Harnessing Agility: Embracing Possibility We are living in exciting times, but also challenging ones. The world has become more complex and so have our lives. There is a need for new ways of thinking that can help us navigate this complexity and make sense of the future. The Inspirational Insights podcast (Insight to Action) brings you different perspectives on how we can make sense of our complex world, and find solutions for leadership challenges while creating a better future for everyone ...
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Interrupting Violence-Breaking Transgenerational Patterns with Cobe Williams
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Interrupting Violence: One Man's Journey to Heal the Streets and Redeem Himself follows Cobe as he undertakes his redemption journey, offering new hope for the nation’s most violent communities. As the country wrestles with the inequities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the complex intersections of urban violence, racial injustice, police b…
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Unlocking Higher States of Creativity and Productivity with Emotional Transparency
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Stephane Segatori, the director of WeFlow Lab in Amsterdam, talks to Dawna about developing psychological safety via emotional transparency and maturity, self-awareness, and inner freedom. Stephane's experience in the corporate world informs his role as a facilitator and coach, emphasizing the significance of understanding oneself at a deeper level…
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Are We Conditioned To Feel Helpless? Using Disruption for Fearless Growth
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In this episode, we dive deep into what happens when companies say they want creative ideas but mean 'keep the status quo'. Drawing insights from Paul McCarthy's book "The Fired Leader," we explore the reality and challenges of being a disruptive leader in environments desperately needing to think differently if employee retention and workplace hea…
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Cultural Cohesion: Principles and Partnerships in Action with Silvia Fierascu
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Timisoara, a city in Romania, bolstered by winning a bid through the EU, took on a grand experiment. My guest Silvia Fierascu, a network science researcher among other roles, was a part of that project. In this episode, we explore how political vision, open-mindedness and principles drawn from network science brought community organizations togethe…
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Vulnerability: Moving through Fear to Inner Freedom with Garry Turner
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Have you ever been told that vulnerability is a sign of weakness? Have you believed it? Garry Turner debunks the myth and shares his personal journey after saying yes to an inner recognition that something was missing from life. His exploration released him from old traumas, through to recovered energy and a freedom that energizes an unimaginable l…
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Nobody is Smarter Than Everybody with Rod Collins
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Rod Collins is back! In this episode, the former COO of Blue Cross Blue Shield and futurist explores the critical shift from hierarchically structured authority to collective and collaborative networks. Learn the pitfalls of digital feudalism and how pioneering companies like Google have strayed from their original ideals. This episode promises ins…
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From Abrupt Loss to Inspired Entrepreneur with Amanda Bauer-Frisch
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Whether you are a business or at a personal level, how you deal with life's interruptions determines your emotional and mental health from that day forward. Transforming a tragedy into an inspired purpose is the choice Amanda Bauer-Frisch made when her husband died abruptly. In this episode, she takes us on a deep dive and explains how she moved th…
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What is emerging in innovation for 2024 with Curtis Michelson
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Innovation nerd and adaptive thinker extraordinaire Curtis Michelson provides an overview of what is emerging in 2024 based on signals he's picked up from his many communities. From Agile to organization network analysis to open innovation and more, you'll learn what is brewing inside edgy thinking communities. Curtis Michelson is, in his own words…
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Networks and the Future of Organizations with Jeffrey Beeson
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What is the world asking for you to contribute? This and many other reflections pop up in the conversation with Jeffrey Beeson who explores what network science tells us about the future of organizations and what it means for leaders. Organizations are changing: their structure, thinking and internal roles. We talk about: pioneering companies who r…
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Self-Management & Collective Intelligence in Business Governance
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Doug Kirkpatrick and Rod Collins combine expertise with self-managed governance and collective intelligence to provide a bridge between traditional business mechanisms with respectful approaches for intelligent people. Learn why the transformative concept of synergistic control, replaces traditional control mechanisms to engage collaborative achiev…
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From a Suicidal State to an Emmy-Harry Turner's Redemption
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Harry Turner flew to the Peruvian Amazon to commit suicide but something happened while he was there that would change his life forever. Documented in the film Wild Cat, now streaming on Amazon Prime, Harry's experience with war, death, and school led him to discover and reconnect to himself. He had help in the form of two wild cats — ocelots. His …
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Working Directly with Trauma of Torture with Ihor Kozlovsky
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Surprises that come with abrupt disruption can threaten the worldview relied on to make sense of the world. So what happens when not much makes sense anymore? In this episode, Ukranian theologian and passivist Ihor Kozlovsky talks about his experience recovering from torture and illegal imprisonment to share how to move through trauma that has beco…
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A HR Professional's Journey From Refugee to Return to Ukraine with Liliya Savych
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Liliya Savych was an HR professional working for a large corporation located in Kyiv when we recorded this episode. When Russians surrounded Kyiv she left the city and faced being a refugee without roots. Landing in Dublin she reclaimed her sense of self and then returned to Ukraine. Since this interview, Liliya has left corporate to work for a cit…
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Lisa Gill is turning self-managed teams from a good idea into reality
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Lisa Gill is a self-managing organizations coach and trainer, writer, and Leadermorphosis podcast host talks about the inner work needed to lead effectively in self-managed organizations and in life. Leading courses globally with Tuff Leadership Training, Lisa trains people in the mindset and skills needed to lead in more involving ways, creating w…
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Why Peer to Peer Change is more Effective Than Top Down Leadership with Dr. Leandro Herrero
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Dr. Leandro Herrero is an organizational architect and regular speaker at the Organization Network Analysis Summit sponsored by OrgMapper.com in November of each year. Slightly irreverent and very honest, our conversation spans why peer-to-peer change works better than top-down when it comes to creating changes at scale. Thinking differently comes …
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Sensory Intelligence with Annemarie Lombard
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In epic 100th episode (for this podcast) Dawna speaks with Dr Annemarie Lombard who is the Founder and CEO of Sensory intelligence® Consulting. Sensory intelligence is something everyone has but may not be aware of despite how important it is to foresight, insights and maintaining a healthy workplace environment. Their mission? To help people be he…
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In a world of constant change and perplexing challenges, insights reveal the path to moving through a chaotic uncertain world with Zen-like mastery. Welcome to the Inspirational Insights podcast: Harnessing Agility, Embracing Possibilities— navigate the ever-evolving landscape in personal and business life with confidence and creativity. Through po…
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Jobs with No Boss with Dunia Reverter and Hugo Lopes
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Dunia Reverter and Hugo Lopes both reached stages in their careers where working for a corporate was not the way forward. Combining their expertise and vision for work not limited by bureaucracy and control they have launched JobswithNoBosses.com and a crowdfunding campaign to help build it out. Serving an international audience, I'm happy to repor…
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Moving from force to radical purpose with Jose Leal
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Jose Leal is an entrepreneur who reached the stage where corporate environments just didn't work. In this episode, we zoom way out to see the underlying intention of the systems that drive management and employee behavior, to see the roots. However, the simplicity of the solution takes a level of leadership consciousness and inner skills that can s…
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As a designer, Jessica Bantom pays attention to details. Details matter particularly when it comes to connecting to different identities and how customers see themselves. Her newly released book, Design for Identity, aims at influencing design decisions that either bring people in or leave them out resulting in a loss of customers. After all, as Br…
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Human-centered Workplaces-The Irish Health Service
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Healthcare services in many nations are under pressure to adapt their design to meet the challenges in today's world. Two exemplary leaders in this challenging field, Margaret Stone and JP Swaine of the Irish Health Service share their experience in working with organizational network analysis and other means to engage the power of people within th…
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Cultivating Transformations with Jardena London
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The Inspirational insights podcast is about leading the shift into the future by seeing through diverse perspectives, in relation to what the world of business and beyond needs now in order to regain adaptive agility. This episode features the art of cultivating transformations with author Jardena London. Jardena is a consultant (the good kind), au…
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Can understanding worldviews reduce polarization? With Kathy Jourdain
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Kathy Jourdain and Jerry Nagel cofounded Worldview Intelligence as an antidote to fragmentation and polarization, inspiring hope and courage for the conversations needed now and for the future. Understanding worldview gives people the power to transform – themselves, their relationships, workplace cultures, and outcomes. Kathy co-authored Building …
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Network Science, FabLab and Anti-corruption-A Conversation with Dr. Silvia Fieruascu
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Dr. Silvia Fierascu is an international researcher, trainer and consultant in applied network science. She is Head of OrgMapper Academy at Maven7 Network Research Inc., Lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science, Philosophy and Communication Sciences at West University of Timișoara, Romania, and Founder and Director of a research, development, an…
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Personal Agility with Maria Matarelli and Peter Stevens
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Personal agility is a project inspired by agile philosophy and adapted to how you lead your life. Authors and coaches Maria and Peter talk about the experience people have had working with Personal Agility, and how one simple question opens up reflection, focus and action. Maria Matarelli is an Executive Agile Coach, Consultant to the Fortune 100, …
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Reinventing Business Schools with Yorkville U's Julia Christensen-Hughes
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In this episode, Julia Christensen Hughes provides an update on the Global Responsible Leadership Initiative's work and speaks to the challenges and the imperative for business schools to reinvent themselves to meet the demands of a changing world and values. The transactional nature of higher education is pivoting to a transformational approach pl…
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Purpose as a Superpower for People and Planet with Ozlem Brooke Erol
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Ozlem Brooke Erol recognized from her time with IBM that it wasn't enough to go to work every day without some sense of why - a purpose. Moving from her homeland in Turkey to the US offered the opportunity to take purpose to heart. After being surrounded by unhappy people at work, in 2003, she started her first business to guide professionals in ha…
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Returning to the Heart of Business with Marilijn Boumeester
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Driving value through clarity on who you are, what truly matters is what differentiates a company from the crowd. Brand strategist and author Marilijn Boumeester talks to Dawna about integrity, values, leadership, and other soft concepts hard to bring to a meaningful level of experience. The character of leaders, stewardship management, and the val…
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Deeper Leadership to Restore Humanity to Workplaces with Nico Petit
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Recently Global Senior Director of Culture Transformation in a Fortune 500 corporation, Nicolas or Nico Petit has pioneered innovative approaches to culture change, applying peer-to-peer behavioral science principles, and orchestrating a community of 1200 influencers worldwide. Passionate about people and data, he led a culture transformation progr…
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Networks Beneath the Surface with Michael Arena, Amazon Web Services
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Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) is a critically important tool for understanding how to use data for better workplace relationships, culture, and decisions. Michael Arena, VP of Talent and Development for Amazon Web Services turns data into a bridge for connecting humanity to better ways of working, deciding, and relating to one another. A ke…
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Inspirational Insights Podcast is guided by the intent to inspire you, whether at home or work to trust more, fear less so you and we can collectively use these times to tap into your deeper self, reinvent workplace relationships, connect to nature’s principles, rethink how power is used, and solve the world’s largest problems from local to global.…
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Facilitating Breakthroughs Between People Who Don't Like Each Other - Adam Kahane
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Adam Kahane is a Director of Reos Partners, an international social enterprise that helps people move forward together on their most important and intractable issues. In this conversation with Dawna Jones, they explore the great mystery and methods for working with people who do not like each other. Adam's is a leading organizer, designer, and faci…
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Regenerative Business in Action with WhatIF Foods Chris Langwallner
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In this episode of the Inspirational Insights podcast, we are joined by WhatIF Foods CEO Chris Langwallner! Chris discusses how to create a regenerative business by taking sustainability to the next level: energizing and empowering farmers with insurance crops helps to diversify the food we consume and how we consume them. Thinking globally and act…
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VUCA Masters! Leadership Agility Fitness with Nick Horney and Dr. Kozhi Makai
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VUCA: Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity are the conditions of today's leadership environment. Nick Horney, author of recently published VUCA Master: Developing Leadership Agility Fitness for the New World of Work (2021) and special guest Dr. Kozhi Makai talk about: The value of a shared language when working with VUCA conditions Ant…
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Two CEOs working on tech solutions for better decision-making exchange learning
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Two CEOs, both serial entrepreneurs and global citizens, of two different companies, jump on this episode of the Inspirational Insights podcast, to share what they have learned developing tech solutions to improve decision-making. Meeting for the first time, Soushiant Zanganehpour referred to as Soush, from SWAE, and Kelly Max, from SOLVV, share th…
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Feet on the Ground - Regenerative Agriculture with Tim Gieseke
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In this episode of the Inspirational Insights podcast, Dawna Jones is joined by Tim Gieseke to discuss regenerative agriculture and restoring environmental values. Food, fiber, and feed contribute as much value as air and water, and Tim is working to change these perspectives. Land management is changing with generational shifts. We talk about envi…
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How do you want to see your country, the world, nature, planet, people, context, interaction? And how does what you are working on actually contribute to achieving it? These are the questions The Futures Project asks. The challenges humanity face, demand diverse voices and expertise from many corners so pre-Covid international policy advisor Dr. Ju…
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Reclaiming Control of Your Personal Health with Olu Ogunlela
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If Covid19 shook up your sense of control over your health and well being you're not alone. Entrepreneur and former professional athlete Olu Ogunlela is the CEO and inspiration behind Liferithms — health tech that allows you to make better choices, get help, and the right kind of support. With health care institutions overwhelmed and beyond burnout…
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Liberating Education through Technology and Vision with Dwayne Matthews
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Dwayne Matthews has a way of bringing data and visionary insights into the room that flips assumptions about what you think you know about how kids learn. As institutions like education struggle to adapt to the speed of new tech, and disruptions like a global pandemic that force adaption and new ways of working vision is necessary to prepare incumb…
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Designing the Emerging Future with Ksenia Benifand
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Ksenia Benifand and Dawna Jones talk about how to design for a better future with less waste and more opportunity. The conversation connects Ksenia's work with diverse stakeholders to gain deeper insights about user & ecosystem needs, pinpoint strategic interventions, co-design solutions, and facilitate iterative prototyping, in order to bring a co…
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Insights Hidden in Organizational Networks - Maya Townsend
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Beneath the surface executives and employees see, runs a hidden network of real influence. Episode 77 with Maya Townsend explores how dynamic these networks are, why this is valuable to decision-makers in dispelling bias, revealing emergent strategy and engaging more power from inside the company. Guest Maya Townsend, founder and lead consultant of…
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Roche Sweden's Transformation Journey with Christian Feinberg
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Global pharmaceutical company Roche tasked its global affiliates with transforming their operation giving them the freedom to decide how to and how much. Roche Sweden Transformation Lead Christian Feinberg talks about how they iteratively shifted from command-and-control to an environment that allowed people at all levels of operations to bring the…
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Soumyasanto Sen is an Advisor and Leader in Digital HR, Workforce Transformation, Technologies, and Analytics, ranking among the top global Influencers and thought leaders in HR Technology, Transformation, and People Analytics. A well-known keynote speaker, Soumya is also the Founder of the Management Advisory firm People Conscience based in Frankf…
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Making Sense of 2020- Insights and Opportunities in 2021
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Each person, each company responded differently to 2020. In this special episode, Dawna reflects back on what a global pandemic invites us to do as decision-makers, whether it is personal, or in a business professional role. She covers linear decision making, bifurcation, shifting consciousness, the value of adapting to work with complex systemic i…
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How to Hire for the Meaning and Self-Engagement that Make Us Resilient in Pandemics and at Work
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In the first of this series on using Covid to advance business thinking and doing, High Performance Story founder Cameron Powell draws on his own experience with adversity, and the importance of meaning, to explain why the way companies search for talent actively filters out talent, as well as diversity and innovation - and why adversity is a good …
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Using the Covid Interruption to Rethink and Cocreate Resilience and Adaptive Ability
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COVID 19 is a wake-up call that reminds us that we are part of the living system and it is showing us how ill prepared we are to adapt to uncertainty. While some companies have taken the higher ethical road, others have made short-term decisions that will likely not recover from. We are at a critical time to adapt our intelligence, to meet the comp…
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500%: How Two Pioneers in Self-Leadership Achieved an Unbelievable Increase in Productivity
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Andrew Holm Julian Wilson and Dawna Jones met in 2015 when Dawna was nomadically wandering Europe in search of management innovators. The morning spent resulted in their first podcast so in this one, after the publication of book #2 Dawna and Andrew dive deeper into the temptations of transformation, how to meet the messiness of switching out a bus…
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Teams need diversity and care to perform well says Diana Larsen. In this conversation Diana talks about the relevance of Agile Fluency beyond the boundaries of teams reaching into social issues like racial inequity. Diana talks about fear being the driver of American business culture and conflict avoidance the greatest threat to society. In avoidin…
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Dynamics of Collaboration with Jan De Visch
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Jan De Visch is an executive professor of Organizational and Human Capital at Flanders Business School whose research focuses on the relationship between organizational structure and sustainable growth. His work assesses the extent to which top teams can flexibly adapt their business models and strategy execution to changes in their environment. As…
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The Grit Factor with Shannon Huffman Polson
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Raised in Alaska, Shannon Huffman Polson climbed Denali at age 19 then went on to become one of the US Army's first female attack helicopter pilots. In this episode, she talks about what grit is, decision making leading an Apache flight platoon on deployment to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the difference between purpose in the military and purpose in the co…
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