Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

This week’s inspiration comes from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ 2018 shareholder letter.

The annual letter, which Bezos has published every year since 1997, is widely considered a must-read by business professionals for its rich detail around the Amazon CEO's management principle and long-term thinking.

In the letter, Bezos stressed the importance of having high standards in running a business. 

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Humans beings are an interesting bunch. What we yearn for one day, we take for granted the next. Over the past one hundred years, we’ve learned to take electricity, running water, healthcare and the fact that we have an abundance of food that comes from all corners of the globe for granted. We have a tendency to normalise any positive experience after repeat exposure to it, eventually nullifying it. We find ourselves bored with what once filled us with joy and seek out longer, more intense experiences, forever ‘chasing the dragon’ and that high of the first time. In this post, I explore how we can deliver memorable experiences, as a leader, an entrepreneur and as a lover.

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New York Times bestselling author and hospitality entrepreneur, Chip Conley is a leader at the forefront of the sharing economy. At age 26, the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality took an inner city motel and turned it into the 2nd largest boutique hotel brand in the world. After being CEO of his innovative company for 24 years, Chip accepted an invitation from the founders of Airbnb to help transform their promising home sharing start-up into the world's largest hospitality brand. In four years as Head of Global Hospitality & Strategy, he taught his award-winning methods to hundreds of thousands of Airbnb hosts and created the world-renowned Airbnb Open.

Chip's books share his theories on transformation and meaning in business and life. In WISDOM@WORK: The Making of a Modern Elder (September 2018) he shares experiences from his tenure at Airbnb. Chip is also the founder of Fest300 (part of Everfest), San Francisco's annual "Celebrity Pool Toss" that has raised millions for children and families, and the Hotel Hero Awards that shine a light on outstanding hospitality employees. He is the recipient of hospitality's highest honor, the Pioneer Award, and holds a BA and MBA from Stanford University, and an honorary doctorate in psychology from Saybrook University. He serves on the boards of the Burning Man Project and the Esalen Institute, home of the Conley Library.

Chip brought a wealth of modern elder wisdom with him into this conversation so expect to learn lots, including:

1. The critical importance of a beginner’s mind
2. How Chip reinvented himself and joined a company whose product he had never used, where the average age was half his own and their way of doing things was not always what he was used to
3. How to separate from your self-imposed identity so that you can support personal reinvention in midlife, especially after you have invested decades into your skills, your career and your brand

This is a must listen for anybody listening to this who is beyond the age of 35 or so, in fact, there’s lessons in this for all ages, because we are all living in a world that is constantly changing, and in order to survive, we must reinvent.

With that, I bring you Chip Conley.

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Topics Discussed:

• Why life gets better after 50
• The concept of a ‘midlife atrium’
• Being invited to join Airbnb at age 52
• What is a ‘modern elder’
• Operating at the intersection of mentor and intern
• How to disassociate from ego to support personal reinvention
• Why a beginner’s mind and curiosity is critical
• Asking the right questions
• How to get respect from people half your age
• Modern pushback against the tech elite and how the wisdom of modern elders can help turn the tide
• The number one skill people in their 50s need to learn to reinvent
• Why regulating technology early is not a good idea
• Ethics in technology

Show notes:

Get the book: https://amzn.to/2po9tUM

Twitter: @ChipConley

Web: www.ChipConley.com  

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-died-10-years-ago-today-my-life-started-over-chip-conley/

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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I explore human motivation.

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Melbourne born and educated, Richard Champion de Crespigny got his first taste of a future flying career as a 14-year-old when his father took him on a tour of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Academy at Point Cook in Victoria.

In 1975, aed 17, he joined the RAAF: One year later, he started flying. During his 11 years flying transport, jet and helicopter aircraft with the RAAF, he was seconded as AIde-de-Camp to two Australian Governors-General, Richard remained with the RAAF until 1986 when he joined Qantas, flying Boeing 747, Airbus A330 and A380 jet aircrafts.

In 2010 he was the Captain on board Qantas Flight QF32 when it suffered a catastrophic explosion. His multi-award winning and bestselling book QF32 is a blow-by-blow story of what went right when things went wrong in the air.

Richard still flies the AIrbus A380, delivers presentations on the elements of resilience to governments, agencies and fortune 500 companies. IN 2016, Richard was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his significant service to the aviation industry, both nationally and internationally, particularly to flight safety and to the community.

This was a deeply insightful two hour long deep dive conversation with Richard on a number of topics that pertain to not only surviving a crisis situation in the air, which - fortunately - few of us will have to do, but how to apply the elements of resilience to better navigate crisis in our own lives, embrace adversity and thrive, whether in a business setting or even when it comes to our own interpersonal relationships.

As you’ll discover, Richard thinks critically about a wide range of disciplines that each serve to aid his understanding of the world and his decision making, characteristics that were key to the safe landing of the aircraft.

Amongst the plethora of topics we discussed, expect to learn:

1. Why you need to first understand your mind if you want to master it
2. What the eight elements of resilience are and how to use them to your advantage
3. How to understand risk and make better decisions, particularly in crisis situations when our threat-detecting amygdala is often prone to hijacking the more rational part of our brain and wire us to react instead of respond

Expect to learn this and a whole bunch more in my far reaching conversation with the one and only Richard De Crespigny.

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Topics Discussed:

• De Crespigny’s early inspirations
• How our brains work
• Understand your mind to understand yourself
• Negativity bias and mainstream media
• The eight elements of resilience
• Why we’re living in the best times ever
• Leaning into adversity and being prepared for anything
• Risk management
• Decision making
• Crisis management
• Making sense of the wealth of knowledge at our disposal
• Responding with intelligence instead of reacting with impulse
• Leadership, empowering your people and radical transparency
• Systems 1 and 2 thinking
• Effective teamwork
• Learning how to learn
• Balancing short-term and long-term incentives
• Brand management, transparency and personal guarantees
• What happened aboard QF32
• Air France flight 447
• Turning brand defectors into brand advocates
• NASA, SpaceX, Hyperloop and Autonomous Vehicles
• Robotics and emerging technologies
• Embracing ambiguity and thriving in uncertain conditions

Show Notes:

Fly the Book: https://flythebookcom.wordpress.com/

Richard’s blog: http://qf32.aero   

Twitter: @RichardDeCrep

Get Fly! the book On Amazon: https://amzn.to/2p9Xavz

Get QF32 the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Oarcdg

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Oftentimes in life, you need to run in the rain.

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Steve Hughes is an internationally renowned stand up comedian who tells it like it is, refusing to shy away from the confonting and what is often interpreted as controversial. Steve is incredibly observant, bringing with him worldly insights into the bleeding obvious and comes armed with what he says is more issues than an Occupy movement.

Steve spent the first half of his career as a heavy metal drummer for bands such as Mortal Sin before burning up the international comedy circuit, which he has been doing for more than 12 years now, having toured throughout Europe, Australia, USA, Canada & New Zealand to rave reviews and mutinous laughter.

However, don’t be fooled, this conversation goes way beyond the realm of just comedy and heavy metal and we spend the majority of the two hours exploring topics such as political correctness and identity politics, Steve’s battle with depression, free will, the suppression of freedom of speech, preference falsification, feminism, disidentification with ego, leaning into adversity and bombing onstage, the state of the music industry, drugs, technology addiction, participation trophies and much much more.

A word of warning, this podcast is not safe for work, and is not for the faint at heart.

With that, let’s kick off my two hour deep dive with the inimitable Steve Hughes.

Note: This podcast episode is NSFW.

Topics Discussed:

• Political correctness
• Identity politics
• Steve’s battle with depression
• Free will
• The suppression of freedom of speech
• Preference falsification
• Disidentification with ego
• Leaning into adversity
• Bombing on stage
• The state of the music industry
• Australia’s tall poppy syndrome
• Beware of people bearing absolutes
• Legislating feelings
• Why the crowd is your barometer
• Leading with your heart
• Buddhism and non-dualism
• Drugs
• Taking ownership and victim mentalities
• Why being offended is a choice
• Living with Jim Jefferies
• Technology addiction
• Participation trophies
• Colonial regulations and Conservatism in Australia
• Steve’s views on general practitioners
• Steve’s early days on the metal scene
• Steve’s early days on the comedy circuit

Show Notes:

Steve’s website: www.SteveHughes.net.au  

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#Hustle #BeastMode #GetAfterIt

These are all hashtags that I have been guilty of using from time to time.

However, as I am now in the seventh year of my own entrepreneurial journey, I’ve come to realise that it is easy for ambitious types tuned in to the online ecosystem of entrepreneurs, life coaches, hustlers and the like to aspire to be ‘great’, and that in order to be ‘great’, think that they need to embody idols who preach 16 hour work days, doing away with friends who don’t ‘serve you’ and the relentless pursuit of what are often one-dimensional goals.

I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just leave your details at www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe and you’ll receive the very next one.

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Fresh off the back of the success of Sapiens and Homo Deus, Professor Yuval Noah Harari has returned with another book, not quite for the ages, but for the 21st Century.

21 Lessons for the 21st Century cuts through the information overwhelm and muddy waters of the online world and confronts the most urgent questions on today’s global agenda.

I was excited when I received my copy of the book in the mail, courtesy of Penguin Books, and couldn’t wait to get my head buried in it. And by all accounts, i.e. mine, it didn’t fail to disappoint.

Harari confronts today’s 21 big questions throughout its 21 chapters and after having read and highlighted the book, distilled its 300 pages down to 16,000 words of notes, and then further distilled those notes down to 5,000 words of key lessons and take-aways, I decided to bring you my third book summary.

This was one of my more enjoyable reads this year, and while many for the concepts introduced here weren’t overly new to me, given my voracious appetite for multi-disciplinary learning, which will come as no surprise to listeners of this show, Harari has a way of packaging key concepts up in a way that not only makes for entertaining reading, but also makes you better appreciate what you already knew.

If I had to give this book a score, I’d give it a 9/10, and I would recommend it to every listener as an accomplice to take with you into your 21st Century journey.

Show Notes:

Get the book: https://amzn.to/2pffuDd

Innov8rs Sydney coupon code: 8Steve

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Dan Toma is the co-author The Corporate Startup: How Established Companies Can Develop Successful Innovation Ecosystems.

Puzzled by the questions ‘why are innovative products mainly launched by startups?’, Toma focuses on enterprise innovation strategy - specifically on the changes blue-chip organizations need to make to allow for new ventures to be built in a corporate setting, and has worked with the likes of Deutsche Telekom, Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover, Bayer, John Deere or Allianz.

Dan holds a dual degree MBA from Bradford University and TiasNimbas Business School while being certified lean startup acceleration specialist by Columbia University through the Lean Launchpad program.

We riffed on all things corporate innovation, viable alternatives to common pitfalls and given Dan’s Romanian heritage, the 94 Romanian World Cup team.

On corporate innovation, expect to learn about:

• An innovation thesis and why your company needs one
• Why it’s imperative to get the plumbing right by building an innovation ecosystem
• The importance of getting the metrics right and going beyond mere activity metrics to what Dan calls impact metrics

We covered a lot more ground in this conversation that will be of serious interest to intrapreneurs so sit back, relax or enjoy your walk, workout or wherever you happen to be listening to this, for my conversation with yet another critical thinker on the topic of corporate innovation and on thriving under conditions of uncertainty,  Dan Toma.

Topics Discussed:

• Dan’s background
• Why companies need an innovation thesis
• The paradox of innovation within a large company
• What is an innovation thesis and why do companies need one?
• Why startups aren’t a smaller version of a large company and vice versa
• Lessons from venture capital
• How to build an innovation ecosystem
• Why metrics for sustaining innovation don’t support adjacent or disruptive innovation
• Diversity not just of what you can see, but what you can’t see - in particular, how people think
• Budgeting for corporate innovation
• Lean leadership
• Success stories and case studies
• The value of premortems and retrospectives to get buy-in for ‘iterative’ ways of doing things
• How to support the taking of lots of small bets instead of few large ones
  

Show Notes:

• Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/dantoma/
• Get Dan’s book, The Corporate Startup: https://amzn.to/2Nx63tC
• Twitter: @Danto_ma
• Dan’s site and consulting: danto.ma
• Innov8rs Sydney conference: innov8rs.co/sydney
• Get the book, Clarity First: https://amzn.to/2NyNJjP
• Coupon code: 8-steve

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