Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

In this episode I bring you not one but two guests, Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky - co-authors of the book 'SPRINT - How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days'.

Jake Knapp created Google Venture’s sprint process. He has run more than a hundred sprints with startups such as 23andme, Slack, Nest, and Foundation Medicine. Previously, Jake worked at Google, leading sprints for everything from Gmail to Google X.

John Zeratsky has designed mobile apps, medical reports, and a daily newspaper (among other things). Before joining GV, he was a design lead at YouTube and an early employee of FeedBurner, which Google acquired in 2007. John has written about design and productivity forWall Street Journal, Fast Company, Wired, and Time.

Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution?

A practical guide to answering critical business questions, Sprint is a book for teams of any size, from small startups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits. It’s for anyone with a big opportunity, problem, or idea who needs to get answers today.

 

Topics Discussed:

- the history behind Sprint-how the Sprint process works

- the importance of timeboxing- alignment with the lean startup

- supporting tools- how the guys respond to criticisms of the lean startup, rapid iterations and sprints

- examples of how sprints have been run successfully

- examples of how sprint can be used for almost anything, not just product development

 

Show Notes:

Sprintbook.com

@jakek and @jazer on Twitter

Google Ventures - The Design Sprint - www.gv.com/sprint/ 

Get the book -  https://amzn.to/2QM4cDf

 

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This Fast Fix Friday focuses on self awareness.

Did you hear about the manager who always shot the messenger whenever they brought bad news? He eventually stopped hearing bad news. Unfortunately for him, this wasn’t because there was none to report.

This is an anecdote that Dave Gray, co-creator of the Culture Map, shared in a recent episode of my podcast.

Sound familiar?

I go through 9 tactics you can start employing today to not only drive culture change but improve your professional and personal performance and relationships.

We've recently released an online innovation management course - for more information head to innovationmanagerscourse.com

 

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Patrick King is a social interaction specialist based in San Francisco, California, and has been featured on numerous national publications such as Inc.com.

He is a #1 Amazon best-selling dating and relationships author - somewhere among the many clients throughout the years, he decided to flesh out his inner monologue and found that he had quite a bit to say.

He focuses on using his unique emotional intelligence and understanding of human interaction to break down emotional barriers, instill confidence, and equip people with the tools they need for success.

When he's not helping clients conquer the dating world, he's either fronting an 80′s cover band or training for his next 10k.

 

Topics Discussed:

- How to get buy in for corporate innovation and other corporate initiatives

- How to deal with opposing personality types

- How to place yourself as an authority (even if you're not!)

-For the singledoms listening, Patrick throws in some dating tips!

 

Show Notes:

Pat's website - PatrickKingConsulting.com

Pat's books:

• Stop People Pleasing: Be Assertive, Stop Caring What Others Think, Beat Your Guilt, & Stop Being a Pushover - https://amzn.to/2xzXpo0
• Mental Toughness & Iron Will: Become Tenacious, Resilient, Psychologically Strong, and Tough as Nails - https://amzn.to/2MWbcKu
• Improve Your Conversations: Think on Your Feet, Witty Banter, and Always Know What To Say with Improv Comedy Techniques - https://amzn.to/2xxxOMB
• Introvert Survival Tactics: How to Make Friends, Be More Social, and Be Comfortable In Any Situation - https://amzn.to/2znGeHx
• The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Be Quick, Be Interesting - Create Captivating Conversation - https://amzn.to/2xIixaW
• The Science of Likability: 27 Studies to Master Charisma, Attract Friends, Captivate People, and Take Advantage of Human Psychology - https://amzn.to/2QPJ3Ih
• Magnetic Charisma: How to Build Instant Rapport, Be More Likable, and Make a Memorable Impression – Gain the It Factor - https://amzn.to/2znJ6nO
• The Art of Everyday Assertiveness: Speak Up. Say No. Set Boundaries. Take Back Control. - https://amzn.to/2xJ3Og9
• The Science of Social Intelligence: 33 Studies to Win Friends, Be Magnetic, Make An Impression, and Use People’s Subconscious Triggers - https://amzn.to/2xGW2TZ
• The Art of Impactful Communication: How to Genuinely and Effectively Connect, Talk to be Heard, and Create Remarkable Relationships - https://amzn.to/2Nweyt1

 

 

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Arun Sundararajan is Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is also an affiliated faculty member at NYU's Center for Urban Science+Progress, and at NYU's Center for Data Science.

Professor Sundararajan's research program studies how digital technologies transform business and society. His current scholarly research focuses on peer-to-peer markets, the sharing economy, digital trust, social media and brand, digital labor, new institutions, regulation, social networks and online privacy.

He has published over 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and conferences, and has given more than 200 invited talks at industry, government and academic forums internationally.

His research has been recognized by six Best Paper awards, two Google Faculty awards, and a variety of other grants. He has served on numerous editorial boards for scholarly journals. He has provided expert input about the digital economy as part of Congressional testimony and to a variety of city, state and federal government agencies, including the Presidential Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, the National Economic Council, the Federal Reserve Bank, the White House, and the Federal Trade Commission.

His op-eds and expert commentary have appeared in TIME Magazine, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Guardian, Washington Post, Le Monde, El Pais, Wired, TechCrunch, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Harvard Business Review, and a variety of radio shows and TV programs.

He has served as Director of NYU Stern's IS Doctoral Program since 2007, is one of the founders of the Workshop on Information in Networks, is a member of the City of New York's Technology Advisory Group, and is an advisor to Cisco Systems, OuiShare, the Center for Global Enterprise, and theNational League of Cities.

Professor Sundararajan's new book, The Sharing Economy, is all about crowd-based capitalism will be published in Spring 2016 by the MIT Press.

 

Topics Discussed:

- Crowd-based capitalism

- The impact of blockchain on the sharing economy

- The freelance economy and what it means for generalists v specialists

- The role of regulators in the sharing economy

- Consultant marketplaces

- The importance of being adaptable in the 21st Century

 

Show Notes:

oz.stern.nyu.edu/

@digitalarun on Twitter

Get the book - https://amzn.to/2xwfaEC

 

 

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David Allen is widely recognized as the world's leading expert on personal and organizational productivity. His thirty-year pioneering research and coaching to corporate managers and CEOs of some of America's most prestigious corporations and institutions has earned him Forbes' recognition as one of the top five executive coaches in the U.S. and Business 2.0 magazine's inclusion in their 2006 list of the "50 Who Matter Now." Time Magazine called his flagship book, "Getting Things Done", "the definitive business self-help book of the decade." Fast Company Magazine called David "one of the world's most influential thinkers" in the arena of personal productivity, for his outstanding programs and writing on time and stress management, the power of aligned focus and vision, and his groundbreaking methodologies in management and executive peak performance.

David is the international best-selling author of "Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity"; "Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life"; and "Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life".

With a Twitter following boasting over 1.2 million people, David Allen is one of the most foremost names in life coaching, motivation and personal productivity on the planet.

 

Topics Discussed:

- The GTD framework and its five basic steps

- Quieting the 'monkey mind'

- The Six Horizons of Focus

- David's past, including bouncing back from heroin addiction to become a world renowned life coach

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Show Notes:

- GettingThingsDone.com

- @gtdguy on Twitter 

- David's Books:

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity - https://amzn.to/2DnkMqj
• Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World - https://amzn.to/2QRCrJp
• Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-free Productivity - https://amzn.to/2QSDNn5
• Making It All Work: Winning at the game of work and the business of life - https://amzn.to/2Dm5bHl
• Ready For Anything: 52 productivity principles for work and life - https://amzn.to/2xskGID

 

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Dave Gray is an author and management consultant who works with the world's leading companies to develop and execute winning strategies. He co-created the Culture Map with Alex Osterwalder, of business model canvas fame, to help companies measure their culture and move the needle to where it needs to go. 

He is the founder of XPLANE, a strategic design consultancy, and co-founder of Boardthing, a collaboration platform for distributed teams.

He is the author of two books on design, change and innovation including Gamestorming: A playbook for innovators, rule-breakers and changemakers has sold more than 50,000 copies and has been translated into 14 languages.

His area of focus is the human side of change and innovation, specifically: How can you get people to adopt new ideas? How can you win their hearts and minds? How can you get people, including yourself, to change deeply embedded habits and behaviours? How can you transform a business strategy from a good idea to a living fact in the real world?

 

Topics Discussed:

- What went wrong at Nokia - a story from the frontlines

- The Culture Map - what it is and how to use it

- How to turn the dial up on innovative thinking in your company

- Why culture underpins everything when it comes to innovation

- Open innovation, collaboration and the connected company

- Case studies on transforming culture

- Why culture change starts with self awareness at the individual level

 

Show Notes:

Dave's website - Xplaner.com

Dave's management consultancy - Xplane.com

Dave's Twitter - @davegray

Dave's books:

• Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers - https://amzn.to/2xxGZN3
• Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think - https://amzn.to/2DkfThE
• The Connected Company - https://amzn.to/2NudO7D
• Selling to the VP of NO - https://amzn.to/2QPx4dI

 

LinkedIn Culture Mapping Group -
www.linkedin.com/groups/4911771/profile

 

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This Fast Fix Friday focuses on the key questions you need to ask BEFORE embarking on an innovation project in order to optimise returns and give your organisation a significantly improved chance of success. FYI, we've recently released an online innovation management course - for more information head to innovationmanagerscourse.com 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 We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs. Download it at www.theinnovationmanagershandbook.com 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 Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us

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Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human, which was named a Wall Street Journal bestseller and a New Yorker favorite book of 2011, and has been translated into ten languages. He is the coauthor, with Tom Griffiths, of Algorithms to Live By, available Spring 2016.

The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human.

He has just released his latest book, Algorithms to Live By. Co-written with cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths, the book offers a fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.

Christian’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and in scientific journals such as Cognitive Science. Christian has been featured on The Charlie Rose Show and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Brian has also lectured at Google, Microsoft, the Santa Fe Institute, and the London School of Economics.

 

Topics Discussed:

- AI beating humans at the Turing Test

- 'Judgment Day'

- Education and AI

- AI and Creativity (innovation, music, literature, art etc)

- Using computer algorithms to optimise human performance

 

Show Notes:

Brian-Christian.com

The Most Human Human book: https://amzn.to/2I5Jvhv

Algorithms to Live By book: https://amzn.to/2I8bzkx

 

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This Fast Fix Friday focuses on innovation metrics. I cover the five KEY metrics you need to know in early stage innovation projects which are unrecognisable when compared with traditional accounting metrics which tend to inhibit innovation. Find out why and what these metrics are. FYI, we've recently released an online innovation management course - for more information head to innovationmanagerscourse.com 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 We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs. Download it at www.theinnovationmanagershandbook.com 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 Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us

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Paul R. Williams, PMP has over twenty years of project, program & portfolio management leadership experience with information technology, innovation management and strategic business initiatives in the investment, banking, insurance, legal, manufacturing and professional services industries.

Mr. Williams is credited with being one of the pioneers of ‘Visual Project Management,’ a revolutionary new approach for leveraging visual thinking and communication strategies in project management practice. He has been featured in a number of worldwide publications including three appearances in PM Network, the official monthly periodical of the Project Management Institute, is the author of three books on innovation and project management, and is a frequent speaker on project and innovation management topics at conferences and media events across the United States.

Through his project and innovation management professional services firm, Think For A Change, LLC., Mr. Williams delivers educational, thought-leadership, coaching and consultation capabilities within the following niche areas:

He is also the founder and administrator of the Innovation Management Group on LinkedIn which boasts over 33,000 members.

 

Topics Discussed:

- Visual Project Management

- Innovation Centres of Excellence

- Innovation Metrics

- What Project Management looks like for Innovation Projects

 

Show Notes:

ThinkForAChange.com

Get 'Visual Project Management' on Amazon - https://amzn.to/2Ia1WS4

 

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