Project Kazimierz: Innovation in Central Europe

Summary:

In this final episode of Project Kazimierz, Richard reflects on the people he talks to, thanks to his co-founder Sam, producer Adam, and the listeners, explains his motivations for working on the podcast and gives details of the migration to the Entrepreneurship and Leadership channel on the New Books Network.

A recent media roundup:

* New Books Network

* The NBN Entrepreneurship and Leadership Channel Podcast

* Marshall Poe wikipedia

* TEDxTarnow talk on opportunity readiness

* About me

* My website

* Krakow Enterprise Mondays

* Open Coffee Krakow

* Open Coffee High School   Magdalena Blyskosz’s TEDxKazimierz talk

CAMentrepreneurs

Public speaking and hosting

Investing in startups/mentoring

Village in the City https://villageinthecity.net

The Chatty Cafes project   https://thechattycafescheme.com

Happy to chat benches   https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-50000204

Yorkey Dads/Menfulness   https://yorkeydads.wixsite.com/yorkeydads

Learn about pre-events in my TEDxShenkarCollege talk

Community building at events

TED profile

TED Circles

My Linkedin profile .

My talk on why you should Embrace Rejection

My talk on Opportunity Readiness at TEDxTarnow

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Summary:

Adam Davidson is the CEO of the newly listed Trident Royalties. In this interview he explains the history of the company, and the business case for invcsting in royalty based mininig businesses.

Trident Royalties PLC is a United Kingdom-based diversified mining royalty and streaming company. The Company focuses on base and precious metals, bulk materials and battery metals. It constructs royalty portfolio to get exposure of the global mining sector with a focus towards production assets www.tridentroyalties.com

A recent media roundup:

* Twitter profile

* Trident Royalties website

* Linkedin profile

* TEDxTarnow talk on opportunity readiness

* Trident Royalties Overview

* Project Kazimierz video of the interview on Facebook

* Adam’s profile

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Summary:

Mike Southon is a serially successful entrepreneur, best-selling business author and one of the world’s top business keynote speakers on entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and sales. He specialises in teaching entrepreneurship to University students. Mike is co-author with Chris West of The Beermat Entrepreneur, The Boardroom Entrepreneur and Sales on a Beermat. He has spoken at over 1,000 live events all over the world and provided face-to-face mentoring to over 2,000 entrepreneurs.

A recent media roundup:

* Mike Southon youtube channel

* Mike’s website

* Mike’s life story

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Summary:

Family-man and serial entrepreneur, Peter Harrington has a deep interest in education. Following graduation in York in 1989, he created his first business and over 15 years started and grew companies in the fields of research, marketing, design, print and consultancy.

Since 2005, Peter has been at the heart of Venture Simulations Ltd, a company that builds digital learning solutions and SimVenture business simulation technology for people seeking to acquire business start-up/scale-up skills. Whilst his professional roles involve much travel and reading, Peter is also at home when working with students and staff as an Entrepreneur in Residence at London School of Economics and London South Bank University

Shownotes:

Peter’s profile of Romano

Read about Frank Dawson’s centre where Peter volunteered here

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* Simventure website

* Seth Godin on  “getting into a famous college” and the importance of Non-Team Activities  in his Akimbo podcast here

* Peter Harrington twitter

* Peter writes the blog ‘The Hitchiker’s Guide to Entrepreneurship’

* Margaret Heffernen  whose TED Summit workshop on gratitude  is described. Her books and TED talks are excellent.

* Your host’s father JR Lucas dedicated one of his books (Space, Time and Causality  to all his teachers

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Summary:

Alex Schey is the CEO and co-founder of Vantage Power, which was founded in 2011 and sold to Allison Transmission in 2019, where he is the Chief Commercial Officer for Electrification. The company pioneered the concept of converting double decker buses to a hybrid deisel electric solution to greatly reduce pollution and increase efficiency.

A recent media roundup:

* Vantage Power

* Allison Transmission

* Racing Green Endurance   The electric racing car Alex and his team designed and built that made the journey from Alaska to Argentina.

* The Manager Tools podcast

* Contact Alex at aschey (at) gmail (dot) com

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Summary:

The New Books Network has over 800,000 downloads a month. NBN enables authors to talk about their books with a specialist host. Founded in 2007 by Marshall Poe – formerly a Russian history Professor from the US, it has grown to be probably the most downloaded podcast of its type in the world. https://newbooksnetwork.com

A recent media roundup:

* New Books Network website

* NBN on stitcher

* NBN on facebook

* NBN on Spotify

* Marshal Poe on wikipedia

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Summary:

Mel Rosenberg is a microbiologist best known for his research on the diagnosis and treatment of bad breath (halitosis). His research led to several successful commercial products addressing the problem. He is also the creator of a wildly popular TED-ED video on the topic. and is an active part of the TED-ED community. Mel is also a jazz singer and musician, an author of children’s books and the co-founder of Ourboox, a platform for online publishing of digital picture books.

A recent media roundup:

* Richard Lucas talk Embrace rejection

* TEDxKazimierz events

* Michal Borkowski of brainly.com in Project Kazimierz/a>

* Mel Rosenberg TED-ED

* Mel Rosenberg on what makes bad breath

* Lessons from when Ray Croc sees the first Mcdonalds

* 8 Year Old Marianna Pazhik on the TEDxKazimierz stage

* 52 year old Ray Croc meets the the Macdonald’s Lessons from when Ray Croc sees the first Mcdonald’s

* Mel’s Linkedin

* Brainly.com

* Our Boox

* The Chatty Cafe

* Trial, error and the God complex (Tim Harford | TEDGlobal 2011

* TEDx in a Polish High School | Alina Małocha | TEDxKazimierz

* Film, together with Emma Crouch on learning from supermarket products and mistakes

* eBook on some of Mel’s own failures:

* TNR 2019: Why you should Embrace Rejection – Richard Lucas

* Mel Rosenberg Wikipedia

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Summary:

Mark McKergow spoke at TEDxKazimierz in 2018 on the topic of host leadership. Dr Mark McKergow brings new ideas into the world of business and management, with an inimitable combination of scientific rigour and performance pizzazz. Mark is best known for his work on introduction the ideas of Solutions Focus (2002) and Host Leadership (2014), about which he has published extensively and helped to create self-sustaining user communities. He likes ideas and approaches that make things simpler, quicker, cheaper and more respectful – particularly when they are based on something counter-intuitive and game-changing. More on Mark at http://sfwork.com and http://hostleadership.com. Mark McKergow leads Sunday Assembly in Scotland and plays a leading role in supporting the movement worldwide.

A recent media roundup:

* Sunday Assembly London

* SOLWorld

* Solution Focused Working

* Sunday Assembly Online

* Mark McKergow’s Linkedin

* Host Leadership – why”hosting” is an important type of leadership | Mark McKergow | TEDxKazimierz

* Bringing up children the Dutch way | Michele Hutchison | TEDxKazimierz

* Pippa Evans and Sanderson Jones’ special message to TEDxKazimierz 2018

* Mark mckergow’s Faceabook Live video recording of the podcast

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Summary:

Michael Sliwinski is a productivity guy – he’s the founder and CEO of Nozbe – a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals and their teams.

Nozbe is a web-based tool with apps for all the major platforms. Michael is also a speaker, author of best-selling books, a podcaster and a blogger. He is happily married to his wife Ewelina and they have three daughters. Michael is known for his un-orthodox way of running Nozbe – our company doesn’t have any physical office (#NoOffice) and we dedicate Fridays to weekly reviews and personal development (#TGIF).

A recent media roundup:

* Tools

* 2018 Mobiconf presentation in Krakow

* MichaelSliwinski.com

* @MSliwinski on Twitter

* Nozbe.com – a productivity app for busy professionals

* ProductiveMag.com

* Co-author of the first post-PC book: iPadOnlyBook.com

* Facebook Live of the podcast

* Tooth Brush Test” in “To change the world – start with yourself | Richard Lucas | TEDxTarnow

* 91year old Wojciech Narębski at TEDxKazimierz

* 8 Year Old Marianna Pazhik on the TEDxKazimierz stage

* 52 year old Ray Croc meets the the Macdonald’s Lessons from when Ray Croc sees the first Mcdonald’s

* Michael’s Linkedin

* Time Management from Piotr Nabielec

* and his TEDxKazimierz talk in Polish… Czas to nie pieniądz – dlaczego warto zarządzać swoim czasem

* How to organise communication

* TEDxKazimierz talk about parkun (free 5km inclusive runs every Saturday all over the world) parkrun – więcej niż bieganie | Jakub Fedorowicz Grzegorz Tomaszewski | TEDxKazimierz

* Summary of Hyram Smith’s book about time and life Management

* About Michael

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Summary:

John Murn is a marketing strategist based in Taipei, Taiwan.

After starting his career in 4A agencies, he now plies his trade in the adtech world, where he’s spent time working on e-commerce, streaming, mobile video advertising, and programmatic advertising optimization. In addition to his day job, John is a serial networker, which led to him recently co-founding All Hands Taiwan, a fast-growing platform for networking that seeks to make information and insights available and accessible to all professionals. In the span of just six months, All Hands has gone from a community-building platform to working with city and national governments, partnering with international commerce initiatives, contributing to the newly formed Alliance for a Globally-Oriented Taiwan, and commenting on nationwide labor bills.

A recent media roundup:

* All Hands Taiwan website

* Facebook Live

* John Murn Linkedin

* The Mobile Only Accelerator

* How to make you events Buzz – blog post

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