Future² - Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Many of us the world over now find ourselves in isolation, either forced to shelter in place as is the case in large parts of California, or practice social distancing and effectively spend more time at home. While Counterstrike gamers and Netflix bingers might’ve been unknowingly in training for this moment their entire lives, for most of us — even the introverts among us — this period might test...

Successfully building a company is a Herculean feat at the best of times — 95% of startups fail and most small businesses close their doors before they turn five. With that in mind, it might seem near impossible to do so when there’s a global pandemic shutting down the world’s economy. Nobody knows for sure when we will emerge out of this black hole and markets will resume normal programming — est...

COVID-19 has had a deleterious effect on our world as we know it. First, it sent sharemarkets into a downward spiral , then it put countries such as Italy into lockdown, and forced the cancelation of festivals such as SXSW (something the author of this article was going to attend — bummer!). Oh, and who can forget ‘toiletgate’ — Australians, embarrassingly for me, stripping grocery stores bare of...

David Meerman Scott is an internationally acclaimed business strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, and public speaker. He is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten previous books, including The New Rules of Marketing & PR, Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead, and The New Rules of Sales & Service. His latest books, Fanocracy: Turning Fans into Customers and Custom...

Seth Godin needs no introduction but I am going to give him one anyway. He is the author of 19 books, and over 8,000 blog posts. He’s a pre-eminent name in the world of entrepreneurship and marketing. He has founded several companies including altMBA, The Marketing Seminar, Squidoo, and YoYoDyne which he sold to Yahoo! For US$30M. In 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame. With such...

Andrew Ross is the founder of URBNSURF, Australia’s first surf park, which opened its doors to the public in January of 2020 to much fanfare. Prior to opening URBNSURF, Andrew spent twenty five years in various legal, corporate finance and investment banking roles before merging his profession and his passion to ultimately find his purpose, as you’ll learn in this conversation. As you might imagin...

Scott H Young is a writer, programmer, traveler and avid reader of interesting things. For the last ten years he has been experimenting to find out how to learn and think better. He’s the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate… Whether it’s learning a new talent, staying relevant, reinventing yourself, or adapting t...

James Clear is an author and speaker focused on habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement. A freak baseball accident put James in a desperate place, fighting to recover from brain damage. The debilitating brain injury forced him to discover a new way of living. Recovery took James to a new understanding of habits and the power of stacking simple, easy habits, one on top of the other, to...

Branko Milanovic is a Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center and a senior fellow at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. He obtained his Ph. D. in economics from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He served as lead economist in World Bank Research Department for almost 20 years and as a senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for Inte...

Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" and "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life."  He has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing on technology, psychology, and business appears in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today...

Find out more about my new kids book, Lemonade STand: From Idea to Entrepreneur: https://bit.ly/lemonadestandbook --- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts   goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud YouTube:  Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram:  www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared:  www.futuresq...

Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor and investor. Marc was co-founder of Netflix, serving as their founding CEO, as the executive producer of their web site, and as a member of their board of directors. Marc recently released his book, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea.  Although best known for starting Netflix, Marc's caree...

Don Wettrick is the President and Founder of StartedUP, an organization dedicated to help transform the school culture toward innovation and enable student-led entrepreneurship. He’s also Innovation Coordinator at Noblesville High School, and author of "Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level." Wettrick has worked as a middle school and high school teach...

Kale Brock is an award nominated writer, filmmaker and speaker. He’s the author of several books, including The Gut Healing Protocol, The Art Of Probiotic Nutrition, and Mandy Microbe’s Big Gut Adventure. In his second documentary, The Longevity Film, Kale travels to the world’s ‘blue zones’, longevity cultures, to investigate the dietary & lifestyle factors which cause such unprecedented health s...

Blake J. Harris is the bestselling author of Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation, which is currently being adapted into a mini-series by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. He’s also the author of History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality. But we spent the better part of this conversation being nostalgic and unpacking the war...

Neil Sahota is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations A.I. subject matter expert, professor at UC Irvine, and globally-recognized speaker and author. Neil is a founding member of the UN’s Artificial Intelligence for Social Good Committee, and he’s here to talk about the ways we can harness the power of AI and use it for social good. Neil is also the author of Own the A.I. Revolution, providing a f...

Aaron Aldred is movement based performance trainer situated in Melbourne. With a Bachelors degree in Sports Science, he is currently training clients out of Focus Fitness Yarraville, a gym located in the inner west of Melbourne. Aaron runs 4 week Mobility workshops which provide a wealth of knowledge on optimising movement mechanics, self myofascial release (SMR) and body recovery. Aaron has been...

Paul Roos is a former Australian rules footballer and senior coach in the Australian Football League (AFL). Roos represented Fitzroy and Sydney during the 1980s and 1990s, playing 356 games over 17 seasons. Roos was the senior coach of the Sydney Swans and Melbourne Football Club from 2002 to 2010 and 2013 to 2016 respectively. Roos was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2005. H...

This past weekend I went snowboarding at Australia’s Mount Hotham. While I have been a longtime skateboarder, and a short-time surfer, I’d never been snowboarding. While my skating skills were somewhat transferable, it didn’t stop my ass from hitting the white powder about 50 times. But that was okay. It just meant that I had to get up 51 times. --- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts &nbsp...

Scott Belsky is the author of the international bestselling book MAKING IDEAS HAPPEN and his latest book, The Messy Middle, explores finding your way through the hardest and most crucial part of any bold venture. Scott has spent his career making the creative world more productive, connected, and adaptive to new technologies.  He founded Behance, the leading online platform for the creative i...

Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President. Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. His book, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann, itself has...

“There is nothing permanent except change”.  Heroclitus’ dictum is over 2,500 years old, and it’s more relevant than ever. Moore’s law, the doubling of computing power every 18 months, is fifty years old. In 1971, Intel’s 4004 contained just 2,300 transistors. Today’s microprocessors contain over 20 billion. The meteoric rise in computing power is rendering businesses big on process, five yea...

In this episode of Future Squared, I bring you two executives from Bank of New Zealand - Lannon Durant - Senior Manager in BNZ’s Partnership Team, and Connor Shelley, Head of Transformation and Innovation.  Bank of New Zealand recently partnered with Collective Campus to run a startup partnership program, whereby we scoured the globe to find, connect with and evaluate startups and scaleups th...

“How Big Is Your Company?” Human beings are social animals. Henceforth, like a peacock signaling reproductive fitness with its large and colourful tail, human beings signal through our haircuts, clothes, the cars we drive, the places we live, what we eat (or choose not to eat — here’s looking at you vegans and intermittent fasters), when we wake up, how often we work out, and the titles on our bus...

Jonathan Rosenberg is the former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Alphabet Inc. CEO Larry Page. Alan Eagle is the Director of Executive Communications at Google. The pair co-wrote How Google Works, and the newly released Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell, alongside longtime Google CEO and Chairman, Eric Schmidt. Trill...