This podcast is about every promise you made to yourself but broke. Let me introduce you to the Pope of Procrastination, who forgives you of all that. My guest is Piers Steel. Piers is a Distinguished Research Chair at the University of Calgary. He’s also the inventor of the procrastination equation, encapsulating pretty much every scientific finding on procrastination out there to date…. Read More
Personal Growth
EP. 33: LIVING THE LIVES WE WANT: NIR EYAL ON BEING INDISTRACTABLE
This is about your time and attention, why you lose control of it and how to get it back. Nir Eyal is the author of the bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. … Read More
EP. 32: A FRAMEWORK FOR HUMAN EFFORT: J.J. SUTHERLAND
This is a podcast about results; how to move past uncertainty, define a future and get things done.
Whether your an individual trying to make a career change or you lead a global company trying to implement change or build a new product, fear is relative. But the principles of making a change or getting work done is the same. … Read More
EP. 31: THE TECH FALLACY: GERALD KANE ON WHY PEOPLE ARE THE KEY TO DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
What allows some organizations and individuals to thrive in a world of rapid technology innovation – and subsequent disruption – while others fall behind or get stuck in obsolescence? After a six-year study into how digital technologies have disrupted companies of all sizes, Gerald Kane reveals many of the key findings in his newly released book…… Read More
EP. 30: Learning To Live With Learning Machines: Kartik Hosanagar On Algorithms and Agency:
Humans are making machines smarter, and the machines are learning. So what is happening to humans using smart machines? My guest on this episode is Kartik Hosanagar and his new book, A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence, is the topic of our discussion…. Read More
EP.29: WORKING WITH A.I. : ROB MAY ON THE HYPE AND REALITY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
I think definitely for the next decade, more of A.I. is going to be around augmenting humans to make them better. It’s going to be around filling in gaps in jobs that are dangerous or boring or things people don’t want to do – Rob May Artificial intelligence and its abbreviation “A.I.” can evoke fantasies… Read More
EP: 28. MAKING CHANGE HAPPEN: SETH GODIN ON MODERN MARKETING
Seth is the author of 18 best-selling books that have been translated into more than 35 languages. He’s founded several companies including Yoyodyne and Squidoo. In 2013 he was inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame. His new book This Is Marketing, You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See, is the first, in his words, “real book from a real publisher about marketing” that he’s done in more than seven years…. Read More
EP. 27: THE WISDOM ASSET: CHIP CONLEY ON AIRBNB, AGE, REINVENTION AND RELEVANCE
What do you do when you go from being the founder and CEO of your own line of successful hotels to the oldest guy at the tech startup surrounded by some of the brightest millennials in the country? Well, if you’re Chip Conley of Airbnb, you set aside your ego, reinvent yourself and …… Read More
EP. 26: SECOND CHANCES: CATHERINE HOKE ON REDEMPTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
This podcast is about recovering from crisis, reinventing yourself and making a positive difference in the world. My guest is Catherine Hoke, a former venture capitalist who is using training in entrepreneurship to solve a severe societal problem…… Read More
EP.25: MELTDOWNS: CHRIS CLEARFIELD ON PREVENTING SYSTEM FAILURES
What does the 2007 financial crisis, the Fukushima nuclear accident, Three Mile Island, Deepwater Horizon and the 2017 Academy Awards “best picture” Oscar ceremony, all have in common? The small things. Or rather, lots of tightly coupled small things that are overlooked due to complexity or ignored due to culture. Here’s how to “build” an accident…