Polymathic Being Podcast

Today's topic will explore the current ‘phenomena’ of Quiet Quitting and questions whether our current cultural expectations for work are actually good for us.

Today's topic is a follow on to The Band-Aid Paradigm and we look at what to do, after removing the band-aids, to achieve true, sustained, process improvement.

Today's topic highlights how you can't just want innovation; you have to think innovation so that you can unlock the true capabilities in your existing systems and chart a course for the stars. This is part one of an envisioned series of insights into innovation.

Today's topic introduces a controversial concept that divorces religion from theology and shows how even the atheistic are vulnerable to a psychology.

Today's topic shifts from leadership and steps back and introduces myself to you. Not my background, but introduce you to my brain. That crazy, idiosyncratic, sometimes fractured, often nuts, but always curious chunk of gray matter between my ears.

It’s taken me a few years to get to know myself and I thought I’d share my findings and hopefully motivate you to consider similar introspection. I’ve found knowing myself has been essential to grounding, tempering, and exploiting my super-powers.

Today's topic is part 3 in a series on leadership. Part 1, Leading Without Authority, breaks apart a common trope and reorients a better understanding of authority. Part 2 How to Maximize Authority Through Leadership explored techniques to maximize your leadership potential through organizational alignment. This essay will explore maximizing authority through your own leadership.

Today's topic is part 2 in a series on leadership. Part 1, Leading Without Authority, breaks apart a common trope and reorients a better understanding of authority. This part will explore techniques to maximize your leadership potential!

Today's topic breaks apart a pernicious idea that keeps floating around businesses regarding leadership opportunities ‘without authority.’ We investigate what this means, whether it can actually happen, and propose some insights for success.

Today's topic cracks into a quantum superposition problem, how it applies to everyday life, and why binaries are the wrong way to look at things. In this case, we discuss the application to politics and tease out a nuance few slow down to appreciate.

Today's topic discusses an insight I gleaned years ago on the perpetual problems with process fixes that don’t address the root cause. This situation will probably be a timeless classic but hopefully we can start to break the paradigm one improvement at a time.