Being Human

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with Federico Zuppa and Jorge Silva, the founders of the Argentinian self-managing software company 10Pines. 10Pines is a company with a horizontal organisational structure, where nobody is above anyone else. They make decisions based on consent, not consensus or voting, making for a dynamic, highly adaptive culture.. We talk: Developing citizens, not leaders Choosing your own salary  Getting things done when all work is voluntary The hard parts of being self-managed  The temptations of being a boss Links: 10Pines' culture page

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with fellow podcaster and YouTuber The Uneducated Economist. Four years ago, whilst selling lumber during the day, he spent hours researching economics in his free time. He tried to share his insights with his colleagues until one day; a colleague confessed that it was all going over their heads and that perhaps he should start a blog. The blog became a YouTube channel that now has ninety thousand subscribers.   Although he left formal education at high school, he takes complex economic issues and breaks them down so anyone can understand and have a conversation about them. We talk: Economics 101 Debt as an addiction Prospects for the dollar What's happening with inflation Quitting alcohol and climbing out of debt Links: Simon's Website Simon's YouTube Channel

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with leadership and change consultant Dr Sharon Varney. She recently published 'Leadership in Complexity and Change: For a World in Constant Motion.' Sharon is adept at making complexity science accessible and has a wealth of experience applying it in business. We talk: How starlings demonstrate complexity Increasing your 'complexity aperture' Change management vs managing in change The importance of slowness Ethics in a complex world  Links: Sharon's Website - space for learning

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with Shanghai-based coach and author Jamie Dixon. As well as being a great storyteller himself, Jamie is also someone who helps others share their own stories.  Our conversation is one of two halves: at first, we look at productivity and how he managed to write his latest book in 24 hours flat. In the second, we explore the habits of great storytelling and how you can use them to engage and influence others.  We talk: - Getting things done without willpower - How to say no to the boss - How experiments fuel productivity - The art of relating - How to use story habits to influence others   Links: Jamie's Website Jamie's Books

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week's guest is former medical doctor, corporate retiree, and spiritual adept Kevin Krenitsky. Seven years ago, he left life as a successful executive to devote himself entirely to going within. He recently released The Still Point: The Simplicity of Spiritual Enlightenment. According to Kevin, we are amidst the most significant wave of awakening or self-realisation this planet has ever seen. Our unconscious living has not only created stress, anxiety, wars, and famine; our choices have brought us to the edge of mass destruction. He believes there's a better way, one in which we can live our lives in alignment with our true selves.  We talk: - Following the Direct Path - Our addiction to experience - How we can't solve the mind with the mind - Decoupling thoughts and feelings - The 'journey' trap   Links: The Still Point - The Book Kevin's Website

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week we see the return of a former guest to the podcast, Professor of Complexity and Management at The University of Hertfordshire Chris Mowles. He's back on the podcast to talk about his new book, Complexity: A Key Idea for Business and Society.   Drawing on the natural and social sciences, he describes how complexity models are helpful but insufficient for our understanding of complex reality. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, he explains how, whenever humans are involved, it will be 'predictably unpredictable' whether we like it or not. But rather than this being a cause for despair, Chris emphasises how understanding complexity can give us more options for action.   We talk:  - Handling the discomfort of uncertainty  - Ethics in complexity  - Sources of group resilience  - Unstable stability  - There is no system!   Links: Complexity: A Key Idea for Business and Society - The Book Chris' University of Hertfordshire Page

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week we're releasing a talk I did with friend of the show Tom van der Lubbe at the Forward Summit, a conference dedicated to redefining leadership and management to create happier people and successful organizations.  We talk: - Applying The Golden Rule in business - Why being small is beautiful - Leading through your frustrations   Links: Management 3.0

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week's episode is very special to me, Bob Chapman, a man who's been a personal inspiration for many years. Bob is the award-winning CEO of Barry-Wehmiller and author of the critically acclaimed book Everybody Matters. Bob's life changed after a friend asked him what dream he most feared taking to his grave. This conversation led him to ditch his traditional management approach to start treating his team members as if they were each his own precious child. We talk: - Leadership as listening - Validating people's dignity - Better financial metrics than Buffet - Human wealth, not economic wealth - Flipping the frame Links: Everybody Matters - The Book The Privilege of Leadership

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week I speak with Henry Shukman, author and current Spiritual Director of The Mountain Cloud Zen Center. He teaches mindfulness and awakening practices to a wide range of students from all traditions and walks of life. Henry is a man who seems to have led several lives: author, singer and now Zen adept. His battles with severe eczema at an early age, coupled with the break-up on his parents' marriage, led him on a life-long quest to find relief from his suffering.  After a spontaneous spiritual awakening at the age of 19, followed by a difficult few years, he embarked on a long journey of healing and awakening. His Zen quest ultimately led to the international abbot of Sanbo Zen appointing him a teacher in 2010. We talk: - The Zen atheist - Trauma release and spirituality - Childrearing for awakening - The arduous path Links: Mountain Cloud Zen Center Henry's Books

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week I speak with Dr. Steven MacGregor, the founder of The Leadership Academy of Barcelona, Honorary Professor of Health and Wellbeing at the Glasgow School of Art, and External Advisor for McKinsey & Company. After completing his first degree, Steven continued his education, and athletic pursuits whilst his friends took corporate jobs. He watched his own wellbeing sore as his friends' nosedived. Seeing these companies squashing the vitality of his colleagues set him on a mission to change things.   Steven is also a former international-level duathlete currently racing for FC Barcelona and has trained with Olympic athletes, Tour de France cyclists and Ironman champions.   We talk: - wellbeing as a function of habit - nutrition and movement - stealth exercise   Links: Dr. MacGregor's books The Daily Reset