Rob Lambert

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S1 E30 Sep 19, 2025

Climb the Career Ladder: 8 Key Principles to Thrive, Add Value, and Accelerate Your Career

In this episode, I share the 8 principles that shaped my own career journey — from software tester to executive leader. We’ll explore how to define what thriving looks...

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S1 E29 Sep 16, 2025

Spinning Plates: A Simple Productivity System for Work, Family, and Projects

In this episode, I break down the productivity system that helps me manage work, family life, content creation, and side projects - all without feeling overwhelmed. It...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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S1 E24 Jul 02, 2025

Crafting a Winning Conference Talk Proposal - and getting it selected

Crafting a Winning Conference Talk Proposal - and getting it selected Want to share your expertise on a conference stage but feel stuck at the Call for Papers submiss...

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S1 E23 Jun 10, 2025

How to generate conference talk ideas

You want to speak at a conference, but you have nothing to say It is one of the most common reasons capable people never give a talk. They have been in their industry ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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. Fric...

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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 workpl...

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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...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 INFORMA...

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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...

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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...

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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 b...