Episode description
In today's episode, we are joined by the brilliant Dickie Whitaker
Dickie has a portfolio of businesses and ventures he is involved with but in this episode, we focussed on his work with Oasis Loss Modelling Framework
In this episode we talk about:
- The reason to start a business - find a problem large enough to solve that people will pay for it
- Why "we have always done it this way" is the very reason to change "that way"
- How important diversity - in all forms, create brilliant teams
- How startup teams are not created equal - and how that's good.
- Why team structures should be fluid European vs US start-up psychology (Huge sweeping generalization warning!)
- What does innovation mean?
- We hear why Dickie is uncomfortable about Innovation teams in companies
- Why culture is everything and why we can be so bad at articulating it within Insurance
- Why "work hard, play hard" needs to be replaced with "work smart, play......how you like!"
- The pandemic has shone a light on the "last person in the office" culture of office work
- The importance of collaboration in the industry to innovation Collaboration starts with trust
- The role of insurance in society and its unique position to impact society
- Collaboration can't just is volunteers it needs rigour and structure and the best talent!
- The best people don't always or don't often volunteer! (Open goal for a recruitment professional!)
- The benefit of blissful ignorance in building anything
- The importance of looking forward as opposed to looking back
Thanks to Dickie for being a great guest - a really enjoyable discussion.
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