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Dawna talks to Giles Hutchins, a systems thinker, speaker and author of 'Future Fit'. Future Fit refers to the leadership mindset needed to move from 'Business as Usual' to companies that are fit to surf the uncertainties of today’s reality. - companies that focus is on who you are versus what you are.
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Company management structures are under pressure to distribute power, engage employees and rethink the role of manager in order to meet the challenges of a fast-moving world. Bonnitta Roy has designed an open architecture for self-managed companies otherwise known as an Open Participatory Organization. Listen on to find out more.
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Despite being made famous by Zappos, holacracy isn't flavor of the month. Anna McGrath of Wonderworks Consulting worked with Zappos to roll out the radical organizational structure. Her conversation with Dawna debunks several myths of holacracy being either too unstructured or too over-structured to work in practice.
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Leaders and bosses are not the same. Dawna Jones explores the trust-based culture inside W. L. Gore. with long-time company Associate, Michael Pacanowsky.
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LiquidO is an agile governance model championed by Cocoon Projects, a values-driven innovation company located in Italy. Listen on to find out what it is and how it works.
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Dawna Jones talks to best-selling author, Karan Bajaj, about his new book, The Yoga of Max's Discontent, and what it tells us about the leadership challenges executives face today.
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Increasing quality and lowering costs is the holy grail of healthcare. And that’s precisely what Netherlands-based home care organization, Buurtzorg, has achieved. Listen on to find out how they do it.
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Andrew Holm and Julian Wilson redesigned aeronautics engineering company, Matt Black Systems, to revolve around the smallest unit – a person. With the help of four metrics - quality, delivery, profitability and conformance - the company shrank in size while achieving quantum leaps in profitability.
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How does a business gets things done when there’s no boss and no-one is in control? Morning Star, the world’s largest tomato processing company, proves you don't need managers to run a successful company.
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Dawna talks to author and management thinker, Steve Denning, about scaling practices like Agile, DevOps, Lean and Scrum to work in large companies.
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More and more companies are turning to Agile software development process to accelerate speed and quality of delivery. What few realize is that the Agile methodology, which centers on the customer and is built for uncertainty, is a world-view that’s very different from traditional management practice.
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Sociocracy 3.0 (S3) is a collaboration framework for evolving effective, resilient and agile organizations. Listen on to find out how it works in practice and how to start experimenting with it.
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What is needed for business to achieve sustainable effectiveness? In this interview with the editors of a new book, "Corporate Stewardship: Achieving Sustainable Effectiveness", Dawna Jones explores some options.
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Dawna Jones talks to Peter Cook, a musician, scientist and business consultant who draws from his eclectic background to help companies to adopt an intelligent approach to innovation.
Dawna met with Peter in the bowels of the Royal Society of the Arts in London where they talked about:
The role of VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity in driving innovation.
How dissonance in music relates to cognitive dissonance in business; the high cost of cognitive dissonance.
A different way to look at failure, including how Prince uses mistakes and the mistake Richard Branson made when moving into the US market competing against Cocoa-cola.
Where organizational structure starts and how it is like eggs - boiled, fried or scrambled.
Why constraints help and why too many KPI’s can block creativity.
Why musician Jack White puts his guitar slightly out of reach.
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B Lab is a non-profit organization dedicated to using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. Founder Bart Houlahan talks to Dawna Jones about their mission.
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What happens when business schools are less progressive than the companies hiring their graduates? The Global Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI) aims to close that gap and encourage change in business schools. Dawna Jones talks to Executive Director, John North, about how GRLI set out to achieve this.
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Designing the future of work is not a casual endeavor. So why are companies so interested in exploring better ways of organizing work and what direction are they moving in?
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Award-winning investigative journalist Roberta Baskin spent her career shining a light on corporate misconduct. Now she heads up The Flourish Prizes at Case Western University, an initiative designed to inspire the current and next generation of business leaders to build a better world. She tells Dawna Jones about some companies that have opted to do things differently.
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Dawna Jones talks to Wendy Chapple, deputy director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School, about a different approach to executive education and why the school has launched an MSc in sustainability.
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Andrew Thornton, owner of a community supermarket in London, talk to Dawna Jones about bringing heart back into business and how to be a different kind of business leader.
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