorganization.com/future-work-podcast/ 7) Jacob's HBR article: hbr.org/2017/03/why-the-millions-we-spend-on-employee-engagement-buy-us-so-little
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If your organisation is embarking upon an innovation program, you need to get the right people on the bus...at first the prospect or participating in an innovation program will seem exciting to everybody and many people will be putting their hands up, but the reality is very few will be built for it and be in it for the long game.
In this episode, we cover 15 attributes of the corporate innovator and intrapreneur.
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We've made it to the end of the 5 day book free promo and what a journey it's been!
The objective of any author who runs a free ebook promo on Amazon is to promote the hell out of it and get their book to #1 in its sub-genres to increase exposure and awareness. I managed to get the book to #1 in all of my target sub-genres within 2 hours of the promo kicking off - including entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, management and startups (it's still #1 in these categories as of writing) ...it got to as high as #3 in the overall business category!
This was all thanks to an elaborate growth hacking exercise that I will share with you in coming days.
But before I wrap up with the book promo, I just wanted to share some words on mindset...or rather, what former Future Squared guest, Peter Diamandis calls a 10X mindset.
We're all trained to think incrementally. To think in terms of 10% growth and to subscribe to platitudes like "Rome wasn't built in a day" and "one step at a time" and in the words of the great Zig Ziglar, anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you can do it well. However, what we define as anything worth doing either puts us on a course to 10% better or a course to 10X better.
So many people I know set instil limitations based on false beliefs.
I often hear people say things like:
"I can't start my own consulting firm until I've worked my way up at a large firm, made partner and built enough relationships and credibility - then I'll be ready" "I'd love to write a book but I don't know where to start. I'll need to get professional coaching and I'll need to find a reputable publisher...then I'll write one." "I'd love to start a podcast but I need to invest in a proper recording studio, research, a marketing team and script writers....then I'll be ready." "I want to get A, B and C right before I do D - then I'll be ready." In all of these cases what usually happens is...nothing. We stack the bricks up so high that the walls look too imposing so we don't even bother.
In the past year with the help of my team, I've released two books, a podcast that has been in the business chart on iTunes since its release over 14 months ago and doubled the size of my boutique consulting business and recently expanding to Singapore.
Is this because I am smarter or more talented than your average person? Definitely not.
It comes back to mindset and what I like to call the 4 P's.
Proactivity. Persistence. Passion. Purpose. It's asking questions like "how can I get a book to #1 on Amazon?" and then building a strategy to get there. And with two self published books under my belt, I do plan on taking the publisher route next time and 10Xing my author efforts, but it won't seem like such an imposing thing to do...and finding a decent publisher, with the success of my current book behind me, should prove to be much easier.
So if you're listening to this - what are your self-limiting beliefs? Where are you wired to think about growing by 10% instead of growing by 1,000%? What questions are you not asking - the answers of which could take you from A to Z in the same time that you normally go from A to B?
For more insights and inspiration, make sure to take advantage of my free book offer before it expires at bit.ly/innovationmanager or search for 'Steve Glaveski' on Amazon.
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Carrie Green is the founder of the Female Entrepreneur Association, an online platform to inspire and empower female entrepreneurs from around the world to turn their ideas into a reality and build successful businesses. FEA publishes a monthly digital magazine, This Girl Means Business, weekly videos and hosts live, online master classes. With over 100,000 women now involved, it’s become one of the fastest growing networks for female entrepreneurs. She has just released her first book, She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur; and hosts a podcast of the same name for ambitious female entrepreneurs who are on or are contemplating the entrepreneurial path.
Topics discussed: - Carrie's book - How Carrie got into business - How she made the jump from law to entrepreneurship - Starting a business at 20 - The importance of mindset and belief - Personal development - The power of visualisation - Customer segmentation - Building your brand - Building an online audience - Female entrepreneurs - The FEA - Carrie's podcast
Show Notes: 1) Carrie's book: https://www.amazon.com/She-Means-Business-Successful-Entrepreneur/dp/1401953166 2) FEA: femaleentrepreneurassociation.com 3) Carrie's podcast: She Means Business on iTunes 4) Carrie on Twitter: @IamCarrieGreen 5) Carrie's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/FemaleEntrepreneur
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It’s day 4 of our 5 day book promo and we're still going strong with over 1,500 downloads so far!
Of course I could not have done this without the support of clients, partners and friends, some of which I wanted to call out and thank in this book launch episode, namely...
Lesbie Barry from Sportsbet Chris and Startup Grind Australia Sean Hanrahan Karen Dillon Pascal Finette from Singaularity University Tim Harford at the BBC Greg Griffiths, AJ and Jeremy from Spigit Evangelos Simoudis Kat and the team at LaunchVic Max Kelly at Techstars London Dan Siepen over at CoderFactory Niko Psaltopoulos from Brand Collective Startup Victoria Steve Brophy Marie Ng SEED Digital Gary and the team at General Assembly Derrick Dicker Nick Sheehan Startup Victoria ...and anybody I have missed, I am sorry, you know I
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And of course my team
It's day 3 of our 5 day book promotion and we have just surpassed 1,000 downloads! Thanks to everybody who has supported the book and helped to spread the word thus far!
Special Offer: If you SHARE the free book offer with your network on LinkedIn I'll personally send you a signed hardcopy! Just head over to bit.ly/innovationbook for a pre-populated share!
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In today's episode of Fast Fix Friday, I discuss how an organisation's environment can be the difference between incremental thinking and breakthrough thinking and draw parallels between this and proliferation of soft, electronic artists in the inner city.
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It's day 2 of our 5 day book promotion and we are already number one on Amazon!
If you haven't already, make sure to download a copy while its free at bit.ly/innovationmanager
In today's episode we talk 3 common mistakes that corporate innovation teams make which comes from a list of 50 you can find in the book!
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My new book is finally out and it’s going to be a big few days ahead as the team and I make our way through a huge backlog of promotional tasks, including this one!
The Innovation Manager's Handbook v2 - Float Like a Corporate, Sting Like a Startup. draws from my experience working with startups and corporate innovation teams at Collective Campus and interviewing countless thought leaders as host of this podcast.
It’s the follow up to v1 of the handbook and goes on to explore maters such as culture and the psychology of innovation as well as productivity and life hacks to embed into your every day!
Lucky listeners of Future Squared can download the Kindle version for FREE on Amazon until Sunday so just head to bit.ly/innovationmanager - and don’t worry if you haven’t got a Kindle, you can access Amazon’s kindle reader on any device!
That’s bit.ly/innovationmanager - and feel free to share this offer with your friends and colleagues and leave a review for the book!
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Tyler Cowen is an American economist, academic, and writer. He is Chair of economics, as a professor at George Mason University, and is co-author, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. Cowen has also ventured into online education by starting Marginal Revolution University.
He currently writes a regular column for Bloomberg View and has written for such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Time, Wired, Newsweek, and the Wilson In February 2011, Cowen received a nomination as one of the most influential economists in the last decade in a survey by The Economist. He was ranked #72 among the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" in 2011 by Foreign Policy Magazine "for finding markets in everything."
Tyler has published a number of books, including An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for everyday foodies, Discover your inner economist, The Great Stagnation , the best selling Average is Over and the newly released The Complacent Class: the self defeating quest for the American Dream.
His latest book has received critical praise from best selling thought leaders such as Malcolm Gladwell who says "Tyler Cowen's blog, Marginal Revolution, is the first thing I read every morning. And his brilliant new book, The Complacent Class, has been on my nightstand after I devoured it in one sitting. I am at round-the-clock Cowen saturation right now."
Topics discussed: -Is technology making us lazier? -Issues with class segregation in society - Our echo chambers - The education system - Immigrants; the non-complacent class - Trump making "America great again" - Why regulation will slow adoption of emerging tech - Are we in a productivity paradox? - No more grand projects - Algorithms and outsourcing - not just human evolution? - What Government needs to do to drive adoption - The declining performance of R&D investments - Elon Musk - financial dilettante or tech visionary? - Gen Y - world changers or lazy? - Universal Basic Income (UBI) - Evolution of AI and its impact on employment
Show notes: 1) The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01JGMCCCQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 2) Average Is Over: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Average-Over-Tyler-Cowen/dp/0142181110/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1490353590&sr=8-3&keywords=tyler+cowen 3) Marginal Revolution: http://marginalrevolution.com/ 4) Tyler's Website: http://tylercowen.com/ 5) How complacent are you quiz: http://tylercowen.com/complacent-class-quiz/ 6) http://www.mruniversity.com/ 7) Twitter: @tylercowen
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I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Lawrence Levy, former CFO of Pixar Animation Studios.
Levy worked closely with Jobs and the Pixar team to design and implement a roadmap that transformed what was a sleepy graphics art studio into one of Hollywood’s greatest success stories, having since generated lifetime box office revenues of US$10.8B.
One thing that most large organisations struggle with is how to balance creativity and innovation with financial objectives and external stakeholders...something that is at the core of what Pixar does. So what I’ve done in today’s episode of Fast Fix Friday is distilled 10 key takeaways on how to build a culture that plays both sides of this coin.
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Attribution: Buzz Lightyear sound and image Copyright Pixar Animation Studios 1995
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Lawrence Levy was the CFO of Pixar Animation Studios from 1994 through to 2001, so in Pixar terms, from ToyStory to Monsters Inc but maintained a Board role until the smash hit Cars in 2006.
Lawrence recently penned To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History, which was an Amazon Best Book of 2016 in Business & Leadership category. The book chronicles how Steve Jobs called Lawrence out of the blue and persuaded him to join Pixar and turnaround a company that was on the verge of failure.
Levy worked closely with Jobs and the Pixar team and implemented a roadmap that transformed the sleepy graphics art studio into one of Hollywood’s greatest success stories.
Today, after a career in Silicon Valley as a lawyer and business executive, Lawrence Levy is co-founder of Juniper Foundation and now writes and teaches on the topics of eastern philosophy and meditation. He is especially interested in the intersection of these ideas with the stresses of contemporary life and corporate culture.
Topics discussed: - how to balance financial objectives with creativity and innovation - aligning vision with investor and stakeholder expectations - creating the conditions to enable creativity - performing scenario analysis to support innovation - building in a buffer for creative mistakes - why leadership is critical to maintaining team morale during longterm creative projects - how to build a culture where people are free to make mistakes - Pixar's 'braintrust': why truth serum is critical to breakthrough innovation - how Toystory went through several script rewrites and Disney shutting down production before finally going live in 1995 and grossing $383M - the challenges of getting Pixar to IPO and getting dropped "like a rock" by prominent investment bankers - receiving a phone call from Steve Jobs in 1994 and being invited to join Pixar - what state Pixar was in when joining the company - what Steve Jobs was really like - how Steve Jobs took Lawrence's resignation to pursue eastern philosophy and spirituality - Lawrence's work in bringing meditation into the corporate world - how meditating can broaden and improve our experience of life and also perform better at work
Show notes: 1) Levy's website: www.lawrencelevy.com 2) To Pixar and Beyond: https://www.amazon.com/Pixar-Beyond-Unlikely-Journey-Entertainment-ebook/dp/B01912OSA0 3) Juniper Foundation: www.juniperpath.org
Animation sound samples: 1) Woody "you are a toy", Buzz Lightyear "to infinity and beyond": Toy Story, Pixar Animation Studios (1995) 2) Bruce the shark: Finding Nemo, Pixar Animation Studios (2003)
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This one is for all of the corporate innovators our there, all of the entrepreneurial thinkers and status quo challengers working for a large company.
You might feel a little bit suffocated or restrained by your companies processes...you might often see your ideas get shot down by middle or senior management, you’re probably asked to completed a 50 page business case simply to test an idea that requires only a few hundred dollars and access to some customers, everything you suggest might require a meeting with key stakeholders who take weeks or months to get around a table and any decisions ultimately require the review and approval of higher ups.
It’s no wonder that innovating in a large company can be hard. I’ve been there, I know what it’s like.
So what can you do if you find yourself up against a brick wall whenever you've got an idea to share? Find some inspiration in this week's instalment of Fast Fix Friday!
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I've been away on business in Singapore and Hong Kong this week, but that doesn't mean I've left you in the lurch. In fact, this week we bring you one of the biggest, most inspiring and influential names in technology and innovation, Dr. Peter Diamandis.
Collective Campus resident Grace Lai and Co-Founder of healthtech coompany, Periop Partners, had the privilege of interviewing Peter when taking part in his Abundance 360 program this year in San Francisco and his given me the opportunity to publish it for the lucky listeners of Future Squared!
As our guest host, she also asked Peter a couple of questions from me (thanks Grace) on Government startup partnerships and what Peter most fears in the world. So, who is Peter Diamandis?
Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. In 2014 he was named one of "The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders" – by Fortune Magazine.
In the field of Innovation, Diamandis is Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight.
Diamandis is also the Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy human lifespan. He is also the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that studies exponentially growing technologies, their ability to transform industries and solve humanity’s grand challenges.
In the field of commercial space, Diamandis is Co-Founder/Co-Chairman of Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to enable the detection and prospecting of asteroid for precious materials. He is also the Co-Founder of Space Adventures and Zero-Gravity Corporation.
Diamandis is the New York Times Bestselling author of Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think and BOLD – How to go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World.
He earned an undergraduate degree in Molecular Genetics and a graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from MIT, and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
Diamandis’ mission is to open the space frontier for humanity. His personal motto is: "The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself."
Topics discussed: - the impact of exponential technology growth - the evolution of healthcare - the automation of many medical professions - the power of a 10X, or abundance, mindset - the power of asking big, bold questions - Government partnerships with startups and emerging technology companies - what Peter most fears in the world
Show notes: 1) Peter's website: diamandis.com 2) Abundance 360 program: abundance360summit.com 3) XPrize: http://diamandis.com/xprize 4) SU: http://diamandis.com/singularity-university 5) HLI: http://diamandis.com/human-longevity-inc 6) Peter's books: https://www.amazon.com/Peter-H.-Diamandis/e/B006392BR2 7) Peter on Twitter: @PeterDiamandis 8) Guest host Grace Lai's company: PeriopPartners.com.au
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I was Hong Kong yesterday giving a talk at Li & Fung, one of the world’s largest supply chain companies when the topic of prototyping came up and how long internal teams should have to build and test an idea which got me thinking about Parkinson’s law and some of my favourite questions to ask.
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Erik Wahl is an internationally recognized graffiti artist, author, philathropist and entrepreneur, Erik redefines the term “keynote speaker.”
Pulling from his history as both a businessman and an artist, he has grown to become one of the most sought-after corporate speakers available today. Erik’s on-stage painting seamlessly becomes a visual metaphor to the core of his message, encouraging organizations toward profitability through innovations and superior levels of performance.
His list of clients includes AT&T, Disney, London School of Business, Microsoft, FedEx, Exxon Mobil, Ernst & Young, and XPrize; Erik has even been featured as a TED presenter. The responses received have been nothing short of incredible, with standing ovations to prove it.
In 2011, Wahl created a 10,000 square-foot Mona Lisa in a desert near Los Angeles. The following year, he was selected by TED as a speaker for the TED2012: Full Spectrum series. Wahl wrote the book Unthink: Rediscover Your Creative Genius in 2013 which was named CEO Reads book of the year in 2013.[13]
As of release, Erik is just days away from releasing his new book The Spark And The Grind: Ignite the Power of Disciplined Creativity which comes out on March 7.
Topics discussed: - The beauty of long haul flights - The Spark & The Grind (Erik’s New Book) - Why we are all creative - Art and expanded consciousness - Stepping back from linear thinking and not being afraid - How important the discipline of daily habit is to creativity - How to seek inspiration - The human connection - How to prime yourself for any performance (including stadium keynotes!) - What would you knew you could not fail? - Why balance between the right brain and left brain is necessary - Meditation and fitness - Being comfortable with being uncomfortable - 80s heavy metal bands (my fault!)
Show Notes: 1) Erik Art of Vision Website: www.theartofvision.com/ 2) Erik New Book: www.amazon.com/Spark-Grind-Ignite-Disciplined-Creativity/dp/0399564209 3) Unthink book - www.amazon.com/Unthink-Rediscover-Your-Creative-Genius/dp/0770434002/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488615576&sr=1-2 4) Erik’s blog post about champions - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/champions-born-thru-adversity-erik-wahl 5) Twitter: https://twitter.com/ErikWahl 6) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamerikwahl/ 7) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meeterikwahl/
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Corporate innovators can learn a lot from the music industry. In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I unpack some key insights from legendary music producer, Rick Rubin, and explore how they apply to the world of corporate innovation.
Heads up, you can now pre-order my new book at www.theinnovationmanagershandbook.com along with free bonus content including a copy of vol 1 of the book, access to an exclusive 1 hour Q&A webinar with me and an innovation healthcheck tool to self assess how innovative your organisation is.
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Omar Zenhom attended Wharton business school and dropped out in frustration to build The $100 MBA. Previously an educator & university manager for 13 years, the $100MBA organisation is on a mission to revolutionise business education.
Omar is also hosts the podcast of the same name which now boasts well over 800 episodes and previously won the Best of iTunes award! He is also co-founder of Webinar Ninja which he has scaled from zero to over $2.6m a year (as of mid-2016, I elude to this probably being much more today during the show) without raising a single dollar of funding, which I think a lot of startups can learn a huge lesson from.
Topics Covered: - Omar’s love for 80’s music - Is a traditional MBA worth it or is it just a time machine? - Drawing on Omar's 13 years in academia and the challenges facing today's fundamentally broken education system - How talent and great ideas don't come close to guaranteeing success in entrepreneurship and how it's all about implementation and resilience - How to dig yourself out of rough patches and what entrepreneur's call the 'trough of despair' - The importance of having a supportive partner and wider circle of influence - Whether immigrants and their children make great entrepreneurs - The $100MBA and Webinar Ninja - Omar's Podcast - Building a startup without sourcing funding and how funding can be both a blessing at times, but more often than not for early stage entrepreneurs, a curse - Why it's important to get a taste for every job in your company before outsourcing or delegating it
Show Notes: 1) The $100 MBA website - 100mba.net 2) The $100 MBA podcast - 100mba.net/show 3) Webinar Ninja - webinarninja.co 4) Omar on Twitter: twitter.com/theomarzenhom
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Feedback… when was the last time you asked of objective, honest and critical feedback?
I’m not just talking about those mandated and ineffective annual performance reviews, I’m talking about ongoing feedback from not just people above you in the food chain, but your peers and people who report to you.
The human brain can only consciously process something like 120 bits of information, yet at any given moment we are surrounded by several million bits of information which we can only ever process subconsciously.
As such, our perceptions of the world are shaped by how we choose to see them, and often, our perceptions of ourselves too.
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I talk feedback, and why you should be getting it often.
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Show Notes - Mark Waldman
Mark Robert Waldman is the neuroscience researcher and creator of NeuroWisdom 101. His national bestseller How God Changes Your Brain was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as one of her “must read” books of 2012. A leading expert on spirituality, communication, and the brain, Mark is on the Executive MBA faculty at Loyola Marymount University.
The author of 14 books, Mark’s in-depth research has been published in neuroscience and psychology journals throughout the world and his work has been featured in Time Magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and “O”, The Oprah Magazine.
He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs, including PBS and NPR, and his TEDx Talk has been viewed by more than 100,000 people.
Mark travels throughout the world teaching mindfulness and Neuroleadership strategies to colleges, corporations, and philanthropic organizations.
Topics Covered: - Maintaining mindfulness throughout your whole day - Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) - Mindfulness techniques (we practice these during the episode) - Relaxation & mindfulness in the business community - Brain training strategies (60 second strategies) - Meditative states - The power of daydreaming - Shrinking the amygdala and our fear responses - The Pomodoro technique - The 8 principles of effective learning
Show Notes: 1) Mark’s Website - http://markrobertwaldman.com/ 2) Neurowisdom - https://www.amazon.com/NeuroWisdom-Brain-Science-Happiness.../1682303055 3) Word’s Can Change Your Brain - https://www.amazon.com/Words-Can-Change-Your-Brain/dp/1491512652 4) Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkRWaldman
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When I say entrepreneurship in 2017, what comes to mind? Emerging technologies, youthful exuberance, risk taking and social media platforms perhaps. Government rarely comes to mind.
However, if it wasn’t for the US Government then you mightn’t be connecting with people via Facebook, searching for information via Google or read articles like this on your Apple iPad.
In this episode, I explore what's currently broken when it comes to Government startup engagement and some key things it could be doing to facilitate innovation instead of just regulate it.
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Tim Harford returns to part 2 of our chat inspired by his new book Messy which explores the connection between chaos and creativity.
Tim is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of “Messy” and the million-selling “The Undercover Economist”, a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4’s “More or Less”. Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House and is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was Economics Commentator of the Year 2014, winner of the Royal Statistical Society journalistic excellence award 2015, won the Society of Business Economists writing prize 2014-15, and the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006 and 2016.
Topics Covered: - 50 Things that made the modern economy - Double Entry Bookkeeping with Leonardo Da Vinci - Clean desk policies - Activity based working and open plan offices - The digital equivalent to piles of paper - MIT's Building 20 - Diversity in friendship groups at different size universities and class sizes
Show Notes: 1) Tim’s Website - http://timharford.com/ 2) Tim’s Podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b1g3c/episodes/downloads 3) Tim’s books: Messy - http://timharford.com/books/messy/ The Undercover Economist Strikes Back - http://timharford.com/books/undercovereconomist-strikes-back/ Adapt - http://timharford.com/books/adapt/ 4) Alex Haslam - Research on office spaces - http://www.nature.com/scientificamericanmind/journal/v21/n4/full/scientificamericanmind0910-30.html
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Belief has underpinned mankind’s greatest achievements... Whether it was sending a man to the moon, getting a plane in the air or conquering Mount Evert, it all started with belief.
Your belief underpins your behaviour which in turn determines your results.
Hear how to re-write your self limiting beliefs with new ones in order to live a more fulfilling and rewarding life.
Show Notes: 1) TonyRobbins.com 2) Get the book - Unlimited Power: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8676.Unlimited_Power_
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Alec Ross is one of America’s leading experts on innovation. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Industries of the Future. The Industries of the Future explores the technological and economic trends and developments that will shape the next ten years, from cybersecurity and big data to the commercialization of genomics to the code-ification of money, markets and trust.
Alec Ross recently served for four year as Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a role created for him by Secretary Clinton to maximize the potential of technology and innovation in service of America’s diplomatic agenda. In this role, Alec acted as the diplomatic lead on a range of issues including cybersecurity, Internet Freedom, disaster response and the use of network technologies in conflict zones.
Previously, Alec served as the Convener for the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Policy Committee on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and served on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.
Alec has received countless accolades including Oxford University’s Internet & Society Award, Forbes top 10 technology reads of 2016, the US Department of State’s Distinguished Honour Award, Huffington Posts’ 10 Game Changers in Politics award and the Tribeca Film Festival Disruptive Innovation award.
Topics discussed: - The industries of the future - What opportunities leaders, entrepreneurs and individuals should explore in the next 10 years Alec’s career trajectory: from "cleaning up whiskey smelling puke" to advising Barack Obama - Why Alec thinks "Donald Trump is an idiot" and immigration reform - The role that Governments should play to accelerate innovation, not stifle it - The education system and what has to change - The Baltimore School System - The growing gap between productivity and the labor force - The skills deficit behind angst in middle America and the Rust Belt - - Exclusive globalisation - Automation of both white collar and blue collar jobs - Universal basic income - AI: is Skynet a threat? - What happens when the majority of our jobs are automated? - The relationship between human longevity and its affect on innovation
Show Notes: 1) Alec’s Website: alecross.com 2)Alec on Facebook: facebook.com/Alec.Ross1234/ 3) Alec on Twitter: twitter.com/AlecJRoss 4) Alec’s book: amazon.com/Industries-Future-Alec-Ross/dp/1476753652
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As human beings we are hard-wired to the fight or flight response - we move towards that which will bring us joy and away from that which will bring us pain.
These instincts trace their origins back to a time when we were hunter gatherers, a time when we were at one with the wild and had to watch our every step in order to simply survive.
But times have changed and instead of running from predators, we're running from rejection.
Hear why you should make friends with no.
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Jamie Wheal is Executive Director of Flow Genome Project which he heads up alongside Steven Kotler, who you might know from books such as The Rise of Superman and Abundance, co-written with Peter Diamandis.
Jamie is a leading expert on the neuro-physiology of human performance. His work ranges from Fortune 500 companies like Cisco, Google, and Nike, to the U.S. Naval War College and Red Bull. He combines a background in expeditionary leadership, wilderness medicine and surf rescue, with over a decade advising high-growth companies on strategy, execution and leadership. He speaks to diverse and high-performing communities such as Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), Summit Series, and MaiTai Global on the intersection of science and high performance.
At the Flow Genome Project, he leads a team of the world’s top scientists, athletes and artists dedicated to mapping the genome of the peak-performance state known as Flow.
Jamie and Steven have co-penned their new book Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work, out next month. The book explores four years investigating the leading edges of this revolution—from the home of SEAL Team Six to the Googleplex, the Burning Man festival, Richard Branson’s Necker Island, Red Bull’s training center, Nike’s innovation team, and the United Nations’ Headquarters. And what they learned was stunning: In their own ways, with differing languages, techniques, and applications, every one of these groups has been quietly seeking the same thing: the boost in information and inspiration that altered states provide.
Listeners will know I’m a big believer in the power of flow and a huge fan of co-author Steven Kotler’s earlier work, The Rise of Superman - and if you haven’t listened to it already, check out episode #15 on how flow can help you increase productivity by 500%.
This episode was jam packed with value bombs. Learn how to find your optimal creative state using everything from exercise and meditation to micro-dosing on LSD and hallucinogens!
Topics Covered: - What is flow - The neuroscience of flow, meditative, psychedelic and peak sexual states - What inhibits you from getting into your optimal creative state - Why brainstorming and all-nighters don't really work - Anandamide: the creativity molecule, why you need it to be creative and how to increase your production of it - Why the human mind only consciously processes 0.002% of its surroundings and how to tap into the other 99.998% - Micro-dosing on psychedelics and hallucinogens - How to create the optimal creative environment for your team - Is biohacking worth it? - Spiritual materialism - Getting back into the flow state after being interrupted - Priming practices to optimise your morning and day
Show Notes: 1) Flow Genome Project: flowgenomeproject.com 2) Flow Genome Project Facebook Page: facebook.com/Flowgenome 3) Stealing Fire website: stealingfirebook.com 4) Stealing Fire on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Fire-Maverick-Scientists-Revolutionizing/dp/0062429655
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This Sunday we’ll be bringing you an interview with Jamie Wheal, co-founder of The Flow Genome Project, alongside Steven Kotler who wrote some books I’m sure many of the listeners of this show will know such as The Rise Of Superman and of course Abundance, which was co-written with Dr Peter Diamandis who will also be on the show in coming weeks.
We talked about all of the weird and wonderful things that people do to get them into an optimal state including biohacking and one underlying theme that emerged from this conversation was that we should never confuse a means to an end with being an end in itself, which is a trap that can be easy to fall into.
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I explore this topic and leave you with a question to ponder before you head off for the weekend.
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Parag Khanna makes his return to Future Squared upon the release of his follow up to last year’s critically acclaimed Connectography, entitled Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info State which in the wake of Brexit and Trump argues for a new kind of democracy for a complex 21st century, one that Khanna calls a "direct technocracy," led by experts but perpetually consulting the people through a combination of democracy and data.
When not penning books, Parag is a leading global strategist and world traveler. He is a CNN Global Contributor and Managing Partner of Hybrid Reality, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm.
If you haven’t listened to it already, check out episode #39 in which Parag talks about his previous book Connectography which explored mankind’s investment of more than ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the world’s burgeoning megacities together and the profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity.
Topics Covered: - Parag’s new book, Technocracy in America - Trump (of course) - Technocratic systems - Lessons from Switzerland, Singapore and India's technocratic Governments - Why technocracy can end economic policy flip-flopping which usually comes at a detriment to the people - Public private partnerships and expert engagement - How to recruit and engage top talent to Government - Artificial intelligence and universal based income - Transforming education to address the growing gap between productivity and workforce - The evolving role of Government
Show Notes: 1) Parag’s Website - http://www.paragkhanna.com/ 2) Parag on social: - www.linkedin.com/in/drparagkhanna - twitter.com/paragkhanna - www.facebook.com/DrParagKhanna
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f you’re not failing, you’re not innovating.
Elon Musk’s words are echoed by most successful entrepreneurs and corporate innovators.
If you’re not willing to fail, then you will only ever embark upon safe, incremental improvements, where you have all the answers and therefore can’t fail.
However, in today’s rapidly moving environment yesterday’s answers are fast becoming redundant and tomorrow’s are mostly unknown. The only way to unlock the answers is by doing, failing and learning from your mistakes.
But failure, done incorrectly, can cost companies millions.
This is why it’s important to optimise the Return on Failure (RoF) in order to support management buy-in, optimise learnings and increase an organisation’s likelihood of success when it comes to innovation.
SO how do we optimise RoF? Listen to this episode of Fast Fix Friday to find out!
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Tim Harford is the author of the bestseller The Undercover Economist, Adapt and The Logic of Life and is a member of the editorial board of the Financial Times, where he also writes the “Dear Economist” column.
Tim has just released his Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, which New York Times bestselling author, Adam Grant, says is utterly fascinating. The book celebrates the benefits that messiness has in our lives: why it’s important, why we resist it, and why we should embrace it instead.
He is a regular contributor to Slate, Forbes, and NPR’s Marketplace. He was the host of the BBC TV series Trust Me, I’m an Economist and now presents the BBC series More or Less. Harford has been an economist at the World Bank and an economics tutor at Oxford University.
Malcolm Gladwell says that “every Tim Harford book is a cause for celebration” so with adulation like that I simply coudn’t get Tim get away with just a 30 minute interview when there is simply so much to talk about so he’ll be joining me and by extension, you again next month for part 2 of this interview.
But first, I bring you part one with the one, the only, Tim Harford.
Topics discussed: - Tim’s latest book - The jazz composition that almost never was... and Black Sabbath - Why clean organisations are often slow moving organisations - The connection between messiness and creativity - Our self reinforcing social media bubbles - Should we be moving to hybrid organisations? - Using chaos and messiness as an offensive weapon in business - Is inbox zero a waste of time?
Show Notes: 1) Tim’s Website: timharford.com 2) Tim’s books: - Messy: http://timharford.com/books/messy - The Undercover Economist: timharford.com/books/undercovereconomist-strikes-back/ - Adapt: http://timharford.com/books/adapt - The Logic of Life: timharford.com/books/logicoflife 3) Tim's Twitter: twitter.com/timharford
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Corporate legal and compliance (L&C) teams are usually considered the very antithesis of corporate innovation. The perennial “no” amidst a wide-eyed crowd enthusiastic with the prospect of shaking up the status quo and creating something new.
It is not without reason.
Established organisations have all implemented systems, processes and recruited people to keep the business afloat and keep it delivering on a repeatable and scaleable business model.
For organisations in industries such as healthcare and financial services, this goes one step further to ensuring that the delivery of this business model does not contravene any governing regulation.
While startups can often avoid the attention of regulators while they are small but as they find traction, grow and become more profitable, is is far more likely that they will capture the attention of regulators, as UBER and Airbnb discovered during their growth curve. The cost can often be hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in penalties, reputational damage, loss of business and worst of all a suspension or revocation of license to operate.
So how then do organisations with regulators watching over their every move run experiments to test new ideas, a process fundamental to the science of innovation?
Listen to this episode to find out!
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In this 'tableturner' episode of Future Squared, your host gets interviewed himself by Logan Merrick, co-founder of Buzinga App Development.
This episode originally appeared on Invisage, Buzinga’s podcast. You might remember Logan from episode #85 of Future Squared where we talked all manner of things from app development to 14 day silent meditation retreats!
When it came time to turn the tables and appear on Logan’s podcast, we talked everything corporate innovation and intrepreneurship and it turned out to be one helluva chat.
I just had to bring this chat to you, the listeners of Future Squared, and the guys from Buzinga were gracious enough to let me double down on this episode.
Topics discussed: - The biggest misconception about enterprise innovation - Are millennials inherently better innovators? We discuss the ideal mix of generations in your team. - The 3 highest impact actions you can take today to make your company innovative - Which corporate companies are leading the way in this arena?
Show Notes: Buzinga's podcast: http://www.buzinga.com.au/buzz/18-collective-campus/
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Hello everybody from 2017… we hope you’re as pumped as we are at Collective Campus about this year and have set yourself some big hairy audacious goals to work towards this year.
Before I get into today’s fast fix I’d like to remind you that Future Squared has been nominated for the very first Australian Podcasting Awards people’s choice award, so instead of asking you to like us on iTunes, all I ask, as we endeavour to bring you another 100 episodes this year, is for 1 minute of your time to head on over to bit.ly/futuresquared and like this show - that’s all you have to do.
Getting this type of recognition will go a long way to supporting this show and provide us with the energy and momentum we need to continue bringing you amazing guests, week in, week out. That link again was bit.ly/futuresquared.
Today, I want to talk about sharing information, a topic inspired by the late 27 year old Aaron Swartz. Aaron was a co-founder of Reddit, was heavily involved in the development of the RSS feed in his early teens and above all, will be remembered for being an internet hacktivist, who campaigned against the Stop Online Piracy Act and supported the free flow of information.
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Achievement unlocked Episode #100 is here and what a super special episode it is!
A couple of weeks ago on an episode of Fast Fix Friday called Why I Do What I do, I spoke of a touching email I had received from Alex Henderson, one of the alums of Lemonade Stand, a 2 day kids entrepreneurship program that we run to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs.
The budding young startup founder wrote to let me in on how the program had opened his eyes to the possibilities and inspired him to start a business and that he had gone one step further and already just launched.
As it is now the school holiday season here in Melbourne, Australia, I couldn’t help but reach out and invite Alex to appear on Future Squared to not only inspire other parents and their kids, but basically anybody out there who has made excuses in business and in life - age, lack of money and resources, no experience, no networks - these all come with very low barriers that can be overcome with, Alex tells us, nothing more than an internet connection, a laptop and the right attitude.
And with that, I’d just like to say thank you for listening to Future Squared in 2016. It has been an absolutely massive year for the team on a number of fronts and we simply could not have achieved what we have without you, our loyal audience.
I hope that this show has inspired you to new heights in both your personal and professional life and look forward to bringing you much more #inspo in 2017 as we set out to publish another 100 episodes before the year closes out.
Until next time, enjoy your new years eve shenanigans, whatever it is you get up to. I’m off to spend some time attempting to kitesurf while doing my best to avoid facepalming the water. See you in 2017!
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The silly season is now in full swing, many of us will make bold promises to ourselves in the form of new year's resolutions. Almost a third of these resolutions would have become unstuck in the first two weeks of 2017, according to research carried out by StatisticBrain.
In this episode, I talk about blockers and enablers. Whatever your resolution, make sure you address these first if you want to make it to the end of 2017 amongst the 8% of people who achieved and kept their resolutions.
Want to let me know what your resolutions are? I'd love to hear from you on Twitter @steveglaveski
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In today's episode, we reverse the tables as Future Squared host Steve Glaveski is interviewed by founder and CEO of fashion startup Akagu, Jimmy Zhong, who Steve frequently provides some mentorship to.
The topic? How do you prepare for a new year and maintain your mojo throughout. If you're looking to set your body and mind up for a big 2017 and stick to those new year resolutions, then you might learn a thing or two.
Fitness, mindfulness, productivity - we cover everything in bite size chunks in this short end of year episode of Future Squared!
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Paul Smith is one of the world’s leading experts on organizational storytelling. He’s a keynote speaker, storytelling coach, and author of the books Sell with a Story, Parenting with a Story, and the bestseller Lead with a Story already in its 8th printing and available in 6 languages around the world.
Paul is also a former consultant at Accenture and former executive and 20-year veteran of The Procter & Gamble Company.
As part of his research on the effectiveness of storytelling, Paul has personally interviewed over 250 CEOs, executives, leaders, and salespeople in 25 countries, documenting over 2,000 individual stories. Leveraging those stories and interviews, Paul identified the components of effective storytelling, and developed templates and tools to apply them in practice.
His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, Time, Forbes, Fast Company, The Washington Post, PR News, and Success Magazine, among others.
Paul delivers professional workshops and keynote addresses on effective storytelling for leaders and salespeople. His clients include international giants like Hewlett Packard, Google, Ford Motor Company, Bayer Medical, Abbott, Novartis, Progressive Insurance, Kaiser Permanente, and P&G.
Topics Covered: - Launching his own company after a very long career with P&G - How to Sell with a Story - How to tell a story: the fundamental building blocks and structure of a good story - How telling a story can aide you in all facets of life, not just business - Swimming Pigs! - Case studies of selling with a story - How to hook your audience (and keep them hooked!) - Storytelling's role in Brexit and Trump - 25 stories every sales person needs - How to overcome strong objections - Why we are ALL salespeople - How to end your story with a surprise
Show Notes: 1) Paul’s Website 2)Lead with a story - http://leadwithastory.com/ 3)Sell with a Story - https://www.amazon.com/Sell-Story-Capture-Attention-Build/dp/0814437117 4) Parenting with a Story - https://www.amazon.com/Parenting-Story-Real-Life-Character-Children/dp/081443357X 5) Paul’s podcast: http://leadwithastory.com/podcast-2/
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Looks like I got you! Nobody was going to open a boring old 'our year in review' episode, but James Brown, Bobby Byrd and a cheeky play on words and BAM!
So as the title suggests it's been a huge year for the team here at Collective Campus. We didn't realise just how big this year has been and how much we've achieved until we sat down and reflected on it.
We hope you find some time to do the same. I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised!
I've summarised some of our highlights for 2016 which could definitely not have been possible without all of you, so from all of us here at Collective Campus and Future Squared, we'd just like to say THANK YOU.
We can't wait to bring you more innovation inspiration in 2017.
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I recently hosted a live Future Squared panel event where I had the chance to interview Brent Lehmann (GM at Willis Towers Watson, a lading global insurance broker and advisory company, Adrian Wrathall (motor Product Manager and CGU Insruance) and Rob Aktanarowicz (National Underwriter for Commercial and Heavy Motor at CGU Insurance).
We explored many topics including the moral dilemma around self driving cars, legislation and infrastructure supporting the proliferation of self driving cars and my favourite question and the title of this episode, who pays when a self driving car kills?
Note: Please excuse the audio quality of this episode. A number of factors worked against us here so we relied on the backup Facebook live video instead! Still, packed with great content so don't let that detract you!
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Kevin Mulcahy is a highly popular speaker on workplace trends, executive coach to senior executives, and curator of insights on shifts in the workplace and workforce for senior HR leaders at Cisco, GE, Microsoft, MasterCard, Qualcomm, Saint-Gobain and others.
He presents globally on the shifts in expectations of employees, the role of new technologies in the workplace and the changing composition of the workforce. The essence of the insights and wisdom from his own and the experiences of co-author Jeanne C Meister are synthesized into their recently released book, The Future Workplace Experience.
Kevin co-curates ‘The Future Workplace Network', a membership community for HR executives to come together in person and virtually. Senior HR members gather several times a year to discuss, debate and share 'next' practices impacting the workplace and workforce of the future and the future of learning, communicating and working.
Most of us have a workplace that is undergoing significant change from how we got our work done previously. Mulcahy is committed to helping talent leaders reimagine and rethink the convergence of the obvious and not so obvious trends reshaping our workplaces and workforces.
His career has spanned across various industries as a consultant, researcher, corporate strategist and company founder and CEO. He is a faculty member at Babson College and an executive coach at the Harvard Business School. Kevin lives in Boston, MA, USA.
Topics discussed: - 10 rules for mastering recruitment and engagement - What the future workplace looks like - How to get the right people on the bus - Why you should become T-shaped - Attitude versus skill - The diminishing value of University degrees for many roles - The importance of just in time modular learning - How to increase employee engagement - Optimising the employee experience, not just the customer experience - Tapping the power of multiple generations to harness greater outcomes
Show notes: 1) Kevin’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinmulcahy1 2) Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Future-Workplace-Experience-Disruption-Recruiting/dp/1259589382/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk all about the power of 10X vision.
Most of us chug along trying to grow revenues, our businesses, our personal brands incrementally and sustainably over time. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this approach., I myself am a big believer in persistence trumping talent 8 days a week, and aesop’s fable, ‘the tortoise and the hare’ favours the slowly but surely approach over the quick off the mark risk laden approach.
But if you’re looking to create dramatic impact, thinking and acting incrementally might not be enough. Rather than looking for 10% growth next year, perhaps you can ask yourself how you plan on growing by 10x, that’s 1000%, next year. Or as Peter Thiel of Paypal and Palantir fame says, how can you achieve your 10 year plan in the next 6 months?
This simple question prompts us ask questions of ourselves and our businesses that we normally wouldn’t ask.
I asked myself this question just the other night and spent 2 hours on my couch, doodling and mindmapping away potential growth opportunities and came up with over 130 to begin with, which mind you could be further broken down into subideas.
So, if you want to 10x your business next year, I talk through 11 things you might want to think about in this episode of Future Squared.
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We recently hosted a small party with some of our friends here at Collective Campus in Melbourne and after about 4 glasses of Gray Goose I couldn’t help but do the rounds and ask people in attendance, most of whom are either building startups, are working with emerging tech or are navigating the tangled web of corporate innovation, what kinds of technologies get them most excited about 2017.
This came about 4 or so glasses of Gray Gose into the evening so I slur my words or sound a little too excited, you’ll just have to forgive me.
Show Notes (in order of appearance): 1) Akagu.com.au 2) InsideInnovation.co 3) Ubiquitus.co 4) RazorSharpShow.com 5) Michy.co 6) BlockZero.io
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Susan David, PhD, is a psychologist on faculty at Harvard Medical School, co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, and CEO of Evidence Based Psychology.
An in-demand speaker and consultant, David has worked with senior leadership of hundreds of major organizations, including the United Nations, Ernst & Young, and the World Economic Forum. Her work has been featured in numerous leading publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Time, Fast Company, and the Wall Street Journal.
Susan is author of the definitive Oxford Handbook of Happiness (Oxford University Press, 2013), Beyond Goals: Effective Strategies for Coaching and Mentoring (Gower, 2013). She also authored the top rated Harvard Business Review article “Emotional Agility” which was named as a Management Idea of the Year and was the impetus for her book “Emotional Agility” (Penguin, 2016) which is being translated into multiple languages. Her work is frequently featured in the media including HBR, TIME, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, and Inc.com.
Originally from South Africa, she lives outside of Boston with her family.
Topics Covered: - Growing up in South Africa - How people deal effectively with trauma and emotional difficulty - What is Emotional Agility - Facing complexity and ambiguity - Overcoming Depression - Cultivating resilience and agility - “Getting unhooked” - Creating value through habits - Power of values and qualities of actions - The difference between want to and have to - Practical exercises you can try to sharpen your emotional agility - Self censoring - The power of labelling - Mindfulness and meditation
Show Notes: 1) Susan’s Website - http://www.susandavid.com/ 2) Emotional Agility Quiz - http://www.susandavid.com/learn 3) Buy Emotional Agility - https://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Agility-Unstuck-Embrace-Change/dp/1592409490 4) Susan’s other books - https://www.amazon.com/Susan-David/e/B00ASOOXMO/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1 5) Susan’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanadavidphd 6) Susan's Twitter - https://twitter.com/SusanDavid_PhD
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Listeners of this show will know that one of the projects we spend some time on is Lemonade Stand, a children’s entrepreneurship program we’ve run across Australia and more recently in Singapore, designed to inspire kids with the entrpereneurial mindset in order to help them become more adaptable in a time where more than half of today’s jobs are set to be replaced in the next 10 to 15 years and today’s kids face iincreasingly uncertain futures.
Just this week one of our 11 year old alums sent me an email and I just had to share it because it demonstrates what kids are capable of when we give them a bit of direction and a whole lot of inspiration. With barriers to entry for ANYONE wanting to start a business being as low as they are today, this email proves that no matter who you are, how old you are, what your personal circumstances, the only thing that stands between you and your dreams is attitude.
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Marc Levinson is an economist and historian specializing in business and finance. He was formerly finance and economics editor of The Economist, worked as an economist for 10 years at JP Morgan in New York, and served as senior fellow for international business at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Marc has penned several books including Guide to the Financial Markets, The Box - How the Shipping Container Made The World Smaller and the Economy Bigger, and most recently An Extraordinary Time, which explores the end of the postwar boom and the return to the ordinary economy.
A must listen if you're concerned about Trump, Brexit, the economy at large and the broader impact of artificial intelligence on society.
Topics Covered: - Marc's new book, An Extraordinary Time - The post war boom and what we can draw from it today - The role of Government in manipulating the economy - Are we living in the best times ever? - The impact of artificial intelligence on the employment landscape and society at large - Innovation and the Productivity Paradox - Technology adoption lags - The inverse relationship between productivity and employment - Trump - Brexit - Exclusive Globalisation
Show Notes: 1) Marc’s Website - http://www.marclevinson.net 2)An Extraordinary Time: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Extraordinary-Time- Postwar-Ordinary-Economy/dp/0465061982 3) The Box: https://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy/dp/0691136408
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I recently returned from a business meets leisure trip to Singapore and Vietnam where I had the opportunity to learn a little more about the latter's history, in particular that pertaining to the Vietnam War, a war that the under-resourced North Vietnamese won against the might of the Americans and its Allies.
Large organisations with the vast resources and figurative firepower at their disposal shouldn’t underestimate is what an environment of scarce resources, paired with an incredibly strong mindset can do.
In this episode, I discuss the ingenuity of the North Vietnamese and the number one characteristic that separates successful entrepreneurs and innovators from the pack.
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Ryan Blair is a serial entrepreneur and self-made millionaire who had nothing to lose and everything to gain. At just 21 years old, Blair founded his first company, 24/7 Tech, and by the age of 34, he has founded and sold numerous businesses for hundreds of millions of dollars.
In August 2011, Blair authored the New York Times Best Seller, "Nothing To Lose and Everything To Gain: How I Went From Gang Member To Multimillionaire Entrepreneur." Uncensored and raw in his account of growing up in the face of adversity, Blair effectively imparts lessons learned from obstacles faced and provides a road map for entrepreneurial success.
His biggest endeavor yet has been the overhaul of ViSalus Sciences, a company that manufactures weight loss and nutritional supplement products. Blair originally sold the company, but within just a few months, due to the recession, ViSalus was within one month from having to declare bankruptcy. As CEO, Blair went all-in, personally investing his last million dollars on a new business model that would later revolutionize the 118 billion dollar direct selling industry. In just 21 months, ViSalus went from 600,000 to 30 million dollars in monthly sales and is still climbing.
Blair regularly appears as a business expert on national television networks such as CNBC, MSNBC, and Fox. He has also been featured in major publications including Fortune Magazine, BusinessWeek, Forbes Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. Blair is also a contributor for the Financial Times and took a turn in movie production serving as Executive Producer of Man in the Glass: The Dale Brown Story, an award winning documentary about the legendary LSU Basketball Coach.
Blair's captivating story was also a bestseller in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and Inc. Magazine, amongst others. Through a candid and unfiltered voice, Nothing to Lose speaks to everyone, from struggling youth to thriving businessmen alike, illustrating how to turn failures into successes.
Topics Covered: - Ryan’s Journey (Gang members, a violent father, family in jail and his first kiss dying in a drive by, right through to starting and running multi-million dollar companies) - Ryan’s Books - Rockbottom to Rockstar and Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain. - Unintended consequences of negative reenforcement - Seeing obstacles as opportunities - Humility, ego, self assuredness and insecurity - Going Bankrupt - #one project - The impact of AI on improving learning outcomes and education, especially for children with traditional learning disabilities - Don't believe your own hype - Focus on knowing when to say "no" - How Steve Jobs helped Ryan through his darkest moments - How to instill hunger and humility in children growing up in the Hollywood Hills with a Ferrari in the driveway - Why you should ask good questions - Ryan’s Top 3 pieces career advice - Man In The Glass documentary
Show Notes: Ryan’s Website - http://www.ryanblair.com/ Ryan’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/RyanBlair Ryan’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanblair Nothing to Lose: The Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-_Ng3Tul8g Ryan’s first book: Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nothing-Lose- Everything-Gain-Multimillionaire/dp/1591845998 Ryan’s second book: Rock Bottom to Rock Star - https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Bottom-Star-Lessons.../dp/1101980559 Steve Jobs blog - http://www.ryanblair.com/how-steve- jobs-helped- me-through- my-rock- bottom-moment/
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This week's Fast Fix Friday musing comes from a conversation I had on my current trip to Singapore. Apologies for the audio quality of this episode - recorded in my Airbnb'd apartment in downtown Singapore via my laptop mic (yes, I forgot to pack my headset...fail).
So why do developing countries like Vietnam command ubiquitous wireless internet access while countries like Australia don't? Listen to hear some ponderings and chime in with your thoughts on Twitter at @steveglaveski
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Logan Merrick is a co-founder and strategic director of Buzinga App Development, Australia’s leading app development company building meaningful, game-changing apps for emerging tech businesses and innovative enterprises.
Logan started Buzinga in June 2012 with his co-founder Graham, spurred on by a passion for technology, customer service and workplace happiness that would make a huge impact in the global app development scene.
Logan’s creativity and drive for innovation, combined with Graham’s analytical, process driven approach to business, has taken Buzinga from a team of 8 people ‘incubating’ in Graham’s lounge room to a team of 30 powerhouse app development professionals.
Logan is an incredibly passionate and driven innovator who does things ‘hard and fast’. This philosophy has led to Buzinga’s phenomenal growth and reputation as leaders in delivering creative, high-quality mobile solutions that have a lasting impact.
Buzinga has had 2 apps hit #1 on the app store in the last 6 months, a $12million acquisition, been recognised in BRW’s Fast Starters of 2015, a finalist for Startup Smart’s Best Australian Startup, and is a finalist for Australia’s Coolest Tech Company.
Logan is a recognised speaker, mentor and investor in the tech community of Australia, specialising in mobile first strategy and design innovation. Logan has been working in the mobile space for over 5 years with direct involvement in over 150 projects. He directs the marketing and consulting functions of the business whist driving the strategy behind product development, user acquisition and customer engagement.
Topics Covered: - Navigating growth: from two people to 30 people in just four years - Technology Trends - Healthtech - The future of apps - The role of augmented reality - App development for corporates - Healthtech and apps - Innovation and ideation for app development - How to attract, engage and retain top talent - Facebook , Messenger, Instagram, Snapchat and Whatsapp - who will win? - Living longer, eating differently and improving your quality of life - Removing technology from your morning routine - 14 day silent meditation retreats and what one can expect to get out of such experiences
Show Notes: 1) http://www.buzinga.com.au/ - Logan’s Company 2) http://www.georgeinstitute.org.au/ - The George Institute 3) https://www.linkedin.com/in/loganmerrick - Logan’s Linkedin
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Just yesterday, I had the pleasure of interviewing Ryan Blair, bestselling author as well as founder and CEO of Visalus, a nutrition company which today generates over a billion dollars in product sales.
I look forward to bringing you that interview soon but for today’s episode of Fast Fix Friday I wanted to focus on something Ryan raised during our conversation which he says is critical to work towards maintaining if you want to achieve success in business and in life.
Staying humble.
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Justin Lokitz is an experienced strategy consultant and business designer who is responsible for the Business Models Inc. office in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, CA USA. He supports organizations by getting teams to think broadly and expansively about their own strategies and business models. Using his power to connect-the-dots, Justin has an impressive ability to get organizations thinking like start-ups and industry disrupters. What’s more through his expert facilitation skills, Justin has a proven track record of guiding organizations to ‘aha’ moments.
With 15+ years of experience of managing products and business model strategies for large, multi-national corporations, like Autodesk and Oracle, as well as small start-ups, Justin leverages his experience across a wide range of industry sectors to help large companies think, innovate and design more like start-ups, while helping start-ups find sustainable business models. Whether he is helping teams innovate, scale new products, or create sustainable strategies for the future, Justin does so by making strategy design an engaging experience.
Justin holds a BA in Environmental Science and Geography, from University of California Santa Barbara, a MBA in Design Strategy, from California College of the Arts, as well as professional certifications in software development and product management, from University of California Berkeley.
Topics Discussed: - Design a better business book - 20 different tools in the book - Using the tools that suit your business - Ideation tools - Developing and writing a business book using design thinking - The challenges of getting companies to become innovative - Becoming partners in business and speaking to your customers - The unwillingness of large companies to accept uncertainty - Using reports and data in the right ways to back a strategy - Looking longterm and scaling - Understanding your customers (Blog post link below)
Show Notes: Business Models inc -http://www.businessmodelsinc.com/connect/team/justin/ The Book - http://designabetterbusiness.com/ Justin's Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmlokitz Justin's Twitter - https://twitter.com/jmlokitz The book on Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-Better-Business-Strategy-Innovation/dp/1119272114 3 simples ways to understand your customers and win - http://designabetterbusiness.com/2016/05/12/3-simple-steps-to-understand-your-customers-and-win/ - Eric Ries' Longterm Stock Exchange - http://qz.com/704657/eric-ries-ltse-long-term-stock-exchange/ -
Books mentioned by Steve: Value Proposition Design - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Value-Proposition-Design-Customers-Strategyzer-x/dp/1118968050 Business Model Generation - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-Challengers/dp/0470876417
Tools Mentioned: Google Sprint methodology - https://developers.google.com/design-sprint/
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Proponents of human longevity, let’s call them ‘longevists’, are advocating, exploring and commercialising new technologies and methods to effectively slow down or reverse the process of aging in order to extend both the maximum and average lifespan.
Longevists such as Peter Diamandis of Human Longevity Inc (HLI) believe that breakthroughs in tissue rejuvenation and regenerative medicine, genomics, nanotechnology, molecular repair and organ replacement paired with the exponential growth in sophisticated AI/machine learning and deep analytics software will eventually enable humans to have indefinite lifespans through complete rejuvenation to a healthy youthful condition.
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I go an inch deep and a mile wide into some of the medical technologies and advances that are poised to extend the healthy human lifespan and effectively aim to prompt a conversation on what the potential implications of a considerably longer lifespan would be on different facets of our lives, be they economic, social, political or environmental.
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Summer Howarth is first and foremost a teacher with an unwavering belief in the potential of young adolescents and those who work in support of them. Summer has drive for and proven success in unleashing and spreading teacher led innovations and has been an instrumental leader in Australia’s contribution to the OECD work on Student Engagement and Australia’s TeachMeet movement. She’s deeply and unashamedly passionate and makes it her business to connect with anyone who pursues interest in improving the life and learning outcomes of young people. Summer has worked in every corner of the education scene, from school to university and government, and holds a Paul Harris Fellowship for her services to Education.
In her role as National Director of Learning for Education Changemakers, Summer works with teachers, students and community leaders to solve our toughest education challenges, turning good schools into great ones. While the focus of her work is across Australia, Summer has also taught in the USA and worked with students, teachers and principals across the world. Former executive member of Adolescent Success, Summer is a sought after advisor & facilitator but quite simply loves kids, teachers and the teaching profession, and works to make sure everyone else does too.
Topics Covered: - Education Changemakers: Origins, Objectives and Initiatives - Bottom up innovation in schools - The impact of parents on the classroom - The impact of School and leadership KPIs on innovation - Teaching kids entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship as a form of youth validation and empowerment - Finding and empowering great teachers - Unleashing teacher led and student led innovation - Open-sourcing classroom ideas and experiments - The power of sharing and collaborating - The education system and key stakeholders - Social entrepreneurship
Show Notes: 1) Education Changemakers: http://educationchangemakers.com/ 2 - Lemonade Stand: http://www.lemonadestand.rocks/ 3 - Follow Summer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EduSum 4 - EduChange Conference: http://educhange.com/
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The way that legal services are delivered is changing thanks to advances in technology and business model innovation.
This is resulting in a shift towards affordable, standardised services unlocking a new market for disruptors and incumbents alike, efficiencies in how law firms deliver services and inevitably, regulatory changes.
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Jenny Blake is motivation personified. She is a career and business strategist and international speaker who helps people move beyond burnout and create sustainable careers they love.
She is the author of the newly released book Pivot, and previously Life After College which was based on her blog of the same name) Jenny helps leaders, employees and entrepreneurs achieve greater clarity, engagement, fulfillment and impact. Formerly, Jenny spent over 5 years at Google doing training, coaching and career development. During her time there she taught coaching best practices to Google executives all over the world as part of a global Career Guru program she helped create, later praised by CNNMoney in Google’s #2 Company to Work For acknowledgment.
She advocates looking at career as a smart phone, not a ladder (dynamic, customizable to each individual) and help employees and entrepreneurs “pivot before they leap” by finding further growth within their company or existing assets to avoid feeling like their only option is to quit.
Topics Covered: 1 - Jenny’s Podcast 2 - PIVOT Book 3 - Launching a book 4 - Working with Cheryl Sandberg at Google 5 - Leaving the safety of a big job and the income that comes with it 6 - The 3 Questions You Need to Answer to Find Your Dream Career 7 - Barriers to entry in working for yourself 8 - Productivity - The Business Ninja Tech Toolkit 9 - PIVOT Coaching 10 - Passion vs Purpose 11 - Reaching out to thought leaders and influencers 12 - Why Career is a Smartphone, not a Ladder 13 - Focus on Your Strengths, not on Doing a 180 14 - What if You've Got Kids and a Mortgage? 15 - Why Caring What Other People Think is a Roadblock to Personal Reinvention 16 - The Power of Routine and Meditation
Show Notes: 1 - David Astbury’s Brain Octane: https://www.amazon.com/Bulletproof-Brain-Octane-Oil-oz/dp/B00P8E0QQG 2 - PIVOT Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pivot-Only-Move-That-Matters/dp/1591848202 3 - PIVOT Website: http://www.pivotmethod.com/ 4 - Life After College Blog: http://lifeaftercollege.org/ 5 - Life After College Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-After-College-Complete-Getting/dp/0762441275 6 - PIVOT Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot-podcast-jenny-blake/id1054817076?mt=2 7 - Jenny Blake's website: http://www.jennyblake.me 8 - The Business Ninja Tech Toolkit: http://www.jennyblake.me/toolkit-home/ 9 - Tools Mentioned: Zapier, Evernote, Google Drive, Google Everything, Asana.
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In life we are always faced with decisions and they can take us on radically different roads. In this episode, I share something that only my close friends and associates know about me in an effort to demonstrate why you should listen to your gut.
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Eric Almquist is a partner in Bain & Company’s Boston office. He is a leader in Bain's Advanced Analytics practice and a member of the firm’s global Customer Strategy & Marketing practice.
Eric has more than three decades of management consulting experience and delivers strategies that work for leading companies. He has led assignments in the financial services, telecommunications, internet and electric utility industries. In addition, he uses his expertise in customer strategy and marketing to help clients to develop value propositions, improve customer experience and implement loyalty strategies.
Eric has contributed to such publications as the Harvard Business Review, Marketing Management, Journal of Brand Management and Design Management Journal. He was the recipient of a Social Science Research Council Foreign Area Fellowship and has served as a Trustee of the Marketing Science Institute.
Prior to joining Bain in 2007, Eric built extensive experience as a leader in the customer strategy sector where he founded one of the first comprehensive marketing science capabilities in the consulting industry.
Eric earned a BA from Stanford University and MA and PhD degrees in anthropology from Boston University.
Topics Discussed: -The 30 Elements of Value - Customer jobs to be done - Fundamental H-Symmetry Advancement - Putting the hierarchy of needs to use - Delivering on elements of value - Customers expectations - The impact of elements of value on CX and NPS Scores - Using elements of value in ideation and product development exercises
Show Notes: 1) Elements of Value - https://hbr.org/2016/09/the-elements- of-value 2) Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs 3) Karen Dillon Episode - https://soundcloud.com/futuresquared/episode-74- clayton-christensens-new-theory- with-karen- dillon 4) https://hbr.org/2001/10/boost-your- marketing-roi- with-experimental- design 5) https://hbr.org/webinar/2016/07/the-elements- of-value- measuring-what- consumers-really- want 6) Steve’s Shampoo - https://thankyou.co/bodyCare
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Many large organisations are guilty of taking old, oftentimes broken, processes born out of 20th Century necessity and digitising them. Such pursuits are internally heralded as shining example of innovation and digital transformation. However, this usually amounts to little more than expensive and at best incremental improvements.
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Shay Namdarian is the newly anointed GM of Customer Strategy at Collective Campus.
Prior to joining CC, Shay spent 8 years in various management consulting roles for the likes of Accenture, Ernst & Young and CapGemini during which time he founded two fashion startups - Barnaby (socks) and Winston, now W-Time (watches).
Shay has a passion for all things customer experience and that passion is best exemplified by hearing him speak on the subject in this episode.
Topics discussed: - customer experience trends - positive and negative CX case studies - how to secure distribution for a startup - making the jump from corporate to startup - how to run a successful Kickstart campaign
Show notes: Shay's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shayannamdarian Shay's email: shay@collectivecamp.us Barnaby: www.barnabyshop.com W-Time: www.wtime.com.au
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Karen Dillon is co-author of Clayton Christensen's new book, Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice” (HarperCollins, October 2016), a groundbreaking book with the potential to reframe industries. It is based on a simple yet profound idea put forward by Christensen in “The Innovator’s Solution”: customers don’t buy products and services; they hire them to do a job. And understanding which jobs your customers need done is key to innovation success.
The former editor of Harvard Business Review (HBR), Karen has long chronicled the successes and failures of businesses and their leaders.
Currently a contributing editor to HBR focused on the topics of leadership, managing people, managing yourself and entrepreneurship, Dillon has worked closely with some of the world’s greatest thought leaders, including Clayton Christensen, Michael Porter, Vijay Govindarajan, Daniel Isenberg and A.G. Lafley.
A talented, award-winning writer, she is also a passionate, engaging speaker – and is especially skilled at personalizing the themes of her books to make them actionable and relevant to each audience.
Dillon is co-author of several best-selling titles, including “How Will You Measure Your Life?” (HarperCollins, May 2012), with Christensen and James Allworth. The book, born out of a series of powerful lectures and seminars by Christensen, began with an article conceived by Dillon for HBR.
Topics Discussed: - Her new book, “Competing Against Luck” - What is a ‘job to be done’ - Identifying customer jobs to be done - “The story of the milkshake!” - Looking through a different lens, to improve innovation. - The anxiety of customer switch and buying patterns - Customer journey mapping and more - Prioritising jobs to be done ("which jobs should I build a product around?")
Show Notes: Books: 1) Competing against luck - Christensen & Dillon (https://www.amazon.com/Competing-Against-Luck-Innovation-Customer/dp/0062435612/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476354425&sr=1-1&keywords=competing+against+luck) 2) The Innovators Dilemma - Christensen (https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244) 3) measureyourlife.com - Karen’s story and her first book.
Karen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/kardillon
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I had the pleasure of chatting to Jenny Blake late last night, hjost of the Pivot podcast and author of Pivot, the book which has been referred to as the Lean Startup meeting a personal playbook for career change.We geeked out on all manner of topics - but honed in on her concept of pivoting, that is - changing career direction, not by doing a full 180, but by keeping one foot planted and focusing on your strengths.
I explore one of the key learnings from this conversation in this instalment of Fast Fix Friday.
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Gary A. Bolles is the co-founder of eParachute, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area-based startup focused on helping job-hunters & career changers, inspired by the best-selling career book of all time, “What Color Is Your Parachute?”
Bolles is also the co-producer of “Closing The Gap,” a new event focused on strategies for increasing economic mobility in the face of tech-driven disruption, in Palm Beach, Florida.
Bolles has produced a variety of conferences and strategic events. He is a co-founder of SoCap, socialcapitalmarkets.net , the premier gathering for impact entrepreneurs and investors, and was the co-producer of DGREE.org, a 2010 conference focused on the future of higher education. He has served as consulting producer for numerous strategic events for clients such as Google, Yahoo!, Singularity University, TED, the United Nations, L’Oreal, and the London Business School. Formerly, Bolles was also the editorial director of technology publications such as Yahoo! Internet Life, Inter@ctive Week, and Network Computing, as well as the on-screen host of TechTV’s “Working the Web.” (http://techonomy.com/people/gary-a-bolles/)
Topics Discussed: - People who are looking to disrupt themselves in some shape or form - How to go about change and how can you make yourself a success - The future of work and learning - The Agricultural age > The Industrial age > The Information age - Automation, AI and Globalisation of jobs - What is your mission and purpose (Self inventory) - Allowing yourself to dream and have hope - Unbundling work - Why we must keep learning!
Show Notes: - eParachute: eparachute.com - Gary is cofounder - What Color Is Your Prachute: Get the latest edition @ www.amazon.com/What-Color-Your-Parachute-2017/dp/039957820X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475741542&sr=8-1&keywords=what+colour+is+your+parachute Gary's Medium page: medium.com/@gbolles
A couple of the articles Gary mentions: - medium.com/@gbolles/unbundling-higher-ed-39ba8deacc62#.q8se7qh35 - medium.com/@gbolles/unbundling-the-middle-class-34471a9d6643#.7ugpk3k3o Udemy e-course from eparachute.com - www.udemy.com/the-eparachute-introduction-to-your-career-and-job-search/
Mentioned Course Providers: Collective Campus : www.collectivecamp.us Coursera: www.coursera.org Udacity: www.udacity.com
Other Mentions: Whitney Johnson - Disrupt Yourself - Book - www.amazon.com/Disrupt-Yourself-Putting-Disruptive-Innovation/dp/1629560529/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475741587&sr=8-1&keywords=whitney+johnson+disrupt+yourself
Jenny Blake - Pivot - Book (Upcoming guest) www.amazon.com/Pivot-Only-Move-That-Matters/dp/1591848202/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475741620&sr=8-1&keywords=jenny+blake+pivot
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In an age where the time between disruptions is getting shorter and the exponential growth of technology threatens the upheaval of almost every industry, certainty is fast becoming a distant memory.
Yet, when it comes to deciding which projects to invest in at most large organisations, we often rely on projections and estimates based on assumptions about the same uncertain future.
Think of this as the Innovator’s Funding Dilemma, encapsulated by these five common pitfalls of funding corporate innovation projects.
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I talk the 5 funding traps of corporate innovation projects.
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Ahoy there entrepreneurs and corporate innovators!
After my recent appearance on the Razor Sharp Show with Ray Milidoni, I was invited back for a deep dive interview with Matt Romania, to talk all about a topic of personal disruption, something I touched on when chatting with Ray. In this age of technological upheaval and business model disruption, the need to be more adaptable and duck and weave in response to, or even better, in anticipation of, change, is becoming more and more important.
We touch on the what, why, and how of personal disruption and reinvention in this podcast as well as what disrupting yourself feels like and some of the common challenges you will no doubt encounter if straying from a common pathway.
Also, we discuss trapezing!
Show Notes:
Steve’s article Buffer Follower Wonk Podcasts
School of Greatness The Tim Ferriss Show Entrepreneur on Fire Gary Vaynerchuk Books
The Four Hour Work Week The Startup Owner’s Manual The Innovator’s Dilemma Pitch Anything Hooked – How to Build Habit-Forming Products Mindset – The New Psychology of Success The Code of the Extraordinary Mind Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0
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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk hackathons, and how, while they are a great tool for bringing teams together to move quickly to build prototypes, are often done in a way that doesn't focus on problem solution fit, unique value proposition or business model.
Essentially, most hackathons fall into the all to common trap of building what excites the team building it, but not the market. This is the main reason why 96% of startups and new ventures fail.
I talk through what you and/or your organisation need to think about in order to run a successful hackathon that can deliver genuine outcomes and galvanise an organisation around its innovation efforts.
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In this mid-week special we bring you the second live edition of Future Squared, in the form of a panel discussion, before an audience at Collective Campus.
Guests include:
- VICKI MILLER (Digital Transformation, KMART) *
Vicki is part of KMART's Digital Transformation team. A senior executive experienced leading businesses in digital innovation, business transformation, revenue growth and P&L improvement. A proven track record developing new revenue streams through online models, digital integration, digital products and creating high energy, agile, adaptive cultures where customer experience and speed to market are central to performance outcomes.
- STEFAN PERNAR (CEO, Virtual Reality Ventures) *
Stefan has been one of the first to jump on the Virtual Reality bandwagon when he founded Virtual Reality Ventures back in January of 2014. Since then he went on to successfully deliver immersive media projects for the REA Group, Australia Post, AGL Energy, Sovereign Hill as well as Dairy Australia to name a few. His company was the first corporate virtual reality service company in the world in Samsung's Strategic Enterprise Alliance Partnership program and continues to be thought out for cutting edge immersive productions. http://www.virtualrealityventures.com.au/
- STEVE GUINNESS (General Manager, Plattar) *
Steve is an early stage commercialisation / tech startup entrepreneur. As GM / 2IC of Plattar, his first responsibilities included raising Seed capital ($1.1mil led by News Corp), growing the team and spinning out the technology from pioneering mixed reality agency, One Fat Sheep. He currently drives strategy, operations & the product roadmap for Plattar. Steve has spent the last 10 years commercialising products and growing early stage startup companies. http://www.plattar.com/
Topics Covered: - How will we see VR and AR transforming retail in the next 5 years? - How corporates are integrating VR technology - The challenges facing VR - A video game on a pizza box?! - Where do we see AR and VR integrating, a mix? separately? - The differences between AR and VR - Finding meaningful applications for VR and AR - The sudden boom of AR from Pokemon Go - How do we replicate real life interaction/ social experiences with VR or AR? - Where will content come from? ————————————————
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Rene Boer is the co-author of How To Be a Great Boss.
"If your employees brought their A-game to work every day, what would it mean for your company’s performance? What would it mean for its ability to innovate and capture new growth opportunities?"
With 30 years experience in the Restaurant Industry, Rene learned the power of aligning people who have common values and the capacity to excel with a compelling reason to work hard at work worth doing.
As a Certified Implementer of EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System, Rene’s facilitate, teach and coach a complete business management system that aligns an organization's leaders with a common goal, helps them hold each other accountable to do what they commit to doing and to become a more effective and cohesive team.
Topics discussed: - The book & How to be a great boss! - Rene’s background & time in management - Bringing employees and people forward - Teamwork and Core Values - Performance Management - ‘The Rubber Chicken Recognition’ - 5 leadership practices of all great bosses - Clarity breaks - ‘Delegate Elevate’ - Performance Reviews and more
Show Notes: - The 5 leadership practices and 5 management practices of all great bosses that Rene discusses can all be found in his and Gino Wickman’s book: How to be a great boss: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Great-Boss-Gino-Wickman/dp/1942952848 - EOS: https://www.eosworldwide.com/ - Twitter: @EOSWorldwide - Email: rene@tractionprocess.com - Website: www.beagreatboss.com (For a free toolkit and infographic). - Task Management Tool discussed was Asana: https://asana.com
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Many might remember the story of Eric Moussambani, the ‘Olympic swimmer’ from Equatorial Guinea who took 1:52.72 to complete his 100m swim at Sydney 2000, more than twice that of his nearest competitor. Before the Olympics, he had never even seen a 50m long pool, took up swimming eight months prior and practiced swimming in a lake.
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk return on optimisation, or ROO. Companies often get obsessed running A/B tests to optimise their marketing funnels, but, are they optimising the wrong thing? Optimising early, during problem and solution definition, generates a much higher return than optimising late, particularly if you've defined the problem incorrectly.
Many of us are not all that different to Eric and I'll explain why.
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Katherine Squire is the General Manager of App Development and DevOps at the Australian Stock Exchange.
She has over 20 years' experience in Exchange, Investment Bank and Vendor environments and previously spent over 10 years at Macquarie Bank leading large projects from inception through to implementation to deliver complex solutions within Equity Markets globally.
Katherine was Executive General Manager at IRESS where she was responsible for turning around the Financial Markets Products Division with a focus on building a strong, high performing team that could scale globally. She has extensive experience in product management, change management and information technology within the finance industry.
Topics discussed:
- Culture change at the ASX...one bite of the elephant at a time
- The adoption of DevOps
- Going from 'little circles of sanity to wildfire'
- The importance of having buy-in from the top
- Cloud projects at the ASX
- Docker and containers
- The seamless integration of old and new
- What it takes to transition away from legacy infrastructure
Show Notes: - Katherine's LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/katherinesquire
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I was recently asked to partake in a discussion with a newly formed innovation team at an ASX20 company.
What started out as an informal discussion quickly had me on my feet, white-boarding away and firing on all cognitive cylinders as I talked, or drew my way, through the different things large bureaucratic organisations need to consider when it comes to the big hairy audacious mission of creating an environment that truly supports disruptive innovation.
After babbling on for a little while, it was question time and one question in particular prompted me to write this post - “if you come back here in a year how will you determine whether or not we’ve been successful?”
So in this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I bring you success metrics for corporate innovation programs and teams.
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Hailing from Austin, Texas, Ash Maurya is the founder of Leanstack. Since bootstrapping his last company seven years ago, he has launched five products and one peer-to-web application framework.
Throughout this time he has been in search of better, faster ways for building successful products. Ash has more recently been rigorously applying Customer Development and Lean Startup techniques to his products, frequently writing about this on his blog and turning this into the critically acclaimed book, “Running Lean: How to Iterate from Plan A to a plan that works”. Ash is also the creator of the one-page business modelling tool, the Lean Canvas, which is used by startups and corporate innovators across the globe.
His new book "Scaling Lean: Master the Key Metrics for Startup Growth, debuted at #2 on the WSJ Business Bestseller list, and explores an invaluable blueprint for modelling startup success and ultimately scale a business by implementing a 10X rollout strategy.
Ash is praised for offering some of the best and most practical advice for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs all over the world. Driven by the search for better and faster ways for building successful products, Ash has developed a systematic methodology for raising the odds of success built upon Lean Startup, Customer Development, and Bootstrapping techniques.
Ash is also a leading business blogger and his posts and advice have been featured in Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and Fortune. He regularly hosts sold out workshops around the world and serves as a mentor to several accelerators including TechStars, MaRS, Capital Factory, and guest lecturers at several universities including MIT, Harvard, and UT Austin. Ash serves on the advisory board of a number of startups, and has consulted to new and established companies.
Aside from creating indispensable resources for innovators and entrepreneurs, Ash is a foodie, a dad, a husband and a yogi.
Topics discussed: - His new book, Scaling Lean, and how it differs from Running Lean - An overview of the Running Lean process - How to 10x your company while staying lean - Using the lean canvas in large organisations - The metrics that matter and why one metric may not always be the best approach - Challenges in getting large organisations to adopt lean and how they might be overcome - Examples of how large companies have effectively implemented lean product development - How to identify and prioritise your biggest customer, market and product risks - What metrics corporate innovators should use instead of NPV and IRR - How much data is enough to draw conclusions - How to start embedding a culture of experimentation in a large, otherwise conservative, organisations - Why regulation is no excuse not to go lean and in fact is more reason to do so - Socratic thinking - How to get into flow
Show Notes: Twitter: @ashmaurya Ash's site: ashmaurya.com Ash's business: leanstack.com Ash's books: https://www.amazon.com/Ash-Maurya/e/B006MW5OSS
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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk about the power of turning bad habits into good habits and how it can have a profound impact on both your personal and professional life!
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Pascal Finette heads up Entrepreneurship at Singularity University as well as SU Labs, its accelerator program which grows startups that are focused on tackling the world’s most intractable problems leveraging exponential technologies.
He loves technology and believes that the Internet is deeply impacting mankind. He got started on the Net before there was a web browser, founded a couple of technology startups, led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs with their strategy & operations, invested into early-stage tech startups, led Mozilla’s Innovation Lab, created Mozilla’s accelerator program WebFWD, headed up Mozilla’s Office of the Chair and invested into social impact organizations around the globe at Google.org.
He also founded the non-profit organizations Mentor for Good, POWERUP and The Coaching Fellowship; the GyShiDo (Get Your S%#& Done) movement and publishes the opinionated The Heretic newsletter.
He frequently speaks and writes about the magic which happens at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology & global impact. As a trained Co-Active executive coach he works with clients on achieving their full leadership potential. But most of all – Pascal loves to work with entrepreneurs who are making things better and go from zero to one.
Topics discussed: - How SULabs is different to other accelerators - What SULabs startups are working on (like printing 3D parts in space amongst other things!) - What ingredients are vital for the success of an accelerator program - Challenges of corporate startup partnerships and how to circumvent these - Why we all go through "the same sht" and why being transparent about doubt can be therapeutic for startup founders - Gy shi do - Pascal's global "Get your sht done" movement - What emerging technologies Pascal is excited by - Pascal's view on 'the singularity', the point in time where machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence, and what it means for humanity - Pascal's view on how we will get Peter DIamandis to appear on Future Squared!
Show Notes: Twitter: @pfinette TheHeretic.org Finette.com singularityu.org/bio/pascal-finette/ Gyshido.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pfinette
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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk "Gyshido" or Getting Your Shit Done, a movement spearheaded by Singularity University's Pascal Finette, who will be our very special guest on the next episode of Future Squared!
Check out Gyshido.com for more!
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We're going live a day early this week in anticipation of not one, but two, very special announcements tomorrow from the team here at Collective Campus.
This week's guest is Richard Schmalensee, the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management Emeritus and Professor of Economics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007. He was as a Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 through 1991 and served for 12 years as Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Professor Schmalensee is the author or co-author of 12 books and more than 120 published articles.
His research has centered on industrial organization economics and its application to managerial and public policy issues, and he was the 2012 Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society. Professor Schmalensee is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served on the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association and has been a Director of the International Securities Exchange and other corporations. He is currently a Director of the International Data Group and the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Resources for the Future. He has testified before Congress and served as a consultant to government agencies and numerous private firms.
Topics discussed:
The difference between single-sided and multi-sided marketplaces The challenges of growing a marketplace platform like Airbnb What successful marketplaces have in common - How to increase your chances of success when building a marketplace - The role of marketplaces in employee and contractor welfare - Are sharing economy companies really about sharing? - Regulatory considerations - The impact of blockchain on marketplaces
Show notes:
- Richard’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Schmalensee/e/B001H9RSXK/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_2
- Get Matchmakers: https://www.amazon.com/Matchmakers-New-Economics-Multisided-Platforms/dp/1633691721/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
- Richard’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-schmalensee-699252
- Marketplatforms.com
- Richard's profile at MIT: rschmal.scripts.mit.edu/
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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk why you should disrupt yourself.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself, and formerly co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, way back when in episode #13 of Future Squared.
She told the story of her own personal reinvention from secretary on Wall Street to high ranking equities analyst to co-founder of a boutique investment firm which invested in and led the $8 million seed round for Korea’s Coupang, currently valued at US$5+ billion.
It got me thinking about my own story of personal disruption, and just how important personal reinvention is in today's increasingly uncertain environment where the exponential growth in technology is underpinning the disruption of not just industries, not just companies, but perhaps most importantly, people.
Find out how to go about disrupting yourself and my personal journey of self disruption!
Show Notes: DisruptYourselfBook.com
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This mid-week bonus is a little different!
After over 50 episodes, mostly of me interviewing other people, in this episode the tables are turned.
I recently had the pleasure of appearing on Ray Milidoni’s Razor Sharp show which was a lot of fun.
Ray poked and probed about a number of topics such as how to get started in business, how to get the most out of every day, how to build, measure and learn using the lean startup, we also got talking about Lemonade Stand, the children’s entrepreneurship program I co-founded and why teaching children entrepreneurial thinking is so important, we talk about the entrepreneur’s mindset and above all else, we have a LOT of fun, and I’m sure you’ll gather as much by listening to this episode.
Show Notes: - RazorSharpShow.com - Sprint by Jake Knapp - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People By Stephen Covey - The Startup Owner’s Manual by Steve Blank - Traction By Gabriel Weinberg - The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen - All Marketers Tell Stories by Seth Godin - Blue Ocean Strategy by Chan Kim - SupaHands: http://www.supahands.com/
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Those of you familiar with this podcast would know I’m a big fan of Dave McClure and his Pirate Metrics approach to customer acquisition - well, Dave is the founder of 500 startups, the venture capital seed fund and accelerator based in the Valley that has invested in more than 1500 companies across more than 50 countries.
In this episode I speak with Arnaud Bonzom, Director of Corporate Innovation at 500 Startups. Arnaud’s recent report on How do the World’s Biggest Companies Deal with the Startup Revolution? (http://goo.gl/UEmt4i) details the bullish efforts by Multinational Corporations to engage startups and leverage on their capabilities.
Prior to 500 Startups, Arnaud was part of INSEAD, where he was responsible for facilitating interactions between MBA students/alumni and the Entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Arnaud also developed the Asia Funding / M&A Newsletter & Singapore startup ecosystem and entrepreneur toolbox.
Topics discussed: - How large corporations are engaging startups - Challenges of corporate startup partnerships - How software companies are disrupting industries not synonymous with software - The hierarchy of needs for corporate innovation - The Singaporean and Southeast Asian startup and innovation ecosystems
Show notes: - ArnaudBonzom.com - Asia Funding / M&A Newsletter: eepurl.com/b2G18D - Singapore startup ecosystem and entrepreneur toolbox: bit.ly/SingaporeEcosystem - Arnaud on Twitter: @aurnaudbonzom - 500 Startups Report on How The World's Biggest Companies Deal With The Startup Revolution: www.insead.edu/news/2016-insead-and-500-startups-report
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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I cover a topic that is the bane of existence for many a corporate employee which is getting buy in for corporate innovation, or just getting buy in for trying different things in general...how do you go about doing this, especially when decision makers appear to be set in their ways?
In this episode, I walk you through, 13 strategies you can begin to experiment with in your workplace starting with #1, hacking the culture.
Excuse the lisp, it's totally my mic's fault! (externalising, I know)
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Maggie brings more than 12 years of innovation management, market insight analysis and business strategy experience in the financial services sector. Now working for Spigit and based in Chicago, she consults Spigit’s key clients on successful social ideation challenges to engage their workforce and customers to solve priority business issues. She brings creativity and insight to understand the unique business needs of each organization while integrating with the overall strategy
Spigit is the world’s leading idea management and innovation platform. Maggie is an innovation thought leader with proven ability to surface actionable insights based on market research and trends.
Regularly selected by executives as an effective change agent that champions new teams and projects and consistently drives rapid assimilation and delivers results. Demonstrated leadership in strategic consulting to align key initiatives with corporate strategy and provide structure for successful implementations.
Topics discussed: - How to increase employee engagement - Measures of engagement - The role of innovation in employee engagement - How to engage and retain Gen Y employees
Show notes: Spigit.com Maggie's Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/maggieriad Maggie's Twitter - @maggieriad
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Leslie Barry is currently the head of innovation at Sportsbet, Australia’s largest online bookmaker with $117M operating profit / 79.4 million pounds in 2015.
He was previously the head of innovation at Thoughtworks Australia, was the General Manager of Professional Services at Dimension Data Australia and has also founded several companies including Exertack, a health and fitness tracking business acquired by Techstars alumni Gyminee in 2008 and GetViable, an an online innovation platform sold to Hong Kong based BigColors in 2011.
He is an advisor to several startups including Scanned, CrowdsourceHire, he mentors this year’s intake at the Slingshot startup accelerator and also maintains a personal journal of his innovation journey at InsideInnovation.co
I’ve had the opportunity to meet with hundreds of innovation managers across a range of companies and speak with countless thought leaders on the topic, and Leslie is one guy who just gets it. To put it simply, Leslie avoids innovation theatre at all costs and has very little appetite for bullshit.
In his brief time at Sportsbet he has already had a profound impact on the way the company approaches innovation, culminating recently with the ideation, design, development and release of a product in just 12 weeks - unheard of in the company previously.
What makes it all the more impressive is that in 2015 Sportsbet’s revenues grew by 54% so navigating internal politics, when things are rosy and stakeholders might see little reason, on the surface, to change the way they do things.
As you will all know if you’ve listened to this show before, I am a massive advocate for the benefits of health and fitness, of both body and mind, on productivity, and we’ll also dive into Leslie’s approach to staying on top of his game.
Topics discussed: - AI and the threat of human extinction - Why an organisation like Sportsbet needs to innovate - How to get buy-in from senior stakeholders and IT - How to avoid innovation theatre - Why Leslie says he won't have a job at Sportsbet in 2 years - How to effectively partner with startups - Leslie's 'fail button' - What excites Leslie about the next ten years in tech
Show notes: Leslie's Twitter - @lesliecbarry Leslie's Blog - InsideInnovation.co Leslie's Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliebarry Sportsbet's e-sports experiment - respawn.sportsbet.com.au
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Thank you listeners, we've just turned 50...episodes that is, and to celebrate, I've put together a list of the 50 most memorable lessons from the first 50 episodes!
Oftentimes, we read books and blogs, we listen to podcasts and audiobooks, we watch keynotes and take part in workshops, we umm and ahh, but despite all of the investment in consuming this knowledge, we rarely take the time to reflect and truly digest the knowledge so that we can become better at applying these insights.
Taking time out to reflect on what yo’ve just consumed and perhaps scribble some notes down is kind of like eating the right thing after a workout to maximise your results - it’s an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to retention and application of key insights.
Over the past six months I’ve been fortunate enough to interview a number of thought leaders on the topic of corporate innovation, entrepreneurship and self improvement, culminating with episode 50.
To celebrate this milestone, I took some time out to reflect on some of the best lessons from my podcasting journey and have prepared a list of the 50 most memorable lessons, as the ones that stick with you are usually the best.
You can download the entire list at collectivecamp.us/blog/50lessons
Why? Listen to find out! :)
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Collective Campus recently hosted an event called Disrupt the Public Sector, as part of the Australian Government’s Innovation Month 2016. The event saw over 100 public servants making their way to pack our our event space in Melbourne’s CBD - they heard from a number of thought leaders talk innovation in Government - why it’s important, what it looks like, what the barriers are and how we might navigate these barriers.
I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to speak on the topic of an Agile Government and how transforming the way Government thinks and moves begins with being more self aware and ownership of our daily actions, both great and small.
I touched on a number of topics in this talk such as bottom up innovation including various examples of how employees are driving change and how to get buy in from the top in Government.
So this episode is a little bit different - the audio quality might not be as great as our usual episodes, as this was recorded live before an audience, but having received lots of positive feedback post the talk, I thought that sharing it with listeners of Future Squared would provide a lot of value.
Even if you don’t work for Government, the concepts I discussed in this talk are just as relevant in a large enterprise as they in many startups.
By now you’ll know I’m a big fan of experimentation, so consider this episode an experiment of sorts, reliant on you the listener to validate or invalidate the assumption that people want to hear this kind of content! if you’d like to hear more of these midweek specials, then I’d love to hear from you - you can email me at steve@collectivecamp.us or hit me up on twitter @steveglaveski
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In milestone episode #50, I speak to Chris Kutarna, a two-time Governor General's Medallist, a Sauvé Fellow and Commonwealth Scholar, and a Fellow of the Oxford Martin School with a doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford.
A former consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, then entrepreneur, Chris lived in China for several years, speaks Mandarin, and remains a regular op-ed contributor to one of China's top-ranked news magazines. (He lived in Australia and New Zealand for several years, and still cannot surf.)
He is the co-author of the The Age of Discovery - Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our Reneissance, which shows how we can draw courage and wisdom from the last Renaissance in order to fashion our own golden age out of this New Renaissance.
Whether we’re seized by Gutenberg or Zuckerberg; the discovery of the Americas or the rise of China; copperplate or silicon etching; —a Renaissance moment, we’re told, then and now, forces humanity to give its best just when the stakes are highest.
Age of Discovery navigates the crises of our time and helps us all define a legacy that the world will still celebrate half a millennium from now.
Topics discussed: - Will artificial intelligence liberate us or destroy us? - What is the role of Government in a rapidly changing technological and economic landscape? - What happens when the world’s concentration of wealth becomes centralized in one place such as Silicon Valley? - What the implications of an increasingly connected world are? - What Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump really mean? - What we, as a people, need to do to ensure our longevity as a species? - Does policy need to be re-written to adapt to these changing times? - Are we facing a productivity paradox whereby the next generation will need to suffer and adjust to changes in order for subsequent generations to reap the rewards?
Show notes: Chris' Twitter - @chriskutarna Chris' LinkedIn - uk.linkedin.com/in/moniker Ian Goldin's Twitter - @ian_goldin Get the book - https://www.amazon.com/Age-Discovery-Navigating-Rewards-Renaissance/dp/1250085098
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This Fast Fix Friday is all about your ego and why you should kill it!
If you’re looking to identify new opportunities, have meaningful conversations, build better relationships, innovate and create real value in the world then the one thing that is almost sure to get in the way is ego.
Why? Listen to find out! :)
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Max Kelly is currently Managing Director of Techstars London. Techstars is the world’s leading accelerator programme for early stage start ups, having incubated over 800 companies and developed corporate accelerator programs for the likes of Barclays, Nike and Disney to name just a few.
Prior to Techstars, Max spent 12 years at Virgin where he was responsible for the strategy of the group and for starting new companies: - Virgin Insight - delivered big data consultancy to all the Virgin companies - Virgin Mobile USA - grew to revenues of $1bn within 18 months - Virgin Mobile Canada - voted best Canadian network in its launch year - Virgin Healthbank - freezing stem cells cryogenically These companies exited for more than $500M for Richard Branson.
Alongside his Virgin commitments, Max also co-founded lastsecondtickets.com which was successfully sold in 2014.
Topics discussed: - corporate startup relationships - fintech and blockchain - Brexit - why Techstars success rates hover around 90% - what Techstars looks for in startup founders and teams - aligning corporate and startup expectations and metrics
Show Notes: Techstars.com LinkedIn - https://au.linkedin.com/in/maxkelly
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Our online innovation manager's course kicks of July 1 2016, sign up today for earlybird pricing at www.innovationmanagerscourse.com
We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
Download it at www.theinnovationmanagershandbook.com
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This Fast Fix Friday covers off on all of the different books, podcasts and other resources that have made me and can make you a better professional and person in general.
Whether it be business, beliefs, biographies or body, these books don't leave any stones unturned in helping you to sharpen your sword and become the best you you can be!
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Bob Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development. He is co-founder of Minds at Work, a consulting group that works with senior leaders and teams in corporations, government and non-profits.
He is also the William and Miriam Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development at Harvard University where he codirects the Change Leadership Group and the Harvard-Macy Institute for the Reform of Medical Education
He has contributed to many articles and books on psychological development and he has published seven books, including the critically acclaimed:
An Everyone Culture - becoming a deliberately developmental organization (co written with Lisa Lahey) 2016 Immunity to Change - 2009 Change Leadership - A Practical Guide to Transforming our Schools(2005) How the Way we talk can change the world - 2002 The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development (1982) How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation (with Lisa Lahey, 2001) In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life (1994)’
Topics discussed:
How to build an everyone culture The problem with brainstorming Why individual beliefs and collective mindsets hold back change How to become a deliberately developmental organisation (DDO) How to create a culture of experimentation that celebrates smart failures How to overcome ego in the workplace to foster stronger communication and innovation What some of the world’s most progressive companies are doing to transform their culture How self deatist beliefs siubsconsciously hold us back in our personal and professional lives Show Notes:
MindsAtWork.com Get Robert's books - https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Kegan/e/B000AP7UY4 Get Lisa Lahey's books - http://www.amazon.com/Lisa-Laskow-Lahey/e/B001KH9ZQC/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_2 Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future
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This (Not So) Fast Fix Friday focuses on some of my favourite productivity hacks, 16 of them in fact! These have all been gathered through years of digesting other people’s material and experimenting with my own hacks so even if you take just ONE of these hacks on board, I’m sure it’ll add a lot of value to your professional and personal life!
Apps mentioned: - Slack - Asana - Buzzsumo - Trello - Trello - Supahands - Edgar
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Matthew E May is the author of Amazon bestseller Winning the Brain Game: Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking, as well as four previous, award-winning books: The Laws of Subtraction (2012), The Shibumi Strategy (2010), In Pursuit of Elegance (2009), and The Elegant Solution (2006).
A popular speaker, executive coach, and close advisor on strategy, innovation, and lean to companies such as ADP, Intuit, and Toyota, his articles have appeared in national publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journey, Harvard Business Review Fast Company, MIT/Sloan Management Review and USA Today.
In this episode we dive into the 7 fatal flaws of thinking that all of us are guilty of from time to time and some of us perhaps more often than we care to admit.
Correcting these 7 fatal flaws will serve to make us much better innovators, entrepreneurs, communicators and help us to ultimately succeed and acheive new heights in both our professional and personal lives.
Sneak peak into 3 of the 7 flaws: - jumping to conclusions - overthinking - fixation
Topics discussed: - The 7 fatal flaws and how to correct them - Mindful decision making - Matthew's successful New Yorker cartoon caption entry
Show Notes: MatthewEMay.com Get the book - https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Brain-Game-Fixing-Thinking/dp/1259642399 Matthew on Twitter - @MatthewEMay
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This Fast Fix Friday focuses on the stakeholder short-termism that plagues not only Australia's Government, but those of countries around the world, as well as tech businesses, sports teams and entertainment companies.
I specifically explore why Australia's innovation transformation won't happen overnight but there are many key lessons to take out of this solo round, wherever it is you reside in the world.
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In this bonus episode, I speak with Evan Shellshear, author of the newly released book, Innovation Tools.
Innovation is hard work so you need the best tools. After years of research and dozens of case studies, those tools have been distilled into Evan Shellshear’s latest book.
Show Notes: Get the book - http://innovationtools.collectivecamp.us/ Evan on LinkedIn - https://au.linkedin.com/in/evan-shellshear-4072697b
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Angela Maiers is an educator, entrepreneur, leader, disruptor and visionary.
She has been creating and leading change in education and enterprise for 25 years, teaching every level of school from kindergarten to graduate school and consulting with companies around the world.
She is the author of six books, including Classroom Habitudes and The Passion-Driven Classroom, and her You Matter talk at TEDxDesMoines has been viewed several hundred thousand times.
Angela is the founder of Choose2Matter, a global movement that challenges and inspires students to work collaboratively to develop innovative solutions to social problems.
Today, Angela is at the forefront of New Literacy and Web 2.0 technologies. An active blogger and social media evangelist, she’s deeply committed to helping learners understand the transformational power of technology. Her intimate knowledge of teaching and learning, down-to-earth style, and powerful message of personal empowerment have made her a highly sought after keynote speaker and a vibrant courageous voice in both the business and education space.
Topics discussed: - Character traits children need to learn to prosper in the digital age - The role of employers in transforming education - Standardised tests v project based learning v passion driven learning - Why we need to move to problem solving over regurgitating memory - What it means to be a technology native - The role of technology in the classroom - What automation means for today's kids - Are innovators born or made? - The Genius Hour initiative - Angela's #YouMatter initiative - Why innovation is an invitation - How schools can leverage innovative solutions to solve social problems
Show Notes: AngelaMaiers.com Angela's books - http://www.amazon.com/Angela-Maiers/e/B001HOW0XI Angela on Twitter - @AngelaMaiers
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It’s no longer enough to shout marketing slogans from the rooftops and expect people to buy your products. Today’s customers are smarter than ever thanks to the transparency and power that has come with the internet.
The world is moving faster than ever thanks to the emergence of disruptive technologies and businesses are facing increasing volatility and uncertainty. As such, marketing campaigns need to truly speak to customer desires and be adaptable enough to move in step with the changing landscape and buyer behaviours.
Traditional, long-term, above the line marketing campaigns are now mostly the domain of few industry behemoths - the rest of us need to be a little more targeted and intentional with our marketing but with so many potential marketing channels to choose from, where does one even begin?
The lean startup is a method popularised by Eric Ries’ book of the same name and is widely used by startups and more recently, large companies, to quickly test market appetite for new products by using low fidelity prototypes to rapidly experiment and validate or invalidate key assumptions underpinning a business idea. “Speed is fundamental to success” says Ries. Fortunately, this approach can be adopted for marketing campaigns too.
In this episode I talk through 8 steps detailing how to pull off your own lean marketing strategy to find new customers for new products.
Show Notes: www.collectivecamp.us
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Parag Khanna is a leading global strategist, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is a CNN Global Contributor and Managing Partner of Hybrid Reality, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm. Parag's latest book is Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016).
He is also co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012) and author of the award-winning How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011) and the international bestseller The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), which was translated into more than twenty languages. In 2008, Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.”
Amongst his many endeavours and achievements, Parag has been an adviser to the U.S. National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030 program, and served in the foreign policy advisory group to the Barack Obama for President campaign. From 2006-2015 he was a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation. During 2007 he served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a senior geopolitical adviser to United States Special Operations Forces.
Topics discussed: - How megacities are changing the map of the world - How small, traditionally powerless counties can become empowered as they shift from political geography to functional geography - The growing disparity between infrastructure spending and defence spending - Why China is racing ahead of the US and how the latter can close the gap - The concept of Sustainable Urbanisation - How technology and new energy discoveries are harnessing more peaceful societies - The implications of the 2 billion people about to come online in developing economies
Show Notes: Parag's website - www.paragkhanna.com/ Parag's books - http://www.amazon.com/Parag-Khanna/e/B001JS9A30 Parag's Twitter - twitter.com/paragkhanna Parag's TED talk: 'Mapping the Future of Countries' - https://www.ted.com/talks/parag_khanna_maps_the_future_of_countries?language=en
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Most of us are familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The theory on psychological health is now almost 70 years old, but rings as true today as it did when it first emerged in 1943. It is even more pronounced today with the emergence of millennials in the west who tend to chase purpose rather than just profit, in stark contrast to prior generations, a testament to having already met their other needs.
One could draw parallels between this hierarchy and the hierarchy of needs when it comes to innovation within a large company.
In this FFF, I dig a little deeper into what I’ll dub the Hierarchy of Needs for Corporate Innovation.
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In this midweek bonus, I speak with David Cropley, an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of South Australia. His main research focus revolves around creativity and innovation - both in technological and other contexts. Among his interests is also Malevolent Creativity - that is, creativity in the context of crime and terrorism.
He is the author of four books including Creativity in Engineering: Novel Solutions to Complex Problems, Creativity and Crime: A Psychological Analysis, The Dark Side of Creativity and Fostering Creativity: Diagnostic Approach for Higher Education and Organisations
Topics discussed: - The 4 P's of innovation - What disruptive innovation means for engineering companies - Why STEM education is just one half of the equation and teaching creativity and entrepreneurship education is critical to innovation
Show Notes: UniSA: people.unisa.edu.au/david.cropley LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/pub/david-cropley/4/b85/73b
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In this episode I bring you not one but two guests, Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky - co-authors of the book 'SPRINT - How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days'.
Jake Knapp created Google Venture’s sprint process. He has run more than a hundred sprints with startups such as 23andme, Slack, Nest, and Foundation Medicine. Previously, Jake worked at Google, leading sprints for everything from Gmail to Google X.
John Zeratsky has designed mobile apps, medical reports, and a daily newspaper (among other things). Before joining GV, he was a design lead at YouTube and an early employee of FeedBurner, which Google acquired in 2007. John has written about design and productivity forWall Street Journal, Fast Company, Wired, and Time.
Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution?
A practical guide to answering critical business questions, Sprint is a book for teams of any size, from small startups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits. It’s for anyone with a big opportunity, problem, or idea who needs to get answers today.
Topics discussed: -the history behind Sprint -how the Sprint process works - the importance of timeboxing - alignment with the lean startup - supporting tools - how the guys respond to criticisms of the lean startup, rapid iterations and sprints - examples of how sprints have been run successfully - examples of how sprint can be used for almost anything, not just product development
Show Notes: Sprintbook.com @jakek and @jazer on Twitter Google Ventures - The Design Sprint - http://www.gv.com/sprint/ Get the book - https://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/150112174X
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This Fast Fix Friday focuses on self awareness.
Did you hear about the manager who always shot the messenger whenever they brought bad news? He eventually stopped hearing bad news. Unfortunately for him, this wasn’t because there was none to report.
This is an anecdote that Dave Gray, co-creator of the Culture Map, shared in a recent episode of my podcast.
Sound familiar?
I go through 9 tactics you can start employing today to not only drive culture change but improve your professional and personal performance and relationships.
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Patrick King is a social interaction specialist based in San Francisco, California, and has been featured on numerous national publications such as Inc.com.
He is a #1 Amazon best-selling dating and relationships author - somewhere among the many clients throughout the years, he decided to flesh out his inner monologue and found that he had quite a bit to say.
He focuses on using his unique emotional intelligence and understanding of human interaction to break down emotional barriers, instill confidence, and equip people with the tools they need for success.
When he's not helping clients conquer the dating world, he's either fronting an 80′s cover band or training for his next 10k.
Topics discussed: - How to get buy in for corporate innovation and other corporate initiatives - How to deal with opposing personality types - How to place yourself as an authority (even if you're not!) - For the singledoms listening, Patrick throws in some dating tips!
Show Notes: Pat's website - PatrickKingConsulting.com Pat's books - http://amzn.to/1pIUVgW
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Arun Sundararajan is Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is also an affiliated faculty member at NYU's Center for Urban Science+Progress, and at NYU's Center for Data Science.
Professor Sundararajan's research program studies how digital technologies transform business and society. His current scholarly research focuses on peer-to-peer markets, the sharing economy, digital trust, social media and brand, digital labor, new institutions, regulation, social networks and online privacy.
He has published over 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and conferences, and has given more than 200 invited talks at industry, government and academic forums internationally. H
is research has been recognized by six Best Paper awards, two Google Faculty awards, and a variety of other grants. He has served on numerous editorial boards for scholarly journals. He has provided expert input about the digital economy as part of Congressional testimony and to a variety of city, state and federal government agencies, including the Presidential Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, the National Economic Council, the Federal Reserve Bank, the White House, and the Federal Trade Commission.
His op-eds and expert commentary have appeared in TIME Magazine, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Le Monde, El Pais, Wired, TechCrunch, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Harvard Business Review, and a variety of radio shows and TV programs.
He has served as Director of NYU Stern's IS Doctoral Program since 2007, is one of the founders of the Workshop on Information in Networks, is a member of the City of New York's Technology Advisory Group, and is an advisor to Cisco Systems, OuiShare, the Center for Global Enterprise, and theNational League of Cities. Professor Sundararajan's new book, The Sharing Economy, is all about crowd-based capitalism will be published in Spring 2016 by the MIT Press.
Topics discussed: - Crowd based capitalism - The impact of blockchain on the sharing economy - The freelance economy and what it means for generalists v specialists - The role of regulators in the sharing economy - Consultant marketplaces - The importance of being adaptable in the 21st Century
Show Notes: oz.stern.nyu.edu/ @digitalarun on Twitter Get the book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sharing-Economy-Employment-Crowd.../0262034573
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David Allen is widely recognized as the world's leading expert on personal and organizational productivity. His thirty-year pioneering research and coaching to corporate managers and CEOs of some of America's most prestigious corporations and institutions has earned him Forbes' recognition as one of the top five executive coaches in the U.S. and Business 2.0 magazine's inclusion in their 2006 list of the "50 Who Matter Now." Time Magazine called his flagship book, "Getting Things Done", "the definitive business self-help book of the decade." Fast Company Magazine called David "one of the world's most influential thinkers" in the arena of personal productivity, for his outstanding programs and writing on time and stress management, the power of aligned focus and vision, and his groundbreaking methodologies in management and executive peak performance.
David is the international best-selling author of "Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity"; "Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life"; and "Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life".
With a Twitter following boasting over 1.2 million people, David Allen is one of the most foremost names in life coaching, motivation and personal productivity on the planet.
Topics discussed: - The GTD framework and its five basic steps - Quieting the 'monkey mind' - The Six Horizons of Focus - David's past, including bouncing back from heroin addiction to become a world renowned life coach
Show Notes: GettingThingsDone.com @gtdguy on Twitter David's Books - http://www.amazon.co.uk/David-Allen/e/B001ILIG4C
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Dave Gray is an author and management consultant who works with the world's leading companies to develop and execute winning strategies. He co-created the Culture Map with Alex Osterwalder, of business model canvas fame, to help companies measure their culture and move the needle to where it needs to go.
He is the founder of XPLANE, a strategic design consultancy, and co-founder of Boardthing, a collaboration platform for distributed teams. He is the author of two books on design, change and innovation including Gamestorming: A playbook for innovators, rule-breakers and changemakers has sold more than 50,000 copies and has been translated into 14 languages.
His area of focus is the human side of change and innovation, specifically: How can you get people to adopt new ideas? How can you win their hearts and minds? How can you get people, including yourself, to change deeply embedded habits and behaviours? How can you transform a business strategy from a good idea to a living fact in the real world?
Topics discussed: - What went wrong at Nokia - a story from the frontlines - The Culture Map - what it is and how to use it - How to turn the dial up on innovative thinking in your company - Why culture underpins everything when it comes to innovation - Open innovation, collaboration and the connected company - Case studies on transforming culture - Why culture change starts with self awareness at the individual level
Show Notes: Dave's website - Xplaner.com Dave's management consultancy - Xplane.com Dave's Twitter - @davegray Dave's books - http://www.amazon.com/Dave-Gray/e/B003QRRY44 LinkedIn Culture Mapping Group - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4911771/profile
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
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This Fast Fix Friday focuses on the key questions you need to ask BEFORE embarking on an innovation project in order to optimise returns and give your organisation a significantly improved chance of success.
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
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Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human, which was named a Wall Street Journal bestseller and a New Yorker favorite book of 2011, and has been translated into ten languages. He is the coauthor, with Tom Griffiths, of Algorithms to Live By, available Spring 2016.
The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human.
He has just released his latest book, Algorithms to Live By. Co-written with cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths, the book offers a fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.
Christian’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and in scientific journals such as Cognitive Science. Christian has been featured on The Charlie Rose Show and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Brian has also lectured at Google, Microsoft, the Santa Fe Institute, and the London School of Economics.
Topics discussed: - AI beating humans at the Turing Test - 'Judgment Day' - Education and AI - AI and Creativity (innovation, music, literature, art etc) - Using computer algorithms to optimise human performance
Show Notes: Brian-Christian.com The Most Human Human avail at all good bookstores Algorithms to Live By avail at all good bookstores
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
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This Fast Fix Friday focuses on innovation metrics. I cover the five KEY metrics you need to know in early stage innovation projects which are unrecognisable when compared with traditional accounting metrics which tend to inhibit innovation. Find out why and what these metrics are.
FYI, we've recently released an online innovation management course - for more information head to innovationmanagerscourse.com
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
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Paul R. Williams, PMP has over twenty years of project, program & portfolio management leadership experience with information technology, innovation management and strategic business initiatives in the investment, banking, insurance, legal, manufacturing and professional services industries.
Mr. Williams is credited with being one of the pioneers of ‘Visual Project Management,’ a revolutionary new approach for leveraging visual thinking and communication strategies in project management practice. He has been featured in a number of worldwide publications including three appearances in PM Network, the official monthly periodical of the Project Management Institute, is the author of three books on innovation and project management, and is a frequent speaker on project and innovation management topics at conferences and media events across the United States.
Through his project and innovation management professional services firm, Think For A Change, LLC., Mr. Williams delivers educational, thought-leadership, coaching and consultation capabilities within the following niche areas: He is also the founder and administrator of the Innovation Management Group on LinkedIn which boasts over 33,000 members.
Topics discussed: - Visual Project Management - Innovation Centres of Excellence - Innovation Metrics - What Project Management looks like for Innovation Projects
Show Notes: ThinkForAChange.com Get 'Visual Project Management' on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Project-Management-Paul-Williams/dp/131266522X
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Today's Fast Fix Friday focuses on the power of engaging startups and small companies to drive corporate innovation efforts.
I recently caught up with Kmart Australia’s innovation program manager, Fabio Oliveira, on my podcast for a discussion on innovation in retail and what the ‘store of the future’ might look like.
One of the key talking points was around how Kmart is engaging startups to accelerate corporate innovation initiatives.
Topics covered here: - Engaging Large Incumbents = Engaging a Large Cost Base - You Can Only Move as Fast as Who’s In Front Of You - Startups Make Sense Early in the Innovation Lifecycle
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
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Alex Tapscott is the CEO and Founder of Northwest Passage Ventures. For seven years in the Canadian and U.S. Capital markets, Alex has worked tirelessly to help entrepreneurs realize their goals, raising hundreds of millions of dollars in critical growth capital and providing sound advice and counsel.
A passionate advocate for the disruptive potential of new technology, Alex is also the co-author with Don Tapscott of the upcoming book: BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION: How the Underlying Technology of Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World.
Alex serves as a research fellow for the Global Solutions Network (GSN) program at the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Business in Toronto.
In 2014, he published the white paper “A Bitcoin Governance Network.”
Alex is also a strong supporter of mental health research and currently sits on the board of CAMH Engage, a young leadership council he co-founded at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
In this episode we talk: - what is the blockchain - how blockchain can democratize value - the varied potential applications of blockchain (from finance to music and foreign aid) - how blockchain has the potential to disrupt incumbents and industries as a whole - how blockchain improves accountability and transparency - we discuss criticisms of blockchain such as lack of regulation and energy inefficiency - barriers to adoption - rugby and cat videos (yes, cat videos!)
Show Notes: Find out more @ Blockchain-Revolution.com Follow Alex on Twitter @alextapscott Northwest Passage Ventures @ npvinc.com Get the book @ amazon.com/Blockchain-Revolution-Technology-Changing-Business/dp/1101980133
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
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In this episode I chat with top online marketer and one of the top influencers on the web, Neil Patel, serial entrepreneur, investor and blogger.
He is the co-founder of online marketing tools Crazy Egg, Hello Bar and KISSmetrics.
He helps companies like Amazon, NBC, GM, HP and Viacom grow their revenue.
The Wall Street Journal calls him a top influencer on the web, and Entrepreneur Magazine says he created one of the 100 most brilliant companies in the world.
He was recognized as a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by President Obama and one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 35 by the United Nations. Neil has also been awarded Congressional Recognition from the United States House of Representatives.
With that, it gives me much pleasure to bring to you one of the most influential names in the world of online marketing, Neil Patel.
In this episode we talk: - the coalescence of marketing and product in large companies - why you should build your audience first - content marketing for large companies - when you should pivot or persevere - growth hacking for large companies - the power of giving away value for free
Show notes: NeilPatel.com KissMetrics.com CrazyEgg.com Quicksprout.com
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk awkward silences and why you should EMBRACE them rather than try and put an end to them by saying the first and usually least valuable thing that comes to mind. Particularly if you are working in an environment that calls for creativity and innovation.
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
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Rand Fishkin uses the ludicrous title, Wizard of Moz. He's founder and former CEO of one of the world’s fastest growing software companies Moz, an online marketing platform that is worth more than US$120M.
He’s a board member at presentation software startup Haiku Deck, co-author of a pair of books on SEO, and co-founder of Inbound.org.
Rand's an unsaveable addict of all things content, search, & social on the web, from his multiple blogs to Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, and a shared Instagram account. In his miniscule spare time, he likes to galavant around the world with Geraldine and then read about it on her superbly enjoyable travel blog.
In this episode we talk: - content marketing for large companies - funnel optimisation - lean marketing tactics - Japanese and Australian whisky
Show notes: MOZ: Moz.com Rand's Profile: Moz.com/rand Follow Rand on Twitter: @randfish Whiteboard Friday - Visualizing the Marketing Funnel: https://moz.com/blog/why-the-inbound-marketing-funnel-is-essential-whiteboard-friday
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
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In this episode we dive into topics pertaining to: - corporate VC - corporate accelerators and incubators - acquisition of startups
Today's Fast Fix Friday focuses on the questions you can ask to come up with an idea worth exploring within five minutes.
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
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Evangelos Simoudis is currently working with Steve Blank on a model for corporate innovation.
Evangelos has been working in Silicon Valley as a technologist, entrepreneur, corporate executive, and VC. Today he advises global corporations on startup-driven innovation and information technology and invests in early stage startups working on big data applications. He is a recognized thought leader on corporate innovation, big data, cloud computing, and digital marketing platforms, a writer and speaker on these topics. In 2014, Evangelos was named a Power Player in Digital Media, and in 2012 as a top investor in online advertising.
Evangelos is a foudner and MD at Synapse Partners, an organisation connecting Fortune 500 companies with technologies, practices and startups that are shaping our future. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners where he as a GP, continued at Trident Capital as a senior managing director, and more recently at Corporate Innovation Ventures where he is a founder and managing director. His current directorships include Amobee/Singtel, and Kite. Prior directorships include Brightroll (acquired by Yahoo!), Bristol Technology (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Composite Software (acquired by Cisco), Confluent Software (acquired by Oracle Corporation), Exelate (acquired by Nielsen) and Princeton Softech (acquired by IBM). Prior to his investing and advisory career, Evangelos had a 20-year career in high-technology executive roles, including two startup CEO positions.
In this episode we dive into some of Evangelos' thought leadership on topics pertaining to: - corporate VC - corporate accelerators and incubators - acquisition of startups
We experienced some minor technical issues during this interview, however despite this I cannot recommend listening to this highly enough if you have an interest in corporate innovation, which, if you're reading this, is probably quite likely!
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk hacking the corporate culture to support innovation, a topic inspired by my recent interview with Silicon Valley godfather Steve Blank.
I cover both intrinsic and external motivators and levers that can be pulled to start hacking the culture.
For more on this topic visit: www.collectivecamp.us/blog
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
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Garrett Dunham is an entrepreneur, speaker and startup advisor. He’s founded 2 accelerators, including Prebacked, a reverse hackathon connecting corporates with startups, and Singulairty University Labs - his work has been featured in the New York Times, the NBC, Fast Company, Forbes, Tech Crunch and Venture Beat.
A Silicon Valley native, Garrett loves to teach about entrepreneurialism.
In this podcast we talked about all manner of things, including: - Corporate startup partnerships - Some key challenges to overcome when you pair a large enterprise with a startup - What to think about before, during and after a corporate startup partnership is established - Case studies of success - Premortems of failure - Whether to acquire, invest, partner, incubate or invent - Why speed is fundamental to success - How to increase your productivity by 400%
Show notes: GarrettDunham.com
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs.
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In episode #17, I confront an issue that seems all too common amongst large organisations trying to deal with this thing called disruption.
Far too often, the response is isolated initiatives or projects, with defined start and end dates, that don't have clearly defined objectives, aren't embedded into the broader organisational BUs, don't tie in with performance metrics, make little funding or resources available to explore ideas beyond an initiative and ultimately amount to nothing more than theatre with no tangible long-term value.
I talk what organisations are doing wrong and what they need to be thinking about if they are serious about innovation and keeping disruption at bay.
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Welcome to our very first Fast Fix Friday, a short 5 minute or less morsel of knowledge to inspire and inject some fresh thinking into your day and get you ready for the weekend as you reflect on the week that was!
In this episode, I look at Pixar's brain trust - a mechanism the company uses to do away with sugarcoating and the human tendencies to not say what we really think - which ultimately stands in the way of creativity and innovation.
Give this podcast a listen!
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Show Notes: - Creativity Inc, Ed Catmull (book)
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Flow has been defined as a mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus. The term was first coined by Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975 and is often referred to as as ‘the zone’, however few people truly appreciate that ‘the zone’ is actually a physiological state.
Why did I choose to write about a topic that may at first glance seem to have more to do with psychology and physiological science than business innovation?
The answer is simple.
A 10-year McKinsey and Co. study on flow and productivity found top executives 500% more productive when in flow. Interested in finding out more?
Give this podcast a listen!
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Show Notes: - RiseOfSuperman.com - FlowGenomeProject.com - Headspace.com - Calmapp.com - MyNoise.net - Brain.FM - Noots.co (disclaimer: I'm an advisor) - Onnit.com - TimFerriss.com - ChooseMuse.com - ThinkMelon.com
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We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs. Download it at www.theinnovationmanagershandbook.com
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Braden Kelley is an experienced innovation and change speaker, trainer, and digital transformation strategist. He specializes in building cultures of continuous and accelerating innovation and change. He is the author of "Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire" and "Charting Change", and has been advising companies on how to increase their revenue and cut their costs since 1996.
Braden writes frequently on the topic of continuous innovation and works with clients to create innovative strategies, organizational change, digital transformation, and improved organizational performance.
Braden is passionate about innovation and has published more than 650 articles for online publications.
In his spare time, Braden is a co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of the popular global innovation community – InnovationExcellence.com – home to 7,500+ innovation articles and is an innovation leader on Twitter (@innovate) with 18,500+ hard-earned followers. He was previously Improvement and Innovation Manager at Premera Blue Cross, Change and Marketing Strategist at Business Strategy Innovation and is currently an Innovation and Change Strategy Consultant with Liberty Mutual Insurance.
Topics we discussed: - How we can reduce the 70% change program failure rate - How to build a culture that supports lean startup - Braden's Change Planning Toolkit - How to tackle resistance to change - Agile change - How to change the culture to support innovation without compromising the core business
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Show Notes: - InnovationExcellence.com - BradenKelley.com
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Whitney Johnson was recognized as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers in 2015, and was a finalist for the Top thinkers on Talent at the biennial Thinkers50 ceremony in London. She is best known for her work on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption.
She is formerly the co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, world renowned author of The Innovator's Dilemma and innovation thought leader, where they invested in and led the $8 million seed round for Korea’s Coupang, currently valued at $5+ billion.
Johnson is also a frequent contributor to and writer for the Harvard Business Review, and is a Linkedinfluencer.
She is the author of the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself (2015) and Dare, Dream Do (2012).
She has received widespread recognition for her thinking and was named one of Fortune’s 55 Most Influential Women on Twitter in 2014. She co-founded the popular Forty Women Over Forty to Watch and is a fellow at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards.
Topics we discussed: - Her book, Disrupt Yourself - Why we must disrupt ourselves with the future of our jobs being more uncertain than ever - How the concept of disrupting yourself aligns with Clayton Christensen's concept of disruptive innovation - How our very own KPIs and short term targets are often used as an excuse to prevent us doing what we love and chasing our passions, and ultimately lead us to being disrupted - How can you disrupt yourself without compromising the way you make money today - how disrupting yourself SHOULD feel lonely - How the well worn path promises a limited reward - How disrupting yourself leads to 20X revenue potential - How disrupting yourself is initially supposed to be a slow process riddled with "am I doing the right thing?" questions - Both Whitney's and my stories of personal disruption - The concept of 'disruptive strengths'
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Show Notes: - DisruptYourselfBook.com - WhitneyJohnson.com
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Steve Blank is considered by many to be the godfather of Silicon Valley and is credited with spearheading the customer development model which birthed the lean startup, popularised by his former pupil Eric Ries' book of the same name. He is one of the most prominent and widely respected thought leaders in the world on innovation and entrepreneurship.
Over the last 35 years, Steve has been part of, or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups. These have run the gamut from semiconductors, video games, personal computers, and supercomputers. (MIPS, Zilog, Rocket Science, SuperMac, Convergent Technologies, Ardent, ESL) Steve's last company was E.piphany, an enterprise software company.
Steve currently teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley- Haas Business School, Columbia University, NYU, Stanford University Engineering School and UCSF. In 2009 he was awarded the Stanford University Undergraduate Teaching Award in the department of Management Science and Engineering.
In 2011 the National Science Foundation adopted his Lean Launchpad class as the U.S. standard for commercializing basic and applied research via the Innovation Corps. All his course material is open-sourced at
Topics we discussed: - the corporate innovation outpost - the evolution of corporate R&D - getting to "yes" for corporate innovation - why entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs are not the same - why horizon 1 systems don't support horizon 3 innovation - why horizon 3 or disruptive innovation requires a little bit of crazy - innovation in the public sector - how important it is to get the culture right - acquisitions and innovation - if he could work for any company in the world at any stage of their lifecycle, which would it be and why
There were definitely some nerves in the lead up to this interview given that Steve is somebody who I have the upmost admiration for in the space of innovation and entrepreneurship and some of those nerves might have shone through during moments in this podcast so feel free to have a laugh at my expense! :) Steve Glaveski
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Show Notes: - SteveBlank.com - Four Steps to the Epiphany (book) - Startup Owner's Manual (book) - Twitter: @sgblank
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In this episode I had the pleasure of chatting with native New York native and one of the most influential CMOs in the world, Ted Rubin.
Ted is a leading Social Marketing Strategist, Keynote Speaker and Brand Evangelist and evangelized the term ROR: Return on Relationship™, a concept he believes is the cornerstone for building an engaged multi-million member database, many of whom are vocal advocates for the brand.
Many people in the social media world know Ted for his enthusiastic, energetic and undeniably personal connection to people. Ted is the most followed CMO on Twitter according to Social Media Marketing Magazine; one of the most interesting CMOs on Twitter according to Say Media, #13 on Forbes Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers, and number #2 on the Leadtail list of Top 25 People Most Mentioned by digital marketers. ROR is the basis of his philosophy…It’s All About Relationships!
His book, Return on Relationship, was released in 2013, and How To Look People in the Eye Digitally in 2015.
Ted has a deep online background beginning in 1997 working with best selling author, entrepreneur and agent of change Seth Godin at Yoyodyne, which was acquired in 1998 by Yahoo!
His personal motto is Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
We discussed a number of topics, including: - Customer Experience in 2016 - Return on Relationship - Looking People in the Eye Digitally - The Age of Influence, how ANYBODY can become influential without leaving their house - Balancing pressure to cut costs, automate and offshore with increasing customer service expectations - How Social Media is NOT about screaming marketing messages from from the tree-tops - Tools to help you build and nurture ROR - Empowering Your Employees to Increase ROR - We also talked about some of our favourite books and philosophised a little on life towards the end of the show
Show Notes: - For find out a little bit more about Ted, download some thought leadership of his or to pick up a copy of his books head to tedrubin.com and returnonrelationship.com. - Search for 'Twitter Basics' at TedRubin.com to find out some of the tools that Ted Rubin and his team uses to build ROR - To download 'The 12 Most Important Ways to Build a Return on Relationship' head to RORPro.com - RocketReach.com (find anyone's email address)
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Ben Yoskovitz is the co-author of Lean Analytics, a guide for organisations who want to use data to grow new businesses faster.
Ben has been the VP of Product at GoInstant, acquired by Salesforce in 2012, he was the founding partner at Year One Labs, an early stage seed acecelerator based in Montreal. One of the companies that came through the program, Localmind, was acquired by Airbnb.
He’s also made 15+ angel investments and runs the Instigator Blog which focuses on lean startup, product management and entrepreneurship.
Our discussion covers the following and more: - origins of lean analytics - defining the one metric that matters - what does success look like? - analytics for non-tech companies - analytics for large companies - how much data do you need to make a decision? - knowing when to pivot or persevere - how lean analytics can help product speak finance's language - machine gun testing v targeted testing - using lean analytics in small markets to support the exploration of disruptive innovation
For more on Ben Yoskovitz head to InstigatorBlog.com. You can purchase Lean Analytics from all good online bookstores and find out more at leananalyticsbook.com
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David Burkus is the author of the The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas. He is Associate Professor of Management at Oral Roberts University where he teaches courses on creativity, entrepreneurship, and organizational behavior. He is also the founder and host of LDRLB, a podcast on leadership, innovation, and strategy. He has just released Under New Management, how leading organizations are upending business as usual, in which he challenges many of the long-standing management disciplines we take for granted with new and radical alternatives that seem to be working at some of today’s more progressive organisations.
Our discussion touches on: - putting employees first and customers second - self managing teams - lean performance reviews - living, breathing org charts - activity based working and why it's not always a good thing - unlimited vacation policies - banning email - Oklahoma City Thunder's chances in the NBA Playoffs
To find out more about David Burkus and to secure a copy of his new book, Under New Management, head to davidburkus.com
David Binetti comes to us all the way from San Francisco’s sunny bay area...he is a 6 times entrepreneur - served on the founding teams of Quicken.com, Arch Rock which was acquired by Cisco, Votizen which was acquired by Brigade Media and USA.Gov. Today he is a management consultant who works with large companies to help them innovate.
He’ll be talking to us about Innovation Options, a valuation framework that supports measuring learning in dollars and helps organisations innovate faster with less risk. This, he says, ultimately allows Finance and Product to speak a common language in achieving a common goal.
For more information on the framework head over to innovation-options.com
For additional resources on how to innovate in the enterprise such as blogs, podcasts, tools and our free ebook, The Innovation Manager's Handbook, head over to collectivecamp.us
Fabio Oliveira is Kmart Australia's newly anointed Innovation Program Manager. Prior to joining Kmart he was Managing Director at design agency Huddle Academy and worked for the Kaizen Institute, Telefonica and Johnson & Johnson in Brazil.
Topics addressed: - design thinking - business model innovation v technology innovation - why large companies should engage startups to drive innovation - customer experience - key trends in retail - innovation for low cost retailers - the s tore of the future - how legacy systems can inhibit innovation in retail - the importance of co-creation to drive cultural change - stage gate versus iterative development
If you'd like to contact Fabio, you can do so by emailing fabiosoliveira@gmail.com
To find out more about the mindsets, methodologies and tools required to innovate in the enterprise, head to www.collectivecamp.us
In this episode of Future², we were lucky enough to be joined by world champion entrepreneur and investor, Niel Robertson, not to be confused with the world champion Australian snooker player of the same name with whom he battles for top spot in Google rankings!
Niel has founded a handful of successful startups including Service Metrics which he sold at the tender age of 24 at the height of the dot com boom in 1999 for US$280m.
In this podcast we talk about: - Niel’s beginnings in tech with a Commodore 64 - Melbourne coffee - Co-founding a business with somebody who inspired the movie ‘21’ - How Boulder, Colorado, with a population of 100,000 became one of the tech hotbeds of the US - The Melbourne start-up ecosystem - The role that Government and Enterprise can play in supporting innovation - 3 key skills he looks for in investee founders - What his daily routine looks like to stay optimised and performing at a high level
We know you will love this podcast with one of Boulder, Colorado’s most iconic entrepreneurs who is now spending half of his time in Melbourne, Australia.
For more thought leadership on innovation by way of blogs, podcasts, infographics and downloadable resources, head to www.collectivecamp.us
In this podcast, we catch up with Annie Fergusson, change facilitator and founder of airEDU, a platform she is designing and building to resolve challenges in the higher education marketplace. Higher ed institutions are like large enterprise organisations - they are bound by bureaucracy, systems, values and a wider ecosystem that inhibits their ability to move quickly. As such, we touch on a lot of topics that should be of interest to any innovation and education enthusiast, such as: - Modularisation and practical education - What's broken with higher ed? - MOOcs - Philosophy - The pace of change and whether Universities can keep up - The T-shaped student - Resilience and preparing for personal disruption by teaching transferable skills, not job-centric skills - The role universities can play in enterprise innovation - The role universities will play going forward
If you'd like to contact Annie ping her on linkedin @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-fergusson-phd-043843
For all things innovation and Collective Campus head to www.collectivecamp.us
In this podcast, Steve Glaveski discusses the merits of using idea platforms to spur innovation but also touches on the many pitfalls of running idea contests without enough emphasis on framing challenges properly, evaluation criteria and actually having a process in place to explore ideas post the contest. Find out some of the best methods for running idea contests in your organisation.
I had the pleasure of catching up with Humphrey Laubscher, NAB Labs' Fintech Innovation Manager, for our latest Future² podcast. We touched on a number of questions relevant for not just banking and financial services organisations, but other large organisations facing similar challenges and startups looking to partner and/or disrupt incumbents.
For those of you who don't know, NAB Labs is the innovation arm of the National Australia Bank, and aside from recently announcing a $50m startup venture fund, NAB Labs is heavily focused on collapsing the time it takes to bring new products to market, investigating partnerships and potential investments and designing a scalable innovation system that sits at the heart of the bank.
A must listen if you are looking to drive innovation in any of the above realms.
In this podcast, Sean Qian interviews Collective Campus co-founder Steve Glaveski to dissect what the corporate hackathon is, what the benefits are, how it's broken and how best to approach running one.
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