Shaping Chaos

COVID-19 devastated the travel industry. 

For many, it meant the end of the business.

For Charlie, the ultra-marathon runner and founder of Epic Travel, it became an endurance lesson.

Tune in to this episode and learn about the parallels between chaos, endurance running and business planning.

In a small town of west Wales, David Hieatt is focusing on the difficult task of bringing 384 jobs back.

He's not afraid of difficult things, and often he uses them as the source of inspiration.

As the founder Hiut Denin and other successful businesses, he has faced chaos multiple times. Now he calls it a silent friend, the one that is there to show you the way.

Tune in to this fantastic conversation and learn how to learn from chaos.

If you ever been in a chaotic situation you know it: your heart races, you make quick decisions, you want to get out there fast. 

Alisan designs services and products to calm you down in those situations, making sure you make the right decisions and focus on what matters most. 

He has something to say about working with chaos an understanding its significance in the ecosystem

For the past 10 years, Claire Lew has been shaping businesses in the background.

She founded Know Your Team to help leaders become better at leadership by focusing on topics that most of us overlook: how to give honest feedback, how to nurture your talent and how to run a team effectively.

In this conversation, we go deep on what prevents us from becoming great leaders and what we should do about it.

BONUS: Claire shares her framework on how to give feedback that inspires action.

 [Former Captico Talks Episode] Pip Jamieson is on a mission to make diversity the driving force of the future and created The Dots network with that as one of the core values for growth. She talks about how important is diversity for success, how to make it an integral part of your plans, how to create a thriving creative culture and how should we look at creativity in the era of quantum robotics. 

Pip also shares the challenges she faced as a female founder in the tech industry whilst trying to grow and fund her company and ideas and what to do to best overcome that.

⚡For comprehensive episode notes visit captico.io.

 [Former Captico Talks Episode] Pedro Brandão has built Significa to thrive on creativity.

Today Significa is one of the most renowned digital product studios in Portugal, and in this conversation Pedro shares the habits that are leading them to create a thriving environment and culture, how to grow creative talent and how building relationships with other companies creates a thriving ecosystem - a contrarian perspective over what every other businesses are doing.

 [Former Captico Talks Episode] Doist is the fully fledge remote company behind the productivity tools Todoist and Twist. Ana shares incredible insights on async communication, managing creativity remotely, from first designer to design management, mental health, hire remote talent and much more.

✨Show Notes ✨

Start up Chile happen in 2012 and not in 2009 as mentioned in the show. 

👨‍🎨👩‍🎨People Mentioned 

Amir Salihefendić - @amaix3k - Founder of Doist 

Alex Muench - @alexmuench - Product Design at Doist 

Margarida Mouta - @nargaridamouta - Illustrator at Doist 

Ben Breckler - @benbreckler - Product Designer at Doist 

Sam Beckett - @samjohnbeck - Product Designer at Doist 

Wallace Chao - @Chiachichao - Product Designer at Doist 

Panagiotis Tsamoudakis - @tsamoudakis - Product Designer at Doist 

Weihung Yin - @WeihungYin - Illustrator at Doist 

📃Articles 

How Slack is ruining work - @ranimolla - Vox 

Designing distributed: collaboration on Doist’s fully-remote design team - Ana Ferreira for the Invision Blog 

What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work - Amir Salihefendić 

📖Books  

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking 

Ruined by Design - Mike Monteiro  

Mismatch - Kat Holmes 

The Making of a Manager - Julie Zhuo   

21 Lessons for the 21 Century - Yuval Noah Harari

The sound of this podcast has been optimised by my great friend Ash Castanheira! Thank you 🙏 

 [Former Captico Talks Episode] Matt Brooke-Smith is the Founder and CEO of Future Workshops the London based digital product company that has been delivering products that people love for more than 10 years. In this conversation we talk about the importance of investing in your own ideas, diversity in the team and in your business, the best way to invest in talent and much much more.  

A fantastic conversation with the co-founder of the uber-successful studio Ustwo, about ultra running, ego, succeilure, Fampany, the bestseller mobile game Monument Valley and a meeting with Tim Cook.

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