Smarter data people Podcast: What's in it for you?
Want to build your personal brand, evangelise your personal insights on how to live a productive life, share your productivity hacks? Have you learnt valuable lessons…
Train your data science team: 6 ways to muck it up
Training your data science team is tough. They are already fabulously smart. Making them smarter, faster and nicer is hard. It needs focus determination and the…
Nudging
How do you get people to do what is good for them? How do you help them make a choice that works for you and for them? It’s all about the nudge. This McKinsey…
Skills Matter
Skills matter: I know that I’m skewed towards the importance of soft skills in the decision sciences. It’s important that clients understand the potential…
Culture codes
I really loved the Culture Code, Dan Coyle’s recent book. In this podcast he summarises the important ideas around creating psychological safety which he outlines…
Humanising the workplace
How do we make the workplace more human? It’s not always announced in the workplace that “this is an ethical moment” This podcast from Kelly Leonard…
Leaders come in early as a coach, not late as a judge
The most effective leaders set review dates not just due dates. This allows them to come in early as a coach, not late as a judge. It gives the person doing the…
Link it to purpose and people will do more
This research from Adam Grant on fundraising shows how much more effective it can be to link people’s work to a the people they’re doing it for. Not…
They're not idiots, they're just not you
I’m a fan of using type tools to give teams insight into what often seem like startling facts to them: that behaviours and preferences are kind of predictable…
More and better questions
people don’t somehow understand the link between asking questions and becoming more likable This podcast from Harvard Business Review has some interesting ideas.…