The Outliers Inn

About the Podcast Topic:   Join   Antlerboy and JP as they talk with Stephan Meyer where they discuss the topic of Corporate Superstition .  Why are things done "this way" and not some other way in various corporations.  What happens when the old ways are found to be incorrect?  What are some ways to overcome these   superstitions Hosts: Joseph Paris , Founder of the OpEx Society  & The XONITEK Gr...

About the Podcast Topic:   Join   Antlerboy and JP as they talk with Matt Barnaby where they discuss the application of agile development practices in the public service industry. Hosts: Joseph Paris , Founder of the OpEx Society  & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor ,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant . Guests:  Matt Barnaby About Matt : Our purpose To make things better for people,...

About the Podcast Topic:  Antlerboy and JP talk with Steven Stanton, the author of " Smart Work: Why Organizations Full of Intelligent People Do So Many Dumb Things and What You Can Do About It."   on a surprising theme: how continuous improvement can kill! Steve's a pioneer of process innovation who has worked for more than thirty years on improving the capability of organisations to transform, i...

Topic: Join JP and AntlerBoy as they learn about the thought process behind Service Design and where it can be applied and how it relates to Operational Excellence. Hosts: Joseph Paris , Founder of the OpEx Society  & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor ,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant . Guests: Marina Terteryan About Marina : Marina is a Service Designer in Los Angeles with a deep...

About the Podcast Topic:  Scooby and Scrappy – sorry, JP and Antlerboy – discuss an approach to organisations that is low budget, occasionally shows the join around the edges, and recycles the same story again and again. Not The Outliers Inn podcast, but Philip Holt's Scooby Doo leadership: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scooby-doo-leadership-philip-holt There's always a bad guy, always a mystery,...

About the Podcast Topic: It's all fun and games until... you hit a Nash equilibium. JP and Antlerboy explore the games people (and organisations) play, going from Stratego to politics to framing, re-framing, and how to challenge the rules of the game. If that sounds a little dry, wait 'til you hear our crazy audio problems - Benjamin's never-ending quest to purchase better recording equipment goes...

About the Podcast Topic: There are laws of nature, which are absolute.  If we find an error in these laws, it is not nature which is wrong, but our understanding of nature that is wrong.  Compare this with laws made by man which, as such, evolve – can be bent or broken by man to suit man's purpose.  When we hear about Lean initiatives failing, we often hear it's because the company is not implemen...

About the Podcast Topic:  Wicked, messy, social, complex, tough human problems. No, it's not the aftermath of the Outliers Inn summer party - it's a hostly episode with Joe and Benjamin interviewing each other about the difference between complex and merely complicated organisational and human problems. With no guests to distract them, Antlerboy manages a long thematic canter or two of the kind JP...

About the Podcast Topic: Join us as we have a spirited conversation on the subject of customer engagement with our guests Michele Battle-Fisher and Joe Dager. Hosts: Joseph Paris , Founder of the OpEx Society  & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor ,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant . Guests:  Michele Battle-Fisher, Joe Dager About Michele :  Michele Battle-Fisher is an established hea...

Topic:  Despite Benjamin's protestations, the pair and their illustrious guests are brought down by the challenges of operational excellence in Government. Ed Straw, former PwC partner, think tank and national relationship counselling organisation board member, and author of Stand & Deliver: A Design for Successful Government, talks about the need for a systemic focus on results, and Sasa Linic, a...

About the Podcast Topic:  Join us this month as we talk about harnessing complexity in the modern business world with our guests George Danner and Trevor Hilder.   George describes a future where progressive firms embrace complexity rather than run away from it..  This future is  characterized by a high degree of automation—and suggested that analytics is a key enabler.   Trevor agrees that the fu...

Topic:  Change that matters - Mike Staresinic has experience in engineering, the arts - and in fomenting revolution - strictly nonviolent. He spent 25 years overseas supporting civil society and nonviolent resistance. He helps nations, organizations, and leaders adapt to an ever-accelerating pace of change. Bringing it all back home, he's started to find himself thinking about the kind of city and...

Topic:  What is a leader and what does leadership mean? In the continuing adventures of JP and Antlerboy, we explore the meaning and the practicalities. We fluff a joke about the perfect leader accidentally being defined as a despotic dictator, and tap a rich vein with memories of leadership lessons from high school sports coaches. And we stray into dangerous territory of leadership in the home -...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Outliers Inn Podcast! Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society , & Benjamin Taylor, Owner of RedQuadrant . Guest: Matt (Boom) Daniel Topic: This is the inaugural edition, so please forgive the roughness of it – we promise to get better over time! Pretty much just getting our feet wet, figuring out the technology, etc. Its a bit rough around the edges...