Business Second Opinion

S1 Ep141: Use Conflict for Innovation— Archive 12.1.17

S1 Ep140: Seven First Principles of Regeneration —Archive 6.24.18

S1 Ep139: Forget Purpose Driven Organization—Archive 7.11.18

Satisfiicing Bias: How Better Becomes the Enemy of Best. Herbert Simon, Noble Prize Economist, introduced us to an idea of this challenge to innovation and theory of change. Carol Sanford, the positive contrarian, gives you the deep understanding behind this and way around it so you can kickstart and accelerate Innovation.

S1 Ep138: There are 3 Mindsets, Not Two—Archive 3.5.19

The new craze of Growth Mindset examined. What it adding to the leadership work in business and why it is incomplete in terms of what is possible.

S1 Ep137: The New Greenwashing

Business Second Opinion Podcast digs deep to answer questions about business and business practice, you may not know you need to ask. But we believe you should be asking for the benefit of your understanding and your business ethics and practice. In the process of answering them, we give you a second opinion, usually a contrarian opinion, but that is well tested and proven to give the outcomes you really want without the side effects. … In today’s show, we examined: This episode is The New Green...

S1 Ep136: Diversity and Inclusion Needs a New Model

Diversity and Inclusion is not about being a more thoughtful person. Although that is required. It is not about being fair and equitable, although it does require activating that understanding. And it is not having a great business although it will produce that. It is about having each and every human able to develop and contribute their full potential in a lifetime and to have systems to evolve that capacity for each person and all of Life. Business Second Opinion Podcast digs deep to answer qu...

S1 Ep135: Gifts and Limits of Circular Economy

What is required to create deep and lasting change for EArth? Is Circular Economy the new best approach? The answer has some part of Yes! But it has a lot of limitations that tend to be blocked out by the advocates of Circular Economy. The reason for the Yes, it that it will slow down the driver of one bigger challenge we face in the climate crises. The reason it is limited is it is using the way of thinking that got us into the mess. Surprisingly, we are thinking from the old paradigm, the Extr...

S1 Ep134: Decision-Making World Views: Static, Dynamic, Developmental.

How do we over come model thinking as the default? To switch to using framework thinking. Models tell us answers that are averaged or idealized. Frameworks give us questions and domains for quesions. like the ones we ask., Give us the ability to form a way to think critically and develop questions to guide us in each unique situation. Business Second Opinion Podcast digs deep to answer questions about business and business practice, you may not know you need to ask. But we believe you should be ...

S1 Ep133: Do Metrics Undermine Strategy? Depends on What and Where You Measure!

Metrics in a favorite question from listeners. How and who to measure. Harvard Business Review has a proposal this month Sept 2019. WE think they fell in many traps and work to help you examine how strategy and metrics go together, and how markets dictate more. Business Second Opinion Podcast digs deep to answer questions about business and business practice, you may not know you need to ask. But we believe you should be asking for the benefit of your understanding and your businesses ethics and...

S1 Ep132: The Future of Performance Management

We answer a listener's question on "What is the Future of Performance Management," since so many businesses are giving up annual reviews and 360 Degree Feedback. Deloitte has an answer but it turns out the be from the same paradigm that created the problem. See if you can catch it before we give you the Eight Objectives pursued by a Regenerative Business. Business Second Opinion Podcast digs deep to answer questions about business and business practice, you may not know you need to ask. But we b...

S1 Ep131: History of Process Improvement Programs & Living-System Alternatives.—Part 2

A month ago, we started a conversation about the much-lauded idea of process improvement. In succession, through history, each assumed" new" program has brought very little that is new. And is adopted by business first, then education and not-for-profits and eventually into families. Each time, the practices getting further away from a living-systems practice and barely ameliorate the problems the old one created This time we give you the Living System alternatives with examples. Descriptive par...

S1 Ep130: Make Your Business Non-Displaceable with Essence Expression

Carol & Zac examine four approaches to strategy and their value in providing focus, positioning, and execution relative to longevity and financial effectiveness. What leads to an inability to be bumped from a market space, lose members of your tribe, be knocked out by product substitutes. And have shortfalls in cash flow, margins and earnings. Essence expression as the nodal or keystone to strategic thinking wins— hands down. Learn why! Business Second Opinion Podcast digs deep to answer que...

S1 Ep129: Process Programs: Anything Really New?

Every ten years there is a new program for process improvement in business, education, and organization. e.g. Kaizen, Agile, Six Sigma. They each claim to bring something revolutionary. We test what is new since Scientific Management over a century ago. How would we measure the worth of a program in advance and how you can examijne any new program from Multiple Intelligences to Agile.. With our critical thinking lens. Business Second Opinion Podcast digs deep to answer questions about business a...

S1 Ep128: Which is Better? Questions or Answers? Part 2

How to assess the help you are offered or considering buying. Part 2. What is the difference between expert help and help from those who are imagers of Life. On improves the intelligence of, and innovation in, your organization and the other diminishes it. You can afford to not know? Descriptive paragraph Business Second Opinion Podcast digs deep to answer questions about business and business practice, you may not know you need to ask. But we believe you should be asking for the benefit of your...

S1 Ep127: Which is Better? Questions or Answers? Part 1

We look at how to evaluate consulting practices and offering for their ability to promote intelligence and innovation be embedded and imbued. We use the framework of epistemology- that is how we know what we know, what is the means we know, what we are allowed to know. Specific three epistemologies and what they give us clues to in terms of developing intelligence and innovation into a culture. Descriptive paragraph Business Second Opinion Podcast digs deep to answer questions about business and...

S1 Ep126: Resurgence of Hierarchies Part 2

Business Second Opinion Podcast digs deep to answer questions about business and business practice, you may not know you need to ask. But we believe you should be asking for the benefit of your understanding and your businesses ethics and practice. In the process of answering them, we give you a second opinion, usually a contrarian opinion, but that is well tested and proven to give the outcomes you really want without the side effects. … In today’s show, we examined: This episode is the second ...

S1 Ep125: The Resurgence of Hierarchies to Manage People- Part 1

Business Second Opinion Podcast digs deep to answer questions about business and business practice, you may not know you need to ask. But we believe you should be asking for the benefit of your understanding and your businesses ethics and practice. In the process of answering them, we give you a second opinion, usually a contrarian opinion, but that is well tested and proven to give the outcomes you really want without the side effects. This episode is the first of two on the debate, even the wa...

S1 Ep124: The Regenerative Approach to Innovation on Demand

Innovation is a three-legged stool. It is not a list of behaviors but calls for a mindset that includes an external focus on stakeholder's lives plus what is called for with new capability for the stakeholder and the business delivering the new innovation

S1 Ep123: Innovation: From Pattern Following To Pattern Generating

We examine a series of articles and ideas on how Innovation Happens. We look at the paradigm their ideas, research and thinking come from and the effect of that. We offer that missing it how to build the Mind that can break away from all our mechanicalness and move our thinking, every day, toward groundbreaking ways of thinking and therefore new offerings into the market. Live fishbowl with Zac on 3 mentation aims and ways to pursue them

S1 Ep122: Heeding Einstein's Admonishing- Thinking with a New Mind

Using the march 2019 Harvard Business Revies entitled Why Feedback Fails, we examine how to tell if we have swtiched minds when we suggest an alternative practice or adopt a suggested one.

S1 Ep121: Fixed, Growth and Developmental Mindsets

The new craze of Growth Mindset examined. What it adding to the leadership work in business and why it is incomplete in terms of what is possible.

S1 Ep120: Four Level of Design Thinking

We look at four paradigms that define Design Thinking, a very popular idea that has spread into every consulting practice and field. Including a Living Stems view of Design Thinking.

S1 Ep119: The Hazard of Finding Truth in Scientific Research Part 2

In this episode of Business Second Opinion, Carol Sanford gives a business second opinion in this second episode concerning the hazard of finding truth in scientific research. Carol Sanford, the positive contrarian, continues to shed light on this topic. Find more at www.businesssecondopinion.com Harvard Business Review, Hazard, Truth, Scientific, Research

S1 Ep118: The Hazard of Finding Truth in Scientific Research

In this episode of Business Second Opinion, Carol Sanford gives a business second opinion on the hazard of finding truth in scientific research. Carol Sanford, the positive contrarian, gives you the deep understanding behind this topic. Find more at www.businesssecondopinion.com Harvard Business Review, Hazard, Truth, Scientific, Research

S1 Ep117: Satisficing: "Better" is the Enemy of "Best"

In this episode of Business Second Opinion, Carol Sanford gives a business second opinion on Satisficing in the business world. Satisficing Bias: How Better Becomes the Enemy of Best. Herbert Simon, Noble Prize Economist, introduced us to an idea of this challenge to innovation and theory of change. Carol Sanford, the positive contrarian, gives you the deep understanding behind this and way around it so you can kickstart and accelerate Innovation. Find more at www.businesssecondopinion.com Harva...

S1 Ep116: First Principles of Regeneration

In this episode of Business Second Opinion, Carol Sanford gives a business second opinion on principles of regeneration in the business world. Find more at www.businesssecondopinion.com Harvard Business Review, Regenerative, Principles of Regeneration

S1 Ep115: Certification: Undermining the Ability to Reason

In this episode of Business Second Opinion, Carol Sanford gives a business second opinion on Certification and the impact on the ability to reason. Find more at www.businesssecondopinion.com Harvard Business Review, Certification, Reason

S1 Ep114: Five Criteria for Regenerative Work Design

In this episode of Business Second Opinion, Carol Sanford gives a business second opinion on Criteria for Regenerative Work Design. Find more at www.businesssecondopinion.com Harvard Business Review, Work Design

S1 Ep113: Principles for Work Design Infrastructure

In this episode of Business Second Opinion, Carol Sanford gives a business second opinion on Principles for Work Design Infrastructure. Find more at www.businesssecondopinion.com Harvard Business Review, Feedback

S1 Ep112: Holocracy

In this episode of Business Second Opinion, Carol Sanford gives a business second opinion on Holocracy. Find more at www.businesssecondopinion.com Harvard Business Review, Feedback