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Seeing Around Corners - Conversations with Lisa Gansky

16 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 8 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

Seeing around corners: Conversations with Lisa Gansky. Tracking changes in the culture of business innovation.

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Episodes

The End of Employment. In Conversation with Dr. Arun Sundararajan

June 16, 2016 18:51 - 1 hour - 55.5 MB

Released June 16, 2016   Last month I sat down with Dr. Arun Sundararajan, NYU Stern professor and author of The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism. Over the course of our spirited discussion, we touched on the emergence of hybrid institutions and the ongoing tug-of-war between community and brands.     For more, please visit www.instigating.co/podcast/arun-sundararajan Or subscribe on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/instigatingco ...

Shivani Siroya on Inventure & the Emerging Middle Class

June 09, 2016 10:31 - 40 minutes - 36.6 MB

The Power of Visibility: Shivani Siroya on Inventure and the Emerging Middle Class   The planets aligned and I had the opportunity to speak with a woman in high demand and nearly constant motion: Shivani Siroya, founder and CEO of InVenture. We discussed the emerging middle class, the secret sauce of context in our daily lives, and the frustration and fantasy that gave her the idea for this brave new world of data science and quality of life.   The process that led Shivani to create ...

Are You Inspired, or Overwhelmed?

April 06, 2016 16:42 - 42 minutes - 58.2 MB

Last month, I caught up with Henry Mason, global keynote speaker, Managing Director of Trendwatching, and co-author of Trend-Driven Innovation. We spent a sunny afternoon discussing crowd-sourced business models, the nuanced art of “trade jiu jitsu,” and the unexpected benefits when you play the role of the court jester. For more, visit: instigating.co

The Evolution of a global Collaboration

April 01, 2016 12:51 - 22 minutes - 32.2 MB

I had the good fortune to chat with Francesca Pick, co-founder, writer, speaker, and big brain in the OuiShare think tank. We discussed the challenges and future of the global force and community that is OuiShare -- the upcoming OuiShare Fest, and… the death of the collaborative economy?

The Future of Jobs, Money, and the New Continuum

March 09, 2016 17:13 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MB

Released March 9, 2016 Episode 11 / Season 1   This week, I had a seriously spirited dialogue with Paul Kedrosky, investors, speaker, writer, entrepreneur, experienced navigator of the arcane bestiary of jargon, and contributing editor for Bloomberg. I was thrilled to hear his insights on what the future has in store for money, jobs, and value creation. As well we did explore a few interconnected corners as our conversation took off! We discussed the peristaltic nature of marketplaces an...

Onlyness, Openness, and Originality

February 24, 2016 17:21 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MB

Released February 24, 2016 Episode 10 / Season 1   This week I had the opportunity to chat with prolific walker, thinker, writer, TED talker, and provocateur Nilofer Merchant, the “Jane Bond of innovation.” Nilofer spoke with me from Paris, where she has taken herself out of circulation in order to sink deeply into the idea of onlyness. Whether you know her from TED talks, her books, or her columns in Forbes and BusinessWeek, you know that Nilofer isn’t just an author and a speaker - she...

Citizens, Customers or Patients?

February 12, 2016 15:24 - 41 minutes - 58.6 MB

Citizens, Customers or Patients?  Episode 9.  To subscribe, visit: http://www.instigating.co/podcast/  

Transforming music: Artist & architect Imogen Heap has a bold plan.

January 29, 2016 21:34 - 41 minutes - 58.7 MB

An interview with Imogen Heap.

Welcoming serendipity with open arms

January 15, 2016 12:54 - 36 minutes - 50.9 MB

Steve Sando' s “all in” approach to business proves that instigators take many forms. In this week's show, we see what it looks like when we bounce back, ask new questions, and allow ourselves (and others), to be delighted by discovering new passions.

Transparency, a girl’s best friend. A conversation with Everledger CEO, Leanne Kemp

November 27, 2015 10:19 - 36 minutes - 51 MB

Episode 6.  A conversation with Leanne Kemp

An African Classroom in a Box?

November 17, 2015 21:23 - 13 minutes - 19.3 MB

The second part of my conversation with Erik Hersman looks at how Africa is becoming the nexus of the tech revolution and what Erik and his team are doing for education. 

Tearing Down the Digital Divide, Brick by BRCK

November 09, 2015 14:31 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MB

I recently had a conversation with Erik Hersman, an African instigator, entrepreneur and innovator whose work is widely recognized among the technology, development and humanitarian communities. And, I’m inviting you to join in. For those of you who don’t know Erik, he co-founded the heroic open source project called Ushahidi (which means "testimony" in Swahili), a crowdsourcing site which launched in 2007. Ushahidi was instrumental in mapping the violent attacks that were taking place duri...

Introducing Seeing Around Corners

October 02, 2015 08:28 - 4 minutes - 7.12 MB

Welcome to a new venture. A venture that draws on my pathological curiosity for the new. My very own podcast: Seeing Around Corners. http://bit.ly/gansky00

with Benjamin Tincq

June 18, 2015 18:14 - 11 minutes - 16.7 MB

Benjamin is co-founder of OuiShare.net and he is one of the leaders in the collaberation between OuiShare and Open State on POC 21   Lisa asked about the intention of the project and how it will impact real cities and real decisions.     Find out how you can help the project and spread the word on the project.   POC 21 is an innovation camp for open source sustainability in 2015. 100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and geeks join forces to prototype the coll...

with Tomas de Lara

June 18, 2015 18:13 - 16 minutes - 24.2 MB

Lisa caught up with Tomas de Lara at the OuiShareFest in Paris in May 2015.   In this conversation Lisa learns how Tomas sees the worlds of business, community and the environment connecting and shaping our future.   Is the collaborative economy is growing up and entering its next phase? What is the relationship between abundance and scarcity in this next phase?   Strong themes making this social innovation happen are the social web, peer based organisations, collaboration and educa...

with Scott Heiferman

June 18, 2015 18:10 - 15 minutes - 22.3 MB

Scott Heiferman is founder at Meet Up.com and tripped over Lisa at OuiShare Fest in Paris   Scott is always working to evolve and understand what inspires and helps people to start a community. He shares how Meet Up and community will unfold to create more vakue that it collects.   “The biggest problem in the world is that the smartest people are not working on the biggest problems in the world”   In the collaborative economy organising people and responding to what they talked abou...

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