Today’s guest offers a unique pathway toward identifying the right career, finding the ideal job and developing a moral compass–the solid value system that will then anchor us in our professional lives.

With a creative and engaging mix of coaching practice, management theories, case studies and personal story-telling, this book helps us to identify both our own compass—which relates to integrity, passion and internal value systems—and radar—which helps us to understand organisational complexity and ‘read’ workplace dynamics and situations.

The Compass of Success is founded on a series of searching questions that will enable anyone to find their compass and radar to achieve personal success:

– How can I find out what my real strengths and talents are?
– Do I love what I do?
– How can I find a job with a company that truly reflects my values?
– What are the prices I am willing to pay for a meaningful and rewarding career?
– How should I define a successful career?

Amid a volatile and uncertain world, one in which technology, AI and digital resources are transforming the work environment, The Compass and the Radar allows us to pause, reflect, and consider who we are, what we stand for, and how to remain free.

We welcome the author of “The Compass and the Radar: The Art of Building a Rewarding Career While Remaining True to Yourself,” Paolo Gallo

More about Paolo here:

https://www.paologallo.net

Today’s guest has sparked an international debate by revealing the “mind hacks” Facebook, Apple, Google, and Instagram use to get you and your children hooked on their products. 

In Offline, he delivers an eye-opening research-based journey into the world of tech giants, smartphones, social engineering, and subconscious manipulation. This provocative work shows you how digital devices change individuals and communities for better and worse.

A must-read if you or your kids use smartphones or tablets and spend time browsing social networks, playing online games or even just browsing sites with news and entertainment.  

Learn how to recognise ‘mind hacks’ and avoid the potentially disastrous side-effects of digital pollution. Unplug from the matrix. Learn digital habits that work for you.

We talk:

• The Impact of Technology on the Brain
• Digital Fragmentation Syndrome
• The Tsunami of Technology Transformation
• Human Cognition
• Neural Pruning
• Hormonal Triggers
• Social Comparison
• Addictive Design
• BJ Fogg and Captology
• Online Selling
• Cambridge Analytica
• Data
• Online Marketing
• Insidious Plays
• Confirmation Bias
• FLOW and Life Stories

More about Søren here:

http://humansbeforetech.com/

Do you have an idea for a business but don’t know where to start? Thanks to high-speed Do you have an idea for a business but don’t know where to start? Thanks to high-speed Internet, game-changing technology, and innovative new platforms, you can go from idea to marketplace on a shoestring budget―and join the growing movement of successful Makers who’ve built their businesses from the ground up. 

Whether you’re a self-starting newcomer to the world of e-commerce, a member of the Maker Movement, or an experienced entrepreneur, the first crucial step in your journey to turning little ideas into big businesses is learning How We Make Stuff Now.

We welcome Jules Pieri, author of “How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products That Build Successful Businesses”

• Deciding if you want to be an Entrepreneur
• Maker Movement
• Empowering Innovation
• The Maker Challenge
• The Amazon Challenge
• Testing the Market
• Fraud Products
• Funding
• Data
• Fear and Failure

More about Jules: https://jules.thegrommet.com

https://twitter.com/julespieri

In Rebel Talent,  today’s guest shows us why the happiest and most successful among us are those who break the rules and how we can all do it more.

The world’s best chef.
The pilot who landed his plane on a river.
The magician who made history.
The computer scientist who changed animated films forever.
What do they all have in common?

They are all rebels.

Our guest has been studying rebellion and conformity for more than fifteen years. She has discovered that when we mindlessly follow rules and norms rather than constructively rebelling against them, we become less happy and less successful in every area of our lives. While rebels may seem disruptive, they are ultimately good for business: their passion, drive, curiosity and creativity can raise organisations to a new level.

When we break the rules, we fix our lives.

We welcome award-winning Harvard Business School professor, behavioural scientist and author of Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life, Francesca Gino

We talk:

• Italian master chef and Rebel Massimo Bottura
• Rebellion reframed as a constructive force
• 5 core elements of Rebel Talent
• Napoleon, the rebel
• Hidden biases towards Rebellion
• Morningstar Case Study
• Breaking conformity
• Diversity
• Stereotyping
• GroupThink 
• The need for Novelty
• Following Rituals
• Novelty in Business
• Inviting Curiosity
• Adriano Olivetti and Exploration
• Counterfactual Thinking
• Authenticity

More about Francesca here:

https://www.rebeltalents.org/the-rebel-test

https://francescagino.com

“Every single child has an inner spark–a combination of a unique temperament and various experiences–and we want to fan that flame to help kids become happy, healthy, and internally driven to be the ‘best them’ they can become.” – Dr Tina Payne Bryson and Dr Daniel Siegel

The Yes Brain Child

Children can often act out or shut down when faced with a setback or a tricky issue like homework, food or screen time. Our guest calls the ‘No Brain’ response. But you can help develop the ability to cope, solve their own problems and thrive by nurturing the ‘Yes Brain’.

Drawing on her successful work with thousands of parents and children from all backgrounds, our guest provides the advice, tools and activities to help parents and children of all ages.

This is what the ‘Yes Brain’ approach looks like in action:

*A 5-year-old boy thinks about his first day at school and says, ‘I’m nervous but I’ll give it a try.’

*An 8-year-old girl says, ‘I’d like to join the football team, even though none of my friends like football.’

*A 14-year-old boy looks at a test he’s earned a D- for and says, ‘That’s not the mark I wanted but it’s not the end of the world. I’ll ask the teacher how I can improve.’

I would like to add to all that a Yes Brain is what we need in business environments today. A mind open to possibility and with the ability to control emotion and recognise when fear is a blocker. So please do listen to this show as a parent, a corporate innovator, change-maker or out of pure curiosity.

We welcome the author of “The Yes Brain Child: Help Your Child be More Resilient, Independent and Creative”, Dr Tina Payne Bryson

We discuss: 

• Yes and No brains 
• The Prefrontal Cortex
• Neuroplasticity
• Social and Emotional Intelligence
• Response Techniques
• Empathy
• Attuned Communication
• Self Regulation
• Overcoming Fear
• Building Resilience 
• Intuition and Morality
• Integration
• Tolerating Discomfort
• Perspective
• Discipline as Education

More about Tina here:

https://www.tinabryson.com

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Today’s guest is previously best known for his position as the head coach of the English national rugby union team from 2011 until 2015, In 2016, he joined the backroom team of the Ireland provincial side, Leinster Rugby and has been instrumental in their success.

I have asked our guest on to the show to discuss leadership lessons from sport, focus on a business context. In this episode we will talk about: creating a purpose, a why, a vision, values and behaviours and people-led leadership to achieve success.

We discuss:

• The benefits of failure and the necessity of resilience.
• The desired characteristics of organisational achievement.
• The individual characteristics needed to achieve in any field.
• The elements of mind, body and soul.
• How to build a high-performing culture.

We create human-centred interactions and experiences in our field. Empathetic purpose drives our every decision. Mobile First? In reality, it’s humans first. This same mentality turned inward, forms the cornerstone of something amazing: a creative culture.

Designers and front-enders have a unique advantage in solving the cultural problems in business that are sucking the life out of us. Several, in fact. The principles discussed in this book derive from the perspectives and skillsets we already use daily: empathy, objectivity and, yes, ample creativity.

We discuss:

• The Sunday Night Work “Dreadies”
• Agency work burnout
• 100% Billable Time
• The need for Mental White Space
• Examples of Great Cultures
• Toxic Meetings
• Poor Feedback
• Ego as the Enemy
• Humility
• Redesigning Day One for New Hires
• When to Leave a Company
• How to Ensure You Find the Right Cultural Fit

Do you feel restricted by your career, by your workplace identity?

Do you feel you are not doing what you would really like to do?

Are you good at many things, but feel you cannot do them for fear of appearing odd or going against the grain?

You may just be a polymath and that is a major gift!

Every human is born with multifarious potential.

Why, then, do parents, schools and employers insist that we restrict our many talents and interests; that we ‘specialise’ in just one?

We’ve been sold a myth, that to ‘specialise’ is the only way to pursue truth, identity, or even a livelihood. Yet specialisation is nothing but an outdated system that fosters ignorance, exploitation and disillusionment and thwarts creativity, opportunity and progress.

Following a series of exchanges with the world’s greatest historians, futurists, philosophers and scientists, Waqas Ahmed has weaved together a narrative of history and a vision for the future that seeks to disrupt this prevailing system of unwarranted ‘hyper-specialisation.’

In The Polymath, Waqas shows us that there is another way of thinking and being. Through an approach that is both philosophical and practical, he sets out a cognitive journey towards reclaiming your innate polymathic state. Going further, he proposes nothing less than a cultural revolution in our education and professional structures, whereby everyone is encouraged to express themselves in multiple ways and fulfil their many-sided potential. Not only does this enhance individual fulfilment, but in doing so, facilitates a conscious and creative society that is both highly motivated and well equipped to address the complexity of 21st-century challenges

We discuss:

• What is a Polymath?
• How did we get to this age of specialisation?
• Polymaths through time
• Polymathy as a gift
• Polymaths in an age of Artificial Intelligence
• Educational Reform
• Workplace Reform
• Social Reform
• A cognitive Revolution?

More about Waqās here: https://www.the-polymath.com/author/

From 1990 to 1995 our guest conducted DEA-approved clinical research at the University of New Mexico in which he injected sixty volunteers with DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known. His detailed account of those sessions is an extraordinarily riveting inquiry into the nature of the human mind and the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. DMT, a plant-derived chemical that is also manufactured by the human brain, consistently produced near-death and mystical experiences. Many volunteers reported convincing encounters with intelligent nonhuman presences. Nearly all felt that the sessions were among the most profound experiences of their lives.

Our guests’ research connects DMT with the pineal gland, considered by Hindus to be the site of the seventh chakra and by René Descartes to be the seat of the soul.

His book “DMT: The Spirit Molecule” makes the bold case that DMT, naturally released by the pineal gland, facilitates the soul’s movement in and out of the body and is an integral part of the birth and death experiences, as well as the highest states of meditation and even sexual transcendence. Our guest also believes that alien abduction experiences are brought on by accidental releases of DMT. If used wisely, DMT could trigger a period of remarkable progress in the scientific exploration of the most mystical regions of the human mind and soul.

We welcome:

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and author of  “DMT: The Spirit Molecule” Dr Rick Strassman welcome to the show.

“The new normal is perpetual change” –

Scott D. Anthony

Innovation may be the hottest discipline around today – in business circles and beyond. And for good reason. Innovation transforms companies and markets. It’s the key to solving vexing social problems. And it makes or breaks professional careers. For all the enthusiasm the topic inspires, however, the practice of innovation remains stubbornly impenetrable. 

In The Little Black Book of Innovation, long-time innovation expert Scott D. Anthony draws on stories from his research and field work with companies like P&G to demystify innovation. In his trademark conversational and lively style, Anthony presents a simple definition of innovation, breaks down the essential differences between types of innovation, and illuminates innovation’s vital role in organisational success and personal growth.

We talk:

• Why Innovation is so hard
• The definition of Innovation
• Innovation in the eye of the beholder
• Living at the Intersections
• Heroes of Innovation
• Innovation Mindsets
• Customer-First Mindset
• The 7 Deadly Sins of Innovation
• Sustaining Innovation
• Psychological Safety
• Bridging the gap between the established business and the emergent concept 
• The language innovators should use
• The  Innovators Pledge

More about Scott here:

https://www.innosight.com/