Gary A. Bolles is the co-founder of eParachute, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area-based startup focused on helping job-hunters & career changers, inspired by the best-selling career book of all time, “What Color Is Your Parachute?” Bolles is also the co-producer of “Closing The Gap,” a new event focused on strategies for increasing economic mobility in the face of tech-driven disruption, in Palm Beach, Florida. Bolles has produced a variety of conferences and strategic events. He is a co-founde...
Oct 09, 2016•48 min
In an age where the time between disruptions is getting shorter and the exponential growth of technology threatens the upheaval of almost every industry, certainty is fast becoming a distant memory. Yet, when it comes to deciding which projects to invest in at most large organisations, we often rely on projections and estimates based on assumptions about the same uncertain future. Think of this as the Innovator’s Funding Dilemma, encapsulated by these five common pitfalls of funding corporate in...
Oct 06, 2016•6 min
Ahoy there entrepreneurs and corporate innovators! After my recent appearance on the Razor Sharp Show with Ray Milidoni, I was invited back for a deep dive interview with Matt Romania, to talk all about a topic of personal disruption, something I touched on when chatting with Ray. In this age of technological upheaval and business model disruption, the need to be more adaptable and duck and weave in response to, or even better, in anticipation of, change, is becoming more and more important. We ...
Oct 02, 2016•26 min
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk hackathons, and how, while they are a great tool for bringing teams together to move quickly to build prototypes, are often done in a way that doesn't focus on problem solution fit, unique value proposition or business model. Essentially, most hackathons fall into the all to common trap of building what excites the team building it, but not the market. This is the main reason why 96% of startups and new ventures fail. I talk through what you and/or your ...
Sep 29, 2016•8 min
Brought to you by Braintree. In this mid-week special we bring you the second live edition of Future Squared, in the form of a panel discussion, before an audience at Collective Campus. Guests include: * VICKI MILLER (Digital Transformation, KMART) Vicki is part of KMART's Digital Transformation team. A senior executive experienced leading businesses in digital innovation, business transformation, revenue growth and P&L improvement. A proven track record developing new revenue streams throu...
Sep 27, 2016•36 min
Note: Please excuse the poor audio quality of this episode. Rene provides a lot of value so I encourage you to listen, despite this. Will ensure future episodes are of a higher quality. Rene Boer is the co-author of How To Be a Great Boss. "If your employees brought their A-game to work every day, what would it mean for your company’s performance? What would it mean for its ability to innovate and capture new growth opportunities?" With 30 years experience in the Restaurant Industry, Rene learne...
Sep 25, 2016•1 hr 5 min
Many might remember the story of Eric Moussambani, the ‘Olympic swimmer’ from Equatorial Guinea who took 1:52.72 to complete his 100m swim at Sydney 2000, more than twice that of his nearest competitor. Before the Olympics, he had never even seen a 50m long pool, took up swimming eight months prior and practiced swimming in a lake. In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk return on optimisation, or ROO. Companies often get obsessed running A/B tests to optimise their marketing funnels, but, are...
Sep 22, 2016•8 min
Katherine Squire is the General Manager of App Development and DevOps at the Australian Stock Exchange. She has over 20 years' experience in Exchange, Investment Katherine was Executive General Manager at IRESS where she was responsible for turning around the Financial Markets Products Division with a focus on building a strong, high performing team that could scale globally. She has extensive experience in product management. Topics Discussed: Culture change at the ASX...one bite of the elephan...
Sep 17, 2016•44 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future ---- I was recently asked to partake in a discussion with a newly formed innovation team at an ASX20 company. What started out as an informal discussion quickly had me on my feet, white-boarding away and firing on all cognitive cylinders as I talked, or drew my way, through the different things large bureaucratic organisations need to consider when it comes to the big hairy audacious mission of creating an enviro...
Sep 14, 2016•9 min
Hailing from Austin, Texas, Ash Maurya is the founder of Leanstack. Since bootstrapping his last company seven years ago, he has launched five products and one peer-to-web application framework. Throughout this time he has been in search of better, faster ways for building successful products. Ash has more recently been rigorously applying Customer Development and Lean Startup techniques to his products, frequently writing about this on his blog and turning this into the critically acclaimed boo...
Sep 11, 2016•37 min
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk about the power of turning bad habits into good habits and how it can have a profound impact on both your personal and professional life! Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information...
Sep 08, 2016•9 min
Pascal Finette heads up Entrepreneurship at Singularity University as well as SU Labs, its accelerator program which grows startups that are focused on tackling the world’s most intractable problems leveraging exponential technologies. He loves technology and believes that the Internet is deeply impacting mankind. He got started on the Net before there was a web browser, founded a couple of technology startups, led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helping ent...
Sep 03, 2016•46 min
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk "Gyshido" or Getting Your Shit Done, a movement spearheaded by Singularity University's Pascal Finette, who will be our very special guest on the next episode of Future Squared! Check out Gyshido.com for more! Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign u...
Sep 01, 2016•6 min
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I talk why you should disrupt yourself. I had the pleasure of interviewing Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself, and formerly co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, way back when in episode #13 of Future Squared. She told the story of her own personal reinvention from secretary on Wall Street to high ranking equities analyst to co-founder of a boutique investment firm which invested in and led the $8 million seed round for Korea...
Aug 25, 2016•8 min
This mid-week bonus is a little different! After over 50 episodes, mostly of me interviewing other people, in this episode, the tables are turned. I recently had the pleasure of appearing on Ray Milidoni’s Razor Sharp show which was a lot of fun. Ray poked and probed about a number of topics such as how to get started in business, how to get the most out of every day, how to build, measure and learn using the lean startup, we also got talking about Lemonade Stand, the children’s entrepreneurship...
Aug 24, 2016•49 min
Those of you familiar with this podcast would know I’m a big fan of Dave McClure and his Pirate Metrics approach to customer acquisition - well, Dave is the founder of 500 startups, the venture capital seed fund and accelerator based in the Valley that has invested in more than 1500 companies across more than 50 countries. In this episode, I speak with Arnaud Bonzom, Director of Corporate Innovation at 500 Startups. Arnaud’s recent report on How do the World’s Biggest Companies Deal with the St...
Aug 21, 2016•1 hr 6 min
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I cover a topic that is the bane of existence for many a corporate employee which is getting buy-in for corporate innovation, or just getting buy-in for trying different things in general...how do you go about doing this, especially when decision-makers appear to be set in their ways? In this episode, I walk you through, 13 strategies you can begin to experiment with in your workplace starting with #1, hacking the culture. Excuse the lisp, it's totally my mic'...
Aug 18, 2016•10 min
Maggie brings more than 12 years of innovation management, market insight analysis and business strategy experience in the financial services sector. Now working for Spigit and based in Chicago, she consults Spigit’s key clients on successful social ideation challenges to engage their workforce and customers to solve priority business issues. She brings creativity and insight to understand the unique business needs of each organization while integrating with the overall strategy. Spigit is the w...
Aug 17, 2016•36 min
Leslie Barry is currently the head of innovation at Sportsbet, Australia’s largest online bookmaker with $117M operating profit / 79.4 million pounds in 2015. He was previously the head of innovation at Thoughtworks Australia, was the General Manager of Professional Services at Dimension Data Australia and has also founded several companies including Exertack, a health and fitness tracking business acquired by Techstars alumni Gyminee in 2008 and GetViable, an an online innovation platform sold ...
Aug 14, 2016•50 min
Thank you listeners, we've just turned 50...episodes that is, and to celebrate, I've put together a list of the 50 most memorable lessons from the first 50 episodes! Oftentimes, we read books and blogs, we listen to podcasts and audiobooks, we watch keynotes and take part in workshops, we umm and ahh, but despite all of the investment in consuming this knowledge, we rarely take the time to reflect and truly digest the knowledge so that we can become better at applying these insights. Taking tim...
Aug 11, 2016•5 min
Collective Campus recently hosted an event called Disrupt the Public Sector, as part of the Australian Government’s Innovation Month 2016. The event saw over 100 public servants making their way to pack our event space in Melbourne’s CBD - they heard from a number of thought leaders talk innovation in Government - why it’s important, what it looks like, what the barriers are and how we might navigate these barriers. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to speak on the topic of an Agile...
Aug 09, 2016•53 min
I speak to Chris Kutarna, a two-time Governor General's Medallist, a Sauvé Fellow and Commonwealth Scholar, and a Fellow of the Oxford Martin School with a doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford. A former consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, then entrepreneur, Chris lived in China for several years, speaks Mandarin, and remains a regular op-ed contributor to one of China's top-ranked news magazines. (He lived in Australia and New Zealand for several years, and still cannot s...
Aug 07, 2016•54 min
This Fast Fix Friday is all about your ego and why you should kill it! If you’re looking to identify new opportunities, have meaningful conversations, build better relationships, innovate and create real value in the world then the one thing that is almost sure to get in the way is ego. Why? Listen to find out! :) Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud ...
Aug 04, 2016•5 min
Max Kelly is currently Managing Director of Techstars London. Techstars is the world’s leading accelerator programme for early stage start ups, having incubated over 800 companies and developed corporate accelerator programs for the likes of Barclays, Nike and Disney to name just a few. Prior to Techstars, Max spent 12 years at Virgin where he was responsible for the strategy of the group and for starting new companies: - Virgin Insight - delivered big data consultancy to all the Virgin companie...
Jul 31, 2016•53 min
This Fast Fix Friday covers off on all of the different books, podcasts and other resources that have made me and can make you a better professional and person in general. Whether it be business, beliefs, biographies or body, these books don't leave any stones unturned in helping you to sharpen your sword and become the best you you can be! Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET L...
Jul 28, 2016•16 min
Bob Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development. He is co-founder of Minds at Work, a consulting group that works with senior leaders and teams in corporations, government and non-profits. He is also the William and Miriam Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development at Harvard University where he codirects the Change Leadership Group and the Harvard-Macy Institute for the Reform of...
Jul 24, 2016•50 min
This (Not So) Fast Fix Friday focuses on some of my favourite productivity hacks, 16 of them in fact! These have all been gathered through years of digesting other people’s material and experimenting with my own hacks so even if you take just ONE of these hacks on board, I’m sure it’ll add a lot of value to your professional and personal life! Apps mentioned: Slack Asana Buzzsumo Trello Supahands Edgar Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future GET COACHE...
Jul 21, 2016•23 min
Matthew E May is the author of Amazon bestseller Winning the Brain Game: Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking, as well as four previous, award-winning books: The Laws of Subtraction (2012), The Shibumi Strategy (2010), In Pursuit of Elegance (2009), and The Elegant Solution (2006). A popular speaker, executive coach, and close advisor on strategy, innovation, and lean to companies such as ADP, Intuit, and Toyota, his articles have appeared in national publications such as The New York Times, The...
Jul 17, 2016•48 min
This Fast Fix Friday focuses on the stakeholder short-termism that plagues not only Australia's Government, but those of countries around the world, as well as tech businesses, sports teams and entertainment companies. I specifically explore why Australia's innovation transformation won't happen overnight but there are many key lessons to take out of this solo round, wherever it is you reside in the world. Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Like u...
Jul 14, 2016•11 min
In this bonus episode, I speak with Evan Shellshear, author of the newly released book, Innovation Tools. Innovation is hard work so you need the best tools. After years of research and dozens of case studies, those tools have been distilled into Evan Shellshear’s latest book. Show Notes: Get the book - https://amzn.to/2zofx5u Evan on LinkedIn - https://au.linkedin.com/in/evan-shellshear-4072697b --- I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with ...
Jul 11, 2016•34 min
