Dr. Frederik Pferdt, author of What’s Next Is Now: How to Live Future Ready, discusses how we can proactively create the future we want to live by developing the six dimensions of a future ready “mindstate.”
Dr. Pferdt was Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist and founder of its Innovation Lab. He’s trained tens of thousands of “Googlers” to develop cutting-edge ideas and has taught classes on innovation at Stanford University. He’s helped organizations as diverse as the United Nations, NASA and the NBA embrace change and think and act creatively. His work has been highlighted by Fast Company, Harvard Business Manager, Der Spiegel, BBC News, and many other media outlet
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Episode 43: Tell Stories to Connect, Inform & Inspire
Effective leaders tell the right stories in the right way. Karen Eber, author of The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories That Inform, Influence, and Inspire, explains how to capitalize on the brain’s five factory settings to tell stories that harness emotion to make decisions, build trust, and develop consensus around ideas, strategy, and organizational culture.
Karen Eber is CEO and Chief Storyteller of Eber Leadership Group and has helped organizations like GE, Deloitte, and HP create healthy, empathic, and curious leaders, teams, and cultures through intentional storytelling. Karen is an award-winning author, global consultant, and keynote speaker. She has been featured in publications such as Fast Company and Forbes, and can also be found on the TED Talk stage.
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Episode 42: How to Quickly Solve Problems & Lead Change
In Move Fast & Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss explain why speed is important to organizational change and offer a five-step approach for leaders to identify and prioritize the appropriate problems to address, implement the best solutions to those problems, and maintain focus on the success and well-being of their organization’s employees and stakeholders.
Together Frei and Morriss co-host Fixable, a TED podcast focused on discussing actionable solutions to real-world problems. They are also co-authors of the bestselling books Uncommon Service and Unleashed and have been recognized by Thinkers50 as among the world’s most influential business thinkers.
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Episode 41: Curiosity Can Transform Your Leadership
Research shows that heart-centered curiosity differs from intellectual curiosity and leads to a better understanding of ourselves and others, and to happier and more productive organizations. Scott Shigeoka’s book Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World, based on his work at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, provides strategies for developing curiosity and explains why it is important to do so.
Scott has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California Berkeley, and currently teaches courses on innovative design at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Episode 40: The Value of Intelligent Failure
Professor and author Amy Edmondson’s recent research says that intelligent failures in organizations help us adapt, improve and innovate – as individuals and teams. Leaders who recognize, value and even celebrate failures for the learning opportunities they present, encourage organizational innovation and improvement.
Dr. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and the author of The Fearless Organization and several books on Teaming. She was ranked first in 2021 and 2023 on the biennial Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers. Her research explores organizational, team and individual behavior, psychological safety, collaboration, innovation, and learning and leadership in complex environments amid challenging problems.
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