play Play pause Pause S1 E28 Sep 12, 2025 How Businesses Sabotage Themselves: Lessons from a 1944 CIA Manual During World War II, the OSS (precursor to the CIA) released the “Simple Sabotage Field Manual”—a handbook for disrupting enemy organisations from within. The shocking...
play Play pause Pause S1 E27 Sep 09, 2025 How to Study: 10 Principles That Actually Work In this episode, I explore 10 practical principles that will help you study anything more effectively. We’ll break down why active engagement beats passive highlightin...
play Play pause Pause S1 E26 Sep 04, 2025 Building a Learning Culture: Why Behaviour Beats Training Every Time In this episode, we explore what it really takes to create a true learning culture inside an organisation. Not just training programmes or box-ticking courses, but lea...
play Play pause Pause S1 E25 Aug 26, 2025 5 Trade Skills Often Missing From Business What are the timeless skills that make someone invaluable and successful at work? In this episode, I break down the five core “Trade Skills” — persistence, facing fact...
play Play pause Pause S1 E24 Jul 02, 2025 Crafting a Winning Conference Talk Proposal - and getting it selected Crafting a Winning Conference Talk Proposal - and getting it selectedWant to share your expertise on a conference stage but feel stuck at the Call for Papers submissio...
play Play pause Pause S1 E23 Jun 10, 2025 How to generate conference talk ideas You want to speak at a conference, but you have nothing to sayIt is one of the most common reasons capable people never give a talk.They have been in their industry fo...
play Play pause Pause S1 E17 Oct 11, 2024 Lead Like a Storyteller: Write Your Chapter in Business In this episode I share the idea of a book being written about the business you work in. That book started on the first day of the business - and continues to be writt...
play Play pause Pause S1 E16 Sep 25, 2024 Teaching is a craft - the 10 Elements of a powerful workshop Running a workshop is not a matter of turning up and hoping for the best. It is a craft — built through preparation, intention, and genuine care for the learning journ...
play Play pause Pause S1 E15 Aug 14, 2024 The benefits of bringing nature into your workplace - Biophilic Design In this episode I introduce the idea of Biophilic Design; designing workspaces to include more nature and natural elements. I dig into some of the science and see whet...
play Play pause Pause S1 E14 Jul 24, 2024 Business improvement using Friction Versus Reward Business improvement does not need to be mystical.Beneath the programmes, beneath the jargon, beneath the theatre of transformation — two forces keep showing up. Frict...
play Play pause Pause S1 E13 Jul 10, 2024 Nash's use of Leisure Time pyramid - flawed but still helpful In today's cast and post I'm introducing a model of leisure time from the 1920's! I'll introduce the Netflix challenge (a dysfunctional game being played at a workplac...
play Play pause Pause S1 E12 Jul 01, 2024 3 Ways to talk about value, plus sounds from Zurich I am in Zurich, capturing the sounds of the city - and also sharing 3 helpful ways to frame any conversation about value. We often need executive buy-in, support or ai...
play Play pause Pause S1 E11 Jun 24, 2024 The 8 Different Types of Intelligence Hi,I hope you are doing well. Welcome to another Here’s An Idea Worth Playing With (HAIWPW). The weekly audio show about ideas that I think are worth playing with.I re...
play Play pause Pause S1 E10 Apr 10, 2023 Timeblocking and Energy & Attention - calendar management In this episode I talk about using your calendar wisely by time blocking but offer some caution - simply filling your calendar with "stuff" often doesn't take account ...
play Play pause Pause S1 E9 Apr 03, 2023 Dealing with emails In this episode I share ideas on dealing with email, why it won't go away and how we can still get our job done without being distracted by email. SUPPORTING INFORMATI...
play Play pause Pause S1 E8 Mar 27, 2023 Why (the right) deadlines are helpful In this episode I share why the right deadlines can really drive momentum and help us get things done. Without deadlines work could meander on and we also can't hold o...
play Play pause Pause S1 E7 Mar 20, 2023 Prioritise your work by visualising it In this episode I explain why visualising your work is the first step to prioritising it, controlling it, talking about it and making trade offs about it. After you se...
play Play pause Pause S1 E6 Mar 13, 2023 Be more effective with this powerful question - what problem are we trying to solve? In this episode I share a powerful question to ask in work and life that helps us decide whether we're doing the right work. Be more effective in your everyday work by...
play Play pause Pause S1 E5 Mar 06, 2023 The Pillars of Life In this episode I share the 6 pillars of life, plus why there is an ongoing tension between them that needs managing and how we must be aware of this before it's too l...
play Play pause Pause S1 E4 Feb 27, 2023 How to thrive in your career In this episode I share 10 valuable lessons I've learned whilst trying to thrive in my career. And this doesn't just mean thrive at work - it means managing the tensio...
