thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

By chris kalaboukisBusinessManagement
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thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future episodes

  • 289: The Future Of Education with Ajita Talwalker Menon of Calbright College

    Ajita was recently appointed as CEO of Calbright College – a public, online campus founded in 2018 designed to prepare millions for the future of work. Calbright teaches the hard and soft skills required to succeed on day one of employment, and crafts low-to-no-cost online program pathways designed to connect students with new job opportunities.

    A former higher-education tsar in the Obama administration, Ajita’s job today is to lead the college to help underserved Californians gain greater economic mobility and to provide skilled talent for hiring employers – something in especially high demand given the nationwide economic shock from the pandemic. 

    53 min
  • 288 EXTRA Don't Make Your Customers Jump Your Hoops
    • Are you lazy? Are your customers lazy?
    • Do your customers prefer things to be done for them?
    • Then why do you force your customer's through your own hoops?
    • People don't want to "bank", they want their money managed.
    • People don't want a mortgage, they want a home
    • People don't want a car loan, they want a car
    • Are you making your customers jump through hoops to work with you?
    • Are you worried that talking to your customers will reveal how far off your products are from what they want?
      • 7 min
    • 287 EXTRA Are You Getting The Disruptive Ideas You Need?
      • Are you getting the kind of innovation that you are looking for?
      • Ever wonder why that is?
      • Maybe they aren't incentivized to create billion-dollar ideas?
      • Maybe they are actually incentivized to play politics?
      • What kind of incentives are you dangling in front of your employees?
      • Most companies promote and award people for career movement, not better solutions that delight your customers.
      • Which are you?
        • 7 min
      • 286 EXTRA Dealing with Negativity and Negative People
        • Ever had to deal with Negativity and Negative People?
        • They shoot down your ideas and tell you how things are so terrible
        • What do you do with them?
        • Where do negative people take you?
        • You probably can't change them into something else
        • Negative people have their place - maybe not in your innovation group
        • Get them out of your situation - innovation requires optimism
        • Maybe they say they are mindreading your senior management
        • There are plenty of other places where negative people do a better job
          • 6 min
        • 285 EXTRA What We Should Have Had by 2020
          • So much should have happened by now: Blade Runner, The Eugenics Wars, Flying Cars, Living on Mars, Human Clones, Time Looping Super Soldiers, Khan Noonien Singh, much longer life expectancy
          • We have none of this - although we may have human clones somewhere
          • Everything that is possible will happen - the only question is when
          • What do you want to do tomorrow? The future is up to you
          • Can't do anything about the past - it's done finished, etched in stone
          • We can design our own ideal future
            • 7 min
          • 284 EXTRA Bring Joy to Your Customers and the Money Will Follow
            • Capitalism is great
            • One failure of capitalism: if a great idea has no business model, it's unlikely to be pursued - if it doesn't make money, it won't happen.
            • For innovative new products, we need to measure a different metric - JOY
            • Some ideas are AMAZING, but they don't make money
            • Even if they are great, you have to look at them through a commercial lens
            • The ideas go away when companies can't figure out how to make money at it
            • The idea must fulfill the customer's desire - you must bring them joy, and the money will follow.
              • 7 min
            • 283 EXTRA Why I Bought A Cybertruck: It's Strange, Weird and Different (Like Me)
              • We humans actively seek out the new, and the Cybertruck is that
              • Even though I don't believe in electric vehicles, I love the DESIGN
              • Electric cars are just REPOSITIONING the electric generation
              • It looks DAMN COOL and AMAZING
              • Every car on the road looks exactly the same
              • Every car maker is stealing ideas from other carmakers
              • Even the Teslas are boring
              • Cybertruck is the future. I want to be part of that future
              • If the design stays mostly the same, then I will buy it
              • We are sponges that want to learn everything when we are born
              • Our brains are still primed to seek out the new
              • We want the next dopamine fix
              • Attention other carmakers: note the Cybertruck design
                • 8 min
              • 282 EXTRA We are Afraid to Forge Our Future. Let's Stop Holding Ourselves Back

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                • Why are we in this innovation "rut"?
                • Its safety over innovation
                • From the 1880s to 1950s where there was so much innovation going on - it was crazy
                • Since then, we've hardly invented anything
                • We are so concerned about hurting ourselves that we are holding ourselves back
                • Look at the invention of the car and the plane. People used to be willing to be hurt or die in the pursuit of innovation. Now we don't
                • Every disaster pushes us back so far. Why can't we just move forward?
                • Right to try is the right way to go
                • We've pulled back on ourselves - we ask "should we" too often
                • We need to be willing to innovate at the expense of our safety and security
                • We need to create innovation zones where people are free to innovate without fear. Inventions can run free.
                  • 10 min
                • 281 EXTRA Are You Truly Fulfilling Your Customers Desires?

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                  • Are you truly understanding and delivering on your customer's core desires? Probably not.
                  • Customers want great THINGS and EXPERIENCES, not to pay bills, get mortgages, or negotiate to buy a used car.
                  • How close is your product and service to address your core customer desires?
                    • 9 min
                  • 280 EXTRA Let's Talk Digital Transformation
                    • It's not only about applying digital to your current processes
                    • Digital is just an application of technology
                    • Terrible processes which are digitized aren't any better
                    • People look at digital-first before they think about transformation when it should be the other way around
                    • Digital is simple compared to the transformation
                    • The tough part is transforming your business first.
                      • 9 min

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                    Welcome to thinkfuture, where host Chris Kalaboukis explores the bold ideas shaping tomorrow. From AI-driven creativity and personal growth to leadership in remote work, this podcast delves into the…