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204 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBeing Human is for people who want go deep on what it means to be a human making a difference.We'll discover how to be better humans at work and in life. We’ll explore leadership, relationships and how to make changes in ourselves and our environments. Nothing will be off limits.Welcome.________________________________________________Support us on SubscribeStar
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#146 Small Is Beautiful - with Tom van der Lubbe
January 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 21.8 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, we're doing a little experiment with my friend and regular guest Tom van der Lubbe. Tom is a fellow traveller seeking to humanise the workplace. He's also a historian with a huge brain. He is Dutch, but let's not hold that against him. Tom and I review one of the most influential books of 70's, Small Is Beautiful, written by the economist E F Schumacher. Schumacher's central the...
#145 Detox, Declutter, Dominate - with Perry Marshall
January 09, 2021 00:00 - 54 minutes - 18.8 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with Perry Marshall, a man who runs several companies, has written a string of best-selling books and who founded the world's biggest science prize. If you want to get the essence of building a life where you make an extraordinary impact, this could be the episode. It gets a little repetitive, but his message bears repeating. We talk: - The curse of our digital devices - What to start eliminating...
#144 Looking Forward to 2021 - with Richard Atherton
January 02, 2021 00:00 - 4 minutes - 1.65 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A very Happy New Year to you all. We kick off 2021 with a brief message. I share a few thoughts on where to focus to show this year and a call to action. In the episode, I talk: - Food as medicine - Community - Taking Being Human to a new level Enjoy! To your humanity, Richard
#143 Zone of Genius - with Anna Liebel
December 25, 2020 00:00 - 54 minutes - 19 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ I hope that you're all enjoying your Christmas break. This week my guest is Anna Liebel. Anna is a on mission to empower professionals to thrive by helping get into what she calls one's Zone of Genius. This particular episode is a special one, as it has an addendum where Anna goes into detail with a subject close to my heart: journaling. Just watch out for it at the end of the recording. In the episode, we ta...
#142 Interviewing The Interviewer - with Richard Atherton
December 18, 2020 00:00 - 46 minutes - 16.1 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week we turn the tables and I become the interviewee. Jan Ake Johnsson is my interviewer. He's the star of episode #64 and a man who cured himself of epilepsy through trauma release work. Jan is 80 and still in excellent health - an inspiration to us all. In the episode, we talk: - Preparing for interviews - Childhood influences - Idols - Medicalisation of society - Returning to the earth Enjoy and a Mer...
#141 Management 3.0 - with Ralph van Roosmalen
December 11, 2020 00:00 - 44 minutes - 15.5 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ If Management 1.0 was how we managed how factories functioned in the Industrial Age, then what’s management for a Knowledge Economy, or even a Transformation Economy? Enter Management 3.0 – an approach that represents a major cultural shift, empowering team members to take on more decision-making responsibilities, while encouraging managers to create a collaborative work environment. My guest this week is Ralph...
#140 Remember You Will Die - with Tom van der Lubbe
December 04, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes - 12.3 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ If you're a frequent listener of the podcast, you're probably familiar with our guest this week, Tom van der Lubbe. For those of you who don't know him, Tom is the Lead Link of Dutch mortgage broker Viisi, one of the companies that have implemented the radical business operating system Holacracy to create an extraordinary high-trust culture. Today's episode is a recording of an interview with Tom that was part o...
#139 Drive Your Career - with Ed Evarts
November 27, 2020 00:00 - 46 minutes - 16.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In 2008, my guest this week Ed Evarts was unexpectedly laid off from his job as a senior HR director at records management giant Iron Mountain. In the middle of a recession and with no network outside his former employer, he set about building his own coaching practice Excellius. It’s now thriving and Ed tells us how he made it happen. Often my pods can get a bit philosophical, but this one is packed with practi...
#138 Weapon of Mass Creation - with David Chislett
November 20, 2020 00:00 - 38 minutes - 13.6 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week, David Chislett, dropped out of private school in South Africa to become a rocker. From playing punk to managing bands he ultimately made his way to Utrecht in the Netherlands to become a self-proclaimed Weapon of Mass Creation. He teaches people how we can put creativity at the heart of our armoury of workplace skills. Doing this can help us become not just better innovators, but better decis...
#137 Think Like Janus - with Loizos Heracleous
November 13, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 21.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Loizos Heracleous, Professor of Strategy and Organisation at the Warwick Business School and author of the recently published book, Janus Strategy. After serving as an advisor to major international companies for years, he started to observe that some companies got a competitive edge when adopting a more flexible strategic approach, as opposed to companies that stuck to tight, orthodox str...
#136 Improv For Connection - with Remy Bertrand
November 10, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 24.8 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Remy Bertrand, a Frenchman in London and an improvisation facilitator. Kicked out of school at 15, Remy worked a succession of jobs that never quite fulfilled him. Nearing 40, he realised that improv was his passion and it was time to plunge in and build a business around it. With a loan from the bank, Remy gave himself a year to build a business. It took another three before he had somethi...
#135 500% - with Julian Wilson
October 31, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 50.8 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Julian Wilson, CEO of British engineering firm Matt Black Systems and author of "500%: How Two Pioneers Transformed Productivity". Along with his business partner, through a series of counter-intuitive steps, he experimented his way to a 500% gain in productivity. The change saw his staff triple their income, come alive as human beings, whilst delivering extraordinary returns for him and hi...
#134 The Art of Compassionate Business - with Bruno Cignacco
October 22, 2020 23:00 - 37 minutes - 13.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Bruno Cignacco, international speaker, coach and author of 'The Art of Compassionate Business'. Bruno is committed to putting love at the centre of our business relationships. First and foremost, Bruno is an advocate of what he calls The Human Oriented Enterprise, a type of business that prioritizes human interaction over everything else. We talk: - Love in the office - Generosity - Natura...
#133 Trust-Based Leadership - with Mike Ettore
October 15, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 27.5 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Mike Ettore, leadership coach and ex-infantry officer with the US Marines. He's the author of 'Trust-Based Leadership', where he explains how he adapted and applied military leadership concepts while serving as a business leader. After leaving the Marines, Mike has served as a top executive for the staffing company Kforce, where he rose to the position of Chief Information Officer, despite...
#132 How To Be More Pirate - with Sam Conniff and Alex Barker
October 08, 2020 23:00 - 52 minutes - 18.4 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Sam Conniff Allende is back on the show. Last time Sam had just hoisted his Jolly Roger to the world in the form of his breakthrough bestseller 'Be More Pirate'. This week he's back on Being Human with his Right-Hand Pirate Alex Barker. Alex joined Sam in 2019 to turn a book of culture-busting ideas into a movement. Alex and Sam make a great double-act. Sam is the embodiment of the pirate spirit, whilst Alex is ...
#131 Cracking the Leadership Code - with Alain Hunkins
October 01, 2020 23:00 - 58 minutes - 20.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Alain Hunkins, a veteran leadership coach. He's worked with over 2,000 groups of leaders in 25 countries, and he's author of the just-published 'Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Leaders'. Alain was raised by a mother and grandmother who were both Holocaust survivors. Their trauma-bound personalities were his first experiences of leadership. This sowed the seed for his...
#130 Feel Fully - with Pete Walker
September 24, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 25.6 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week, Pete Walker, is a man who has travelled far physically and metaphorically. A Vietnam War veteran, he sought spiritual salvation in India before finally confronting his inner grief at an Encounter group workshop. Learning to feel and grieve deeply set Pete on a path to dealing with his Complex PTSD. He has since written several books on these themes and treated hundreds of others as a deep fee...
#129 Google, Eggs and Inspiration - with Craig Fenton
September 17, 2020 23:00 - 45 minutes - 15.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Perhaps the phrase 'A Man of Many Hats' was created for my guest this week. A Google Exec, investor, record label boss, YouTuber, I give you Kiwi-in-London Craig Fenton. Craig began life as a barrister, then switched to consulting before landing as Director of Strategy and Operations at Google in the UK. We talk: - Phone-only podcasting - Managing multiple pursuits - The evolving Google culture - Discovering ...
#128 Facing The Wolf - with Theresa Sheppard Alexander
September 10, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 28.8 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this week's episode, I speak with therapist Theresa Sheppard Alexander, author of 'Facing The Wolf: Inside The Process of Deep Feeling Therapy'. Theresa shares her story of finding Primal Therapy in her early twenties and how she helps clients climb down ‘the staircase of feeling’ to experience their deepest pain, and ultimately, to find more joy and light in their lives. I found this one of my most challengi...
#127 Moose Heads on the Table - with Lisa Gill
September 03, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 26.5 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week is Lisa Gill, host of the ground-breaking podcast Leaderphormosis. She’s also co-author of the just-released 'Moose Heads on the Table: Stories About Self-Managing Organisations from Sweden'. Lisa has helped businesses across Europe to let go of their boss culture. Her approach, along with fellow liberator Karin Tenelius, is to focus on creating different forms of dialogues between employees w...
#126 5-Minute Selling - with Alex Goldfayn
August 27, 2020 23:00 - 49 minutes - 17.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My return guest this week, Alex Goldfayn, is back with a new book '5-Minute Selling', which is already an Amazon bestseller. Now, I hate sales. I've always hated sales and yet it's an absolutely critical skill in my business life. In fact, it's crucial even if you're not a proper salesperson, but someone who needs to be able to influence and persuade others. What I love about Alex his approach is that it's the...
#125 Surfing the Big Shift - with John Hagel
August 20, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 86.1 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest, John Hagel, is a 40-year veteran of Silicon Valley. John co-founded the Center for the Edge in 2007. The Center has brought insights that have helped me to understand the megatrends in the economy throughout my career. He was the first to identify the growing 'topple rate', i.e. how when large companies gain leading market positions; they are then losing them at an increasing rate. I’m delight...
#124 Spotify Culture - with Henrik Kniberg
August 13, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 21.9 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ From his cabin on an island off the coast of Sweden, Henrik Kniberg, author of the viral 'Spotify Culture' video, joins me in this week's episode to share what he learned as a top Agile Coach at Spotify. Henrik is a creative powerhouse with prodigious talent as a musician, coach, author and developer. He brings these skills together to transform the organisations with which he works. In this episode, we talk: ...
#123 Building the Joyful Organisation - with Richard Sheridan
August 06, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 21.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This episode's guest, Rich Sheridan, was a VP in a successful software firm in Michigan when he brought his daughter to work. She was impressed. She figured her Dad must have been very important, as for anything to get done, he had to give his say so. He was "The Answer Man". And yet for Rich, this was a devastating moment. He was a hero in a hero culture. The only way to scale Hero Organisations is to scale the...
#123 Building the Joyful Organisation - Richard Sheridan
August 06, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 21.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This episode's guest, Rich Sheridan, was a VP in a successful software firm in Michigan when he brought his daughter to work. She was impressed. She figured her Dad must have been very important, as for anything to get done, he had to give his say so. He was "The Answer Man". And yet for Rich, this was a devastating moment. He was a hero in a hero culture. The only way to scale Hero Organisations is to scale the...
#122 Make Your Business Happy - with Lars Kure Juul
July 30, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 23.9 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Nicknamed "The Gentle Giant from Denmark" from his time resolving conflicts in a troubled part of Asia, my guest this week, Lars Kure Juul, is a gifted facilitator. With his book 'Organizational Happiness', Lars is on a mission to improve our experience of working life - and especially how to sell happiness to your CFO. In this episode, we talk: - compassion - strengths-based leadership walking away - unlockin...
#122 Make Your Business Happy - Lars Kure Juul
July 30, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 23.9 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Nicknamed "The Gentle Giant from Denmark" from his time resolving conflicts in a troubled part of Asia, my guest this week, Lars Kure Juul, is a gifted facilitator. With his book 'Organizational Happiness', Lars is on a mission to improve our experience of working life - and especially how to sell happiness to your CFO. In this episode, we talk: - compassion - strengths-based leadership walking away - unlockin...
#121 The Agile CEO - with Mark Creighton
July 23, 2020 23:00 - 52 minutes - 18.3 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Late last year, my guest this week, Mark Creighton, CEO of Avado, listened to a proposal from his CTO to bring the Agile practices into his management team. Although a bit sceptical, Mark accepted the challenge. They shifted from a 90-minute weekly management team meeting to a daily stand-up, plus an end-of-week retrospective. This tweak to their practices had a significant impact on Mark's leadership style. It ...
#121 The Agile CEO - Mark Creighton
July 23, 2020 23:00 - 52 minutes - 18.3 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Late last year, my guest this week, Mark Creighton, CEO of Avado, listened to a proposal from his CTO to bring the Agile practices into his management team. Although a bit sceptical, Mark accepted the challenge. They shifted from a 90-minute weekly management team meeting to a daily stand-up, plus an end-of-week retrospective. This tweak to their practices had a significant impact on Mark's leadership style. It ...
#120 Gettin' (un)Busy - with Garland Vance
July 16, 2020 23:00 - 59 minutes - 20.8 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, we talk with Garland Vance, author of 'Gettin' (un)Busy' on: - The secret to purpose, productivity and peace - Elon Musk: examplar of un-busyness? - Transitions and batching - Taking a sabbath - Wisdom in business Enjoy! To your humanity, Richard Links: Garland's website
#120 Gettin' (un)Busy - Garland Vance
July 16, 2020 23:00 - 59 minutes - 20.8 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, we talk with Garland Vance, author of 'Gettin' (un)Busy' on: - The secret to purpose, productivity and peace - Elon Musk: examplar of un-busyness? - Transitions and batching - Taking a sabbath - Wisdom in business Enjoy! To your humanity, Richard Links: Garland's website
#119 Uncommon Sense in Unusual Times - with Csaba Toth
July 09, 2020 23:00 - 50 minutes - 17.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week, Csaba Toth arrived in the UK from Hungary in 2004 with enough money for a couple of nights in a hostel. After a stint in hospitality, Csaba co-created a highly successful table-booking start-up. But despite his academic training in personality differences, he was unable to resolve his issues the CEO, which ultimately led to him leaving the business. This spurred him to create Global DISC, a p...
#119 Uncommon Sense in Unusual Times - Csaba Toth
July 09, 2020 23:00 - 50 minutes - 17.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week, Csaba Toth arrived in the UK from Hungary in 2004 with enough money for a couple of nights in a hostel. After a stint in hospitality, Csaba co-created a highly successful table-booking start-up. But despite his academic training in personality differences, he was unable to resolve his issues the CEO, which ultimately led to him leaving the business. This spurred him to create Global DISC, a p...
#118 The Post-COVID Ecomony - Nick Bloom
July 02, 2020 23:00 - 35 minutes - 12.3 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This episode's guest is Nick Bloom, a fellow Brit and professor in economics at Stanford. He's been an avid researcher in remote working since 2014. Pre-COVID likely only 8% of employees worked from home. Nick expects this to be 40% in the aftermath of the pandemic, an extraordinary transformation of economic life. In this episode, we talk: - What Nick learned studying working from home at 'China's Expedia' Ct...
#117 Chasing Black Unicorns - with Marek Zmyslowski
June 25, 2020 23:00 - 59 minutes - 20.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ On 14 January 2018, as he attempted to board a flight to London, my guest this week, Marek Zmyslowski, felt a hand on his shoulder from the Polish customs agents. His business partner in Nigeria had bribed the local police to get him placed on Interpol's Most Wanted List. This is just one of many extraordinary incidents during his adventures in building start-ups in Poland and Africa, including co-founding 'The ...
#117 Chasing Black Unicorns - Marek Zmyslowski
June 25, 2020 23:00 - 59 minutes - 20.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ On 14 January 2018, as he attempted to board a flight to London, my guest this week, Marek Zmyslowski, felt a hand on his shoulder from the Polish customs agents. His business partner in Nigeria had bribed the local police to get him placed on Interpol's Most Wanted List. This is just one of many extraordinary incidents during his adventures in building start-ups in Poland and Africa, including co-founding 'The ...
#116 The Ostrich Paradox - with Robert Meyer
June 18, 2020 23:00 - 57 minutes - 19.9 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with Wharton scholar Robert Meyer on his book 'The Ostrich Paradox'. In this episode, we talk: - Why we fail to learn from past disasters - The biases that stop us making investments for the long term - How we can use herding and other biases in our favour - How we must change our approach to managing risk - The truth about ostriches Enjoy! To your humanity, Richard Links: The Ostrich Paradox ...
#116 The Ostrich Paradox - Robert Meyer
June 18, 2020 23:00 - 57 minutes - 19.9 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with Wharton scholar Robert Meyer on his book 'The Ostrich Paradox'. In this episode, we talk: - Why we fail to learn from past disasters - The biases that stop us making investments for the long term - How we can use herding and other biases in our favour - How we must change our approach to managing risk - The truth about ostriches Enjoy! To your humanity, Richard Links: The Ostrich Paradox ...
#115 Sanity Correspondent - with Tanmoy Goswami
June 11, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 22.5 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week on Being Human is Tanmoy Goswami, who holds that rare distinction of being the world's only 'Sanity Correspondent' for, well, The Correspondent. He is a passionate advocate for us talking more openly about mental health. He first got on my radar with his article "From the myth of meritocracy to the rise of bullshit jobs – it's time we admit work doesn't make us happy" in which he lays out how ...
#114 Emerging from a Trauma World - with Daniela Sieff
June 04, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 37.6 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Author and speaker Daniela Sieff is a former student of evolution under Richard Dawkins. She has turned her attention to trauma and its impacts. She brilliantly articulates the way adverse events and conditions shape our lives and how we can emerge from a Trauma World. In this highly personal conversation, we cover: - The definition of trauma - Daniela's own turning point in her facing her past - Healing versu...
#113 Liberating Collective Wisdom - with Phil Driver
May 28, 2020 23:00 - 55 minutes - 19.4 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This episode is with Phil Driver, author of 'From Woe to Flow: Validating and Implementing Strategies'. In it, he sets a way that anyone can think about strategy based on decades of work with a wide range of organisations. Let Phil take you through a fresh way to think about strategy from his cabin in rural New Zealand. We talk: - Living the permaculture life - The art of strategising 'right to left' - How to ...
#112 What If da Vinci Built Companies? - with Michael J. Gelb
May 21, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 25.8 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This episode's guest, Michael J. Gelb, has published 17 books, including 'How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci' and 'The Healing Organization', which he co-authored with recent guest Raj Sisodia. He takes the view that our intellects are highly malleable, even into later life, and by using specific exercises, we can better integrate our left and right brains to enhance our reasoning and creative powers. In th...
#111 Taming The Corporate Psychopath - with Mike Lee
May 14, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutes - 19 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ As well as researching psychological safety with his colleague Amy Edmondson , my guest this week, Mike Lee, Professor in Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, takes a deep interest in how company structure affects how people act. In this episode, we cover: - Psychological safety defined - How changing the default choices managers make can improve psychological safety for others - The radically flat business oper...
#110 Metagility - with David A. Bishop
May 07, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 25 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with Dr. David A. Bishop, author of "Metagility: Managing Agile Development for Competitive Advantage". We talk: - How we must now reconsider the Agile Manifesto - The concept of "Agile Vorticity" - How to change as fast as your market - How the rise of smart devices is changing the rules for agility - A happy marriage of Agile and Waterfall techniques - Agility as your Product Engine Enjoy an...
#109 The Healing Organization - with Raj Sisodia
April 30, 2020 23:00 - 44 minutes - 15.5 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Author and business philosopher Raj Sisodia is back with a new book, The Healing Organization, which takes a deep look at the role of a business within its community. In this episode, we talk: - The four energies we must balance when building Healing Organisations - What The Founders missed when learning from the Iroquois to write the American Constitution - Saving lives by baking cookies - A call centre boss' ...
#108 Get Offline - with Howard Lewis
April 23, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 32.8 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with Howard Lewis: art collector, investor and YouTube street stunt artist. Although now obviously suspended, he runs OFFLINE, a monthly gathering with a simple aim: to share a meal. The prospect of sharing a refection with anyone beyond our immediate household is a distant prospect for many of us right now. However, Howard provides us with some inspiration for the lives we might want to create wh...
#107 The Art of (Online) Meetings - with Matthew Homann
April 16, 2020 23:00 - 47 minutes - 16.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Matt Homann, CEO of Filament, a firm dedicated to faciliating great meetings in-person or online. We talk: - the fundamental principles that make for an excellent meeting - how to make meetings work online - the common mistakes that people make in offline meetings that you should not transfer online - a future of Chief Collaboration Officers - humanising virtual working Enjoy! Best ...
#106 The 2-Day Business Transformation - with Tom van der Lubbe
April 09, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 26.6 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode Tom van der Lubbe shares how his company Viisi took their entire workforce 100% remote in two days and so far have seen no loss in revenue. Viisi is a pioneer in self-organisation. They have implemented the radical business operating system Holacracy to create an extraordinary high-trust culture. They are now reaping the rewards of their stellar human capital during the current crisis. In this ...
#105 Life Interrupted - with Dawna Jones
April 02, 2020 23:00 - 51 minutes - 17.8 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I interview author, speaker and strategist Dawna Jones. Dawna has been podcasting more than a decade. She's a "lover of the power of the human spirit" and has a deep interest in how businesses and consumers together can restore our social and ecological health. In this full-blooded conversation, we talk: - her emergence from homelessness after the '08 crash - making sense of life's interruption...
#104 Align! - with Jonathan Trevor
March 27, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 27.9 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest for this episode is Associate Professor Jonathan Trevor from Saïd Business School and author of the Financial Times' Book of the Month, 'Align'. Jonathan talks a broad view of alignment across all aspects of the enterprise. We talk: - What is alignment and Jonathan's Strategic Alignment Framework - The universalists (best practice is best) vs the contingency theorists (context matters) - Why we must l...