Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

“There is nothing permanent except change”. 

Heroclitus’ dictum is over 2,500 years old, and it’s more relevant than ever.

Moore’s law, the doubling of computing power every 18 months, is fifty years old. In 1971, Intel’s 4004 contained just 2,300 transistors. Today’s microprocessors contain over 20 billion.

The meteoric rise in computing power is rendering businesses big on process, five year plans and consensus seeking meetings unable to adapt fast enough.

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In this episode of Future Squared, I bring you two executives from Bank of New Zealand - Lannon Durant - Senior Manager in BNZ’s Partnership Team, and Connor Shelley, Head of Transformation and Innovation. 

Bank of New Zealand recently partnered with Collective Campus to run a startup partnership program, whereby we scoured the globe to find, connect with and evaluate startups and scaleups that could help BNZ solve specific business challenges.

In this episode, we unpack lessons learned from the program that can be beneficial for both startup founders looking to sell to large organizations, as well as corporate executives looking to drive innovation and partner with startups.

With that, I bring you Connor Shelley and Lannon Durant.

Show Notes:

1. Startup Partnerships with Collective Campus: www.collectivecampus.io/innovate/corporate-startup-partnerships 
2. BNZ Ventures and Partnerships: www.bnzvap.co.nz
3. BNZ GoSMEGrow: gosmegrow.collectivecampus.io
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Human beings are social animals.

Henceforth, like a peacock signaling reproductive fitness with its large and colourful tail, human beings signal through our haircuts, clothes, the cars we drive, the places we live, what we eat (or choose not to eat — here’s looking at you vegans and intermittent fasters), when we wake up, how often we work out, and the titles on our business cards — among a plethora of other things.

If you’re an entrepreneur or leader, then you’ve probably felt the urge to signal how many people you have working for you. At the very least, you’ve no doubt been asked the status gathering question, “how big is your team?” before.

The thing is, the answer to this question no longer means what it once did. 

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Jonathan Rosenberg is the former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Alphabet Inc. CEO Larry Page.

Alan Eagle is the Director of Executive Communications at Google.

The pair co-wrote How Google Works, and the newly released Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell, alongside longtime Google CEO and Chairman, Eric Schmidt.

Trillion Dollar Coach unpacks management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value.

Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt. In addition, this business genius mentored dozens of other important leaders on both coasts, from entrepreneurs to venture capitalists to educators to football players, leaving behind a legacy of growing companies, successful people, respect, friendship, and love after his death in 2016.

We unpacked many of Campbell’s teachings in this episode, including:

1 - Why it’s not your title, but your people who make you a leader

2 - How to build trust into the fabric of your organization so that it avoids the debilitating politics that plagues many organizations today

3 - The value of taking a people and team first approach

4 - Why it’s not what potential hires did in the past that matters, but how they did it

5 - First principles thinking

6 - Why the process can sometimes matter more than the outcome

7 - How to get the best out of people who might be underperforming

...and so much more.

With that, strap yourself in for a fascinating conversation on what it takes to build a culture that gives organizations the best chance of thriving in the 21st Century, with my guests, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle.

Topics Discussed:

• Who Bill Campbell was
• Trip reports
• Team first
• Why every sports team needs a coach
• NBA basketball and the Warriors
• What exactly is a coach?
• What does it take to be coachable?
• Why your people make you a leader, not your title
• How to deal with aberrant geniuses
• Why tension in the machine can be a good thing
• The rule of two - a decision and relationship building mechanism
• The smart creative
• Asking ‘how’, not ‘what’, when hiring
• How to create an environment that empowers great people to succeed
• Sir Alex Ferguson
• Firing geniuses
• First principles thinking
• Process v outcome
• Radical transparency and the elephant in the room
• Mitigating the toxicity of politics
• Commitment over consensus
• Decisiveness
• Vulnerability and trust
• What to look for in new hires
• Caring for your team
• Building relationships first

Show Notes:

1. Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/ericschmidt/trillion-dollar-coach-book-bill-campbell
2. The book website: www.TrillionDollarCoach.com
3. Jon on Twitter: @jjrosenberg
4. Alan on Twitter: @aeaglejr
5. Get the book:https://amzn.to/30rMxVl

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Matthew Belair is a life long martial artist, knowledge seeker and explorer. He has travelled the world to train with masters, which include meditating with monks in Nepal, training MMA in Thailand and trekking Mount Everest and studying Shaolin Kung Fu with 34th Generation Shaolin Masters in China. 

He shares his knowledge in his podcast, the Matt Belair Podcast: Master Mind, Body & Spirit, as well as his coaching, workshops and programs.

He’s the author of Zen Athlete: A Guide to Self Mastery, which demystifies the art of mental training, flow and peak performance. It is designed to empower world class athletes, leaders, executives, peak performance junkies and knowledge seekers with tried and tested strategies for achieving your highest potential in all areas of life. 

Matt and I covered a lot of ground in this conversation, including near death experiences, flow states, how to smash self limiting beliefs, how to overcome fears, visualisation, meditation, habit forming, the philosopher of happiness - Epicurus, native elders, mixed martial arts, snowboarding, Australian motorcross champions and a hell of a lot more…

So strap yourself in with a conversation with the Zen Athlete, Matt Belair. 

Show Notes:

Web: Mattbelair.com

Web: Mattbelair.com/masters-your-flow/

Web: Zenathlete.com

Book: https://amzn.to/2XB2R9j 

Twitter: @Matt_Belair

Instagram: @Mattbelair

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When I launched this show I remember looking at other podcasts that had published over 300 hundred episodes and thinking that was truly insane….and here we are 3 and a half years later with 350 episodes.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for listening. 

In this installment of Fast Fix Friday, we unpack Japanese swordsman and philosopher, Miyamoto Musashi's famous maxim, "if you know the way broadly, you will see it in all things".

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Remi Adeleke is many things, former royalty, an ex-Navy Seal, an author, entrepreneur and producer.

But most of all, he’s a symbol of perseverance.

Having gone from Nigerian opulence at the age of five to drug-dealing on the streets of the Bronx as a teenager, Remi knows a thing or two about tough times, and how to overcome them with nothing but sheer tenacity and hard work. 

Remi is the author of Transformed: A Navy SEAL's Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds; the title a play on words on his most recent acting credit in Transformers. 

Expect to take lots out of this conversation, including:

1 - Remi’s fascinating story of going from rock star to rock bottom and back again

2 - Why it’s often darkest before the dawn; and

3 - Why if you know the way broadly, you will see it in everything. 

We also geek out on early 90s hip-hop wars and the Eddie Murphy classic, Coming To America.

But this doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what we explored in this conversation, so strap yourself in for an hour with the one and only, Remi Adeleke. 

Topics Discussed:

• Losing his father and the throne at the age of 5
• Growing up in the Bronx
• Running scams and dealing drugs as a teenager
• Starting his first record label
• The East-West hip-hop wars of the early 90s
• The crack epidemic of the late 80s / early 90s
• Hitting rock bottom
• Joining the Navy
• Making it as a Navy Seal
• Hell Week
• The benefit of having people believe in you
• What Remi learned about himself in the Navy
• What leadership means to Remi
• How to get the best out of your people
• The challenges of becoming an author and writing his first book
• Becoming a Hollywood actor
• Why what stands in the way becomes the way
• How to deal with and overcome adversity
• If you know the way broadly, you will see it in everything
• Remi’s morning routine

Show Notes:

1: Get the book: https://amzn.to/2J8Dnaw

2: Instagram: @remiadeleke

3: Twitter: @remiadeleke

4: LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/remi-adeleke-56900075/ 

5: Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/pg/Remi-Adeleke-129399157227652/

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Self-awareness is a hot topic nowadays.

You can hardly open a business or psychology book without coming across numerous mentions of emotional intelligence, EQ or self-awareness.

The theory of objective self-awareness goes back to 1972, when it was published by Shelley Duval and Robert Wicklund. Daniel Goleman’s definition of self-awareness, immortalized in his best-selling book Emotional Intelligence, simply puts it down to “knowing one’s internal states, preference, resources, and intuitions.”

I’ve written previously that we probably shouldn’t trust our intuitions, because they are a byproduct of evolutionary programming, genetics, fetal conditions, infancy and upbringing, past experience, microbiome activity and our current environment.

Given this, there is immense value in being self-aware. Knowing that a feeling in our gut willing us not to do something we really need to — like make an important presentation in front of a large audience — is really just evolutionary programming which is trying to mitigate our chances of being ostracised from our tribe so that we can survive. Perhaps that made sense thousands of years ago — when we relied upon our tribes for survival — but no so much today.

With self-awareness, we are better able to navigate the world without always falling victim to involuntary reactions that serve to sabotage us, rather than serve us.

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Niccolo Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’, written in the early 16th Century whilst living in exile, was a gift to Lorenzo Medici — defacto ruler of the Florentine republic — arguably as a means to earn his place in society as a statesman again.

The Prince is to this day considered one of the earliest works of modern philosophy, and indeed of modern political philosophy, and is the book that spawned the use of the term Machiavellian to refer to cunning and unscrupulous, especially in politics.

However, the book, which only numbers some 120 pages, is full of lessons that one can apply in leadership roles, in business and more broadly, in life.

This installment of Fast Fix Friday unpacks one such lesson.

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When most people think of a successful entrepreneur, typically they think of a charismatic, outgoing, and brilliant leader; Jobs, Bezos or the flamboyant Richard Branson might come to mind.

Rarely is introversion conflated with entrepreneurial success. This is because society has a cultural bias towards extroverts, according to Susan Cain, and also because an entrepreneur must interact and influence numerous people — their team, their customers, their partners, and the media.

Having said that, there are several significant advantages that introverted founders — let’s call them intropreneurs — have over their extroverted peers.

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