The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton

This is an interview with Tom van der Lubbe around the theme of self-management. We get into the history of his founding of Viisi on self-management principles. We also take several practical questions for the webinar audience members. Well worth a watch/listen if you want to learn more about this topic.

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Gabriel Jurj, who is a complexity practitioner and seasoned executive working in Romania. He didn't take the standard path, dropping out of University to join a monastic order, running hostels in Budapest. Still practising some of his monkish disciplines, Gabriel leans on t...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with David Woods, a professor at Ohio State University who discovered and pioneered the concept of Graceful Extensibility. As the opposite of brittleness, graceful extensibility is the ability of a system to extend its capacity to adapt when surprise events challenge its boundar...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with Nigel Thurlow, ex-Chief of Agile at Toyota and co-author of The Flow System. Tired of the framework merchants and the over-commercialisation of the Agile movement, Nigel could see that a new approach was needed. A philosophy that went beyond Lean and Agile to embrace complexity t...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with author, speaker and CEO Sunny Bonnell. Together with her co-author, Ashleigh Hansberger, she wrote Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different, a book that empowers people to take what society deems as "vices" and turn them into unrivalled asset...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of  Being Human, I speak with complexity practitioner and well-being advocate Marion Kiely. Marion has dedicated her career to figuring out how the latest complexity thinking can bring sustained change to organisations. From her home in Cork in Ireland, she talks passionately about how we can truly be...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with author and complexity consultant Sonja Blignaut. Meteorologist then IBM consultant, Sonya took a varied path to her latest role as CEO of leading complexity practitioners, Cognitive Edge. Sonja is a born-and-bred South African. As she points out, things don’t get much more...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with former bomb disposal team leader and pioneer in adaptive strategy Steve McCrone. Adaptive strategy applies complexity thinking to the art of high-level planning to enable firms to build resilience in the face of uncertainties. Steve is a very passionate speaker and presenter and...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with psychological researcher, consultant and author, Malcolm Parlett.  From an orthodox academic background, at Cambridge then MIT, Malcolm discovered Gestalt psychology, which changed his life and work.  It opened up a new sense of connectedness and took him away from more tra...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with embodiment coaching specialist Mark Walsh.  Embodiment is about working through gentle non-athletic movement, posture, awareness, and breathing to pursue deeper, faster and more permanent change.  In this conversation, Mark shows us how to make friends with our bodies and f...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with psychologist and former U.S. Army mental health specialist Dr. Timothy Yen. Dr. Yen has used his experience to create a framework that helps you build up your inner decision-making capability and use it successfully to address your most important choices. In this episode, w...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, our favorite tangoing, mountain-climbing business philosopher Dr. Thomas Juli returns to share the wisdom in his new book 'Human Business: Life and Work in the Digital Age.' As well as being an Agile Transformation Coach for the insurance giant Allianz, Thomas is a regular speaker at in...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with author, former cop and serial entrepreneur Jeff Wald. After selling WorkMarket, the multi-million dollar labour platform Jeff helped build from scratch, he found some time to pen The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations. Jeff claims that we're n...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with Trent Hone, an authority on the U.S. Navy of the early twentieth century and a leader in applying complexity science to organisational design. Trent hooked me with his powerful story of U.S. Navy's rapid learning techniques in the 'Cyenfin at 21' book, the subject of my  recent p...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with Dr. Kevin Dutton, University of Oxford Research Psychologist, Bestselling Author and Elite Performance Consultant, also known as The Psychology Guy. The topic might seem odd for a show dedicated to humanising people’s lives and workplaces, but psychopaths are part of the fores...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Karin Tenelius, one of the world's leading experts in self-managing organisations, or, in her own words, "workspaces that work for people and bring out the best in them." Karin not only trains others to lead through self-managing principles, but she has served as CEO to sev...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week, Jos de Blok, has been on the bucket list of Being Human for a number of years. He's the founder of Buurtzorg, a community nursing organisation that has embracing the self-organising principle to stunning effect. In recognition of his contributions, Jos shares the RSA's Albert Award with the likes o...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, we talk with Robin Rice, an internationally published author, transformational speaker, social change artist and mentor to leaders. A big thank you to renowned Transformation Coach Lyssa Adkins who recommended Robin to me as a guest. Our conversation was a powerful reminder for me of that par...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, we talk with Nancy Giordano, one of the world’s top female futurists. Nancy has worked with many leading companies to evolve over $50 billion worth of business. The first TEDx licensee and guest lecturer with Singularity University, Nancy is currently advising an AI startup and advancin...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, we talk with Jack Parsons. He's an entrepreneur, public speaker and subject expert on youth, and serves as CEO of The Big Youth Group. Jack has made it his mission to help young people better themselves, in order to help them take advantages of opportunities in the business world. Jack's effo...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, we talk with Bjarte Bogsnes, Chairman of The Beyond Budgeting Institute and an HBR/McKinsey Management Innovation Award winner. Beyond Budgeting is a movement from CFOs themselves to kick out budgets from corporations. Yes, you read that correctly, CFOs burning budgets, and Bjarte was r...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, we discuss cybersecurity with expert in the field and author Christian Espinosa. Don't worry, we're not talking about bits, bytes, and firewalls. We're talking about the biggest security threat of them all. The one between the keyboard and the chair. Christian shares with us his journey...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode Being Human, we have a return visit of one of our most popular guests, Dave Snowden. Dave is by far my favourite Welsh National Treasure. He's a philosopher-cum-management thinker and developer of the Cynefin framework, a decision making framework that has transformed the way people work and think from...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with someone who's significantly influenced my lifestyle and how I eat. I think many of us understand that our diets aren't as healthy as they could be. But what if we were able to eat in a way that had us experiencing an abundance of energy from dawn till dusk? David 'Avocado' Wolfe...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Richard Stobart, an old friend and the CEO of successful start-up  char.gy , a business devoted to transforming lampposts across Britain to start charging our electric cars. If you want to learn more about building a start-up culture within your business, this is the episod...