PBTO56: The Inevitable - Technological Forces that will Shape Our Future
Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
Release Date: 06/29/2017
PBTO: Goldratts Rules of Flow - Delivering Projects on-time on-budget and on-spec and driving up profitability
Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
This is the recording of a live conversation I had with Dr. Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag to explore how the principles from the Theory of Constraints can be applied to multi-project environments (Digital transformation efforts) to deliver projects on time, on budget and on spec. She shared insights from her latest book (now available in Worldwide) Goldratt’s Rules of Flow to help us understand how to increase the velocity and throughputs of project deliveries within our organisation. We covered the following topics in the conversation: Introducing the work of Dr. Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag Do 70%...
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PBTO: Stepping into a World of Exponential Possibility with Sophie Krantz
Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
In this episode of the podcast, we host the inimitable and unapologetically ambitious, Sophie Krantz. We had a conversation about leadership and the need for economic growth and opportunity. We discussed the possibility of creating positive change in the world through frameworks like exponential organization (ExO) and coaching ordinary people to do extraordinary things. In this wide ranging conversation, we discussed - The importance of seeing the world as one and the need to overcome fears and limiting beliefs to achieve breakthrough growth. - The value of immersive experiences and tapping...
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PBTO: Asking the Right Questions and Questioning the right things with Dr. Alan Barnard
Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
In this conversation with , we explore how the principles of the Theory of Constraints (originally created by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt) can be used to not only drive significant business results but also to help us make high stake decisions as leaders. In this freewheeling conversation, we explore Dr Barnard's story about how he met with Dr. Goldratt and his famous motto. We explore who is a true expert He shares how he got into an argument with Dr. Goldratt and how he then formed a life long connection with Dr. Goldratt. He shares his most important lessons from all his interaction with Dr....
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PBTO: The Art of Leading in an Ever Changing World with Damien Cummings
Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
In this free wheeling conversation, we cover What it takes to lead in an ever changing world What are some of the key skills leaders need to cultivate to thrive What are some of the things that leaders need to avoid to thrive How AI or Artificial Intelligence will change the face of the organisation and therefore the role of a leader The importance of having a clear strategy or a "True North" when everything around us is changing all the time and much more.
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PBTO: Learning How to Communicate to Inform, Inspire and Connect People with Col Fink
Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
In this interesting conversation, Speaker, Author and Advisor (and Public speaking coach) shares his perspective on the importance of clear and effective communication for leaders. He also shares insights on how to get good at communication and specifically when speaking to an audience (internal or external). He shares how leaders can learn to communicate to inform, inspire and connect. He also talks about how good communication can provide leaders the leverage they need in order to scale both - effectiveness and efficiency. If you are a leader and want to work on your communication, this is...
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PBTO - The Art of Leadership with Pankaj Rusia
Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
In this first episode of a new series, which will be focused on leadership, we host a practicing leader - Pankaj Rusia. He currently works for SAP as the Head of Customer Success for the SAP HR Cloud business are and is based out of Singapore. As the Head of Customer Success for SAP South East Asia, he is on a mission to make customers look great in front of their leadership, employees, and managers, and to help them get the best out of their SuccessFactors solutions. In this wide ranging conversation, he shares his insights on leadership. WE cover many things including the following: The...
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PBTO: Mindsets to Become a High Performing Leader
Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
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What sort of Leader do you want to be with Lisa O'Neil
Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
This the first episode of the current season of my podcast - Pushing Beyond the Obvious and I am super happy and excited to kick off the season with none other than . She is a self described energy and human expert. In this wide ranging conversation about energy and leadership, she shared a lot of great insights on leadership. Here are some of my takeaways from the conversation: She shared insights about the importance of knowing ourselves. If we do not know what kind of a leader we want to be, how would our team know. In order for our teams to perform at their best, they need to know exactly...
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All about Performance Management with Stacey Barr - The Performance Measure Specialist
Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
In this episode of Pushing Beyond the Obvious, we host Stacey Barr - The Performance Measure Specialist. She Stacey is a specialist in strategic performance measurement and evidence-based leadership. Stacey specialises in using practical performance measurement as the catalyst for creating a high-performance culture that achieves measurable success. She is also the creator ot PuMP®. is a performance measurement methodology that routinely transforms measurement cynics into its greatest advocates. In this wide ranging conversation, we cover: 1. What is the definition of a KPI? ...
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Radical Product Thinking with Radhika Dutt
Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
In this episode, we speak to Radhika Dutt, the author of the book - Radical Product Thinking.
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Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin is called The Inevitable, which is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy, the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control, a graphic novel about robots and angels, The Silver Cord, an oversize catalog of the best of Cool Tools, and his summary theory of technology in What Technology Wants (2010).
Why is he on the show:
In his latest book "The Inevitable", he talks about 12 trends that will shape the way our society will evolve. This is already a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
What do we talk about:
In this free-wheeling conversation, we talk about:
- His interest and curating non-fiction films. He has a curated list of some of the wonderful documentaries on his site here.
- The 12 trends that are directions that technology is going to move towards, that seem to be inevitable. He lists them as verbs (Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning , Beginning)
- [bctt tweet=""Trends are inevitable, the form and function is not"" username="rmukeshgupta"]
- Technology vs Societal view points of view to look at the future..
- How Technology has its own agenda..
- Have these trends have been behaving since the time the book was written..
- How Moore's law would have served you really well if you believed in it..
- Artificial intelligence and how this is going to play out..
- How can entrepreneurs make use of these trends and place themselves at the fore-runners when these trends play out and become mainstream
- How can we stay relevant in the future where these trends are becoming mainstream?
- What do these technologies and trends mean for us as a society and culture? How do we prepare for the future that is coming?
- Access vs ownership
- Products vs services
- Tangible vs intangible
- A 1000 true fans and how this coupled with the trends that we are talking about provides a great opportunity for entrepreneurs to profit from.
- What are some of the most important skills that we need to learn in order to stay relevant:
- To learn how to learn (Meta skill or the super skill). Figure out how we learn best or our own kind of learning.
- Learn how to ask questions.
- Techno-literacy and critical thinking
- How he learns and stays up-to-date with what he sees happening around him?
- What he thinks is obvious but no one sees it yet (A very surprising answer)..
- Documentary he recommends - Becoming Warren Buffet. You can watch the documentary below:
How can you connect with him:
You can find his blog here. You can subscribe to his weekly newsletter here.