Flow is defined as an optimal state of consciousness, where you feel and perform at your best. This episode will help you get more of it in your day.

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Wow: two years of making things that matter! Andrew checks in with lessons learned in year two, impactful episodes and show updates.

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Best known for his books Small Giants and The Great Game of Business, Bo is an editor-at-large of Inc. magazine and the author of five books which have profoundly impacted values-led business creation. I don't know of anyone that has explored more deeply, through real-world examples, what it means to build a *meaningful* business. 

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• Bo Burlingham - website, Twitter
• Related episodes
  • #9 Amy Edmondson: Building teams where people feel safe
  • #43 Courtney Bigony: Life above neutral with Positive Product Design
• People & orgs
  • Tugboat Institute & Evergreen Companies
  • Dave Whorton
  • Adam Smith
  • Harriet Rubin
  • Jack Stack
  • Jim Collins
  • Kleiner Perkins
  • John Doerr
  • Clay Christensen
  • Norm Brodsky
  • Gary Erickson & CLIF Bar
• Books
  • Bo's books
    • Small Giants
    • The Great Game of Business (GGOB)
    • A Stake in the Outcome
    • Finish Big
  • The Fifth Discipline
  • Good to Great
  • The New New Thing
  • The Innovator's Dilemma
  • How Will You Measure Your Life?
  • Battle Cry of Freedom
  • The Lessons of History
• Other resources mentioned
  • Small Giants Community
  • Great Game of Business Community
  • Life After Pi
  • Open Book Management
  • How to Build a Company That Will Last for 100 Years | Inc.com
  • Inc Magazine
  • Something Ventured
  • Springfield ReManufacturing
  • Transcendental Meditation (TM)

This episode flips the script and makes Andrew the guest, exploring his views on entrepreneurship and philanthropy.

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This episode explores four nuances of creative and fulfilling work. It share lessons from follow-on conversations to ep42 about ARM, a mental model for fulfilling work.

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Matt Kressy is the founding director of the Integrated Design & Management (IDM) program at MIT. This conversation is a heartfelt exploration about art, design, and the inner drives that fuel our creative work.

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• Matt Kressy - LinkedIn, Twitter
  • MIT IDM program
  • New England Innovation Academy
  • Designturn
• People & orgs
  • Glo
  • Hugh MacLeod - Gapingvoid
• Related episodes
  • #14 Derik Mills: Cultivating a faculty of wonder in business and life
• Books
  • Hillbilly Elegy
• Other resources mentioned
  • Human centered design

This episode reviews the key ideas from "The Infinite Game," a massively transformative book by Simon Sinek, and explores how to apply them to your work.

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This adapts the core ideas from "The Timeless Way of Building," a classic of architectural theory, to creative and personal leadership. 

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Teresa Torres teaches an approach to product creation and creative work that will help you think more clearly, make better decisions, and raise the odds your bets will pay off. She's the author of the new book, Continuous Discovery Habits.

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• Teresa Torres - website, @ttorres
  • New book: Continuous Discovery Habits
  • Product Talk membership program
  • Product Talk Academy (courses)
• People & orgs
  • Hope Gurion
  • Ash Maurya
  • Tom Chi
• Related episodes
  • #27 Hope Gurion: What nobody told you about being a product leader
  • #31 Marty Cagan: Empowering product teams to do the best work of their lives
• Books
  • Decisive - Chip & Dan Heath
  • Peak - Anders Ericsson
  • How We Think - John Dewey
  • Testing Business Ideas, David Bland
  • Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke
  • Polarity Management
• Other resources mentioned
  • How to know if you're interviewing at a product-led company
  • Business Model Canvas
  • Lean Canvas
  • LEANSTACK
  • Human Centered Design
  • Stanford Symbolic Systems
  • Explore / exploit - how to choose new opportunities

Courtney Bigony is on a mission to align tech products with the latest science of human thriving.  She's the creator of Positive Product Design and the Director of People Science at 15Five. 

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• Courtney Bigony - Twitter, LinkedIn
• Positive Product Design
• 15Five
  • Best Self Management
• People & orgs
  • Martin Seligman
  • Center for Humane Technology
  • Tristan Harris
  • Scott Barry Kaufman
• Related episodes
  • #9 Amy Edmondson: Building teams where people feel safe
  • #26 David Dylan Thomas: Understand cognitive bias to create positive impact in your work
  • #35 Dianne Frommelt: Building products to help people become their best selves
  • #42 ARM: A mental model for fulfilling work
• Books
  • Transcend
  • Flourish
  • Designing Your Life
  • Nonviolent Communication
  • Permission to Feel
  • The Upside of Your Dark Side
  • Small Giants
  • The Great Game of Business
  • Hooked
  • Indistractable
  • Say Goodnight to Insomnia
• Other resources mentioned
  • VIA character strengths test
  • Brené Brown value sheet
  • Positive psychology
  • Meliorism
  • High quality connections - Jane Dutton
  • Tugboat Institute
  • Tim Ferriss - past year review
  • Feed forward interview
  • ChilliPad
  • School of Transformation - feelings chart
  • Virtual distance
  • PERMA
  • Perceived proximity
  • Gallup strengths
  • Mood Meter (emotions tracking app, from Permission to Feel book)
  • The Social Dilemma (documentary)
  • Asana
  • Diana Chapman - Conscious Leadership Group
  • Deep Feedback Movement