Many have credited Optus for taking ownership with the advertisements it took out on page two of newspaper across Australia, admitting its “monumental stuff up” and announcing that it would be refunding Floptus, er, Optus Sport subscribers and giving them an additional six weeks of free access to the service after the World Cup comes to a close in mid-July. But was this a case of extreme ownership or of simply being backed into a corner? --- Join Steve's mailing list at futuresquared.xyz/subscri...
Jul 05, 2018•9 min
In this funisode of Future Squared, I welcome back into the fold my colleagues Sean and Shay to talk about, well...everything we wanted to. Namely, we explored, or ranted rather, about: End of Financial Year shenanigans Political correctness and the intellectual dark web The problem with labels and putting things into neatly demarcated buckets Phone addiction and the impact on humanity The Charter Hall PropTech Accelerator and Village Xperience Accelerator World Cup 2018 and Floptus Sport Our ne...
Jun 29, 2018•1 hr 38 min
This week I explore existing literature on strategies of war, and discuss many of them that are relevant to the workplace as well. --- Join the conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Spotify @ spoti.fi/2G2QsxV Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly...
Jun 28, 2018•11 min
I cringe when I hear of school debates that advise students to argue a position even if the factual information they use isn’t 100% accurate, so long as it serves their position. School debates tend to be based students never changing their mind, and sadly, this misguided thinking has graduated and is pervasive in today’s corporate and political arenas, where they often have devastating effect on the common good. This week I explore the notion of 'strong opinions, loosely held' and why it is one...
Jun 21, 2018•6 min
This week, I tell the 100 word version of the Odyssey and relate it to entrepreneurship. --- Join the conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Spotify @ spoti.fi/2G2QsxV Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on t...
Jun 15, 2018•6 min
Join the conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Spotify @ spoti.fi/2G2QsxV Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @ st...
Jun 07, 2018•4 min
Mike Todasco is the Director of Innovation at PayPal responsible for increasing the creative output of employees across the company. Prior to that Mike spent time at PayPal in Product Management, Product Marketing, Product Launch and Product Analytics roles. Before joining PayPal he was the Founder and CEO of the eCommerce marketplace, Sketch Maven. Additionally, Mike spent over four years as the Director of Strategy, heading up mergers & acquisitions and strategic planning at NewPage, a por...
Jun 02, 2018•58 min
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I explore the value of traveling solo all the way from sunny Lincoln, Nebraska. --- If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just head over to www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe and you’ll get the very next one. Join the conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ where you can discuss episode...
May 30, 2018•5 min
It seems that everybody wants to build the next UBER, the next unicorn , but do you need to? Would you not be happy generating a six-figure income doing what you love and having freedom over your decisions, not having to report to a boss who is simply in that role due to political maneuvering or length of tenure? You’ve got to be clear on defining what kind of business you want to build. For the purposes of this book, you either want to build: A multi-hundred million dollar global company in sea...
May 24, 2018•5 min
Dr. Sherry Walling is the life force behind ZenFounder. She is a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience treating stress-related problems in high achieving people. She is an academic and professional powerhouse with master’s degrees in psychology and theology, formal training as a yoga teacher, and a PhD in clinical psychology. She has extensive experience treating PTSD in combat veterans, working with families trapped in family violence, and supporting the mental health needs o...
May 23, 2018•50 min
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I get vulnerable and reveal a personal story on how I got fired from my first real job...and more importantly, how I responded. --- If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just head over to www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe and you’ll get the very next one. Join the conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/gr...
May 17, 2018•9 min
Jeremy Heimans is the co-founder and CEO of Purpose, an organization headquartered in New York that builds and supports social movements around the world. He is the co-founder of GetUp!, an Australian political organization with more members than all of Australia's political parties combined. He has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business and received the Ford Foundation's 75th anniversary Visionary Award. With Henry Timms, Jeremy is co-author of the book NEW POWER: How...
May 16, 2018•42 min•Ep. 241
In this week's instalment of Fast Fix Friday, I talk about the number one thing holding back your organization from innovating. --- Join the conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Spotify @ spoti.fi/2G2QsxV Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSG...
May 10, 2018•8 min
Grant Cardone is a New York Times bestselling author and an internationally renowned speaker on leadership, real estate investing, entrepreneurship, and finance. His 5 privately held companies have annual revenues exceeding $100 million. Cardone is a savvy private multifamily investor and holds a portfolio of over 3,800 apartment units throughout the U.S. with transactions valued at over $500 million. As CEO of the #1 Sales Training Platform in the World, Cardone consults with Fortune 500 compan...
May 05, 2018•46 min
For many years China was considered a basketcase with its population, resigned to a life of poverty in the rice fields . Yet today, 120 million Chinese tourists go abroad each year, often snapping up all of the latest trinkets of luxury brands like YSL, Prada and Chanel. In the last ten years alone, China’s GNP has increased from US$4.6T to over US$12T dollars, in fact, in 1985, that number was less than $500B. Less than 25 times what it is today. To put this into perspective, in the same timefr...
May 03, 2018•7 min
Fears that once helped keep our ancestors alive, today, more of often than not, serve to limit our experience of life. --- Join the conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Spotify @ spoti.fi/2G2QsxV Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If...
Apr 26, 2018•4 min
Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated teacher for four straight years. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers and the world's top 40 business professors under 40. Adam is the author of three New York Times bestselling books translated into 34 languages, including Originals, Give and Take and Option B which he co-wrote with Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and Lean In fame. As a contributing writer on work and psychology for the New York Times, Adam’s op...
Apr 21, 2018•36 min•Ep. 236
Today, I want to talk why you should leave things unfinished. What's that you say? This doesn’t sound like the Steve we know. And you’d be right to think that, but please hear me out in this instalment of Fast Fix Friday. You might be pleasantly surprised! Join the conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa...
Apr 19, 2018•4 min
On 17 January 1944, the Office of the Strategic Services of the CIA issued the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. The manual remained classified for decades, becoming declassified in 2008. The purpose of the manual was to present suggestions for inciting and executing sabotage. The manual is full of 1940s references such as ‘axis nationals’, the latter no doubt falling victim to many of the manual’s methods. The manual breaks methods down into a number of categories such as Buildings, Manufacturing a...
Apr 12, 2018•4 min
Arj started his career in comedy after graduating from high school in 1989. His first gigs were at an old café called Caffe Nuvo in downtown San Anselmo where he hosted stand-up night every Sunday throughout the early 1990s. Barker has appeared on Premium Blend , Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Glass House . He twice hosted Comedy Central Presents and was featured in Comedy Central's animated series Shorties Watchin' Shorties . Barker appeared in the HBO sitcom Flight of the Conchords and ...
Apr 11, 2018•38 min•Ep. 233
Brian Ardinger is the founder of NXXT, the InsideOutside.io podcast, and the Inside/Outside Innovation Summit. For over 25 years Brian has been helping entrepreneurs and enterprises navigate and compete in a world of change and disruption. He has led efforts with startups and corporations to engage the latest trends, tools, and tactics to accelerate innovation, launch new ideas, and build better products. Before NXXT, Brian founded the seed-stage accelerator NMotion and co-founded the corporate ...
Apr 08, 2018•35 min•Ep. 232
On October 23, 2001, using the slogan “1000 songs in your pocket”, Steve Jobs introduced the original iPod which left us enamoured and with it he ushered in a new age that, with the launch of the iPhone six years later in 2007, would go on to fundamentally change the way we interact with the world around us. This is a Fast Fix Friday instalment on tech addiction and how to overcome it. --- Join the conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ where you can discuss episodes, r...
Apr 05, 2018•14 min•Ep. 231
Jon Satterley is an experienced entertainment & media industry executive and thought leader. I have been recognized as an innovator with expert knowledge of new products, emerging technology and digital business strategy. When he was just 17, Jon started a record label and wound up signing hundreds of bands while studying to get his law degree. Jon led digital strategy for Roadrunner Records: growing from a small independent record company to become one of the world’s leading labels. Today, ...
Mar 31, 2018•55 min•Ep. 230
In the early days of Collective Campus, like most new organisations, we kept ourselves afloat by taking part time jobs on the side and working with a number of small clients who paid us just enough to keep the lights on. After building up enough case studies and collateral working with smaller organisations, we worked our way up and eventually hooked our first big A-list client, a global law firm with over 1,200 employees and revenues in excess of US$1B. Long story short, we f*cked up. In this i...
Mar 29, 2018•9 min
Annie Duke has leveraged her expertise in the science of smart decision making to excel at pursuits as varied as championship poker to public speaking. Her first book for general audiences, “Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts” has just been released and has become a national bestseller in the US. In this book, Annie reveals to readers the lessons she regularly shares with her corporate audiences, which have been cultivated by combining her academic studi...
Mar 24, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 228
What are you fighting for? Join the conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Spotify @ http://spoti.fi/2G2QsxV Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivec...
Mar 22, 2018•5 min
In this episode of Future Squared, I welcome back DAVID BURKUS, named one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50 last year. His forthcoming book, FRIEND OF A FRIEND, offers readers a new perspective on how to grow their networks and build key connections—one based on the science of human behavior, not rote networking advice. He is also the author of UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT and THE MYTHS OF CREATIVITY. David is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and his work has been...
Mar 17, 2018•55 min•Ep. 226
While spreading the butter thin might be good for the waistline, it won’t be as good for your business or career. Vote on a book title at bit.ly/stevesnewbook --- Join the conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog ...
Mar 15, 2018•3 min
Today, I am speaking with Nicole Forsgren. Nicole is an IT impacts expert who is best known for her work with tech professionals and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She is a consultant, expert, and researcher in knowledge management, IT adoption and impacts, and DevOps. In a previous life, she was a professor, sysadmin, and hardware performance analyst. Nicole has been awarded public and private research grants (funders include NASA and the NSF), and her work has ...
Mar 10, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 224
In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I talk about something that we are all liable to be blindsided by. --- Vote on a book title at bit.ly/stevesbooktitle Join the conversation on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog ...
Mar 08, 2018•4 min
