The Great Work Podcast

It’s embarrassing that it’s taken me this long to post this interview with Tom. He’s an old friend, president and founder of the IATF, and and has long been a champion for helping teams do extraordinary things. This is important,

Andy Stefanovich shares my love of innovation. Andy was the co-founder of the innovation company Play, and is now the chief curator and provocateur at Prophet, a strategic brand and marketing consultancy. He recently wrote Look at More: A Proven

Rich Tosi is one of the founders of the Mankind Project, which helps men figure out how to live a full life. Over the past 20 years, tens of thousands of men have gone through this training (including me). The

My guest today is Rafe Furst, whom I met at TEDActive in Palm Springs. Rafe stood up at TED and put something very interesting to the group. He said, “Look, I’m an angel investor. So I’ve got a lot of

I came across Nic Askew’s work a few years ago when he started Monday9AM films, which are poignant and wonderful short films of both ordinary and extraordinary people reflecting on what makes them tick. Nic and his films were part

What is your competitive advantage? How do you differentiate yourself? If you don’t know, you need to talk to Michel Neray, who is the “Chief Differentiation Officer” of Essential Message, a marketing company that helps people figure out their essential

Mark Dowds had a comfortable job as a consultant when he decided to pursue his dream of creating software tools to foster collaboration and efficiency in the workplace. Friends thought he was crazy. It was a little crazy. So why

Today’s guest is Jonas Ridderstrale, the Swedish author of the international bestseller Funky Business Forever: How to Enjoy Capitalism. As Tom Peters says, this book is the antidote for bland thinking and bland writing. It’s provocative, challenging and has been

One of my goals in doing the Great Work interviews is to talk to people who make me think and make me laugh. And that’s why I’m thrilled to be talking to Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor at

How do you conduct brainstorming sessions that don’t suck? Shawn Coyne, author of Brainsteering: A Better Approach to Breakthrough Ideas”  helps answer this question. Shawn is a former McKinsey consultant and with his brother Kevin, he is a founder of