Being Human

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I interview Chief Happiness Officer (CHO) of Happy Ltd and the author of The Happy Manifesto, Henry Stewart. We discuss: - The evidence that a happy workforce does drive financial performance and not vice versa - What Henry has had to give up to lead a happiness-first organisation - How the joy metric is one of Happy's top KPIs - How making fewer decisions and asking more questions is a more effective way to lead - Why transparency is key to a happy workplace Enjoy! Links: https://happymanifesto.com/ https://www.happy.co.uk/

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I interview IMD Professor Michael Wade co-author of the highly praised Digital Vortex and the just-released Orchestrating Transformation. We talk: - How change approaches must embrace the increasing complexity of modern companies - How effective digital transformation is more like conducting an orchestrator than executing a plan - Why Humility, Adaptability, Vision and Engagement (HAVE) are the most important attributes of a transformation leader - What we mean by 'network transformation' - The personal transformation many leaders must go through to become effective orchestrators of change Enjoy! Links: https://orchestratingtransformation.com/ http://digitalvortex.imd.org/

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, we interview Nikki Gatenby author of Superengaged - nominee for Business Book of the Year. At her offices in Brighton, UK, we talk: - Using your people's side hustles as fuel for business innovation - Creating a culture that takes people from engaged to superengaged - How putting people before profit led to a partnership with a Namibian safari outfit - The waste associated with a disengaged workforce - Their famed "dreamball machine" for making the lives of their people better Enjoy! Links: https://superengaged.co.uk/ https://www.propellernet.co.uk/  

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is David Anderson - a pioneer in applying kanban-style visual working to IT teams and ultimately across the enterprise. He's been a major influence on me in helping clients transition to flow-based working. In this in-depth conversation, we cover: - The importance of understanding customer purpose - How to apply evolutionary thinking to product development - The battle between grey squirrels & red squirrels and what is means for change - How Bruce Lee inspires him in leading transformation - Why it's ultimately our identity that matters most Links: https://edu.leankanban.com/

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I talk with Luke Hohmann, the founder and CEO of Coneneo and co-founder of Every Voice Engaged Foundation. We discuss: - Managing our inner two-year-old - The foundational aspects of business agility - How we don't have crappy code in our systems, we have crappy collaboration - How collaborative budgeting can actually speed up decision making - The future world of The Chief Gaming Officer - The CGO Enjoy! Links: https://conteneo.co/

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this very open conversation, I sit down with the founder of the radical business operating system Holacracy, Brian Robertson. We cover: - How many of the critics misunderstand the nature of Holacracy - Why a transformation to this style of working is a multi-year journey - The story of why Medium’s Holacracy implementation - How depersonalising our work frees us for more love in the workplace - Brian's take on Zappos' Holacracy experience Links: http://www.holacracyone.org

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, I talk with author, founder and productivity guru Jim Benson. We get into:  - Why to-do lists suck and why to use a ‘Personal Kanban’ instead - The story of Jim’s very first personal kanban - ‘The Crapban’ - Why making your own kanban public can be a radical act - The importance of depersonalising our work - Why plans fail and what to do about it Links: http://personalkanban.com/

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode I speak with a major thinker and pioneer in the field of trauma and recovery and author of the seminal "Waking The Tiger", Dr. Peter Levine. We talk: - The concept of re-enactment and why it's so important to understand for personal and business relationships - How memory formation works and what we mean by implicit and explicit memory - Why trauma is still so taboo - How Dr.Levine first discovered the natural mechanisms we can use to recover from trauma - What we can do within businesses to acknowledge and benefit from understanding trauma Enjoy! Links: www.traumahealing.com - home of The Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute Waking The Tiger - The Book

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode, we talk with Kanban pioneer and Lean-Agile thought leader Mike Burrows. We cover: - the critical ingredients in Mike’s early successes with Kanban in Budapest - the importance of always starting with the end in mind - techniques for uncovering outcomes and obstacles with teams - why he’s so driven to develop humane systems within organisations - how being human is recognising our frailty Enjoy! Links: https://www.agendashift.com/ - Mike's Agendashift home https://cleanlearning.co.uk - resources on Clean Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_model - Viable System Model

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ We talk with Sally McCutchion, UK pioneer of the revolutionary 'business operating system' Holacracy. We go deep on: - what adopting 'a business without bosses' takes for you as an individual - what it means to have a living job role - how to run meetings that get through 33 agenda items in 55 minutes! - how it can so hard to give up 'permission seeking' - what we mean by 'Red', 'Orange' and 'Teal' organisations Enjoy! Links: http://www.sallymccutchion.com/ https://www.holacracy.org/ http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/