Do you have Zoom fatigue? What if you could cut your meetings down by 50%? Gitlab’s head of Remote, Darren Murph, believes time spent face-to-face is precious and should be reserved for informal communication and team bonding. So he’s created a four-step barrier to scheduling a meeting that means only the most important meetings make it onto his calendar. By preferencing documentation over meetings Murph has made his virtual meetings dramatically more effective. You can find the full interview h...
Mar 15, 2021•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast On March 15, 2020 Ben Shewry woke up knowing his business was going to collapse. It was his birthday and also the worst day of his life. Melbourne was going into lockdown, forcing him to close the doors of his restaurant Attica, and to cancel thousands of bookings for his $300 a head tasting menu. But instead of giving up, Shewry decided to make a commitment to his 40 full-time staff to keep going. Now, not only is Attica still open, but Ben is about to open another restaurant in the Yarra Valle...
Mar 10, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Do you want more time for creative and strategic work? Inventium’s CEO Michelle Le Poidevin says removing the idea of ‘managers’ from a team structure is one of the best things she’s done for the company. When looking into the holacracy structure, Michelle realised the most senior people in the company were spending most of their time managing people, instead of doing the work that really mattered. By changing the work culture and building a founder-like mindset, her staff were able to focus mor...
Mar 08, 2021•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Have you ever felt like an imposter? Of course you have! Because 82% of people have experienced it at some point. Imposter syndrome is the persistent thought we are undeserving of our achievements. People fear they might be ‘found out’ or that they ‘don’t know what they are doing’. How can you rethink or reframe these thoughts so they don’t have so much power over you? How I Work guests share their experiences with feeling like an imposter and how to use it to your advantage. Envato co-Founder C...
Mar 03, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast My favourite tip from my chat with tech journalist Peter Wells was on how anyone can use software to automate their job. You can find the full interview here: Tech journalist Peter Wells on how to automate your job Connect with Peter: Twittercom/peterwells Meta podcast The Helpdesk podcast Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify . If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I ha...
Mar 01, 2021•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast With just $12,000 borrowed from her boyfriend’s father, Adore Beauty founder Kate Morris started Australia’s first beauty e-commerce site in 1999. Adore Beauty has expanded its offer to more than 200 brands and 13,000 products, earning Kate the Business Innovation Award for Victoria at the Telstra Business Women’s Awards in 2014, and an induction into the Australian Businesswomen’s Network Hall of Fame in 2015. Adore Beauty floated on the Australian Stock Exchange in 2020 for a reputed $600 mill...
Feb 24, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast My favourite tip from my chat with global innovation thought leader Scott D Anthony was on his new rituals for Deep and Shallow work. This extract is from my second time having Scott on the show - you can check out the full interview here . And check out my first interview with Scott here . Get your copy of Scott’s latest book Eat, Sleep Innovate and check out the book's companion website here . Check out Scott’s firm Innosight . And connect with Scott on LinkedIn and Twitter . Subscribe to my n...
Feb 22, 2021•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Even before we fled our workplaces amid the Covid pandemic to set up at home, Job van der Voort was convinced that remote working was the future. He’s the CEO of Remote (and the former VP of Product for GitLab), which assists other companies to set their employees up, which he says allows them to live a better life. But it’s not as easy as just letting some of your employees work from home. Job says the key to running a remote team is to intentionally create moments for connection and bonding. R...
Feb 17, 2021•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Want to complete tasks quicker and fit more into your day? Productivity nerd Ashutosh Priyadarshy says effective and productive behaviour comes from setting a goal for your time. He’s the founder of productivity software company Sunsama, the makers of a daily planner tool that helps you plan out a focused work day by pulling together your tasks from all of your tools. During the early days building Sunsama software, Ashutosh set a 1.5-day turn around from demo to delivery. This forced the team t...
Feb 15, 2021•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast In March 2020, Simon Griffiths was watching as toilet paper sold out across Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. Even as the CEO of toilet paper innovators Who Gives A Crap, he never imagined the same thing was about to happen in Australia, UK and the US. But on March 4th, things took a dramatic turn. As the great toilet paper wars broke out across supermarket aisles, sales rose by 30-40%. Who Gives A Crap sold out, with half a million buyers on their waitlist. The challenge excited Simon Griffiths, ...
Feb 10, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Want to transform your day by creating a more resilient and positive mindset? Engineer, athlete and burns survivor Turia Pitt has quick gratitude techniques that offer an easy way to take control so you’re not at the mercy of a bad mood. In the morning, think of three things you are grateful for. It’s that simple. For Turia, she likes to think about her son, or how nicely her new surfboard rides. You can find the full interview here: Turia Pitt’s Next Tuesday rule, hacks for dramatically improvi...
Feb 08, 2021•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast What would you do if your boss suggested that you cut your working hours down to just four normal length days but said to you, I'll still pay you for five? Would you pinch yourself to check you weren't dreaming? Well this is what happened last April at Inventium. Our CEO, Michelle Le Poidevin, suggested to the team that we should try out the Four Day week. This lead to us running a six-month experiment where the team all worked four days per week and had Friday off. As a participant in this expe...
Feb 03, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast My favourite tip from my chat with Coca-Cola Amatil's Managing Director Alison Watkins was on how to receive negative feedback. You can find the full interview here: Coca-Cola Amatil’s Group Managing Director Alison Watkins on why doing great work isn’t enough to get ahead in your career Connect with Alison on LinkedIn . Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify . If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that cont...
Feb 01, 2021•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Imagine it's 6am on a Friday morning. You wake up, about to get ready for work, but then you remember - you don't have to go to work. Instead, you have a blissful three day weekend ahead. Now imagine that you get to experience this feeling every single Friday morning. Yet, you're still on a full-time salary. This is what life is now like at my consultancy Inventium. Back in July last year, we ran an experiment to see if we could improve our productivity and fit our work into four normal, eight-h...
Jan 27, 2021•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast My favourite tip from my chat with SEEK's Managing Director, Kendra Banks, was on how her executive team make their biggest decisions. You can find the full interview here: Managing Director of SEEK, Kendra Banks, on how her leadership team make their most important decisions Connect with Kendra at kbanks@seek.com.au and on Linkedin . Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify . If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsle...
Jan 25, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast ***BEST OF HOW I WORK*** I'm currently taking a few weeks off, so today's episode is a Best Of episode. I've gone back through the archives of the last 2.5 years of hosting How I Work and picked out my absolute favourite episodes! My guest today is Darren Murph who is GitLab’s Head of Remote. If you have never heard of GitLab, it's the world’s largest all-remote company, with over 1,300 team members in 67+ countries with no company-owned offices. Darren has spent his career leading remote teams ...
Jan 20, 2021•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast My favourite tip from my chat with Rice University Professor Scott Sonenshein was on to dramatically improve meetings. You can find the full interview here: Rice University Professor Scott Sonenshein on how to clean up your meetings, decisions and inbox Learn more about Scott right here . Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify . If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I hav...
Jan 18, 2021•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast ***BEST OF HOW I WORK*** I'm currently taking a few weeks off, so today's episode is a Best Of episode. I've gone back through the archives of the last 2.5 years of hosting How I Work and picked out my absolute favourite episodes! My guest today is Cal Newport. Cal is a computer science professor at Georgetown University. Cal is the author of six books, including, most recently, the New York Times bestseller, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Cal’s work has been publi...
Jan 13, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast My favourite tip from my chat with Shameless' Michelle and Zara was on how they make tough business decisions. You can find the full interview here: Shameless' Michelle and Zara on their process for making one of the most popular podcasts in Australia Grab your copy of Michelle and Zara’s book The Space In-between , follow Shameless on Instagram , join the Shameless Book Club , and listen to the Shameless podcast on Apple Podcasts . Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Sp...
Jan 11, 2021•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast ***BEST OF HOW I WORK*** I'm currently taking a few weeks off, so today's episode is a Best Of episode. I've gone back through the archives of the last 2.5 years of hosting How I Work and picked out my absolute favourite episodes! My guest today is Dan Pink. Dan is the author of six bestselling books, including Drive, A Whole New Mind, and his latest book "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing", which has spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. You might also be familia...
Jan 06, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast My favourite tip from my chat with Rachel Botsman was on her strategies for creating a brilliant start to virtual presentations. This extract is from my second time having Rachel on the show - you can check out the full interview here . And check out my first interview with Rachel here . Follow Rachel on Linkedin to get her biweekly newsletter Rethink. Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify . If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a sh...
Jan 04, 2021•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast ***BEST OF HOW I WORK*** I'm currently taking a few weeks off, so today's episode is a Best Of episode. I've gone back through the archives of the last 2.5 years of hosting How I Work and picked out my absolute favourite episodes! My guest today is Cyan Ta’eed. Cy is one of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs, having co-founded Envato in 2006 and growing it to being valued at over $1 billion. Last year she tried her hand at chocolate (why not?!) and Hey Tiger is now one of Australia’s fast...
Dec 30, 2020•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast My favourite tip from my chat with Dr Jason Fox was his 7-day rhythm for work and life. This extract is from my second time having Jase on the show - you can check out the full interview here . And check out my first interview with Jase here . Connect with Jason at fox.substack.com Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify . If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have disco...
Dec 28, 2020•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast ***BEST OF HOW I WORK*** I'm currently taking a few weeks off, so today's episode is a Best Of episode. I've gone back through the archives of the last 2.5 years of hosting How I Work and picked out my absolute favourite episodes! Rachel Botsman is a world renowned expert on technology and trust, and the author of bestselling books “Who Can You Trust?” and “What’s Mine Is Yours". Rachel is a Trust Fellow at Oxford University and has been recognised as one of the “Most Creative People in Business...
Dec 23, 2020•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast My favourite tip from my chat with Rice University Professor Scott Sonenshein was on to dramatically improve meetings. You can find the full interview here: Rice University Professor Scott Sonenshein on how to clean up your meetings, decisions and inbox Learn more about Scott right here . Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify . If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I hav...
Dec 21, 2020•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast ***BEST OF HOW I WORK*** I'm currently taking a few weeks off, so today's episode is a Best Of episode. I've gone back through the archives of the last 2.5 years of hosting How I Work and picked out my absolute favourite episodes! On today’s show, I speak to organizational psychologist, best-selling author and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, Adam Grant. His books Give and Take, Originals, and Option B have sold over one million copies and have been translated into 35 languages. Adam has been ...
Dec 16, 2020•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast My favourite tip from my chat with Atlassian's Dom Price was on making virtual meetings not suck. This extract is from my second time having Dom on the show - you can check out the full interview here . And check out my first interview with Dom here . Connect with Dom: Twitter Linkedin Atlassianteamplaybook.com Atlassian.com/remote Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify . If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newslette...
Dec 14, 2020•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Perry Marshall is one of the most expensive business strategists in the world. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs use his 80/20 Curve as a productivity tool. His reinvention of the Pareto Principle is published in Harvard Business Review. He founded the $10 million Evolution 2.0 Prize, with judges from Harvard, Oxford and MIT, it is the world’s largest science research award. And his book the Ultimate Guide to Google Ads is the world’s best selling book on internet advertising. Perry’s latest book is ca...
Dec 09, 2020•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast My favourite tip from my chat with Jake Knapp was on winning the battle against email (and why it's so addictive) . This extract is from my second time having Jake on the show - you can check out the full interview here . And check out my first interview with Jake here . Find out more about Jake here: Running remote Sprints The Jake and Jonathon podcast Jake’s website Jake’s books Sprint and Make Time Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify . If you are looking for m...
Dec 07, 2020•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast My guest today is Tim MacKinnon. Tim is the Managing Director and Vice President for eBay Australia, a role that he has had for the last three years. At eBay, Tim’s purpose is to help Australian retailers grow and take advantage of opportunities in online, mobile, local and global commerce. Enabling businesses and entrepreneurs has been the connecting thread in his career at eBay, Intuit in Silicon Valley, and before that Advising the Minister responsible for IT industry and as a corporate lawye...
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