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Candid CraicThe struggle of wellbeing in a senior leadership role with Brian HendersonIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Brian Henderson about his experience of struggling with his psychological and physiological wellbeing in a senior leadership role, and how he is using it to help inform current executives just how harmful at individual and organisational levels the experience can be.
Brian explains his reaction on realising he was experiencing all the signs of poor wellbeing, and why others in the same position might be equally likely to shrug it off just as he did; how he finally came to terms with what he was going through; the clues and...
2022-02-1555 minCandid CraicDecrapifying work Colin NewlynIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Colin Newlyn about his mission to decrapify work.
Colin explains how, despite the rhetoric, we seem to be moving away from the trust and autonomy of the working conditions he experienced in his early career to a more command and control structure, often infected by bullying and toxicity, and replete with technologies, practices and processes that seem to hinder productivity and innovation.
He explains how he has begun to take the concept of self-organisation increasingly seriously, seeing it as a holistic toolkit that can create better organisations if...
2022-02-0857 minCandid CraicAdaptive facilitation in practice with Dr. Gemma JiangIn this Candid Craic, Gemma Jiang talks about her role as a catalyzing and unifying presence in the massively transdisciplinary research on the circular economy; how she employs a range of facilitation techniques to hold transformational spaces in which pluralistic solutions get generated via civil dialogue between experts in different domains; and how she operates in the enabling spaces between adaptive entrepreneurs and administrative bureaucrats.
Gemma explains how adaptive facilitation works in practice, providing two concrete examples; talks about the struggles she has faced and still faces in getting traditional institutions to take seriously adaptive facilitation methodologies...
2022-02-0155 min
Modern Mindset277 - Dr. Richard Claydon and Oscar Venhuis on New Work From Home ResearchAdam Cox is joined by Dr. Richard Claydon and Oscar Venhuis, co-founders of EQ Labs, to discuss brand new research which reveals the UK's attitude towards returning to the office. They look at why some employers need to change their mindset's about working from home, and how EQ Labs helps with the issue. https://www.eqlab.co/
2022-01-2717 minCandid CraicDelivering conscious business philosophy in Singapore with Serene SengIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Serene Seng about how she is working with Singaporean companies towards the delivery of a conscious business philosophy in the city.
After Serene explains what she means by conscious business and why it isn't anti shareholder value, we find out the four ways in which conscious business practices positively impact organisational performance. Serene and Oscar then reflect on the level to which companies in Singapore and Hong Kong are (or are not) embracing the concept, and explore whether those failing to do so will struggle to attract or retain future...
2022-01-251h 00Candid CraicThe Incessant Negative Imagery of Black Lives with Martha UnderwoodIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Martha Underwood about the experience of being a black, female leader in the Deep South of the USA.
Having been presented with a Leadership in Diversity award by Birmingham, Alabama, Martha explains the role she and others are playing in changing perceptions of the city, and the increasingly integrated plurality of the community.
She talks about the origins of narrow perceptions about black Americans, highlighting the incessant negative imagery that has characterised the presentation of black lives in US print and media, from stupid illiterates in the 1930s...
2022-01-181h 01Candid CraicHow leaders ensure the best ideas are never missed with Dr. Richard ClaydonIn this Candid Craic, the tables get turned, and Richard Claydon gets grilled on his work by two previous interviewees, John Dobbin and Geoff Marlow.
We explore how Richard employs dramatic metaphors and insights to explain the conditions of contemporary knowledge work, why, thanks to neuroscientific findings, it is becoming an increasingly relevant way to sensemake organisations, and why it is more useful for delivering value-creating diversity than the mainstream D&I discourses.
John tests Richard on the relevance of the work, asking why the CEO should care about a dramatic interpretation of organisational life...
2022-01-111h 06Candid CraicMaking HR practice more relevant to get work done with Meirion GravellIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Meirion Gravell about his experiences as a Chief People Officer and his mission to make HR practice more contextually relevant to the work being done.
Drawing from his experience running HR for the most hated workforce in the UK - Traffic Wardens! - Meirion explains how he adapted Dilts and Bateson's Logical Levels of Thinking into an impactful organisational form. He especially focuses on trying to strike the right balance between areas of convergence that glue the organisation together, and areas of divergence in which contested ideas and constructive disagreements...
2022-01-041h 00Candid CraicEvolutionary psychiatry informing future organisations with Antony MalmoIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Antony Malmo about his mission to create proactive mental health practice in organizations and society, and his deep wish to design organizational and sociocultural practices informed by evolutionary psychiatry.
After discovering why Antony thinks mainstream mental health is so reactive, we hear how his team creates spaces between home and work in which mental challenges can be discussed and acted upon in a non-clinical, non-ego-threatening manner.
Moving on from Antony's business interests, we take a deep dive into evolutionary psychiatry, framed by questions asking how and why depression...
2021-12-211h 07Candid CraicAssistive Intelligence And The Future of Medical with Nidhi GoelIn this Candid Craic, Nidhi Goel, a Medical Futurist and psychiatrist practicing in New York, looks at the rising levels of poor mental wellbeing across the globe, and discusses just what we might be able to do about it.
Initially, Nidhi tells us about the state of the mental health profession, outlining the already troubling shortages in psychiatric support globally; looking at why it is likely to get worse; and explaining why the rising reported instances of poor mental wellbeing are making her increasingly worried about the future.
We learn how Assistive Intelligence (AI) can...
2021-12-1458 minCandid CraicHow Might We Create More Healthy And Fulfilling Futures with Neelam HarjaniIn this Candid Craic, we hear how Neelam Harjani emerged from the deeply ambivalent experience of working on the trading floor in the financial markets to craft out a career helping people to live more meaningful lives in the relentless hustle and bustle of today's action-based organizational world.
We hear how meditation can enable the dual states of self-awareness and high energy; why oscillations of fear and greed are leading to a state of existential emptiness in many of today's executives; and how rediscovering the spirit of being in a world of incessant busyness can lead to...
2021-12-071h 03Candid CraicHow Explicit Awareness Can Positively Impact Leadership with Alexis NikiIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Alexis Niki to learn about the differences between narratives and storytelling, and how an explicit awareness of both can positively impact leadership and organisational performance.
We explore the many dimensions of narrative intelligence, in which Alexis draws from her colorful, multicultural upbringing to explain how story became so central to her work. In doing so, we discover how and why she employs archetypes to free people from self-limiting narratives; learn why mind/body integration is central to high performance; and take in a deep dive into the necessity of developing...
2021-11-3057 minCandid CraicScaling Ego-Free Cultures Across Organisations with Geoff MarlowIn this Candid Craic, we learn how Geoff Marlow has combined an engineering background with a deep interest in human behaviour and Eastern philosophies to craft out a career developing organisational cultures in which curiosity and cognitive diversity flourish in the pursuit of rapid-delivery innovation.
We hear how and why Geoff, almost accidentally, shaped his career this way; see just how a seemingly simple insight can result in rapid-moving cultural change (and how an equally simple-sounding good-intention can produce rapid-growing toxicity); and discover how hybridity, curiosity and cognitive diversity can liberate talent across the entire organisation.
2021-11-231h 05Candid CraicThe Baby-Faced Assassin a.k.a. Mark LeBusqueIn this Candid Craic, we find out how Mark LeBusque's exploration into his own dark and messy organisational existence - he was once known as the baby-faced assassin - led to a deep examination of self and a "spiritual" journey of self-awareness and high performance.
We look at how Mark provokes leaders and teams into examining the self they bring to work, and how an unexamined version of that self can stop things from flowing effectively. We look at how vulnerability, compassion, courage, kindness and self-forgiveness play vital roles in the development of good leadership, and how...
2021-11-161h 06
Candid CraicDeveloping complexity of thinking in leaders with Becky AndreeIn this Candid Craic, we hear about Becky Andree's double-passion - developing the complexity of thinking in leaders and employees so they capable of the cognitive challenges related to the WEF's future of work skills lists, and creating environments in which regular high-quality connections energise people to successfully pursue and achieve this developmental goal.
After defining these two core aspects of her work and research, Becky takes us on a swirling journey of discovery, examining whether we are creating or destroying workspaces which support these practices; exploring the difference between Eastern and Western patterns of connection; explaining...
2021-11-0454 minCandid CraicDemystifying the language of complex adaptive systems with John DobbinIn this Candid Craic, we talk to John Dobbin about his ongoing attempt to demystify the language of complex adaptive systems to help contemporary executives transform their organisations into agile powerhouses.
John helps us understand the difference of scale between agile and adaptive work, how bureaucratic structures can inhibit the success of agile practices, and the tactics he employs to help teams become more agile and organisations become more adaptive. We look at how middle-management might be re-imagined as core to good adaptive work, learn how Haier has become the great success story for the movement, and...
2021-11-0459 min