Practice? Podcast

When a person channels her practice over decades of use and learning, it becomes a prominent and reliable way of being. This is Cloudbed's  Senior Pricing Analyst Katie Wei. We all know that everything we purchase has a price. Katie is teaching her former professor Dave that there is an art and science in determining what we customers value.  

Dave joins Leadership and Change consultants Lesley Tracy and Tom Casey in 'prognosticating' what is happening with our five-generation workforce, changing the hiring game for organization leaders.  

Dave has followed, supported, and learned with Joe De Feo's Juran-Attain's Quality Management education practice for over 40 years. Like Dave, Joe has 'gone digital.; reaching people with new QM tools for making their practices indispensable.  

Practice is a way of being. A memoir tells us and others what we've been and why. Author, consultant, and now grief support counselor Kathryn Kaplan talks with Dave about how her new book - Becoming Visible to Myself - came to be. We are all living an imagined memoir. Kathryn made hers real. 

Yes, there is a choice to do what makes our Selves happier daily—a Happiness Practice guided and encouraged by author, consultant, and podcaster Darrin Tulley.  Who would choose an Unhappiness Practice? Perhaps it is done by default? 

Stephen B. Rich has retired as CEO of his Maine architectural firm with the results of his practice places where Maine people feel welcomed in familiar surroundings. Schools, libraries, and university buildings each express the Rich character and values of Dave's Mainer cousin Steve.  

Dave's long-time OB teaching friend Judi Strauss-Lipkin talks with him amid another 'taxing' Tax Season. How can she be so upbeat? Her boutique business is dedicated to clients whom she has helped for years to understand the complexities of their financial situations with Judi's considerable teaching talent and financial acumen. Why still do this? She loves her clients, and they love her. 

My son Dave and I have periodically posted episodes from nearly the beginning. I was not the sort of father who tossed a ball with him back in his childhood in Maine. I was and am the father with whom we tossed ideas from his earliest years.  These episodes formulate our mutual understanding of the social-psychological nature of Practice. Dave calls it Social Enaction. Please listen in.  

Gene Bellinger is a storyteller, alright! To bring us closer to the meaning of Systems, he has posted hundreds of 5-minute  videos on YouTube illustrating his always-evolving thinking about the complex nature of all manner of systems. This inspires Dave to create quick videos on the 32 Conjectures in his and Peter Vaill's book On Practice as a Way of Being.  

Dave meets the CEO of Changing Behaviors Lesley Tracy, for the first time. Soon, their conversation is deep in contrasting the career requirements of Generation Z and Millenials to those we accepted in our early days. What do their stark values differences mean to their managers and their organizations?  And much more.