How I Work

Perry Marshall is one of the most expensive business strategists in the world. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs use his 80/20 Curve as a productivity tool. His reinvention of the Pareto Principle is published in Harvard Business Review. He founded the $10 million Evolution 2.0 Prize, with judges from Harvard, Oxford and MIT, it is the world’s largest science research award. And his book the Ultimate Gui...

My favourite tip from my chat with Jake Knapp was on winning the battle against email (and why it's so addictive) . This extract is from my second time having Jake on the show - you can check out the full interview here . And check out my first interview with Jake here . Find out more about Jake here: Running remote Sprints The  Jake and Jonathon podcast Jake’s website Jake’s books  Sprint  and  M...

My guest today is Tim MacKinnon. Tim is the Managing Director and Vice President for eBay Australia, a role that he has had for the last three years. At eBay, Tim’s purpose is to help Australian retailers grow and take advantage of opportunities in online, mobile, local and global commerce. Enabling businesses and entrepreneurs has been the connecting thread in his career at eBay, Intuit in Silico...

My favourite tip from my chat with Mia Freedman was on how to get a quick read on staff's mental wellbeing. This extract is from my second time having Mia on the show - you can check out the full interview here . And check out my first interview with Mia here . Check out: Mia on Instagram Mia’s podcasts:  No Filter ,  Mamamia Outloud , and  Lady Startup . And on  her website . Subscribe to my new...

My guest today is Rahul Vohra. Rahul is the founder and CEO of Superhuman, the fastest email experience in the world. Users get through their inbox twice as fast — and many see Inbox Zero for the first time in years. Previously, Rahul founded Rapportive, the first Gmail plugin to scale to millions of users. Rapportive was acquired by LinkedIn. In our chat, we cover: Rahul’s approach to becoming as...

This episode answers a listener question about how to have a tough conversation with your boss. Visit  https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast  for full show notes from all episodes. Get in touch at  amantha@inventium.com.au If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better,...

My guest today is Kevin Kelly. Kevin is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His most recent book is The Inevitable, which is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. He co-founded the Hackers’ Conference and also the Quantified Self movement. He writes one of my favourite newsletters, Recomendo, h...

This episode answers a listener question about how to uncover your chronotype and using it to boost productivity. Uncover your chronotype here:  https://inventium.typeform.com/to/E8Kp7j Visit  https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast  for full show notes from all episodes. Get in touch at  amantha@inventium.com.au If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly ne...

My guest today is Peter Wells. Peter is a technology journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald, where he writes about tech and podcasts. Peter is also the host of two podcasts which are Meta (a podcast about podcasts) and The Helpdesk (a daily tech podcast). In this chat, we cover: Peter’s favourite gadgets How to get the most out of voice-activated assistants Peter’s favourite productivity softwar...

This episode looks at three simple strategies to avoid virtual meeting fatigue. Visit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast  for full show notes from all episodes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from i...

My guest today is Ashutosh Priyadarshy. Ashutosh is the founder of Sunsama (YC W19). Sunsama is a daily planner for elite professionals that helps you plan out a focused work day by pulling together your tasks from all of your tools. Ashutosh has spent most of the last decade building and launching productivity hardware and software. His goal is to build products that help us navigate our work and...

This episode looks at four simple strategies to replace serendipitous conversations in the virtual world. Visit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast  for full show notes from all episodes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work...

Today's show is an interview I did for the podcast Meta with Peter Wells. With Peter, we go behind the scenes of How I Work and my own productivity routines and hacks. I talk about why and how I started How I Work, some of my favourite productivity software, and other geeky productivity hacks. Check out the Meta podcast . Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Visit...

This episode looks at three ways that work might change thanks to COVID-19. Visit  https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast  for full show notes from all episodes. Get in touch at  amantha@inventium.com.au If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from int...

My guest today is Scott D Anthony. Scott is global authority on innovation and the former managing partner of Innosight, the innovation and strategy consulting firm co-founded by Clayton Christensen. Scott has written several bestselling books and writes regularly for Harvard Business Review. Scott has been awarded the Thinkers50 Innovation Award, which recognises the world’s leading thinkers on i...

This episode looks at several strategies to organise your inbox, documents, photos, articles and other digital assets. Visit  https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast  for full show notes from all episodes. Get in touch at  amantha@inventium.com.au If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered tha...

My guest today is Turia Pitt. Caught in a grassfire while competing in a 100 km ultramarathon in 2011, Turia suffered full thickness burns to 65 per cent of her body. But surviving is the least of her achievements. As one of Australia’s most admired and widely recognised people, Turia has gone on to become a bestselling author, a two-time Ironman and a humanitarian - raising well over a million do...

This episode looks at how to create boundaries between work and life when you love what you do for work. Visit  https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast  for full show notes from all episodes. Get in touch at  amantha@inventium.com.au If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work...

My guest today is...me! We had hundreds of questions come in for this Ask Me Anything, which is based around how to work from home efficiently and productively. With the help of organisational psychologist Charlotte Rush, we answer your questions around workplace creativity, innovation, energy, productivity, wellbeing, motivation and more.   This is especially relevant to lockdown or work from hom...

My favourite tip from my chat with Michelle Poler was on the key question she asks herself to conquer her fears. You can find  the full interview here . If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I a...

Introducing my latest podcast, How To Date! How to Date is a show about to master the messy, complex, and downright bizarre world of dating, when you really didn't think you'd be back here again. Your hosts Dr Amantha Imber and Monique Robin speak to psychologists, dating coaches, professors, data crunchers at Bumble, and even sex workers to learn how to get better at dating. You’ll learn about ho...

My guest today is Alison Watkins. Alison joined Coca-Cola Amatil as Group Managing Director in March 2014. Prior to joining Coca-Cola Amatil Alison was the CEO of agribusiness GrainCorp and of Berri, the market leader in Australian juice, and she was also the Managing Director of Regional Banking at ANZ.  Alison also spent 10 years at McKinsey & Company and became a partner of the firm before...

This episode looks at why you need to stop asking for feedback, and instead, ask for advice. Visit  https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast  for full show notes from all episodes. Get in touch at  amantha@inventium.com.au If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, whi...

My guest today is Darren Murph who is GitLab’s Head of Remote. If you have never heard of GitLab, it's the world’s largest all-remote company, with over 1,300 team members in 67+ countries with no company-owned offices. Darren has spent his career leading remote teams and charting remote transformations and authored GitLab’s Remote Playbook. Darren also holds a Guinness World Record as the planet'...

My favourite tip from my chat with Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor Laura May Martin was on how she manages her inbox. You can find  the full interview here . If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through t...