ThinqShift
Be Fabulous
Welcome to “Be Fabulous..... with Vips and Vicki”. The ThinqShift podcast for professionals who aspire to be fabulous leaders. Those who not only succeed but also purposefully seek to reinvent the world.
Be sure to visit the podcast's website and support the creator: www.thinqshift.com
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Episodes
2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 10: The word strategy, a double edged sword 10.06.2025 43:18
In this episode 1. View strategy from a new perspective, no matter where you sit in the organization 2. Learn about the big stressors each group faces 3. Avoid common pitfalls by addressing key challenges before they become roadblocks Join us for this enlightening conversation that will leave you thinking about strategy in a whole new way. Until next time, Be Fabulous!
2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 9: Transparency. Is it all it’s cracked up to be? 20.03.2025 39:25
1. The Hidden Costs of Transparency: Discover how radical transparency can lead to employee stress, anxiety, and even burnout, challenging the notion that more openness is always better. 2. When Transparency Backfires: Real-world case studies where transparency initiatives created confusion, resentment, and competitive disadvantages, offering a fresh perspective on the complexity of openness. 3. B...
2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 8: Fairness: Why It’s So Obvious to Me and Not to Everyone Else 06.12.2024 47:41
In This Episode 1. The Hidden Complexity of Fairness: Why it’s such a loaded topic and often avoided in leadership conversations. 2. Why Fairness is Never Fully Achievable: Leaders face the impossible task of meeting everyone’s definition of fairness without creating backlash. 3. Fairness through the lens of Whole Brain Thinking: The fabulous way to think about fairness. Until next time, Be Fabulo...
2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 7: Collective Responsibility. The paradox in Leadership. 10.10.2024 51:05
In this episode “Siloed Success or Collective Failure?”: Uncover the hidden dangers of focusing solely on your department’s goals and why it might be holding your entire organization back. “Leadership Beyond the Silo”: Discover why true leadership requires more than just managing your own responsibilities—it’s about driving the collective success of the whole team. “The Paradox of Collective Respo...
2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 6: Performance Compassion Clash 18.09.2024 43:44:00
In this episode 1. Kindness vs High Performance: is it a trade-off or something deeper 2. External factors that are often not considered 3. The 3 lenses: employee, leader and CEO
2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 5: Keeping Perspective: "How much do we really need" 14.08.2024 47:19
In this episode 1. What changing your environment, even slightly, does for your perspective. 2. What we actually need goes back to our 4 basic needs. 3. Considerations to keep perspective even when the world around seems to be going mad.
2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 4: Entrepreneurship - Is it what it's cracked up to be? The light and dark side 12.07.2024 45:22
In this episode 1. The dark side of entrepreneurship 2. The phenomena of wannapreneur 3. Considerations to decide if you’re all in Until next time, Be Fabulous!
2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 3: Promotions - Did you really earn it? Was it worth it? Are you even ready? 12.06.2024 46:10
In this episode 1. What happens when you’re promoted too soon 2. As a manager, what type of conversation should you have with someone who has been promoted 3. Is the role even right for you? We’ll share the sweet spot of what to look for Until next time, Be Fabulous!
2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 2: AI - Is My Job Doomed? 03.04.2024 45:19
In this episode 1. The Short Term: how to wrap your head around AI over the next 1-3 years 2. Where our value has typically come from and who should be worried 3. What can you start to do now so that you’ll continue to be valuable Until next time, Be Fabulous!
2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 1: Implications of Working Remotely 20.03.2024 46:09
In this episode 1. What we learned during Covid : the employee and employer perspective of working remotely. 2. The longer-term financial and career implications of continuing to work remotely as well as the impact for leaders and the world. 3. What should organizations do: the consequences of differentiating, standardizing or something in between.
2021 Series Episode 7: DEI Accelerate or Fizzle Out? 25.10.2021 38:36
-The 12 dimensions -Why most organizations are still trying to figure out phase 1 -The importance of the economic underpinnings and the mindset needed to keep it going
2021 Series Episode 6: Social Conscience Companies Become Mainstream 02.09.2021 39:25
-Why it’s falling to business leaders to drive a socially conscious agenda -Why many business leaders aren’t equipped to do this -Where to get started … how well read and balanced are you on social and political issues?
2021 Series Episode 5: Conversations We're Not Trained For 23.06.2021 43:31
We work through the nuances of this complex topic, exploring - Does the size of your organization matter? - Magic Beans, determining the path you should choose - Putting on the training wheels
2021 Series Episode 4: RIP Functional Career Paths 08.06.2021 34:34
-The connection between the speed of information and adaptability -Tours of duty as an alternative to functional career paths -30 day challenge to get you out of your comfort zone
2021 Series Episode 3: Emotional Kevlar Becomes Key to Success 30.04.2021 46:42
- Why Emotional Kevlar is becoming more critical now than ever - Shifts and core strengths to be effective in this world without being buffeted by the noisiness of the our daily lives - 30 day challenge to start your journey to becoming emotionally bulletproof
2021 Series Episode 2: What’s Going to Stick and Rebound in a Post-Covid World 21.04.2021 51:45
In episode two, we cover - Tactical: we want to believe proximity doesn’t matter, but it does - Operational: manager expectations, they matter - Structured: cultural wars, be ready - Systemic: collective consciousness, don’t underestimate it -Meta: when everyone is a nomad, what happens to the social fabric of society?
2021 Series Episode 1: The Future of Work in 2025 - An Overview 15.03.2021 49:28
In episode one, we introduce -The six key themes that leaders and organizations will need to start tackling right away -The six hot skills that will be needed to thrive at work in 2025 -Why we predict these are the most important dimensions we need to be thinking about
Special: The Future of Agriculture - with Special Guest Sean Beard 10.03.2021 42:05
In Episode 3, Sean helps us to imagine a new world of agriculture as he sees it. Today, you have to be middle class or higher to be able to afford fresh nutritious produce. In this episode, you’ll hear Sean give us a well rounded perspective on this topic, including: -Is 100% automated farming operation possible? -What does local “farm-to-table” for agriculture look like? -What can you do locally
Be Fabulous Series 4 Episode 2 with Sean McCall 10.03.2021 48:15
Sean reflects on his journey and shares the wisdom he wishes he’d known as a young technologist. -Purity vs “good enough” solutioning -Reluctant leader shift -Asking yourself investigative questions. What do I really want that I would endure for? What would I regret? What would make me want to do this beyond anything else? What brings me joy? -Selfish or selfless to put your own mask on first -Rig...
Be Fabulous Series 4 with Sean McCall - Techie to Business Leader 10.03.2021 50:57
Sean talks us through his thought processes of a Superstar Performer to Top Notch Executive. -Adaptability learned early using an early Circle-of-Suck experience to become invaluable to the CEO -Making excel fun by gamifying meetings -What he’d tell his 20 year old self to get his attention -Cooking show hack. Tips on how to maximize your energy
Special: Crisis Leadership with Robert Greiner 10.03.2021 57:27
We explore Crisis Leadership as it relates to you as an individual leader of yourself and others: -Great planning and having a playbook is useless unless the individual leader “opts in” -4 things you can do as a leader in any crisis (MVCL – Minimally Viable Crisis Leadership) -What can you do to prepare/inoculate against the next crisis?
Episode 11: The Thinqshift Why 16.02.2021 51:18
1. Uncover why Fabulous leaders are so important for what the world is facing right now 2. Discuss our expertise working with Fabulous leaders to reinvent the world focusing on the intersection of profit, people and the planet 3. Share why this is so critical right now as the world is getting hotter, flatter and more crowded.
Special: The Thirteenth Amendment Exception- With Special Guest Sean Beard 04.02.2021 41:36
In this episode, you’ll hear *The impact of the exception of the Thirteenth Amendment *The genesis of slavery *What -13 is doing to reinvent the world to give those who have done their prison time a chance to be happy and successful
Special: Imagine a Reinvented World - With Special Guest Sean Beard 20.01.2021 50:06
In Episode 1, Sean helps us to conceptualize a world without garbage? Is that even possible or just a utopian ideal? Sean helps us navigate through an initiative he’s thought of regarding the minimizing and recycling of the mountains of waste both on land and underwater. He argues that our methods of waste management are long outdated and are in need of a serious revolution. Therefore, his f...
Special: The Top Notch Executive in Programmatic Trading with Will Harrington 28.11.2020 43:50
Will takes us through the obstacles and what it feels like to navigate that circle-of-suck, when the Awesome Manager programmatic trader is promoted to a ‘Top Notch Executive’. On the one hand it feels great to be promoted, but now success looks like more than being good! 1. How the patterns of success now seem so amorphous and mushy? 2. The self doubt that can creep in. “I’m not sure what I shoul...
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