How I Work

My favourite tip from my chat with Janine Allis was how she structures her working week with some very interesting rules. You can find the full interview here: https://www.amanthaimber.com/blog/janine-allis-on-her-rules-for-the-work-week-her-trick-for-making-email 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...

My guest today is Dr Jason Fox. I’ve known Jason for the best part of a decade. Like me, he is a scientist at heart and has a bias for strategies that are grounded in research. Jason travels the world helping leaders from companies such as Microsoft, Salesforce, McDonalds, and Toyota in the area of motivation design. Jason is also the bestselling author of The Game Changer and How to Lead a Quest,...

My favourite tip from my chat with Amanda Palmer was how she has three basic benchmarks or rituals that she uses to check in with herself about how she is going. 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 inte...

This episode looks at three simple changes managers can make to help their team’s productivity skyrocket. Visit 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...

My guest today is Jake Knapp. Jake spent the last 10 years at Google and Google Ventures where he created the Design Sprint, which is a method for building and testing a prototype in five days. He then went on and wrote a book about the process, called Sprint, which was a New York Times bestseller. He recently wrote another book called Make Time, which I mentioned on a previous episode. I personal...

My favourite tip from my chat with Dom Price was the strategy he used to eliminate a tonne of meetings from his diary. You can find the full interview here: https://www.amanthaimber.com/blog/atlassian-s-dom-price-on-how-he-uses-imposter-syndrome-to-his-advantage 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 h...

This mini-episode will help you re-think the seemingly innocuous "out of office" auto-responder and make yours be impactful and memorable. 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.

My guest today is Eddie Perfect. Eddie is a singer-songwriter, an actor, a comedian, and currently has not one, but two shows on Broadway - King Kong and Beetlejuice. Australian listeners might know Eddie from playing Mick Holland in Offspring, and theatre-goers might be familiar with some of Eddie’s work such as Shane Warne the Musical and Vivid White. When Eddie and I spoke, King Kong had litera...

In the first mini-episode for 2019, I talk about the absolute quickest way to boost your mood and productivity at work (it will only take you 40 seconds!) 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.

How I Work: Summer Series 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 tastin...

How I Work: Summer Series Rachel Botsman is a world renowned expert on technology and trust, and the author of bestselling books “Who Can You Trust?” and “What’s Mine Is Yours”. Rachel is a lecturer at Oxford University and has been recognised as one of the “Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company and as one of the 50 most influential management thinkers in the world. We cover a lot of g...

How I Work: Summer Series Mia Freedman is the co-founder and creative director of the Mamamia Women’s Network, Australia’s largest digital women’s media company. They reach 4 million women per month and also have the world’s largest women’s podcast network, with eight shows that reach millions of women. As many Australian listeners would know, Mia was the youngest editor of Australian Cosmo at 24...

How I Work: Summer Series On today’s show, I speak to organizational psychologist, best-selling author and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, Adam Grant. His books Give and Take, Originals, and Option B have sold over one million copies and have been translated into 35 languages. Adam has been recognized as one of the world's 10 most influential management thinkers, was named one of Fortune’s 40 u...

Jocelyn K. Glei is a writer who is obsessed with how we can find more creativity and meaning in our daily work. She is the author of several books and was formerly the editor in chief of 99U. She also hosts the podcast Hurry Slowly, which is about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient through the simple act of slowing down. Not surprisingly, Jocelyn thinks very deeply about how s...

My guest today is…me! I thought I’d turn the tables and share with you how I run my own workday. The delightful and wise Dr Jason Fox joins me on the show to sit in the interviewer chair. We cover all sorts of ground, including: My morning routine My system for to-do lists How I try to minimise morning decisions How I fit both Deep Work and Shallow work in my life My Deep Work “rituals" Why I left...

Are you planning on setting new year's resolutions for 2019? If you are, this episode will give you the best chance of success. 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.

Staying focused on work that matters and resisting digital distractions can be a big challenge for the best of us. In this mix-tape episode, you’ll get to hear several guests’ strategies for how they maintain focus in a world full of digital temptations. This episode covers:* Why bestselling author and Wharton Professor Adam Grant doesn’t recommend going cold turkey on social media and other “dist...

Are you planning on making any decisions today? Listen to this episode first. 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.

My guest today is Janine Allis. Janine is the founder of Boost Juice, which now has over 500 stores globally. You might also know Janine as an investor on the TV show Shark Tank. Janine has received a tonne of awards including the Telstra Business Women of the Year. She is also a mother of four kids. Needless to say, she is a very busy person. We cover a heap of different topics in this chat, incl...

Do you currently use your mobile phone as your alarm clock? If so, you might rethink that after listening to today’s mini episode. 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.

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...