The business logic of the past decades no longer applies. A changed competitive world requires a new strategic question: “Where is the value being created — and destroyed — in the ecosystem in which you’re engaged, and what do you do about it?”

Ralph Welborn, PhD is today’s guest. Ralph has held a variety of leadership positions, including CEO of Imaginatik, where he received the European CEO award in 2016; he has been leader of IBM’s Strategy & Transformation business in the Middle East and Africa; and senior vice president of KPMG Consulting and is also co-founder of an e-commerce company, today’s focus is his truly excellent book: Topple – The End of the Firm-Based Strategy and Rise of New Models for Explosive Growth.

Ralph will share specific lessons and insights for every sized organization to make sense of the changed competitive environment, including:

What is your ecosystem? — Who comprises it, and what is driving the shifts in value?

How, instead of pushing products, do you own a problem, meet a specific customer need and/or tackle specific friction?

What are the implications of the new strategic questions on where you play and, most importantly, how you execute?

What are the new capabilities critical to do so?

Who and how do you engage to orchestrate capabilities to capture the new sources of value in new ways?

“I struck a match and I didn’t know how much tinder was around” – Keith Conners 

At the current rate, in 2017, half a million American children will be taken to their doctors and be newly diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Many of them will receive thoughtful and reasonable evaluations and benefit from medication. Another sizable number will be seen by casual clinicians who either bypass the child’s real problems or give in to his frustrated parents and teachers.

Some of the adolescents will be faking ADHD just to get Adderall for themselves or others. Whatever the actual breakdown, there will be 500,000 new diagnostic visits, millions of follow-ups, tens of millions of pills, and hundreds of millions in sales. Lots of business for everyone. 

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) will soon be the most frequently diagnosed chronic condition among children, surpassing asthma. Yet research shows that ADHD can’t be that prevalent.

On this week’s show, we talk to the author of ADHD Nation, acclaimed New York Times journalist, Pulitzer prize nominee Alan Schwarz.

Alan takes us behind the scenes to tell the full story of this billion-dollar industry.

We talk about the history of ADHD, the history of diagnosis, the marketing of drugs and the mishandling of diagnosis. We also discuss the fake diagnosis problem where pressurized college students are taking ADHD drugs as amphetamines to get through high-pressure college exams.

You can find out more about Alan here:

https://www.alanschwarz.net/

The current way of treating people at work has failed. Globally, only 30% of employees are engaged in their jobs, and in this fast-paced world, that’s just not enough. The world’s best companies understand this and have been quietly treating people differently for nearly two decades. 

Now you can learn their secrets and discover The Engagement Bridge™ model, proven to build bottom-line value for companies through sustainable employee engagement.

Debra Corey is the author of Effective HR Communication and the co-author of “The Rebel Playbook for Employee Engagement,” with the founder of Reward Gateway Glenn Elliott.

We discuss:

Stats on employee engagement

How new data has led to more investment in this field

The Engagement Bridge™ model

Open honest feedback

Purpose mission values

Leadership

Management

Job design

Learning

Recognition

3 underpinning elements

Pay benefits

Wellbeing

Workspace

The 5 generations in the workplace

The iceberg of ignorance

4% front Line problems are known by management

9% are known by team management

74% known by managers

100% by employees

Monkey Fairness Experiment we mention is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSryJXDpZo 

You can find out more about Debra here:

https://www.rewardgateway.com/blog/author/debra-corey 

More about Debra here:

https://www.rewardgateway.com/blog/author/debra-corey

Author of “The Four Pillars of Success” and DNotes Co-Founder Alan Yong Offers Insights on how to create a Digital Currency by sharing the DNotes’ Vision and Strategy.

We discuss everything you need to know about the formation of digital currency from the financial crisis to the rapid rise of Bitcoin.

Alan shares the need for trust in a new industry riddled with bad actors and Ponzi schemes.

This is a must listen for novice and expert wanting to learn more about cryptocurrencies, digital currencies, Bitcoin and initial coin offerings (ICOs).

Learn more about Alan and Dnotes here: https://dnotesglobal.com

In this knowledge economy, we need to power our minds. To do this we must power our bodies. We live in a semi-permanent state of fight or flight, which releases cortisol as a precursor to impending danger. In turn, this causes a plethora of problems.

Matt Lovell is a disruptive thinking performance and Health Nutritionist. Body recomposition expert. His clients have included England Rugby, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and currently Reading and Bournemouth football clubs. He is an expert in corporate wellness and the founder of Aminoman nutrition and supplements.

On this episode, we look at corporate stress and how we can overcome it through a regime of diet and exercise. We look at quick fixes and long-term approaches.

Find out more about Matt here:

www.aminoman.com

www.fourweekfatloss.com

www.sportsnutritionvlog.com

 

If we depend on market research to dictate business decisions, today’s guest explains how this is a big mistake. Market research cannot predict buying decisions because it focuses on the conscious mind, like most of our daily decisions in life and business. we make them unconsciously.

With corporate risk aversion at an all-time high, it’s no surprise that marketing professionals increasingly reach for market research to support their strategies. Then, if products and marketing campaigns fail, they blame the research.

While this episode is invaluable for all business owners and marketers – it will equally help us understand any customer better, but also understand ourselves.

Today’s guest has had no hesitation in calling out a multi-billion dollar industry for its frailties and suggesting a better way. We welcome consumer behaviour expert and author of the best-seller ‘Consumerology: The Truth about Consumers and the Psychology of Shopping’, Philip Graves

We talk: Focus groups versus real life situations?

Why Asking Is Fruitless

Brand Fails such as New Coke and The Post Office rebranding as Consignia

How brands like Red Bull succeeded in face of bad focus group research

Simplification and Stickiness

The misattributing of consultancy spend

The importance of the entrepreneurial gut feeling

The importance of Social proof

The biases that sway our decisions

The Philip Graves AFECT Model Analysis (of behavioural data) Frame (of mind) “Environment”  “Covert study” “Timeframe”

You can find out more about Philip including where to buy his book here: http://philipgraves.net/

Soft Skills have become the new hard skills, yet we have to seek out education in these skills. In an increasingly tech-driven world, soft skills are even more necessary.

President of PDS Tech and multiple author and martial artist Cash Nickerson shares how to become a more confident and effective negotiator, listener, speaker, and leader using the way of the Samurai.

The martial arts skills of the Samurai revolve around politeness, self-control, and honesty. By using these traits as business strategies, you will develop an especially powerful tool for dealing with the subtle attacks we often face from colleagues, clients, and others competing for control, eager to succeed at our expense. We discuss specific pitfalls and specially designed exercises to improve all of your interpersonal interactions.

Cash Nickerson draws upon more than thirty years of experience in human resources, the workforce, and his training in martial arts to offer expert instruction to help anyone eager to be more successful.

You can find out more about Cash here: http://cashnickerson.com/

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/