PBTO57: Liminal Thinking - Creating change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs with Dave Gray
Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
Release Date: 07/06/2017
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What sort of Leader do you want to be with Lisa O'Neil
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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
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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
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In this episode, we speak to Radhika Dutt, the author of the book - Radical Product Thinking.
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In this episode, we host Dave Gray. He is the founder of XPLANE and author of multiple books including Liminal Thinking.
Why is he on the show:
He is a visual artist and uses agile, iterative techniques like Visual Thinking, Culture Mapping, and Gamestorming to get people engaged and involved in co-creating clear, unique and executable business strategies. His latest book - Liminal Thinking, talks about a core practice for connected leaders in a complex world.
What do we talk about:
In a free-wheeling conversation, we speak about
- How did he come about writing his book "Game-storming" with Sunni Brown and James Macanufo and his experience of writing the book
- Empathy Map and he shares a story about a session where he used the map and how it impacts people
- Why is it so difficult for people to empathise with others?
- How did his book "Connected Company" come about and what it was all about (Digital Transformation), which led to the question about how to make the transformation?
- How this led him to his latest book - "Liminal Thinking"
- The entire conversation around belief and how critical it is for internal transformation
- What are some of the most simple of things that if done can have significant impact on our lives?
- The ability to sit back and observe oneself as a third person is a meta ability that can help us bring about significant changes in our own lives. How could one go about developing this ability?
- Is there a connection between being in the moment and visual thinking?
- Something that was surprising and interesting while researching for the book - "Liminal thinking".
- Who does he considers the most inspiring person and why?
- What is it that you see in the world that blows his mind?
- What is the biggest limitation of humanity? Why?
- What does his creative process looks like? What are his routines that support his creativity?
- What gives him joy or how does he rejuvenate himself?
- Where does he get creative ideas from ?
- What is his learning habits? How does he continue to evolve and grow as a person?
- Book Recommendation:
- What he thinks is obvious but people miss all the time (The answer will definitely surprise you).
- What is one thing he wants you to do as soon as you finish listening to this conversation?
Liminal thinking talks about learning six principles and nine practices. These nine practices of liminal thinking can be summarised as three simple precepts:
- Get in touch with your ignorance.
- Seek understanding.
- Do something different.
Here is a video where Dave explains the Pyramid of Beliefs from his book and you can find a summary of his book here.
How can you connect with him:
You can follow him on twitter @DaveGray and his website is http://www.xplaner.com.