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.

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/