Being a good leader doesn’t require being a bad person, and if you know what to look out for, you can keep your ego and hubris in check and become (and stay) a leader who is effective, successful, and good.
Kris Østergaard provides real-world advice and research-based information on how to grow innovation by employing new technologies, improving processes, and establishing a culture of creativity and forward momentum.
Neuroscientist and author Friederike Fabritius shares how fear makes us think less effectively and changes both our physiology and our neurochemistry.
Gleb Tsipursky is a leading expert on avoiding business disasters and draws on over 20 years of extensive consulting, coaching, and speaking experience to show how pioneering leaders and organisations – many of them his clients – avoid business disasters.
Mark Johnson introduces a new way of thinking and managing, called “future-back,” that enables any manager to become a practical visionary.
Addressing the many barriers to change that exist in established organisations, he presents a systematic approach to overcoming them
Today’s guest in this bonus episode is an innovator in his field, a brain expert and bestselling author who is on the forefront of a new movement within medicine and related disciplines.
We discuss strategies to deal with the Covid-19 crisis and our brain health during periods of high stress and anxiety.
We discuss:
1. How fear impacts our decision making
2. Crushing ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts)
3. Understanding different brain types
4. How to manage stress/comfort eating
5. How to influence children during a crisis
More about Daniel here: https://www.amenclinics.com
There is a lot of hype, hand waving and ink being spilled about artificial intelligence (AI) in business. The amount of coverage of this topic in the trade press and on shareholder calls is evidence of a large change currently underway. It is both awesome and terrifying.
What started as an inquiry into how executives can adopt AI to harness the best of human and machine capabilities turned into a much more profound rumination on the future of humanity and enterprise. It is a wake-up call for business leaders across all sectors of the economy. Not only should you implement AI regardless of your industry, but once you do, you should fight to stay true to your purpose, your ethical convictions, indeed your humanity, even as our organisations continue to evolve. While not holding any punches about the dangers posed by AI, today’s guest uniquely surveys where technology is limited, and where the true opportunities lie amidst all the disruptive change that is currently underway.
Weak Human + Machine + Better Process > Strong Human + Machine + Inferior Process
More about John here:
Everyone wants to create new products and services, find new customers and markets, stay ahead of the competition, and work smarter instead of harder.
Yet with all the focus and attention on innovation, the term has become an overused buzzword rather than a real, tangible concept. If you want to seriously pursue innovation—you need to strip away the hype.
Real innovators need to transcend the existing ideas, rules, and patterns to discover exciting new outcomes. They must step outside the best practice box and get their hands dirty.
The spirit of a true innovator is rooted in wanting to do something that has never been done before, to solve problems that have never been solved, and to run through walls and leap over tall buildings to get there.
In his book, our guest—the retired chairman and CEO of Cree, a company that fundamentally changed the way people experience light and drove the obsolescence of the Edison light bulb—explains that innovation is fundamentally about people and tells us how to develop a mindset of creativity, risk-taking, and hard work.
We welcome author “The Innovator’s Spirit: Discover the Mindset to Pursue the Impossible”, Chuck Swoboda
More about Chuck: https://www.innovatorsontap.com
Part 7 explores Dee Hock’s latest years from age 75-92 and his thoughts on what comes next.
This episode is my personal favourite.
Dee shares:
- Competition and Cooperation
- Thoughts on the future
- The impact of future technologies
- Parting advice for us all
Abstract:
52 years ago, our guest foresaw and implemented the foundations for the world’s first trillion dollar organisation. Back then, Visa was little more than a set of unorthodox convictions about organisation slowly growing in the mind of a young corporate rebel.
Today, according to the Visa 2019 annual report, payments and cash volume for the year was a staggering $11.6 trillion dollars, transactions processed on Visa’s networks totalled $138.3 trillion dollars and the year saw some 3.4 billion Visa cards in operation.
He is the man who imagined this reality, who had a once-deemed-impossible vision 52 years ago, a vision which has become a concrete reality today. He is a man who has a different view on what the next 50 years can deliver, but that vision will require a radical shift in mindset for every single one of us.
It is such an immense honour to welcome the founder and CEO Emeritus of Visa and author of the pioneering work “The Birth of the Chaordic Age” and its updated version “One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization”, Dee Hock.
http://www.deewhock.com/
Part 6 explores how Dee Hock created the conditions for Visa to emerge
Dee shares:
- How such a complex organisation made and implemented decisions.
- Self policing entities
- The dispersion of innovations
- Why Dee left Visa at the pinnacle of success
- Restoring the 200 acres of wild land
- Those 3 questions
- The Sante Fe Institue
- The New Odyssey at 65
- Writing his book
Abstract:
52 years ago, our guest foresaw and implemented the foundations for the world’s first trillion dollar organisation. Back then, Visa was little more than a set of unorthodox convictions about organisation slowly growing in the mind of a young corporate rebel.
Today, according to the Visa 2019 annual report, payments and cash volume for the year was a staggering $11.6 trillion dollars, transactions processed on Visa’s networks totalled $138.3 trillion dollars and the year saw some 3.4 billion Visa cards in operation.
He is the man who imagined this reality, who had a once-deemed-impossible vision 52 years ago, a vision which has become a concrete reality today. He is a man who has a different view on what the next 50 years can deliver, but that vision will require a radical shift in mindset for every single one of us.
It is such an immense honour to welcome the founder and CEO Emeritus of Visa and author of the pioneering work “The Birth of the Chaordic Age” and its updated version “One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization”, Dee Hock.
http://www.deewhock.com/