Direct link to Episode 16. Mark Gröb, head of the Immersive Tech Center for UPS talks about how Virtual Reality and eXtended Reality can bring value to organizations and people. His work is highly practical with clear business benefits. He covers how to make this fantastic technology real and how to scale it through a large organization. Topics include: On-boarding and the critical chain of learning that makes people confident and comfortableRetaining and engaging people and removing the fear...

Direct link to Episode 15. Marie Reig Florensa, valedictorian of the Berlin Creative Leadership Executive MBA program, talks about what it means to lead from the heart, to discover one's purpose, and how people need to slow down and learn to listen to each other with openness. She describes living your purpose as a spiritual journey with a backpack where the contents vary along your journey. Topics include:  Team building starts with your presence, your intentions.We live in a society driven...

Grégoire Charpe-Civatte on leadership, slowing down and  taking the time to reflect, exercising the decision-making muscle and  learning as you lead https://boldnewbreed.com/leadership-is-taking-the-time-exercising-the-decision-making-muscle-learning-as-you-lead/  Topics include: Leadership is not about having expertise, market knowledge and so on. True leadership is being an orchestrator, able to point to the right direction.A good leader makes time to think about leadership.So-called...

You can see the show notes here Sonja is the founder and CEO of More Beyond and she works with clients to create resilient and agile cultures and leadership. She works primarily with complex systems theory and has the gift of making it understandable and doable for all of us including in our daily lives. Today we are in uncharted territory. We’ve got climate change, a global pandemic, social unrest, all happening at the same time. The levels, of uncertainty and unpredictability are off the...

See the show notes and episode information: https://boldnewbreed.com/surge-capacity-in-our-dna-for-operations-and-knowledge/ A wide-ranging conversation with Robin Vincent Smith of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) about: ·      How the pandemic made decision-making more inclusive and flattened the organization.  ·      How the office has become the place to meet people, build trust and relationships, but not to do work.  ·      How they deal with new issues first by tapping...

See the show notes and episode information: https://boldnewbreed.com/knowledge-management-means-people-management/ Knowledge management is flows, bridges and mindset Raûl says his role is a horizontal one, and needed in all enterprises whatever the industry. "I'm a plumber of information" he says and is more concerned about the flow than about the content. His concern is that the right information gets to the right people. He build bridges between the islands inside organizations that have...

https://boldnewbreed.com/chris-labonte-believer-in-the-long-life-of-books/  Chris explains the unusual origin of his name, Labonté, which means “the goodness”. I asked him how he got that name, which I have never heard in my over 30 years of living in France.  He told me the story which started back in the late 17th century and says it is a lot to live up to. In one of his early jobs, Chris was very much a gig mindsetter, bringing new ideas to his boss, who, to his credit, listened and...

Florence Devouard, Wikipedia pioneer for 19 years and 2nd Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation following Jimmy Wales, talks to us about her life, her work in Africa – especially with young people in schools, and about how having a gig mindset has helped shape her sense of identity as an open knowledge advocate. You can discover more on the episode page: https://boldnewbreed.com/florence-devouard-on-a-mission-for-open-knowledge/ Points covered include: Balancing the stories on the internet and...

The Sanofi Pasteur initiative is  Learn-Apply-Share. See more information on the episode webpage : Learning comes alive “Learn” is what most companies do with all kinds of learning institutes and initiatives and so on. “Apply” is one step further and that “Share” is still  deeper.  That’s what is unique about the program Dany and colleagues have designed. There’s something big going on which is why they call it Shift. “The name Shift refers to the end result. What are we trying to achieve? A...

See how Decathlon is living diversity and inclusion on the podcast website: Diversity and inclusion.  Their philosophy: Start with yourself and include the world around you.  You will see how teams around the world are making this happen. This is an outstanding example of global collaboration and local specialization. Decathlon Belgium, where Sophie is based, is organized as a network, not a hierarchy and a group of employees decided to tackle the challenge of diversity and inclusion. They...

For more information on the podcast website: Proactive resilience: A race with no finish line Horizon scanning and a focus on skills A resilient person or organization can get through a crisis, but making it through once is not enough. being resilient is a state of readiness. A way of acting a way of thinking. It’s proactive, not reactive. Individuals need to focus on developing  skills more than being satisfied with job titles: skills versus labels, as one person told me. Another talked to...

This episode is about how to put on and take off your tennis shoes easily. And a new way of working with people. Seriously! It's about Velcro management, a new idea for most of us including myself until I met Marni Johnson from BlueShore Financial.   She talks about what it is, what it brought to their organization, and how to make it work for you – if you like the idea. Chris Catliff, president and CEO of BlueShore Financial, says that leaders need to “forget the individual’s job description...

For more information on the podcast website: Willful blindness: what and why? Ignore, resist or embrace? When people come across something new, they ignore it, resist it, or embrace it. How do we get to the 3rd stage? The gig mindset is often resisted by management, but not only. In order to combat it, we need to start with first understanding what's going on. Living in the past and living in fear are two underlying reasons. People are blinded by: Pride in past success.Faith in best...

More information on the podcast website: The gig mindset and internal civil disobedience Peaceful protest in a large organization This episode is about peaceful protests in a context where people want to change the way they work inside a very large organization. I talked with an engineer who works in a global industrial enterprise headquartered in Europe. He and his colleagues wanted to find a way to bring visibility to new ways of working and emphasize the importance of flexibility and not...

More info on the podcast website: Why is the bold new breed important? "Thank you for giving me an identity." The Bold New Breed of employee is driven by the gig mindset. The gig mindset is a way of thinking and behaving like freelancers and independent gig workers. Except, the gig mindsetters are employees inside organizations. They are a NEW Breed because they work differently from traditional workers. They are a BOLD new breed, because they come up against management resistance. When I...