How I Work

Today’s guest is Tim Kendall. Tim is the former President of Pinterest, where he led global sales, marketing and product development. Prior to Pinterest, Tim was Facebook’s Director of Monetization, where he led the development of Facebook’s advertising business. During his last year at Pinterest, Tim began noticing his own “bad” phone habits, not to mention the poor habits of everyone around him....

With Christmas holidays nearly upon us, this mini-episode reveals five science-backed (and counterintuitive) ways to create the perfect break. Warning: after listening to this episode, you might want to change your Christmas holidays plans. Visit amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...

My guest today is Patty McCord. Patty McCord served as chief talent officer of Netflix for 14 years and helped create the Netflix Culture Deck, which has been viewed on Slideshare over 15 million times (Sheryl Sandberg has referred to this deck as “ the most important document ever to come out of the Valley.”). She is also the author of "Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility"....

If you need to get your creative juices flowing this week, I cover four incredibly simple-to-apply tips to instantly boost your creativity on today's show. All backed by science. Visit amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I thought I’d try something different this week and share some cool stuff I learnt from a book I just read this weekend. It’s called "Make Time” ( https://maketimebook.com/ ) by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky. These are the guys that wrote Spring and used to work at Google Ventures. The book was awesome and has inspired me to try a bunch of experiments to improve my own working days. I outline five...

How do you decide what to say "yes" to and what to say “no" to? And how do you say “no" in a way that doesn’t offend? Guests on the How I Work podcast struggle with like the rest of us. They literally get hundreds of requests on their time and can’t possibly say yes to everyone. So they develop methods to make the decision-making process easier, and have specific strategies for saying no nicely. T...

I love to-do lists. But the problem with most to-do lists is that they don’t discriminate between the type of thinking different tasks require and the fact that our brain is suited to different types of thinking depending on the time of day. This episode will teach you how to re-think your to-do list. Visit amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au  See...

Today's episode is a blast from the past (and by that, we mean one from a few months ago because Amantha is on holidays right now!). This episode features Matt Mullenweg. Matt is kind of like internet royalty because he is a founding developer of WordPress, which is the Open Source software used by over 31% of the web. He also founded Automattic which now employs around 700 people. Matt has been n...

Email gets a bad rap. People complain that email is the biggest drain on their productivity. But it’s only bad because of the mindless way most people approach their inbox. Instead of checking email willy-nilly throughout the day, there is actually an optimal time of the day to be dipping into your inbox. Visit amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au...

Today's episode is a blast from the past (and by that, we mean one from a few months ago because Amantha is on holidays right now!). Amanda Palmer is a singer-songwriter, rule-breaker, disruptor, and all round rockstar. You might know Amanda from being one half of the Dresden Dolls. Or you might know her, as I did, through her TED talk "The art of asking" which has been viewed by over 10 million p...

How much time did you spend this morning making decisions about what to eat, what to wear and how to get to work? While these may seem like small and inconsequential decisions, it turns out they could be doing damage to the rest of your day. Visit amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My guest today is Natasha Pincus. Natasha is a Writer and Director who is probably most well known for her very distinctive music videos that she has created for artists including Paul Kelly, Missy Higgins, and Powderfinger. Where you are probably most familiar with her work though is through her video for Gotye’s “ Somebody That I Used To Know ”, which has been viewed over 1 billion times on YouT...

Most of us don’t think very much about how we end our workday. We simply close our laptop, run to catch our train, go home and have some dinner, and often, re-open our laptop again while watching Netflix. By not having a proper “end” to our day, we are missing out on a big opportunity to boost our happiness and engagement in our work. This mini-episode describes four quick tasks that you can do to...

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. Last year, Scott was awarded the Thinkers50 Innovation Award, which recognises the world’s leading thinker...

I am yet to meet a person who loves attending meetings. Most people hate them, yet they are seen as a necessarily evil of corporate life. But while meetings may often be dull and sometimes yield few tangible results, they may be causing more harm than you think. Visit amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...

My guest today is Dom Price. Dom is the Head of Research & Development and also the resident Work Futurist at Atlassian, one of the world’s biggest and fastest growing tech companies. Dom has responsibilities spanning 5 global R&D centres, and is the in house “Team Doctor” who helps Atlassian scale by being ruthlessly effective, all while keeping one eye on the future. I’ve known Dom for a...

Do you take notes in meetings and presentations on your laptop or in a notepad? I definitely fell into the former category until I discovered research that made me want to go out and buy a Moleskin. This mini-episode might convince you to do the same thing. Visit amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...

My guest today is Sarah Green Carmichael. Sarah is an executive editor at Harvard Business Review where she works out what to publish on the site and edits the articles that you may have read there. Sarah is also the host of HBR’s IdeaCast podcast which gets over one million downloads every month. I was very excited to speak to Sarah as I am a voracious HBR reader and given the amount of ideas and...

Are you addicted to email? Are you guilty of doing a “just check” of your inbox every 10-15 minutes? Is checking email getting in the way of you doing deep, focused work? This mini-episode gives you three research-backed strategies for kicking your email habit for good. Visit amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

My guest today is Carolyn Creswell. As Australian listeners probably know, Carolyn is the founder of Carman’s muesli, which is in pretty much every supermarket in Australia and is exported to 32 countries around the world. Over the last 25 years, Carolyn has built Carman’s into a $100 million dollar business. But there is so much more to Carolyn that just delicious tasting muesli. She has given so...

Do you work in an open plan office? It turns out they are not all fun and games and collaboration. This episode reveals research into the dark side of the open plan office and why it might be killing your productivity. Visit amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My guest today is Baratunde Thurston. Baratunde is a particularly hilarious comedian, he wrote the bestselling book How to be Black as well as many feature articles for places like Fast Company and Medium. He helped to re-launch the Daily Show with Trevor Noah through building the digital expansion team. And he used to write for the Onion and has been nominated for an Emmy award. This conversation...

How would you like to leave work at 2.30pm today having achieved a full day’s output? This mini-episode explains a very simple change you can make to the way you work that will allow you to do just that. Visit amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My guest today is Pamela Meyer. You might know Pamela from her very famous TED talk about How To Spot a Liar , which has been viewed by 20 million people. She also wrote the bestselling book Liespotting: Proven techniques to detect deception . Pamela is also the founder and CEO of Calibrate, a leading training company that teaches people how to spot lies. Pamela is someone who thinks a lot about h...

Almost every one of us has experienced a 10 point drop in IQ from something that happens many times a day. And if you are wondering: is 10 IQ points a lot to lose? The answer is most definitely yes - it’s the equivalent of losing a night’s sleep. This mini-episode explains how to never experience this drop in IQ again. Visit amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes. Get in touch at amantha@inv...