Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated teacher for four straight years. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers and the world's top 40 business professors under 40.

Adam is the author of three New York Times bestselling books translated into 34 languages, including Originals, Give and Take and Option B which he co-wrote with Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and Lean In fame.

As a contributing writer on work and psychology for the New York Times, Adam’s op-eds on raising a moral child and a creative child have each been shared over 300,000 times on social media. His research focuses on generosity, motivation and meaningful work, championing new ideas, personality traits like introversion, and leadership, collaboration, culture, and organizational change. His studies have been highlighted in David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell, Drive by Dan Pink, Quiet by Susan Cain, and Thrive by Arianna Huffington.

Adam is a member of the Lean In board, the founder of the Authors@Wharton series, and the co-director of Wharton People Analytics. He has received the Excellence in Teaching award for every class he has taught.

He is also a former magician and junior Olympic springboard diver!

We unpacked as many insights as we could in our 30 minute conversation.

Expect to learn a number of things, including:

1. How to deliver radically transparent feedback without coming across like an asshole

2. The value of maintaining humility, even before you’ve made it to the top; and

3. How to 10X your organisation’s brainstorming efforts.

We explored these topics and more in my conversation with the one and only, Adam Grant.

Topics Discussed:

• Radical transparency: what it is, why it matters and how to become more transparent

• Ghosting

• What a confident leader really looks like

• Humility in the workplace

• Kobe and Shaq

• How to use objections in your favour

• Why considering yourself an expert is a precursor to stagnating

• Burstiness

• How ‘ego threat’ shows up in the workplace

• How long it takes for teams to gel, then fall behind

Show Notes:

AdamGrant.net

A=WorkLife podcast (Apple Podcasts, Google Play etc.) - no, not on fax machines

TED.com

@AdamMGrant

Get Adam's books:

• Option B: https://amzn.to/2PDi2XS
• Originals: https://amzn.to/2NoW1uc
• Give and Take: https://amzn.to/2PENXar

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Today, I want to talk why you should leave things unfinished.

What's that you say? This doesn’t sound like the Steve we know. And you’d be right to think that, but please hear me out in this instalment of Fast Fix Friday. You might be pleasantly surprised!

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On 17 January 1944, the Office of the Strategic Services of the CIA issued the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. The manual remained classified for decades, becoming declassified in 2008.

The purpose of the manual was to present suggestions for inciting and executing sabotage.

The manual is full of 1940s references such as ‘axis nationals’, the latter no doubt falling victim to many of the manual’s methods.

The manual breaks methods down into a number of categories such as Buildings, Manufacturing and Organisations. For example, on Buildings it states: whenever possible, arrange to have a fire start after you have gone away"). 

What’s striking about this section of the manual is its section on Interference with Organisations. Their suggested methods sound a lot of the dated management practices that plague large organisations today.

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I’m going to read out 5 ways you might be sabotaging your organisation.

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14 Ways You're Sabotaging Your Organisation: https://www.collectivecampus.com.au/blog/14-ways-youre-sabotaging-your-organisation 

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Arj started his career in comedy after graduating from high school in 1989. His first gigs were at an old café called Caffe Nuvo in downtown San Anselmo where he hosted stand-up night every Sunday throughout the early 1990s.

Barker has appeared on Premium Blend, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Glass House. He twice hosted Comedy Central Presents and was featured in Comedy Central's animated series Shorties Watchin' Shorties.

Barker appeared in the HBO sitcom Flight of the Conchords and has enjoyed success in Australia for a number of years since first appearing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2000 and is currently in Melbourne as part of his We Need To Talk tour.

You might be wondering why I invited a comedian to appear on the show. For one, there are many parallels between making it as a comedian, a musician, an athlete and an entrepreneur and we explore them in today’s conversation. That and Arj’s show, which I was lucky enough to catch on the Saturday night before this conversation, was heavy on tech talk, making fun of our tendency to become furious by 5 minute UBER wait times in this, the age of instant gratification.

Arj only had 30 minutes to spare for our show, but we managed to explore a number of topics, including:

• Arj’s early days on the comedy circuit in California
• The power of silencing your inner critic
• Positive feedback loops
• How Arj tests new material and iterates
• Taking risks when you have nothing to lose
• The support of family
• Staying present and getting into flow when performing live
• Relating to and connecting with people
• Showing up, even when nobody’s watching

There’s many lessons in this one for entrepreneurs to learn from, and Arj even throws in one joke from his set, so with that….strap yourself in for the one and only, Arj Barker.

Show Notes:

Arj’s tour dates: ArjBarker.com

Get Tickets: ComedyFestival.com.au

Do It Myself TV on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL2TgeKrcWyKHq1ZTJDYOfg

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Brian Ardinger is the founder of NXXT, the InsideOutside.io podcast, and the Inside/Outside Innovation Summit. For over 25 years Brian has been helping entrepreneurs and enterprises navigate and compete in a world of change and disruption. He has led efforts with startups and corporations to engage the latest trends, tools, and tactics to accelerate innovation, launch new ideas, and build better products.

Before NXXT, Brian founded the seed-stage accelerator NMotion and co-founded the corporate innovation consultancy Econic. He served as Chief Marketing Officer at Nanonation working with some of the best brands in the world including Apple, Pepsi, Target, Nike, and Harley-Davidson.

Brian has worked in Silicon Valley and Asia where he built out the consulting practice for Gartner and led the creation of Asia’s first dedicated customer experience lab as director of research at Ion Global, a Hong Kong-based technology firm.

He is currently involved in driving the Midwest's innovation ecosystem through initiatives such as the Rise of the Rest, StartupWeek, Lean Startup Circle, PIPELINE Entrepreneurs, and the JumpStart Challenge.

Expect to learn more about:

1. The startup and corporate innovation ecosystem in America’s midwest
2. Whether the types of ideas and innovations coming out of the midwest differ from that of say, Silicon Valley
3. How the startup ecosystem in general is seeing a shift away from low hanging fruit B2C products to bigger problems rooted in traditional industry
4. What it takes to get conservative investors to invest in early stage startups
5. Why corporates should partner with startups

So with that, I bring you, Brian Ardinger.

Show notes:

1. Summit: www.theiosummit.com   
2. Podcast: www.Insideoutside.io   
3. NXXT: www.nxxt.co  
4. Twitter: www.twitter.com/ardinger  

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ardinger/

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On October 23, 2001, using the slogan “1000 songs in your pocket”, Steve Jobs introduced the original iPod which left us enamoured and with it he ushered in a new age that, with the launch of the iPhone six years later in 2007, would go on to fundamentally change the way we interact with the world around us.

This is a Fast Fix Friday instalment on tech addiction and how to overcome it. 

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Jon Satterley is an experienced entertainment & media industry executive and thought leader. I have been recognized as an innovator with expert knowledge of new products, emerging technology and digital business strategy.

When he was just 17, Jon started a record label and wound up signing hundreds of bands while studying to get his law degree.  

Jon led digital strategy for Roadrunner Records: growing from a small independent record company to become one of the world’s leading labels.

Today, Jon is the Chief Digital Officer at Village Roadshow, and we’ve been working together on the Xperience Accelerator, a program that brings together startups working with VR/AR and Village to develop new applications for the entertainment industry.

We explored lots of questions during this conversation, often going off on tangents, and three things you can expect to learn:

1. Why Jon decided to pursue his record label instead of a career in law and what helped him shun societal expectations in favour of taking the path less traveled
2. How to be a successful intrapreneur in a large organisation; and
3. What the future of VR and AR looks like.

Of course, as a big heavy metal fan myself, we also spent some time talking about Jon’s time at Roadrunner Records.

Topics discussed:

• eSports: what it is and where it’s going
• Jon’s background
• How to be an intrapreneur at a large company
• How to get buy in from senior executives
• The question of morality and emerging technology
• What the future of VR/AR is
• Other trends entertainment companies should look out for
• Metal!

Show Notes:

1. Jon Satterley: https://au.linkedin.com/in/satterley
2. Xperience VR/AR Accelerator: www.xperienceaccelerator.cc
3. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York: https://amzn.to/2P7GgIB

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In the early days of Collective Campus, like most new organisations, we kept ourselves afloat by taking part time jobs on the side and working with a number of small clients who paid us just enough to keep the lights on.

After building up enough case studies and collateral working with smaller organisations, we worked our way up and eventually hooked our first big A-list client, a global law firm with over 1,200 employees and revenues in excess of US$1B.

Long story short, we f*cked up.

In this instalment of Fast Fix Friday, I reveal how we screwed up and what we did about it that was a critical juncture in our organisation's 'growing up'. 

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Annie Duke has leveraged her expertise in the science of smart decision making to excel at pursuits as varied as championship poker to public speaking. Her first book for general audiences, “Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts” has just been released and has become a national bestseller in the US. In this book, Annie reveals to readers the lessons she regularly shares with her corporate audiences, which have been cultivated by combining her academic studies in cognitive psychology with real-life decision making experiences at the poker table.

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For two decades, Annie was one of the top poker players in the world. In 2004, she bested a field of 234 players to win her first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. The same year, she triumphed in the $2 million winner-take-all, invitation-only WSOP Tournament of Champions. In 2010, she won the prestigious NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Annie has also made appearances on the Celebrity Apprentice and raised $730,000 for Refugees International.

She now spends her time writing, coaching and speaking on a range of topics such as decision fitness, emotional control, productive decision groups and embracing uncertainty.

I’m always looking to challenge my own assumptions and make better decisions so I really enjoyed this conversation with Annie.

Just some of the many learnings you’ll walk away with include:

1. Why the quality of a decision doesn’t always relate to the quality of an outcome
2. How to avoid decision biases and groupthink
3. How to make good decisions when we don’t have all the facts (we almost never have all the facts)
4. And why asking simple questions like “what’s the worst possible outcome?” can open up your life to new possibilities

With that, I bring you the one and only, Annie Duke.

Topics discussed:

• Annie’s poker career
• The relationship between logic and emotion
• Working alone together
• Seek truth, not being ‘right’
• Why you will never have all the facts
• Why your intuition generally doesn’t lead to better decisions
• The power of counterfactuals
• The concept of ‘resulting’ and how it plagues decision making
• How to avoid ‘paralysis analysis’
• Planning poker
• Why you should have strong opinions, weakly held
• The power of “I don’t know”
• How to deal with ambiguity
• How to hire employees who thrive under conditions of uncertainty
• Why you can’t make your own luck
• The story of ‘Nick the Greek’
• The story of Pete Carroll and Superbowl 49
• Why the quality of a decision doesn’t always relate to the quality of an outcome
• How to avoid decision biases and groupthink
• How to make good decisions when we don’t have all the facts (we almost never have all the facts)
• And why asking simple questions like “what’s the worst possible outcome?” can open up your life to new possibilities

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What are you fighting for?

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