The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I interview Chief Happiness Officer (CHO) of Happy Ltd and the author of The Happy Manifesto, Henry Stewart. We discuss: - The evidence that a happy workforce does drive financial performance and not vice versa - What Henry has had to give up to lead a happiness-first organisation - How the joy metric...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I interview IMD Professor Michael Wade co-author of the highly praised Digital Vortex and the just-released Orchestrating Transformation. We talk: - How change approaches must embrace the increasing complexity of modern companies - How effective digital transformation is more like conducting an orches...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, we interview Nikki Gatenby author of Superengaged - nominee for Business Book of the Year. At her offices in Brighton, UK, we talk: - Using your people's side hustles as fuel for business innovation - Creating a culture that takes people from engaged to superengaged - How putting people befor...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is David Anderson - a pioneer in applying kanban-style visual working to IT teams and ultimately across the enterprise. He's been a major influence on me in helping clients transition to flow-based working. In this in-depth conversation, we cover: - The importance of understanding cust...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I talk with Luke Hohmann, the founder and CEO of Coneneo and co-founder of Every Voice Engaged Foundation. We discuss: - Managing our inner two-year-old - The foundational aspects of business agility - How we don't have crappy code in our systems, we have crappy collaboration - How collaborative budge...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this very open conversation, I sit down with the founder of the radical business operating system Holacracy, Brian Robertson. We cover: - How many of the critics misunderstand the nature of Holacracy - Why a transformation to this style of working is a multi-year journey - The story of why Medium’s Holacracy implem...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I talk with author, founder and productivity guru Jim Benson. We get into:  - Why to-do lists suck and why to use a ‘Personal Kanban’ instead - The story of Jim’s very first personal kanban - ‘The Crapban’ - Why making your own kanban public can be a radical act - The importance of depersonalising our...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode I speak with a major thinker and pioneer in the field of trauma and recovery and author of the seminal "Waking The Tiger", Dr. Peter Levine. We talk: - The concept of re-enactment and why it's so important to understand for personal and business relationships - How memory formation works and what we...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, we talk with Kanban pioneer and Lean-Agile thought leader Mike Burrows. We cover: - the critical ingredients in Mike’s early successes with Kanban in Budapest - the importance of always starting with the end in mind - techniques for uncovering outcomes and obstacles with teams - why he’s so driven to...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ We talk with Sally McCutchion, UK pioneer of the revolutionary 'business operating system' Holacracy. We go deep on: - what adopting 'a business without bosses' takes for you as an individual - what it means to have a living job role - how to run meetings that get through 33 agenda items in 55 minutes! - how it can so...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In Alan's stunning riverside cottage, we talk: - How he climbed out of a corporate-induced nervous breakdown - Why we should look at business decision-making "through the lens of beauty" - Why work without meaning is so destructive - Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's lunchtime ritual for beautiful business - The need...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ After the popularity our episode #30 with Fin Goulding, we invite Flow co-author Haydn Shaughnessy into the conversation. We talk: - Why flow in organisations is all about the quality of interactions - How the Asian business culture differs and how it helps them compete - The power of (don't' say it!) nationalism in b...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this week's episode, we interview Nick Corston, Dad and co-founder of STEAM Co. On a canal boat moored in North London, we talk: - How losing his job and watching the world's most popular TED Talk changed his life - The festival experience that sparked his mission to transform creativity in schools - Why so many te...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode with theatre director-turned-executive development consultant Andy Harmon, we look at how ideas from the theatre world can apply at work, including: - How to be present with a group - The issue with 'pyschologically fleeing' situations - The importance of managing energy - His work coaching everyone fr...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this chat with "coachultant" Philippe Guenet, we talk: - "Coachultants"; it's a thing - The importance of coaching the "system" over the individual - The meaning of "Kaizen" - The issue with corporate coaches - How the Agile industry is getting corrupted For more links: https://www.henko.co.uk/ - Philippe's company...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A talk with leading complexity researcher Professor Chris Mowles. We explore: - 'Complex responsive processes' and how they can help us comprehend organisations - Why understanding deep-seated fears and anxieties are so important when working with groups - The absurdity of the Blair's government's Head of Deliverology...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with Aviva's International CIO and author Fin Goulding. We talk: - Taking Agile out of technology teams and into the wider business - The genesis of his book Flow whilst working at the major European bookmaker Paddy Power - Having his suit "surgically removed" when moving from banking to tech culture -...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this Alpine chat with CEO, rapper, poet and snowboarder Jack Hubbard, we talk: - His life in the French Alps as the ultimate remote-working CEO - His "try all of them" strategy of starting a business whilst working as a chef - The turning point of the death of his brother in India - His radical approach of encourag...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with social psychologist and author Roy Baumeister, where we discuss: - How self-control is one the best predictors of performance in many areas of life - How you glucose level might account for far more than you think - The importance of "precommitments" for self control - Why you should never have dif...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with Agile Thought Leader Luis Gonçalves, where we discuss: - How he got started writing his first book on retrospectives - How not to facilitate a retrospective - Why people ignore the executive leadership in Agile transformations at their peril - His forthcoming book Organisational Mastery aimed at th...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with author and speaker Gib Bulloch, where we discuss: - His journey creating a ground-breaking "not-for-loss" arm within consulting giant Accenture - His burnout, breakdown and ultimate recovery - The challenges of being purpose-led within a traditional corporate culture - What it means to be an Intrap...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with with author and Agile luminary, Johanna Rothman. We discuss: - Her latest nonfiction work - The problem with our old ideas of 'resource efficiency' - and why 'flow efficiency' is more useful - The issue with the idea of 'performance' for knowledge workers - 'Swarming and mobbing' - Her first-hand e...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with OnePoint Consulting CEO Shashin Shah. In this wide ranging and rich dialogue, we explore: - His company's "Traffic Control" meditation practice for the office - "Eyes open" Raja yoga on which it is based - The importance of (very) early morning practice - His journey from being forced out of Uganda...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with programmer Kent Beck, where we talk about: - The framework he's developed for understanding the product lifecylce: 3X - His take on the current state of the 'Agile' industry and why he didn't get rich from Extreme Programming - His story of leaving Facebook and how the Facebook culture might be imp...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with author of "Selling Boldly", Alex Goldfayn. We discuss: - How an understanding of positive psychology is so important for anyone involved in sales - The issue with personal affirmations - The fact our culture hates a braggard and how to handle that - And finally.. the importance of the old-fashioned...