The chemical reactions involved in striking a match provide a great metaphor for the plight of a corporate change maker.
Posted 4 years ago Tagged Business Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership Michael Bungay Stanier The Advice Trap
This episode is about getting to grips with how to actually change your behaviour so you stay curious a little bit longer.
Author of The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever, Michael Bungay Stanier tells us how.
Posted 4 years ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Undisruptable Corporate Culture Good people go quiet Ideas Innovation Innovation Management Swiss cheese Model Idea Penetration
Swiss cheese Model for Ideas Aidan McCullen. Have you noticed a colleague who was once full of ideas, who has gone unusually quiet? Perhaps you may assume they are just disinterested? You may think they are having a bad day? Perhaps instead, they have fallen prey to a corporate lobotomy? Perhaps they are worn down? Perhaps they just couldn’t be bothered any more.
Posted 4 years ago Tagged Business Captain David Marquet Entrepreneurship Human Potential Innovation Leadership Leadership is Language Technology Turn the Ship Around!
No matter your business or your position, you can apply his approach to create a workplace where everyone takes responsibility for their actions, people are healthier and happier – and everyone is a leader.
Posted 4 years ago Tagged Gap between head of tree and trunk Leadership Dieback Organisational Deiback The head of a tree dying Tree Dieback Leadership
What does Tree Dieback have to do with leadership? Nature instinctively knows what to do to ensure the survival of a species, but we homo sapiens can make things much more complicated than they might otherwise be. Biases, blind spots and clinging to the status quo block our progress. Being aware of this is the first step.
Posted 4 years ago Tagged Angela Saini Bias Human Potential Innovation Leadership Race Superior
In Superior, celebrated author Angela Saini explores the concepts of race and caste, from their origins to the present day. Engaging with geneticists, anthropologists, historians and social scientists from across the globe, Superior is a rigorous, much needed examination of the insidious and destructive belief that race is biologically real.
Posted 4 years ago Tagged Creativity Curiosity Pandora Hope Elpis
Curiosity is essential, but… Preschool children ask an average of 100 questions per day, but shamefully, by middle school, they all but stop asking questions. In a world of abundant data and information, asking the right question is an invaluable skill. The answer can be found easily, coming up with the right question is much more difficult.

EP 256: Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies for Giant Leaps in Work and Life with Ozan Varol
Posted 4 years ago Tagged Ozan Varol Simple Strategies for Giant Leaps in Work and Life Think Like A Rocket Scientist
Today, thinking like a rocket scientist is a necessity. We all encounter complex and unfamiliar problems in our lives. Those who can tackle these problems — without clear guidelines and with the clock ticking — enjoy an extraordinary advantage. Ozan Varol’s “Think Like a Rocket Scientist will inspire you to take your own moonshot and enable you to achieve lift-off.”
Posted 4 years ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Aidan McCullen Innovation Aidan McCullen Undisruptable Dr. Howard Thurman quote Prometheus Fire Prometheus Punishment Eagle Sometimes you are unsatisfied with your life Ben Carson Sometimes you are unsatisfied with your life quote Sometimes you are unsatisfied with your life Wasted potential
Prometheus risked everything to give us a spark, a fire within. Therefore, it is our responsibility to kindle that spark, to keep it alive and to nurture it on to future generations. We are all born with a spark, however small and however clouded by circumstance. Many of us all our spark to fizzle as we grown older or allow others to extinguish or douse our inner flames. While we will not suffer torture like Prometheus did, not embracing our spark can result in mental torture throughout our existence.
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With Time Smart, Ashley Whillans offers us a playbook for taking back the time you lose to mindless tasks and unfulfilling chores.