Most of us struggle with our attention, but more important is that we struggle to improve that attention. We welcome Joanna Jast author of “Laser-Sharp Focus. A No-Fluff Guide to Improved Concentration, Maximised Productivity and Fast-Track to Success”.

We discuss:

• What is focus?
• How does focus work?
• The silver bullet myth to focus
• the 2 types of attention: Automatic attention (8-12 seconds and Intentional attention Distraction logs?
• Distraction patterns
• How Motivation is short lived
• Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
• Setting up a focus system
• Environment
• Workspace
• Taking control of tech
• Technology
• Sleep – Sleep debt, recommended sleep, negative effects etc
• Exercise
• Managing energy, not time

Find out more about Joanna here: http://www.theshapeshiftersclub.com/about

From rogues to role models: Be More Pirate reveals the radical strategies of Golden Age pirates, and updates them into clear solutions for making your mark on the 21st Century.

Be More Pirate draws parallels between the strategy and innovation of legends like Henry Morgan with modern-day rebels, like Elon Musk, Malala and Blockchain, and reveals how to apply their tactics to life and work today.

Social entrepreneur and author Sam Conniff Allende shares the parallels and the principles we can draw to make a difference in our world today for the generations of tomorrow.

Sam shares the 5 key principles practised by pirates, which we can use today:

Rebel – stand up to status quo

Rewrite – bend and rewrite rules

Reorganise – collaborate to achieve scale

Redistribute – fairness, share power

Retell – weaponise your story to establish and spread their legacy

Sam leaves us with the profound message of C.S. Lewis

“Good and evil increase at compound interest. That’s why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance. the smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may go on to victories you never dreamed of”.

You can find out more about Sam and the book here: https://www.samconniff.com/

https://www.bemorepirate.com/

http://livity.co.uk/

Gib Bulloch is an award-winning social intrapreneur who consults, writes and speaks on topics relating to the role of business in society. 

Gib believes passionately in the power of business to change the world and in the power of the individual to change the world of business. Gib founded and scaled Accenture’s global “not-for-loss” consulting business, ADP.  

He left Accenture in 2016 to explore new ways of supporting purpose-driven insurgencies within the corporate world.

We discuss:

The Challenge of Status Quo

Driving change from within organisations

Corporate Stress Corporate

Mental Bullying

Social Change You can find out more about Gib here:

http://www.gibbulloch.com/about/

So much passes us by, unnoticed. We multi-task, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully made object or stunning natural landscape? Yet this is when our spirits lift, our soul is restored.

In this show entrepreneur, author and speaker Alan Moore invites us to rethink not only what we produce -whether it’s a website, a handmade chair, or a business- but how and why. We discuss examples from Alan’s book “Do Design – Why Beauty is Key to Everything”.

We discuss:

Purpose and meaning in business

How younger generations are driving change

How Artificial intelligence can be harnessed for good

A new hope for humanity

How beauty and meaning can change the output of anything

How Innovation should embrace failure

You can find out more about Alan here: http://beautiful.business/

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” Steve Jobs

We are forever in a rush In a high-tech volatile society, we barely have time to enjoy our lives and we tolerate tired joyless states.

We talk to the pioneer of energy psychiatry Judith Orloff M.D. Judith is a psychiatrist, an empath and intuitive healer, and is on the UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Faculty.

She synthesises the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, energy, and spirituality.

Judith also specialises in treating empaths and highly sensitive people in her private practice. She passionately believes that the future of medicine involves integrating all this wisdom to achieve total wellness.

Dr. Orloff’s work has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Oprah and USA Today.

We talk about recognising energy vampires, energy zones, diversity, innovation, tuning in to our intuition and some tips for us to use in the workplace to avoid workaholism and burnout.

You can find out more about Judith and her books here: https://drjudithorloff.com/

We live in a world of unprecedented disruption. But we are all born of the sun, and travelling towards it. How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci is a guidebook, inspired by one of history’s great souls, for that journey.

This book is an invitation to breathe the vivid air, to feel the fire in your heart’s centre, and the full flowering of your spirit.

We welcome specialist in innovation and creativity, founder of The High Performance Learning Center and author of 15 books, Michael J. Gelb.

We talk about the seven DaVinci principles and some exercises to hone these skills and how we might introduce them for a more satisfying life

Curiosita

Demonstrationj

Sensationi

Svumato

Arte Scienza

Corporalita

Connectioni 

You can find out more about Michael J. Gelb here:

https://michaelgelb.com/

“Someone once told me the definition of hell; on your last day on earth, the person you could have become will meet the person you became.”

We often go through life doing stuff, often without assessing is it the right stuff, we don’t even do stuff for ourselves and we end up wondering what we could have done in our lives.

Globally, not having enough time is a cause of immense stress. Today’s show is dedicated to shining a light on how we could better manage our time and focus on what is important.

Our guest is internationally recognised expert on time investment and author of ‘How to invest your time like money” Elizabeth Grace Saunders

We talk:

Symptoms of poor time management

The psychology behind our issues

The ways we can recognise where we are going wrong

The framework of how to manage our time

The routines for recurring time costs

and much more

You can find out about Elizabeth and her books here:

https://reallifee.com/

We live in a world where the art of communication has become more important than ever, yet very few of us are taught how to communicate.

Joel Schwartzberg is a strategic communications trainer. The biggest obstacle he’s come across—one that connects directly to nervousness, stammering, rambling, an epic fail is that most speakers and writers don’t have a point.

They typically have just a title, a theme, a topic, an idea, an assertion, a catchphrase, or even something much less.

This show is about how to identify your point, leverage it, stick to it, and sell it, and train others to turn their biggest fear into their greatest strength, and be the best champions of their greatest ideas.

You can find out about Joel and his work here:

https://www.joelschwartzberg.net/gettothepoint

If you pick up a book on innovation or creativity, it is often written from an expertise-in-one-area perspective. This isolates other elements which may be much more relevant to your challenge.

Professor David Owens has written this accessible book for everyone breaking the silos of discipline to give a rounded framework useful to all fields. This is a must listen for corporate innovators, leaders and innovators of any kind.

We discuss:

The six constraints of innovation.

The challenges of silos How we are constrained individually, in groups and in society.

The challenges of expertise and the opportunities of true diverse thinking.

You can find out more about David and his work here: https://creativepeoplemustbestopped.com/

You can buy his book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-People-Must-Stopped-Innovation/dp/1118002903/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

“A great many college-educated, white-collar workers are going to discover that their jobs, too, are squarely in the sights as software automation and predictive algorithms advance rapidly in capability.” ― Martin Ford

Martin Ford is a futurist and the author of the New York Times bestselling “Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future” (winner of the 2015 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and translated into more than 20 languages) and “The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future,” as well as the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm. He has over 25 years experience in the fields of computer design and software development. He holds a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MBA degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

We talk:

The perfect storm of technology, climate change and technological unemployment

The automation wave Automation replacing human brains as well as brawn

Exponential Growth and Moore’s Law

Universal Basic Income

Job Stagnation

Economic Singularity

Technological Unemployment

His upcoming book ‘Architects of the Artifical Intelligence Revolution’