Episodes
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Nobody is born a leader. Yet we seem to believe that there is a set of skills that will turn us into leadership perfection. Aga doesn't believe that one bit. This is why she wrote the book "Leadership by Design". It is a 12-week course in designing your personal leadership practice. In this bonus episode, Ćukasz asks Aga about the reasons for writing such a book in the first place and about the change a book like this can inflict on the life of a leader.
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"Leadership by Design" on Amazon
"Leadership by Design" at BIS Publishers
"The Artist Way" by Julia Cameron
The book illustrator Weronika Marianna's website
A conversation with Phillip Collins on CTNW
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Season 11 of the Catching The Next Wave podcast was about doing. But, it turned out that doing is not just about putting something into the world, it is a much more nuanced concept to ponder including aspects like curiosity, open-mindedness, accountability, and much more. We started by distinguishing between thinking and doing only to arrive at a conclusion that one is impossible without the other. We hope you will enjoy that season much as we did.
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âObliquityâ by John Kay
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So many of us are afraid to be different and stand out of the pack. Our guest, Andrew Lacanienta, a senior strategist at George P Johnson Experience Marketing, thrives when he can share his uniqueness with others as long as what he does is truthful to himself. Andrew holds a PhD in Experience Design so we just couldnât avoid the topics of experience and transformational design, however, we tackle them from both the personal and the business context. We also talk about the importance of embodied experience that makes us connect between our minds and hearts.
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âDesigning Experiencesâ by Robert Rossman and Mat Duerden
âDeep Workâ by Cal Newport
âThe Anatomy of Peaceâ by The Arbinger Institute
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What do life-long learning and building communities have in common? David Nebinski, the host of the Portfolio Career podcast and a Community Operations Manager for the Chief of Staff Network Community says that communities are places for a social learning experience, which allows for creating a common language and stimulates accountability. We dive into the need for flexing your mind in order to deal with uncertainty and use generosity as a way to expand your worldview.
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David's Portfolio Career Podcast
âGet togetherâ by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huyn, Kai Elmer Sotto
âAtomic Habitsâ by James ClearâThe Artist Wayâ by Julia Cameron
âFlex: Reinventing Work for a Smarter, Happier Lifeâ by Annie Auerbach
âWar of Artâ by Steven Pressfield
âDo The Workâ by Steven Pressfield
âTurning Proâ by Steven Pressfield
âThe Business of Belongingâ by David Spinks
âYour Music and Peopleâ by Derek Sivers
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What can the mixture of curiosity and making things visual do to your collaborations? It is one of the many topics we discuss with our guest Anna van der Aa, a coach, researcher, visual facilitator, and songwriter. We discuss the notion of clean coaching using clean questions and we dive into evidence-based decision-making as a way to do things in an informed and wise way. And we try to figure out how people rock :)
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Annaâs website
Annaâs song that surprised her after being produced
Annaâs song âRoll the diceâ
The drawing course with Brandy Agerbeck
Jessica Abel
Morgan Peng
"Creativity Inc" by Ed Catmull
âThe Back of the Napkinâ by Dan Roam
âSee What I Mean, How to use comics to communicate ideasâ by Kevin Cheng
âThe Artist Wayâ by Julia Cameron
âThe Creative Priority: Putting Innovation To Work In Your Businessâ by Jerry Hirschberg
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How to define inventors of our times? This is a question, we try to answer with our guest, Daniel OwsiaĆski, a VP of Technology at volt.io. We talk about the creativity of teams versus individuals, productivity versus effectiveness, and leadership versus management. We discuss the need for self-organizing teams and embracing the process, which is the only thing under our control.
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âThinking Fast and Slowâ by Daniel Kahneman
âWhy We Sleepâ by Matthew Walker
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Creative industries offer the potential for going global with local flavor, unlike any other scalable businesses that are alike everywhere you go says Alice Loy, a co-founder of the world's first accelerator for creatives called Creative Startups. Alice argues that we need a new economy based on new models of investing and she says that creatives need to be a part of that conversation because they have a crucial role in combining community and culture. We also discuss the good questions to ask and the need for ambiguity as a way to stimulate entrepreneurship.
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âGetting Things Doneâ by David Allen
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What is hype and how mischiefs and propagandists can help you build it? Or, in other words, how do you get people to hear and follow you? This is one of the many topics we discuss with our guest Michael F. Schein -- a writer and the author of the book âThe Hype Handbookâ. We also talk about thinning in bets, the future of social media, and the trap of following the rules others live by.
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âThe Hype Handbookâ by Michael F. Schein
âThe Medici Effectâ by Frans Johansson
âThe Click Momentâ by Frans Johansson
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Every opportunity is a learning opportunity, says our guest Latifa Al-Khalifa â a Social Entrepreneur, STEAM education advocate, and a founding member of Clever Play, a purpose-driven startup with a mission to inspire, educate and empower 1 million children in MENA STEAM skills by 2030. In this insightful conversation we dive into the shape of the XXI century education (or rather learning). We discuss how it is no longer important what you know but what you do with what you know. And we talk that in order to do things you dream about you need to redefine yourself first.
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Latifa's start-up Clever Play
The STEM podcast
âEnduranceâ by Alfred Lansing
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Culture can only be defined at an intersection of data argues our guest Theodore Edmonds â a creativity researcher, cultural futurist, artist, wellbeing entrepreneur, data analytics inventor, and a transdisciplinary academic. We talk about the third spaces, the different flavors of creativity, and Aristotelian notions of hedonism and eudaimonia and hope. We look for a definition of a new role of business and investment in the future world where not only financial gain is the growth motivator.
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âRangeâ by David Epstein
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To do or not to do? This is the question for this 11th Season of the Catching The Next Wave podcast. We hope to investigate the difference (or the connection) between thinking and doing. We also hope to dig into understanding how our guests help themselves to put things out in the world and what helps them to do so. Stay tuned for the new season of Catching The Next Wave.
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In the anniversary 10th season of the Catching The Next Wave podcast, we went down quite a few rabbit holes with our guests. Some of them were challenging, some were reflective, some were eye-opening. We discussed topics of abusing natural resources, cracking own productivity, dealing with change, learning, innovating, experiencing, and transforming. All of them are important for every one of us and the question is - how deep are there rabbit holes for you?
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GoGoDone website
âDesign to Changeâ by Roel Frissen, Ruud Janssen, Dennis Luijer
âStuffocationâ by James Wallman
âTime and how to spend itâ by James Wallman
WXO
âNational Geographic Ocean: A Global Odysseyâ by Sylvia Earle
Cover image by hijasdelatierra.es (CC-BY-SA-3.0)
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Everything is connected much more than we have ever realised. We are dependent on the nature that surrounds us much more than nature is dependent on us, in fact. This is why we should stop perceiving nature as something to conquer and start seeing it as our life-support system, argues our amazing guest, dr Sylvia Earle, also known as âHer Deepnessâ. We discuss the ways in which oceans and life that inhabits them are treated today and how they should be treated from now onward. We discuss tuna and octopuses, sharks, and oxygen production, and so much more in this conversation that has the power to stop you from ever eating fish again.
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âNational Geographic Ocean: A Global Odysseyâ by Sylvia Earle
âHalf mile downâ by William Beebe
âReason for hopeâ by Jane Goodall
âSilent springâ by Rachel Carson
Books by Carl Safina
âLast chance to seeâ by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
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Have you ever thought about whether for an experience to be memorable does it have to always be extraordinary or is ordinary also an option? This is one of the rabbit holes we visit together with our guest Mat Deurden, an Associate Professor of Experience Design and Management in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. We unpack a transformative process as tripping over the truth you never realized. We discuss the difference between a transformation that is a small âtâ versus capital âTâ transformation, dig into the role of storytelling in the process of transformation, and much more.
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âDesigning Experiencesâ by J. Robert Rossman, Mathew D. Duerden
âOrbiting the giant hairballâ by Gordon Mackenzie
âThink Againâ by Adam Grant
âWonder switchâ by Harris III
âThe power of momentsâ by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
âInvisible Womenâ by Caroline Criado Perez
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It is no longer enough for governments to measure GDP, they should finally use knowledge of sociology and psychology to figure out how to measure the quality of life. And part of these metrics should be about the value of experiencing rather than possessing things. Together with James Wallman, the author of âStuffocationâ and âTime and how to spend itâ, and a co-founder of the World Experience Organization, we dig into the topic of how to measure experiences, and how to use these metrics to provoke organizations around the world to be more experiential. We wonder if itâs possible to create an equivalent of a B-Corp certification and certification for experience and how it should differ with respect to the final solutions and culture. We also wonder how to capture the subjective assessment of experiences and turn it into a reliable guideline. And we dive into the meaning of boredom, the rabbit hole of creative work, and the idea of trying out our different selves.
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WXO website
B-Corp website
Self-determination theory
âStuffocationâ by James Wallman
âTime and how to spend itâ by James Wallman
âRestâ by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
âShorterâ by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
âOn Writingâ by Stephen King
âTime travelerâs guide to medieval Englandâ by Ian Mortimer
âThe wireâ by David Simon and Rafael Alvarez
âHomicide: A Year On The Killing Streetsâ by David Simon
âThe science of storytellingâ by Will Storr
âWhat a dog sawâ by Malcolm Gladwell
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Have you ever considered how being human-centered might not be a good idea? How any centricity is a wrong focus for design? With Gilbert Cockton, a professor emeritus from the Northumbria University and the University of Sunderland, we discuss the need for a big picture to be able to strategically move forward with any project. We talk about the design approach in the era of post-humanism, the agency of objects, and a fetish of rationality creeping into the design profession. We underline the importance of the studio culture with design critics as a way to keep on bringing good work to the world. And we wonder whether evaluation does a good job for forwarding motion or perhaps not really.
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âThings We Could Designâ by Ron Wakkary
âChange by designâ by Tim Brown
âNotes on designâ by Kees Dorst
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The pandemic showed us that change is non-optional. But what remains to be figured out is how to make it good and lasting. With our guest Ruud Janssen, the co-author of âEvent Design Handbookâ and âDesign to Changeâ we discuss what it takes to implement change you wish for. We deliberate what is more important, process or outcome, and we look into events as pivotal moments for change. We also wonder whether itâs possible to design for how people spend time at work.
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âDesign to Changeâ by Roel Frissen, Ruud Janssen, Dennis Luijer
âEvent Design Handbookâ by Roel Frissen and Ruud Janssen
Design to Change podcast
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Everyone can sing better, itâs just a matter of the right training. With the world-famous vocal coach, Greg Enriquez, we talk about the strange instrument that is our voice. We talk about the unrealistic expectations technology raises for musicians and how it should be replaced with daring to try things that are tough early on. Greg points out how learning to sing is a never-ending journey rather than a destination and gives advice on how to effectively exercise your voice and also how to find a good singing teacher.
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Gregâs website
Modern Vocal Training website
The European Vocal Camp website
âSinging for the starsâ by Seth Riggs
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Have you ever considered that risk-taking is a muscle that needs to be regularly exercised? In this conversation with a productivity nerd, coach in Seth Godinâs Akimbo community, and an entrepreneur at GoGoDone, Heather Chavin we talk about creating conditions to ship your work. We talk about how so many of us are obligers responding to the external rather than internal stimuli and why we need a powerful community to overcome that. We agree that it is important to mourn projects we say ânoâ to but still, it is the only way to do what matters as trying harder doesnât quite work. We also discuss the importance of listening to our bodies and our brains as they are pretty clear about what is good for us at a given moment.
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GoGoDone website
GoGoPublish website
âWillpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Successâ by Benjamin Hardy
âPermission marketingâ by Seth Godin
âThe Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)â by Gretchen Rubin
âBetter Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits - to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Lifeâ by Gretchen Rubin
âThe Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Funâ by Gretchen Rubin
âSteal like an artistâ by Austin Kleon
âEssentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Lessâ by Greg McKeown
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In order to face change straight up you canât do things the usual way. You need a new, unusual approach to doing business. In this conversation with Joy van Baren, the Growth Acceleration Director at Ordina, we discuss the importance of the right mindset, the new way of looking at risk as a risk of missed opportunity. We investigate how important is brutal honesty to stay innovative and how to create a safe place for it. We also wonder what the success rate is for innovative projects.
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âPirates in the navyâ by Tendayi Viki
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