Future² - Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Melissa Ambrosini is the bestselling author of Mastering Your Mean Girl and Open Wide, a keynote speaker, entrepreneur and self-love teacher. In her signature straight-talking style, Melissa teaches women how to master their inner Mean Girl, smash through limiting beliefs, and ditch the self-doubt so they can start living the life of their dreams. Named a 'self-help guru' by Elle Magazine her miss...

If you’re anything like me then you have a thirst for knowledge and consume a lot of content, whether it be through books, audiobooks, podcasts, blog posts, keynotes, conversations or a combination of all of the aforementioned. And if you’re anything like me you wish you retained more of what you actually consumed so that you could easily recall it later, either to support your work or a conversat...

In poker, your bankroll represents how much money you’ve set aside exclusively to play. Former World Series of Poker champion, author and decision strategist Annie Duke says that you should always play  within your bankroll. If you have $2,000 in your pocket but have bills and outgoings totalling $1,500 then you don’t have $2,000 to play with, you have $500, and you should not play beyond tha...

Ben Greenfield is a biohacker, human body and brain performance coach, ex-bodybuilder, Ironman triathlete, professional Spartan athlete, anti-aging consultant, speaker and author of the New York Times Bestseller “ Beyond Training: Mastering Endurance, Health and Life ”. In 2008, Ben was voted as NSCA’s Personal Trainer of the year, in 2013 and 2014 was named by Greatest as one of the top 100 Most...

In this instalment of Fast Fix Friday I bust three innovation myths.   --- Find out more about Konkrete at www.konkrete.io   Join my mailing list at  futuresquared.xyz/subscribe   Listen on iTunes @  goo.gl/sMnEa0   Listen on Spotify @  spoti.fi/2G2QsxV   Listen on Stitcher @  www.stitcher.com/podcast/future   Listen on Google Play @  bit...

Alex is an entrepreneur, speaker and business model innovator. He is co-founder of Strategyzer, a SaaS company that helps organizations develop new growth engines, better value propositions and powerful business models via online applications and facilitated online courses. In 2015 Alex won the strategy award by Thinkers50, called the “Oscars of Management Thinking” by the FT, and ranks #15 among...

In this instalment of Fast Fix Friday I explore how the real reason traditional large companies struggle to innovate could be physiological.   --- Join Steve's mailing list at  futuresquared.xyz/subscribe   Listen on iTunes @  goo.gl/sMnEa0   Listen on Spotify @  spoti.fi/2G2QsxV   Listen on Stitcher @  www.stitcher.com/podcast/future   Listen on G...

  Rand Fishkin is the founder of SparkToro and was previously cofounder of Moz and Inbound.org. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through the Whiteboard Friday video series and his blog. If you feed him great pasta or great whisky, he’ll give you the cheat code to rank #1 on Google. Long time listeners of Future Squared might remember Rand from episode...

Oftentimes when we first embark upon something, be it a new romantic relationship, or a new business, our dopamine receptors are super-active. However, over time, they get blunted and require a higher frequency or intensity of exposure to that thing that got us buzzing in the first place. So many entrepreneurs get excited when they start something but their investment and energy tapers off on...

James Nguyen is the co-founder and managing partner of Anti-Hero Capital, the first investment fund exclusively dedicated to investing in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies using evolutionary science. He previously founded the global app agency M5859 Apps, is a contributing writer at Forbes and is somebody that I would consider deeply introspective and curious, as you’ll discover in today’...

Many have credited Optus for taking ownership with the advertisements it took out on page two of newspaper across Australia, admitting its “monumental stuff up” and announcing that it would be refunding Floptus, er, Optus Sport subscribers and giving them an additional six weeks of free access to the service after the World Cup comes to a close in mid-July. But was this a case of extreme ownership...

In this funisode of Future Squared, I welcome back into the fold my colleagues Sean and Shay to talk about, well...everything we wanted to. Namely, we explored, or ranted rather, about: End of Financial Year shenanigans Political correctness and the intellectual dark web The problem with labels and putting things into neatly demarcated buckets Phone addiction and the impact on humanity The Charter...

This week I explore existing literature on strategies of war, and discuss many of them that are relevant to the workplace as well.  --- Join the conversation on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/  where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @  goo.gl/sMn...

I cringe when I hear of school debates that advise students to argue a position even if the factual information they use isn’t 100% accurate, so long as it serves their position. School debates tend to be based students never changing their mind, and sadly, this misguided thinking has graduated and is pervasive in today’s corporate and political arenas, where they often have devastating effect on...

This week, I tell the 100 word version of the Odyssey and relate it to entrepreneurship.  --- Join the conversation on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/  where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @  goo.gl/sMnEa0   Listen on Spotify @  spoti...

Join the conversation on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/  where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @  goo.gl/sMnEa0   Listen on Spotify @  spoti.fi/2G2QsxV   Listen on Stitcher @  www.stitcher.com/podcast/future   Listen on Goog...

Mike Todasco is the Director of Innovation at PayPal responsible for increasing the creative output of employees across the company. Prior to that Mike spent time at PayPal in Product Management, Product Marketing, Product Launch and Product Analytics roles. Before joining PayPal he was the Founder and CEO of the eCommerce marketplace, Sketch Maven. Additionally, Mike spent over four years as the...

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I explore the value of traveling solo all the way from sunny Lincoln, Nebraska.  --- If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just head over to  www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe  and you’ll get the...

It seems that everybody wants to build the next UBER, the next unicorn , but do you need to? Would you not be happy generating a six-figure income doing what you love and having freedom over your decisions, not having to report to a boss who is simply in that role due to political maneuvering or length of tenure? You’ve got to be clear on defining what kind of business you want to build. For the p...

  Dr. Sherry Walling is the life force behind ZenFounder. She is a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience treating stress-related problems in high achieving people. She is an academic and professional powerhouse with master’s degrees in psychology and theology, formal training as a yoga teacher, and a PhD in clinical psychology. She has extensive experience treating PTSD in...

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I get vulnerable and reveal a personal story on how I got fired from my first real job...and more importantly, how I responded. --- If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just head over to www.futuresquared.xy...

Jeremy Heimans is the co-founder and CEO of Purpose, an organization headquartered in New York that builds and supports social movements around the world. He is the co-founder of GetUp!, an Australian political organization with more members than all of Australia's political parties combined. He has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business and received the Ford Foundation'...

In this week's instalment of Fast Fix Friday, I talk about the number one thing holding back your organization from innovating. --- Join the conversation on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/where  you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen...

Grant Cardone is a New York Times bestselling author and an internationally renowned speaker on leadership, real estate investing, entrepreneurship, and finance. His 5 privately held companies have annual revenues exceeding $100 million. Cardone is a savvy private multifamily investor and holds a portfolio of over 3,800 apartment units throughout the U.S. with transactions valued at over $500 mill...

For many years China was considered a basketcase with its population, resigned to a life of poverty in the rice fields . Yet today, 120 million Chinese tourists go abroad each year, often snapping up all of the latest trinkets of luxury brands like YSL, Prada and Chanel. In the last ten years alone, China’s GNP has increased from US$4.6T to over US$12T dollars, in fact, in 1985, that number was le...