The Company Road Podcast E23 Dr. Agustin Chevez - Boredom makes brilliance: The surprising catalyst for workplace creativity
“It's easier to develop a business plan to literally sell shit than it is to develop a framework to implement new ideas, like a scientist.”
Dr. Agustin Chevez
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Rethinking workplace design: Top strategies and recommendations for shifting workplaces to increase productivity, employee engagement and loyalty & how the perception of workplaces is evolving
- AI and the future of work: How AI will impact work, for good and for bad, in the coming years & how you can be best prepared within your role
- Efficiency vs purpose: Balancing the pursuit of efficiency at the cost of purpose and knowing how and when to value both
- Gamification for purpose: Implementing gamification to inject meaning and engagement into standard workplace routine
- Shifting metrics in the modern workplace: Why businesses need to rethink standard measures of success and employee experience to align with more relevant outcomes & authentically boost employee and customer experience
Key links
Dr Agustin Chez’s TedX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMUjCFw-CtM
The Pilgrims Guide to the Workplace https://www.achevez.com/the-pilgrim-s-guide-to-the-workplace
Gitlab https://about.gitlab.com/
Forrest Gump running https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=187trX0mo1o
Learning from Las Vegas book https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262720069/learning-from-las-vegas/
About our guest
As an Architect and researcher, Dr Agustin Chevez (https://www.linkedin.com/in/agustin-chevez) has dedicated his career to understanding the notion of work and uncovering environments that best support our working lives.
Agustin’s interest in the relationship between people, space and technology saw him pursue a PhD on the evolution of workplace architecture as a consequence of technology development. His work has been presented at various international forums and publications. As a sought-after speaker, Agustin has delivered international keynotes and is a TEDx speaker. He has also contributed to workplace strategies in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.
In his latest publication, The Pilgrim’s Guide to the Workplace, Agustin revisits our assumptions about the way we use space to host the ever-evolving notion of work.
Agustin is the Workplace Research Lead at the Centre for the New Workforce at Swinburne University and an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Workplace Leadership at the University of Melbourne.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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