Future Squared with Steve Glaveski - Helping You Navigate a Brave New World
500 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★ - 13 ratingsHosted by author and entrepreneur, Steve Glaveski, Future Squared brings you conversations with preeminent thought leaders from myriad disciplines such as startups and entrepreneurship, technology, corporate innovation, psychology, philosophy, economics, politics, biology, human performance and productivity, motivation and self-development, management and leadership, health and fitness and more to help you think in a multi-disciplinary way, avoid relying on the first piece of information that comes to hand, kick goals in your professional and personal life and better navigate what is fast becoming, a Brave New World.
Previous guests include thought leaders such as Adam Grant, Brad Feld, Tim O'Reilly, Gretchen Rubin, Kevin Kelly, Jeremy Heimans, Steve Blank, Neil Patel, Rand Fishkin, Jordan Harbinger, Omar Zenhom, Andreas Antonopoulos, Ryan Blair, Whitney Johnson and various other thought leaders.
Past topics have explored the likes of:
Blockchain, virtual and augmented reality, algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence and universal basic income (UBI), sales and marketing, lean startup, design thinking, agile, political correctness, identity politics, cloud computing, geopolitics, neuroscience, data science, fintech, proptech, sports, tech addiction, CRISPR, venture capital, angel investment, nootropics and cognitive therapies, big data, cloud computing, DevOps, fake news, web development, UX and UI, influencer and content marketing, emotional intelligence, Stoic philosophy, mindfulness and meditation, chatbots, automation, IoT, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Trump, tech trends, Pixar animation studios, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, disruption to incumbents, how to measure innovation, extreme ownership, radical transparency and a hell of a lot more!
Future Squared is brought to you by Collective Campus, a innovation accelerator that works with organisations to unlock their people’s latent potential to create more impact for humanity and lead more fulfilling lives. If you need help driving your organisation’s innovation strategy, visit www.collectivecampus.io
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Episodes
Episode #101: Fast Fix Friday on Why Sharing Information is Key to Innovation
January 05, 2017 07:58 - 4 minutes - 6.7 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy Hello everybody from 2017… we hope you’re as pumped as we are at Collective Campus about this year and have set yourself some big hairy audacious goals to work towards this year. Before I get into today’s fast fix I’d like to remind you that Future Squared has been nominated for the very first Australian Podcasting Awards people’s choice award, so instead of asking you to like us on iTunes, all I ask, as we endeavour to ...
Episode #100: 11 Year Old Entrepreneur, Alex Henderson
December 29, 2016 04:41 - 19 minutes - 26.7 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy ***Achievement unlocked*** Episode #100 is here and what a super special episode it is! A couple of weeks ago on an episode of Fast Fix Friday called Why I Do What I do, I spoke of a touching email I had received from Alex Henderson, one of the alums of Lemonade Stand, a 2 day kids entrepreneurship program that we run to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs. The budding young startup founder wrote to let me in ...
Episode #99: Enable Your New Years Resolution
December 28, 2016 23:25 - 5 minutes - 7.66 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy The silly season is now in full swing, many of us will make bold promises to ourselves in the form of new year's resolutions. Almost a third of these resolutions would have become unstuck in the first two weeks of 2017, according to research carried out by StatisticBrain. In this episode, I talk about blockers and enablers. Whatever your resolution, make sure you address these first if you want to make it to the end of 2017 am...
Episode #98: How to Prepare for and Kill It in 2017!
December 27, 2016 04:04 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future In today's episode, we reverse the tables as Future Squared host Steve Glaveski is interviewed by founder and CEO of fashion startup Akagu, Jimmy Zhong, who Steve frequently provides some mentorship to. The topic? How do you prepare for a new year and maintain your mojo throughout. If you're looking to set your body and mind up for a big 2017 and stick to those new year resolutions, then you might learn a thi...
Episode #97: How to Sell with a Story with Paul Smith
December 25, 2016 00:15 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Paul Smith is one of the world’s leading experts on organizational storytelling. He’s a keynote speaker, storytelling coach, and author of the books Sell with a Story, Parenting with a Story, and the bestseller Lead with a Story already in its 8th printing and available in 6 languages around the world. Paul is also a former consultant at Accenture and former executive and 20-year veteran of The Procter ...
Episode #96: Funk You Very Much
December 22, 2016 01:13 - 7 minutes - 9.84 MBLooks like I got you! Nobody was going to open a boring old 'our year in review' episode, but James Brown, Bobby Byrd and a cheeky play on words and BAM! So as the title suggests it's been a huge year for the team here at Collective Campus. We didn't realise just how big this year has been and how much we've achieved until we sat down and reflected on it. We hope you find some time to do the same. I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised! I've summarised some of our highlights for 2016 which ...
Episode #95: Who Pays When a Self Driving Car Kills?
December 22, 2016 00:24 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future I recently hosted a live Future Squared panel event where I had the chance to interview Brent Lehmann (GM at Willis Towers Watson, a lading global insurance broker and advisory company, Adrian Wrathall (motor Product Manager and CGU Insruance) and Rob Aktanarowicz (National Underwriter for Commercial and Heavy Motor at CGU Insurance). We explored many topics including the moral dilemma around self driving car...
Episode #94: The Future Workplace with Kevin Mulcahy - Recruitment, Culture and Engagement
December 18, 2016 08:29 - 59 minutes - 81.5 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Kevin Mulcahy is a highly popular speaker on workplace trends, executive coach to senior executives, and curator of insights on shifts in the workplace and workforce for senior HR leaders at Cisco, GE, Microsoft, MasterCard, Qualcomm, Saint-Gobain and others. He presents globally on the shifts in expectations of employees, the role of new technologies in the workplace and the changing composition of the w...
Episode #93: 11 Ways to grow 10X in 2017
December 15, 2016 05:23 - 7 minutes - 10.6 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk all about the power of 10X vision. Most of us chug along trying to grow revenues, our businesses, our personal brands incrementally and sustainably over time. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this approach., I myself am a big believer in persistence trumping talent 8 days a week, and aesop’s fable, ‘the tortoise and the hare’ favours the slowly but surely approa...
Episode #92: Party @ Collective Campus - What Gets You Excited About Technology in 2017?
December 12, 2016 06:22 - 16 minutes - 22.3 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future We recently hosted a small party with some of our friends here at Collective Campus in Melbourne and after about 4 glasses of Gray Goose I couldn’t help but do the rounds and ask people in attendance, most of whom are either building startups, are working with emerging tech or are navigating the tangled web of corporate innovation, what kinds of technologies get them most excited about 2017. This came about 4...
Episode #91: Emotional Agility with Susan David
December 11, 2016 04:55 - 49 minutes - 68.4 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Susan David, PhD, is a psychologist on faculty at Harvard Medical School, co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, and CEO of Evidence-Based Psychology. An in-demand speaker and consultant, David has worked with senior leadership of hundreds of major organizations, including the United Nations, Ernst & Young, and the World Economic Forum. Her work has been featured in ...
Episode #90: Why I Do What I Do
December 08, 2016 03:53 - 4 minutes - 5.51 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listeners of this show will know that one of the projects we spend some time on is Lemonade Stand, a children’s entrepreneurship program we’ve run across Australia and more recently in Singapore, designed to inspire kids with the entrpereneurial mindset in order to help them become more adaptable in a time where more than half of today’s jobs are set to be replaced in the next 10 to 15 years and today’s kids ...
Episode #89: Trump, Brexit and an Extraordinary Time with Marc Levinson
December 03, 2016 10:17 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBListen on Stitcher Listen on Soundcloud Marc Levinson is an economist and historian specializing in business and finance. He was formerly finance and economics editor of The Economist, worked as an economist for 10 years at JP Morgan in New York, and served as senior fellow for international business at the Council on Foreign Relations. Marc has penned several books including Guide to the Financial Markets, The Box - How the Shipping Container Made The World Smaller and the Economy B...
Episode #88: Innovation Lessons from the Vietnam War
December 02, 2016 05:50 - 10 minutes - 14.6 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future I recently returned from a business meets leisure trip to Singapore and Vietnam where I had the opportunity to learn a little more about the latter's history, in particular that pertaining to the Vietnam War, a war that the under-resourced North Vietnamese won against the might of the Americans and its Allies. Large organisations with the vast resources and figurative firepower at their disposal shouldn’t und...
Episode #87: Rock Bottom to Rock Star with Ryan Blair
November 27, 2016 00:56 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Ryan Blair is a serial entrepreneur and self-made millionaire who had nothing to lose and everything to gain. At just 21 years old, Blair founded his first company, 24/7 Tech, and by the age of 34, he has founded and sold numerous businesses for hundreds of millions of dollars. In August 2011, Blair authored the New York Times Best Seller, "Nothing To Lose and Everything To Gain: How I Went From Gang Me...
Episode #86: Why developing countries have ubiquitous wifi and countries like Australia don't
November 24, 2016 12:58 - 5 minutes - 8.17 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future This week's Fast Fix Friday musing comes from a conversation I had on my current trip to Singapore. Apologies for the audio quality of this episode - recorded in my Airbnb'd apartment in downtown Singapore via my laptop mic (yes, I forgot to pack my headset...fail). So why do developing countries like Vietnam command ubiquitous wireless internet access while countries like Australia don't? Listen to hear some...
Episode #85: The Future of Apps with Buzinga's Logan Merrick
November 19, 2016 11:18 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Logan Merrick is a co-founder and strategic director of Buzinga App Development, Australia’s leading app development company building meaningful, game-changing apps for emerging tech businesses and innovative enterprises. Logan started Buzinga in June 2012 with his co-founder Graham, spurred on by a passion for technology, customer service and workplace happiness that would make a huge impact in the gl...
Episode #84: Don't Believe Your Own Hype
November 17, 2016 01:30 - 3 minutes - 4.77 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Just yesterday, I had the pleasure of interviewing Ryan Blair, bestselling author as well as founder and CEO of Visalus, a nutrition company which today generates over a billion dollars in product sales. I look forward to bringing you that interview soon but for today’s episode of Fast Fix Friday I wanted to focus on something Ryan raised during our conversation which he says is critical to work towards maint...
Episode #83: Design a Better Business with Justin Lokitz
November 12, 2016 23:47 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBJustin Lokitz is an experienced strategy consultant and business designer who is responsible for the Business Models Inc. office in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, CA USA. He supports organizations by getting teams to think broadly and expansively about their own strategies and business models. Using his power to connect-the-dots, Justin has an impressive ability to get organizations thinking like start-ups and industry disrupters. What’s more through his expert facilitation skills, Justin...
Episode #82: Human Longevity: What Happens When We Live To 120?
November 10, 2016 05:16 - 12 minutes - 17.1 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Proponents of human longevity, let’s call them ‘longevists’, are advocating, exploring and commercialising new technologies and methods to effectively slow down or reverse the process of aging in order to extend both the maximum and average lifespan. Longevists such as Peter Diamandis of Human Longevity Inc (HLI) believe that breakthroughs in tissue rejuvenation and regenerative medicine, genomics, nanotechno...
Episode #81: Unleashing Teacher Led Innovation with Education Changemaker Summer Howarth
November 05, 2016 23:08 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBSummer Howarth is first and foremost a teacher with an unwavering belief in the potential of young adolescents and those who work in support of them. Summer has drive for and proven success in unleashing and spreading teacher led innovations and has been an instrumental leader in Australia’s contribution to the OECD work on Student Engagement and Australia’s TeachMeet movement. She’s deeply and unashamedly passionate and makes it her business to connect with anyone who pursues an interest in...
Episode #80: Fast Fix Friday on Legal Services Disruption
November 03, 2016 22:05 - 11 minutes - 15.4 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future The way that legal services are delivered is changing thanks to advances in technology and business model innovation. This is resulting in a shift towards affordable, standardised services unlocking a new market for disruptors and incumbents alike, efficiencies in how law firms deliver services and inevitably, regulatory changes. Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/fut...
Episode #79: Jenny Blake talks Pivoting Your Way to Your Dream Career
October 30, 2016 01:15 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBJenny Blake is motivation personified. She is a career and business strategist and international speaker who helps people move beyond burnout and create sustainable careers they love. She is the author of the newly released book Pivot, and previously Life After College which was based on her blog of the same name) Jenny helps leaders, employees and entrepreneurs achieve greater clarity, engagement, fulfillment and impact. Formerly, Jenny spent over 5 years at Google doing training, c...
Episode #78: Why You Should Follow Your Gut
October 27, 2016 04:47 - 10 minutes - 14.5 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future In life we are always faced with decisions and they can take us on radically different roads. In this episode, I share something that only my close friends and associates know about me in an effort to demonstrate why you should listen to your gut. Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@...
Episode #77: The 30 Elements of Value with Eric Almquist
October 22, 2016 21:45 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBEric Almquist is a partner in Bain & Company’s Boston office. He is a leader in Bain's Advanced Analytics practice and a member of the firm’s global Customer Strategy & Marketing practice. Eric has more than three decades of management consulting experience and delivers strategies that work for leading companies. He has led assignments in the financial services, telecommunications, internet, and electric utility industries. In addition, he uses his expertise in customer strategy and ma...
Episode #76: Fast Fix Friday on Why You Should Stop Digitising Broken Processes
October 20, 2016 08:00 - 5 minutes - 7.56 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Many large organisations are guilty of taking old, oftentimes broken, processes born out of 20th Century necessity and digitising them. Such pursuits are internally heralded as shining example of innovation and digital transformation. However, this usually amounts to little more than expensive and at best incremental improvements. Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/fu...
Episode #75: Customer Experience with Shay Namdarian *midweek bonus*
October 18, 2016 04:35 - 41 minutes - 57.3 MBShay Namdarian is the newly anointed GM of Customer Strategy at Collective Campus. Prior to joining CC, Shay spent 8 years in various management consulting roles for the likes of Accenture, Ernst & Young and CapGemini during which time he founded two fashion startups - Barnaby (socks) and Winston, now W-Time (watches). Shay has a passion for all things customer experience and that passion is best exemplified by hearing him speak on the subject in this episode. Topics Discuss...
Episode #74: Clayton Christensen's New Theory with Karen Dillon
October 16, 2016 03:39 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBKaren Dillon is co-author of Clayton Christensen's new book, Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice” (HarperCollins, October 2016), a groundbreaking book with the potential to reframe industries. It is based on a simple yet profound idea put forward by Christensen in “The Innovator’s Solution”: customers don’t buy products and services; they hire them to do a job. And understanding which jobs your customers need done is key to innovation success. The former edi...
Episode #73: What Are Your Spikes?
October 13, 2016 22:33 - 3 minutes - 4.25 MBI had the pleasure of chatting to Jenny Blake late last night, hjost of the Pivot podcast and author of Pivot, the book which has been referred to as the Lean Startup meeting a personal playbook for career change. We geeked out on all manner of topics - but honed in on her concept of pivoting, that is - changing career direction, not by doing a full 180, but by keeping one foot planted and focusing on your strengths. I explore one of the key learnings from this conversation in this instalm...
Episode #72: What Color is Your Parachute with Gary Bolles
October 09, 2016 01:01 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBGary A. Bolles is the co-founder of eParachute, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area-based startup focused on helping job-hunters & career changers, inspired by the best-selling career book of all time, “What Color Is Your Parachute?” Bolles is also the co-producer of “Closing The Gap,” a new event focused on strategies for increasing economic mobility in the face of tech-driven disruption, in Palm Beach, Florida. Bolles has produced a variety of conferences and strategic events. He is a co-fo...
Episode #71: The 5 Funding Traps of Corporate Innovation Projects
October 06, 2016 01:21 - 5 minutes - 8 MBIn an age where the time between disruptions is getting shorter and the exponential growth of technology threatens the upheaval of almost every industry, certainty is fast becoming a distant memory. Yet, when it comes to deciding which projects to invest in at most large organisations, we often rely on projections and estimates based on assumptions about the same uncertain future. Think of this as the Innovator’s Funding Dilemma, encapsulated by these five common pitfalls of funding corporat...
Episode #70: Personal Disruption with Steve Glaveski and Matt Romania
October 02, 2016 00:32 - 26 minutes - 36.1 MBAhoy there entrepreneurs and corporate innovators! After my recent appearance on the Razor Sharp Show with Ray Milidoni, I was invited back for a deep dive interview with Matt Romania, to talk all about a topic of personal disruption, something I touched on when chatting with Ray. In this age of technological upheaval and business model disruption, the need to be more adaptable and duck and weave in response to, or even better, in anticipation of, change, is becoming more and more importan...
Episode #69: How to Run a Hackathon
September 29, 2016 04:05 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MBIn this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk hackathons, and how, while they are a great tool for bringing teams together to move quickly to build prototypes, are often done in a way that doesn't focus on problem solution fit, unique value proposition or business model. Essentially, most hackathons fall into the all to common trap of building what excites the team building it, but not the market. This is the main reason why 96% of startups and new ventures fail. I talk through what you and/...
Episode #68: How VR/AR Will Change The Way We Buy *midweek special*
September 27, 2016 06:16 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBBrought to you by Braintree. In this mid-week special we bring you the second live edition of Future Squared, in the form of a panel discussion, before an audience at Collective Campus. Guests include: * VICKI MILLER (Digital Transformation, KMART) Vicki is part of KMART's Digital Transformation team. A senior executive experienced leading businesses in digital innovation, business transformation, revenue growth and P&L improvement. A proven track record developing new revenue ...
Episode #67: How to Be a Great Boss with Rene Boer
September 25, 2016 01:10 - 1 hour - 44.8 MBNote: Please excuse the poor audio quality of this episode. Rene provides a lot of value so I encourage you to listen, despite this. Will ensure future episodes are of a higher quality. Rene Boer is the co-author of How To Be a Great Boss. "If your employees brought their A-game to work every day, what would it mean for your company’s performance? What would it mean for its ability to innovate and capture new growth opportunities?" With 30 years experience in the Restaurant Industry, R...
Episode #66: Increase your Return on Optimisation (ROO)
September 22, 2016 07:49 - 7 minutes - 10.7 MBMany might remember the story of Eric Moussambani, the ‘Olympic swimmer’ from Equatorial Guinea who took 1:52.72 to complete his 100m swim at Sydney 2000, more than twice that of his nearest competitor. Before the Olympics, he had never even seen a 50m long pool, took up swimming eight months prior and practiced swimming in a lake. In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk return on optimisation, or ROO. Companies often get obsessed running A/B tests to optimise their marketing funnels, bu...
Episode #65: The ASX's Katherine Squire on DevOps, Cloud and Driving Culture Change
September 17, 2016 08:44 - 43 minutes - 59.8 MBKatherine Squire is the General Manager of App Development and DevOps at the Australian Stock Exchange. She has over 20 years' experience in Exchange, Investment Katherine was Executive General Manager at IRESS where she was responsible for turning around the Financial Markets Products Division with a focus on building a strong, high performing team that could scale globally. She has extensive experience in product management. Topics Discussed: Culture change at the ASX...one bite...
Episode #64: Success Metrics for Corporate Innovation Programs and Teams
September 14, 2016 23:01 - 9 minutes - 12.5 MBListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future ---- I was recently asked to partake in a discussion with a newly formed innovation team at an ASX20 company. What started out as an informal discussion quickly had me on my feet, white-boarding away and firing on all cognitive cylinders as I talked, or drew my way, through the different things large bureaucratic organisations need to consider when it comes to the big hairy audacious mission of creating an en...
Episode #63: Ash Maurya on Scaling Lean
September 11, 2016 00:16 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBHailing from Austin, Texas, Ash Maurya is the founder of Leanstack. Since bootstrapping his last company seven years ago, he has launched five products and one peer-to-web application framework. Throughout this time he has been in search of better, faster ways for building successful products. Ash has more recently been rigorously applying Customer Development and Lean Startup techniques to his products, frequently writing about this on his blog and turning this into the critically acclaim...
Episode #62: Fast Fix Friday on Turning Bad Habits into Good Habits
September 08, 2016 08:57 - 8 minutes - 12 MBIn this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk about the power of turning bad habits into good habits and how it can have a profound impact on both your personal and professional life! Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more informa...
Episode #61: Singularity University's Pascal Finette on Taking Moonshots
September 03, 2016 08:12 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBPascal Finette heads up Entrepreneurship at Singularity University as well as SU Labs, its accelerator program which grows startups that are focused on tackling the world’s most intractable problems leveraging exponential technologies. He loves technology and believes that the Internet is deeply impacting mankind. He got started on the Net before there was a web browser, founded a couple of technology startups, led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helpi...
Episode #60: Gyshido
September 01, 2016 06:23 - 6 minutes - 8.71 MBIn this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk "Gyshido" or Getting Your Shit Done, a movement spearheaded by Singularity University's Pascal Finette, who will be our very special guest on the next episode of Future Squared! Check out Gyshido.com for more! Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To si...
Episode #59: Matchmakers and Marketplaces with MIT's Dick Schmalensee
August 27, 2016 07:40 - 1 ByteWe're going live a day early this week in anticipation of not one, but two, very special announcements tomorrow from the team here at Collective Campus. This week's guest is Richard Schmalensee, the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management Emeritus and Professor of Economics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007. He was as a Member of the President's Council of Econom...
Episode #58: Fast Fix Friday on Disrupting Yourself
August 25, 2016 07:02 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MBIn this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I talk why you should disrupt yourself. I had the pleasure of interviewing Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself, and formerly co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, way back when in episode #13 of Future Squared. She told the story of her own personal reinvention from secretary on Wall Street to high ranking equities analyst to co-founder of a boutique investment firm which invested in and led the $8 million seed round ...
Episode #57: My Lean Startup Journey *midweek bonus*
August 24, 2016 06:45 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBThis mid-week bonus is a little different! After over 50 episodes, mostly of me interviewing other people, in this episode, the tables are turned. I recently had the pleasure of appearing on Ray Milidoni’s Razor Sharp show which was a lot of fun. Ray poked and probed about a number of topics such as how to get started in business, how to get the most out of every day, how to build, measure and learn using the lean startup, we also got talking about Lemonade Stand, the children’s entrep...
Episode #56: 500 Startups' Arnaud Bonzom talks How Huge Companies Engage Startups
August 21, 2016 01:44 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBThose of you familiar with this podcast would know I’m a big fan of Dave McClure and his Pirate Metrics approach to customer acquisition - well, Dave is the founder of 500 startups, the venture capital seed fund and accelerator based in the Valley that has invested in more than 1500 companies across more than 50 countries. In this episode, I speak with Arnaud Bonzom, Director of Corporate Innovation at 500 Startups. Arnaud’s recent report on How do the World’s Biggest Companies Deal with...
Episode #55: Fast Lisp Friday on 13 Ways to Get Buy-In for Corporate Innovation
August 18, 2016 08:17 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MBIn this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I cover a topic that is the bane of existence for many a corporate employee which is getting buy-in for corporate innovation, or just getting buy-in for trying different things in general...how do you go about doing this, especially when decision-makers appear to be set in their ways? In this episode, I walk you through, 13 strategies you can begin to experiment with in your workplace starting with #1, hacking the culture. Excuse the lisp, it's totally...
Episode #54: Increase Employee Engagement with Spigit's Maggie Riad *midweek bonus*
August 17, 2016 11:11 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBMaggie brings more than 12 years of innovation management, market insight analysis and business strategy experience in the financial services sector. Now working for Spigit and based in Chicago, she consults Spigit’s key clients on successful social ideation challenges to engage their workforce and customers to solve priority business issues. She brings creativity and insight to understand the unique business needs of each organization while integrating with the overall strategy. Spigit is...
Episode #53: From Theatre to Disruption with Sportsbet's Head of Innovation, Leslie Barry
August 14, 2016 02:03 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBLeslie Barry is currently the head of innovation at Sportsbet, Australia’s largest online bookmaker with $117M operating profit / 79.4 million pounds in 2015. He was previously the head of innovation at Thoughtworks Australia, was the General Manager of Professional Services at Dimension Data Australia and has also founded several companies including Exertack, a health and fitness tracking business acquired by Techstars alumni Gyminee in 2008 and GetViable, an an online innovation platform...
Episode #52: Fast Fix Friday on 50 Lessons from 50 Episodes! Thank You Everybody!
August 11, 2016 23:39 - 5 minutes - 7.44 MBThank you listeners, we've just turned 50...episodes that is, and to celebrate, I've put together a list of the 50 most memorable lessons from the first 50 episodes! Oftentimes, we read books and blogs, we listen to podcasts and audiobooks, we watch keynotes and take part in workshops, we umm and ahh, but despite all of the investment in consuming this knowledge, we rarely take the time to reflect and truly digest the knowledge so that we can become better at applying these insights. T...