The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ As well as researching psychological safety with his colleague Amy Edmondson , my guest this week, Mike Lee, Professor in Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, takes a deep interest in how company structure affects how people act. In this episode, we cover: - Psychological safety defined - How changing the default choices managers make can improve psychological safety for others - The radically flat business operating system Holacracy: its benefits and limitations - How getting to know your colleagues improves productivity - Mike's spirit animal: a live demo Enjoy! Have a great weekend,  Richard  Links: Mike's website INSEAD profile link

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with Dr. David A. Bishop, author of "Metagility: Managing Agile Development for Competitive Advantage". We talk: - How we must now reconsider the Agile Manifesto - The concept of "Agile Vorticity" - How to change as fast as your market - How the rise of smart devices is changing the rules for agility - A happy marriage of Agile and Waterfall techniques - Agility as your Product Engine   Enjoy and have a great weekend,  Richard Links: Metagility book Agile Worx

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Author and business philosopher Raj Sisodia is back with a new book, The Healing Organization, which takes a deep look at the role of a business within its community. In this episode, we talk: - The four energies we must balance when building Healing Organisations - What The Founders missed when learning from the Iroquois to write the American Constitution - Saving lives by baking cookies - A call centre boss' epiphany - Raj's take on Amazon's business practices Enjoy! Best wishes and be well, Richard Links: The Healing Organization book  The Conscious Capitalism Institute

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ A conversation with Howard Lewis: art collector, investor and YouTube street stunt artist. Although now obviously suspended, he runs OFFLINE, a monthly gathering with a simple aim: to share a meal. The prospect of sharing a refection with anyone beyond our immediate household is a distant prospect for many of us right now. However, Howard provides us with some inspiration for the lives we might want to create when we can all let go of the current strictures. In this episode, we talk: - The inspiration for his 'chocolate challenge' street initiative - The primal power of dining together - Why we must bring more spontaneity to our gatherings - The gift of developing conversational skills - The need for us all to be more human in our public lives Enjoy!

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Matt Homann, CEO of Filament, a firm dedicated to faciliating great meetings in-person or online. We talk: - the fundamental principles that make for an excellent meeting - how to make meetings work online - the common mistakes that people make in offline meetings that you should not transfer online - a future of Chief Collaboration Officers - humanising virtual working  Enjoy! Best wishes Richard Links: Filament website

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode Tom van der Lubbe shares how his company Viisi took their entire workforce 100% remote in two days and so far have seen no loss in revenue. Viisi is a pioneer in self-organisation. They have implemented the radical business operating system Holacracy to create an extraordinary high-trust culture. They are now reaping the rewards of their stellar human capital during the current crisis. In this episode, we talk: - why people-first businesses will win during this crisis - how Viisi's self-organised structure allowed them to go remote so quickly - how removing fear from the environment has seen their revenues unaffected - how the teams themselves are accommodating those with essential-worker spouses - how purpose is replacing the CEO in self-managed organisations Links: Tom's profile on Viisi Brian's Robertson's Holacracy book Tom's recent article in Corporate Rebels

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I interview author, speaker and strategist Dawna Jones. Dawna has been podcasting more than a decade. She's a "lover of the power of the human spirit" and has a deep interest in how businesses and consumers together can restore our social and ecological health. In this full-blooded conversation, we talk: - her emergence from homelessness after the '08 crash - making sense of life's interruptions - the key factors of decision making in complexity - the organisation as part of life itself - why we need to think more broadly than just collective intelligence Enjoy and stay safe.

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest for this episode is Associate Professor Jonathan Trevor from Saïd Business School and author of the Financial Times' Book of the Month, 'Align'. Jonathan talks a broad view of alignment across all aspects of the enterprise. We talk: - What is alignment and Jonathan's Strategic Alignment Framework - The universalists (best practice is best) vs the contingency theorists (context matters) - Why we must look at alignment as more than a 'people issue.' - Why you must pick between stability and agility - The Enterprise Leader as Organisational Architect Enjoy! Align book link  Jonathan's Saïd profile

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest for this episode is Tom Szaky. Tom is an extraordinary multi-award-winning entrepreneur who embodies the notion of the purpose-driven enterprise. His company Terracycle is a world leader in offering commercial solutions to fully recycling our products. From his plant in the middle of one of the most deprived districts in New Jersey, we talk: - Why for-profit companies beat non-profits in saving the world - How being purpose-driven leads to negative marketing budgets - How they have no crime incidents despite their location - How growing up in communism has made him a better capitalist - The issue with framing big corporations as evil and how to make them care Enjoy! Links: Tom's company - TerraCycle

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ As I upload this video, many people are facing working from home fulltime for the first time in their careers. In this episode, I speak with Dr. Sara Perry from Baylor University, a leading researcher in the field. We talk: - How to be a successful remote worker - When remote working works and when it doesn't - What remote working could mean for our society - The personality types that struggle with it - What to do to make the most of the opportunity if you've been given it Enjoy! Richard Links: Join Dr. Perry's study Her book 'Organized Innovation'