The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Late last year, my guest this week, Mark Creighton, CEO of Avado, listened to a proposal from his CTO to bring the Agile practices into his management team. Although a bit sceptical, Mark accepted the challenge. They shifted from a 90-minute weekly management team meeting to a daily stand-up, plus an end-of-week retro...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, we talk with Garland Vance, author of 'Gettin' (un)Busy' on: - The secret to purpose, productivity and peace - Elon Musk: examplar of un-busyness? - Transitions and batching - Taking a sabbath - Wisdom in business Enjoy! To your humanity, Richard Links: Garland's website

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week, Csaba Toth arrived in the UK from Hungary in 2004 with enough money for a couple of nights in a hostel. After a stint in hospitality, Csaba co-created a highly successful table-booking start-up. But despite his academic training in personality differences, he was unable to resolve his issues the CE...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This episode's guest is Nick Bloom, a fellow Brit and professor in economics at Stanford. He's been an avid researcher in remote working since 2014.  Pre-COVID likely only 8% of employees worked from home. Nick expects this to be 40% in the aftermath of the pandemic, an extraordinary transformation of economic life. I...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ On 14 January 2018, as he attempted to board a flight to London, my guest this week, Marek Zmyslowski, felt a hand on his shoulder from the Polish customs agents. His business partner in Nigeria had bribed the local police to get him placed on Interpol's Most Wanted List. This is just one of many extraordinary inciden...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with Wharton scholar Robert Meyer on his book 'The Ostrich Paradox'. In this episode, we talk: - Why we fail to learn from past disasters - The biases that stop us making investments for the long term - How we can use herding and other biases in our favour - How we must change our approach to managing r...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week on Being Human is Tanmoy Goswami, who holds that rare distinction of being the world's only 'Sanity Correspondent' for, well, The Correspondent. He is a passionate advocate for us talking more openly about mental health. He first got on my radar with his article "From the myth of meritocracy to the...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Author and speaker Daniela Sieff is a former student of evolution under Richard Dawkins. She has turned her attention to trauma and its impacts. She brilliantly articulates the way adverse events and conditions shape our lives and how we can emerge from a Trauma World. In this highly personal conversation, we cover: -...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This episode is with Phil Driver, author of 'From Woe to Flow: Validating and Implementing Strategies'. In it, he sets a way that anyone can think about strategy based on decades of work with a wide range of organisations. Let Phil take you through a fresh way to think about strategy from his cabin in rural New Zealan...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This episode's guest, Michael J. Gelb, has published 17 books, including 'How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci' and 'The Healing Organization', which he co-authored with recent guest Raj Sisodia . He takes the view that our intellects are highly malleable, even into later life, and by using specific exercises, we can b...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ As well as researching psychological safety with his colleague Amy Edmondson  , my guest this week, Mike Lee, Professor in Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, takes a deep interest in how company structure affects how people act. In this episode, we cover: - Psychological safety defined - How changing the default choi...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with Dr. David A. Bishop, author of "Metagility: Managing Agile Development for Competitive Advantage". We talk: - How we must now reconsider the Agile Manifesto - The concept of "Agile Vorticity" - How to change as fast as your market - How the rise of smart devices is changing the rules for agility -...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Author and business philosopher Raj Sisodia is back with a new book, The Healing Organization, which takes a deep look at the role of a business within its community. In this episode, we talk: - The four energies we must balance when building Healing Organisations - What The Founders missed when learning from the Iroq...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with Howard Lewis: art collector, investor and YouTube street stunt artist. Although now obviously suspended, he runs OFFLINE, a monthly gathering with a simple aim: to share a meal. The prospect of sharing a refection with anyone beyond our immediate household is a distant prospect for many of us right...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Matt Homann, CEO of Filament, a firm dedicated to faciliating great meetings in-person or online. We talk: - the fundamental principles that make for an excellent meeting - how to make meetings work online - the common mistakes that people make in offline meetings that you should not transfer o...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode Tom van der Lubbe shares how his company Viisi took their entire workforce 100% remote in two days and so far have seen no loss in revenue. Viisi is a pioneer in self-organisation. They have implemented the radical business operating system Holacracy to create an extraordinary high-trust culture. They...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I interview author, speaker and strategist Dawna Jones. Dawna has been podcasting more than a decade. She's a "lover of the power of the human spirit" and has a deep interest in how businesses and consumers together can restore our social and ecological health. In this full-blooded conversation, we ta...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest for this episode is Associate Professor Jonathan Trevor from Saïd Business School and author of the Financial Times' Book of the Month, 'Align'. Jonathan talks a broad view of alignment across all aspects of the enterprise. We talk: - What is alignment and Jonathan's Strategic Alignment Framework - The univer...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest for this episode is Tom Szaky. Tom is an extraordinary multi-award-winning entrepreneur who embodies the notion of the purpose-driven enterprise. His company Terracycle is a world leader in offering commercial solutions to fully recycling our products. From his plant in the middle of one of the most deprived...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ As I upload this video, many people are facing working from home fulltime for the first time in their careers. In this episode, I speak with Dr. Sara Perry from Baylor University, a leading researcher in the field. We talk: - How to be a successful remote worker - When remote working works and when it doesn't - What r...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I speak with leadership coach Helena Demuynck, a world expert in the field of Conversational Intelligence. We talk: - How to engage any group (and avoid the situation above) - The six brains involved in a conversation - How moving people into 'Level 3' conversations amplifies outcomes - Drilling down,...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Helping to create a 'trauma-aware' society is a significant aim of this podcast, so I'm delighted that for our 100th episode we talk with Darius Cikanavicius. He a prodigious blogger and author of 'Human Development and Trauma'. We talk: - Darius' childhood growing up in a single-parent home - Why trauma is not just a...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ I'm thrilled to say that after a year of stalking (!), Pim de Morree agreed to be my guest this week. Pim is one-half of the founder team of the trailblazing Corporate Rebels. His adventures to the cutting edge of progressive business cultures have been inspiring me for years. In this episode, we talk: - How the seeds...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I present to you Part II of my conversation with ex-Bomb Disposal Officer, Change Manager and leadership author, Ben Sawyer. Ben has an incredible story. He fulfilled his boyhood dream to be the guy in the big suit walking down the street to defuse the explosive threat. He now works as a Change Manage...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I talk with ex-Bomb Disposal Officer and leadership author Ben Sawyer. Ben has an incredible story. He fulfilled his boyhood dream to be the guy in the big suit walking down the street to defuse the explosive threat. He now works as a Change Manager with one of the largest publishers in the world, The...