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’

“It is time we focus less on our hardware and more on our humanware.” – Larry D. Rosen PhD. Dr Larry Rosen is the best-selling author of multiple books including ones we will talk about today: iDisorder and The Distracted Mind, which touch on the disorders we are experiencing, amplified by technology and why we are behaving the way we do.

We talk:

The state of distraction

The increasing anxiety experienced

The multitude of scientific studies on attention spans iDisorders and how anxiety has surpassed depression and the no.1 disorder for the youth

Why we keep checking our phones

The tools and strategies to counteract poor attention and focus

Sleep deprivation and sleep debts

How napping is not enough

How our brain works and how it flushes toxic chemicals

Strategies to sleep better

Music can help us calm down

How psychological problems form in technology

The attention economy and social networks

How parents can counteract iDisorders in their children

How parents can counteract their own iDisorders

The effect of first-person shooter games on the mind

The multitasking myth Instant gratification in children

The challenge of single screening

The current challenge of focus

More about Larry Rosen and his books here: http://drlarryrosen.com/topics/books/

Talks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivyQtk-5OZM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0OqA0pmAag&t=2s

Psychology Today Blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/experts/larry-d-rosen-phd

Space Elevators, Asteroid Mining, Buckets of programmable matter, à la carte physical features and printable houses.

We are joined by authors of ‘Soonish’, Dr Kelly and Zach Weinersmith.

Dr Kelly Weinersmith works in the BioSciences department at Rice University, and is the co-host of Science . . . Sort Of, a top-rated science podcast. Her research has been featured in the Atlantic, National Geographic and BBC World.

Zach Weinersmith is the creator of the popular webcomic, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. His work has also been featured in a variety of publications, including the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Slate and Forbes.

In this action-packed show we talk about:

Space elevators

Asteroid mining

Fusion Power

Programmable matter

Ethical questions

Buckets of stuff

Inexpensive Construction

Robots v humans

3D Printed houses

Synthetic Biology

Genetics

DNA manipulation

Crisper cast 9

Made to order looks for your kids

J Craig Venter

Brain Interfaces Improving memory and cognitive ability

Find out more about Kelly and Zach here: http://www.weinersmith.com/ https://smbc-comics.com/soonish/

Experience is the new battlefield. Satisfaction is not enough anymore. Customer experience is the main driver of future loyalty and will turn your customers into raving fans.

Our guest is Chief Xperience Officer (CXO) and Managing Partner at Solutions Unlimited. He is the author of the wonderful book Start Reverse.

In this must-listen chat, Andre tells us about the philosophy of starting in reverse, of flipping marketing on its head to become “customering”.

Customering means starting with the customer every touchpoint of your brand. Andre tells us this means empowering your people and including them as main vehicles to the customer.

We talk experience economy, in-store experience, business as theatre, leaders as directors and workers as cast members.

We chat about the purpose economy, including how we must have our own personal purpose to align with that of an organisation.

Andre tells us about EPIC leadership, reverse leadership, game-changing brands, game-changer principles and thinking in 5D. This is an awesome interview.

“There are no markets; there are only customers! Therefore, we must stop marketing in all of its manifestations. Think reverse and start customering.”

Find out about Andre and the book here:

http://startreverse.com/product/reverse-journey-book-2/

In this eye-opening chat, we realise how we can improve our company by changing our language.

We look at the problems, there are a lot of them:

90% of American Companies have a recognition programme Yet, most workers receive no recognition!

The No.1 reason people leave their jobs is not feeling appreciated 67% say more motivated by praise than anything else Labour turnover is one of the significant causes of declining productivity and sagging morale

Visible costs to turnover:

• Termination
• Advertising 
• Recruitment
• Candidate travel
• Interviews
• Assignment
• Orientation 
• Relocation

More importantly, we explore the solutions with the 5 languages of appreciation:

• Words of Affirmation
• Quality Time 
• Acts of Service 
• Tangible gifts
• Physical Touch

Enjoy and find out more about Dr Paul White here: http://www.drpaulwhite.com/

Larry Osborne is a senior and teaching pastor at North Coast Church, acclaimed as one of the most influential and innovative churches in America. Under his leadership, the church has grown from 128 to over 12,000 on a weekend.

With Larry’s success with innovating in a traditional organisation, many leading CEOs and organisation sought out his formula. On this show, we discuss that formula.

Larry’s books include Sticky Teams, Sticky Church, Sticky Leaders, Mission Creep, and today’s focus Innovation’s Dirty Little Secret: Why Serial Innovators Succeed Where Others Fail.

With innovation, there’ll always be more failures than successful innovations. When it comes to our own innovation efforts, we focus on the outlier; we turn a blind eye. We think we are different; we are sure our ideas will succeed. Larry shares a framework and some practical concepts on how to give innovation the best chance to succeed in any organisation.

Only 33% of people in the USA and 15% Worldwide are engaged in the workplace. We discuss how great leaders can manage their people like a portfolio, they develop their people by enabling them to learn, leap and repeat.

We discuss how organisations can build an ecosystem where people will disrupt themselves in the short-term for the growth of the organisation in the long term.

In this great chat, we discuss some exemplars of personal and organisational disruption.

Whitney shares the principles of personal disruption which we can apply to ourselves to lead more exciting and meaningful careers and lives.

You can find out more about Whitney, her books and the “Disrupt Yourself” podcast at the following links: https://whitneyjohnson.com/ https://whitneyjohnson.com/books/ https://whitneyjohnson.com/disrupt-yourself-podcast/

We are at a rare moment in time where the future is up for grabs and the following realms are in a state of upheaval: Environment Economics Society Education Politics Technology

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, others build windmills” – Chinese Proverb

This book and this innovation show are about this windmills and the people who are building them.

We talk about the heroes of innovation and disruption, those people sacrificing so much to make the World a better place:

Jamie Heywood’s nonprofit PatientsLikeMe portal – modelled after dating sites and his fight to find a cure for ALS after his brother Stephen contracted and died from the illness.

Samir Brahmachari, India’s highest ranking scientist who is fighting for a cure to fight antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis. TB kills 4,000 per day worldwide and 1 person per minute in India. There hasn’t been a front-line drug since 1970.

We talk about Dr Erika Syger who was suffering death threats for her drive to disrupt and implement new food systems.

We discuss Peter Dearman’s “liquid air” engine, which brings food refrigeration to the developing world.

We talk about the energy trilemma and the clash between environmentalists and fossil fuel lobbyists. We discuss the great story of former professional basketball player Reinhard Koch and Mayor Peter Vadasz and the town of Güssing, Austria, which experienced a massive revival when it went green.

We mention the case of “Open Utility” and James Johnson who was inspired by Ethernet co-director Bob Metcalfe and built a smart grid based Ethernet, an uber for energy.

Ashley Atkinson and KGD (keep growing Detroit), which uses “urban farming” to achieve urban renewal.

In education, we talk about Carl Jarvis and how he turned around one of the UK’s worst-performing schools in spite of the education system who bullied him.

In politics, we mention Maria Ines Naha and Fernando Pimental of Brazil and the idea of participatory budgeting, where citizens decide where the budget is assigned.

You can find out more about Mark Stevenson and his books here:

https://markstevenson.org/