Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

Large organisations are engaging startups in growing numbers, due in part to a realisation that companies have not been built to respond to the accelerating pace of change in a timely manner, and that short of restructuring the entire organisation from the ground up, partnering with startups who are unencumbered by bureaucracy, short-term shareholder demands and employee incentives, is an easier way to tap into emerging technologies, business models and talent.

This makes sense for most large organisations given that startups tend to explore disruptive innovations - usually low margin, small market and high risk to begin with - don’t support short term and often large company growth targets, but if left unchecked, may be the source of dwindling market share a few years down the track (here’s looking at you Blockbuster for passing up the opportunity to buy Netflix for US$50M - the company is today worth 140 times that). In this episode I run through eight ways that corporates can connect with startup ecosystems and engage startups to work collaboratively towards their mutual goals - some light touch and others that require a more serious commitment of time and money.

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Sam Walker is The Wall Street Journal’s deputy editor for enterprise, the unit that oversees the paper’s in-depth page-one features and investigative reporting projects. A former reporter, columnist, and sports editor, Walker founded the Journal’s prizewinning daily sports coverage in 2009.

He is the author of Fantasyland, a bestselling account of his attempt to win America’s top fantasy baseball expert competition (of which he is a two-time champion). Walker attended the University of Michigan. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

Sam just released The Captain Class - The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams, in which he profiles the greatest teams in history and identifies the counterintuitive leadership qualities of the unconventional men and women who drove them to succeed.

In it, he let’s us on in on a little secret..The secret to winning is not what you think it is.

It’s not the coach. It’s not the star.

It’s not money. It’s not a strategy.

It’s something else entirely.

Find out what it is and more in this episode of Future Squared with Sam Walker.

Topics Discussed:

• The one thing the 16 most successful sports teams in history all had in common
• The 7 core qualities behind an effective leader
• Whether sports teams make for a good reference point for startups and corporate teams
• Sam’s book and the methodology behind whittling down over 1,000 teams to 16
• Why leaders break the rules
• The value of dissent and conflict
• Dissent at Pixar
• Emotional intelligence
• Netflix’s culture deck on being a sports team, not a family
• The Russian hockey team of 1980
• The 1996 Cuban women’s volleyball team
• The 2009 French handball team
• Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs

Show Notes:

1. Twitter: @samwalkers
2. WSJ - The Seven Leadership Secrets of Great Teams: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-seven-leadership-secrets-of-great-team-captains-1494595600  
3. Web: BySamWalker.com

Sam’s books on Amazon:

• The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World’s Greatest Teams: https://amzn.to/2MwzsTe
• Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe: https://amzn.to/2Ooc1gP

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I facilitated a panel discussion on innovation in Government recently and was asked whether or not Government has a responsibility to keep its workforce employed in the face of technological change. In this week's episode I ponder this question and welcome your thoughts.

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a New York Times op-ed contributor, a visiting lecturer at The Wharton School, and a former Google data scientist. He received a BA in philosophy from Stanford, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and a PhD in economics from Harvard. His research—which uses new, big data sources to uncover hidden behaviors and attitudes—has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics and other prestigious publications and has just surfaced in his new book, Everybody Lies - New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, which explores what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world. Expect to learn a number of things in this episode of Future Squared, including: - Topics Discussed: - What kinds of things we usually tell Google that we wouldn’t tell our loved ones - The connection between the school you go and your level of success in life - How AI and machine learning can behave in a way that may be construed as racist - Correlation and causation - How companies can use data to build better products - Why customer surveys don’t work - What most startups get wrong about AB testing - How much data is enough when testing assumptions underpinning a new product idea - How your Google search history can be used to identify health risk factors and diagnose users - Are we collecting too much data to the point where it’s difficult to extract anything meaningful? - Are ‘online echo chambers’ are actually a thing? - How data can be used to mitigate decisions that stem from our personal biases and entrenched belief systems - Why the real us often shows up at 2am on PornHub Show Notes: Web: Sethsd.com Twitter: @SethS_D Amazon: www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856 Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to [email protected] or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski or @future_squared Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Australia and Singapore check out www.collectivecamp.us

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Mark Twain famously said that “whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, stop and reflect”. It’s easy for us to get sucked into the matrix and grind out work, day after day, and look around at our colleagues all doing the same thing and assume that ‘this is the way it’s supposed to be’ without really ever taking the time to reflect on what we really want and whether or not we’re truly happy and fulfilled in our work. Every few months I perform a sanity check to assess whether or not I need to make any changes to the kind of work I’m doing or how I’m doing it, and I’ve found the following six Fs serve as a helpful guide. 

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Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.

From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news.

He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy, the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control, a graphic novel about robots and angels, The Silver Cord, an oversize catalog of the best of Cool Tools, and his summary theory of technology in What Technology Wants (2010).

His new book is The Inevitable - Understanding the 12 Technological Forces that will Shape Our Future, which is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

This was a fascinating conversation with one of the most influential names in technology, entrepreneurship, digital media and future thinking.

Expect to learn a number of things throughout the podcast but specifically Kevin and I cover:

1. Whether humanity will find new things to do or simply live an unfulfilling existence once most of today’s jobs are automated or made redundant
2. What large companies can do to prepare for what Kevin Kelly refers to as The Inevitable
3. What we should do to combat online recommendation systems that serve to harden our minds to particular tastes or beliefs

All topics discussed:

• Kevin’s travels to Uzbekistan and his views on the national dish
• How Kevin landed on 12 technological forces that will shape our inevitable future
• Why there’s never been a better time to start a business
• Why we all be endless newbies going forward, regardless of age or experience
• The number one skill people need to learn to succeed in the future
• Will humanity find new things to do once we automate most of what we already do?
• Why trying to ban the inevitable (and companies like UBER or Airbnb) backfires
• Will we have jobs in the future?

Show notes:

Kevin Kelly’s blog: www.kk.org

Cool Tools: www.kk.org/cooltools

Book: https://amzn.to/2p85Fan

Twitter: @kevin2kelly

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This week I had a conversation with Kevin Kelly, of Wired fame, on education. Find out why we need to keep learning, every damn day, in this episode of Future Squared and listen to my chat with Kevin Kelly this weekend in episode #161 of Future Squared! 

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Andy Molinsky is a Professor of International Management and Organizational Behavior at Brandeis University's International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. Andy’s second book, Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence, came out earlier this year, and it makes a case for successful people not necessarily wanting to do the things most of us fear but having found their own way to do them. Andy received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and M.A. in Psychology from Harvard University. He also holds a Master's Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. in International Affairs from Brown University.

 

Andy's current work focuses on the challenges people face when adapting behavior in foreign cultural settings. His research has also explored the dynamics of psychologically demanding tasks, including necessary evils and organizational change. He has published widely in many top academic journals, and his work has also been featured in media outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, the Economist, Fast Company, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and on NPR.

 

Topics Discussed:

• Why the comfort zone is a beautiful place but nothing grows there
• Andy’s new book, Reach
• Why fear can often be our guide
• The 5 key challenges that underpin our avoidance tendencies
• The perils of self censoring
• How to identify and bridge the gap in our behavioural styles that ultimately keep us back
• Why being honest with yourself is so important
• The 3 questions people should ask to get themselves out of their comfort zone
• How to deliver bad news
• Why you should do the things you find the hardest first
• Andy’s personal journey outside his own comfot zone

 

Show Notes:

1. Andy Molinsky - www.andymolinsky.com
2. On Twitter - twitter.com/andymolinsky
3. Get Reach on Amazon - https://amzn.to/2QzxVPo
4. Andy's HBR article: You're more resilient thank you give yourself credit for - https://hbr.org/2017/01/youre-more-resilient-than-you-give-yourself-credit-for
5. Andy's TEDx talk: Step outside of your comfort zone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuxU7473BFw

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This is a special midweek bonus episode! I joined Bernard on his popular Analyse Asia podcast to talk corporate innovation in Asia Pacific. We discussed the concept of corporate innovation, how companies from Asia Pacific are thinking about disruption as a whole and a lot more. Bernard was kind enough to have us republish the episode on Future Squared so here it is!

 

Show Notes:

Analyse Asia podcast: https://analyse.asia

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Some words of wisdom on learning from Epictetus and introducing our brand new podcast! Check out Corporate Innovation School on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher and Google Play!

W: soundcloud.com/corporateinnovationschool

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