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OutsideVoices with Mark Bidwell
by mark bidwell
In OutsideVoices Mark Bidwell talks to remarkable and compelling leaders from the worlds of business, exploration, arts, sports, and academia. In these conversations he explores topics of fundamental importance to many of us today, both in work and in life, topics ranging from leadership and performance to creativity and growth.
Episodes
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Charles Foster: One Man's Search for Meaning: a Journey to the Origins of Consciousness
Charles Foster is an English writer, a traveler, a veterinarian, a taxidermist, a barrister, and a philosopher. Like my previous guest Steven Kotler, he believes in getting deep into subjects in a very immersive and experiential way. In his earlier book called Being a Beast, Charles shares his...
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Kevin Kelly: Raising the Bar - Excellent Advice, AI's for Better Living
Kevin Kelly first appeared on this show back in 2016 to talk about his bestselling book, "The Inevitable", which was a review of the key tech trends that were shaping our lives. Today, almost seven years later, I've been struck by how prescient a number of his predictions turned out to be back...
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Kevin Kelly on AI
In this short episode, I'm sharing an excerpt from my recent interview with Kevin Kelly. He's got a new book coming out in May 2023, called Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier. We're going to release the full interview when the book is out, but in the meantime, it's worth...
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Steven Kotler: Getting Younger with Age: Mindsets for Boosting Learning and Flow
I'm very excited to welcome back Steven Kotler, who's been a guest on this podcast a few times before, talking about some of his books such as Bold, The Rise of Superman, and The Art of Impossible. He has written 12 books in the last 12 years, and his work has been very helpful for me not only in...
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John Elkington: Green Swans, Exponentials and Super Wicked Problems
John Elkington is an advisor on sustainable development and corporate responsibility, an area he's been working in for almost 40 years. He is the author of 20 books on this topic, and he has given a remarkable contribution to shifting capitalism and business towards a more balanced and…
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Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan's Lessons for the Modern World
My guest today, Jack Weatherford, is an anthropologist and author of several books, including one on money, a number on indigenous cultures in North America and beyond, and a revisionist and very thought provoking history of Genghis Khan, called "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World."...
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Jeff Booth: Deflation, Bitcoin and the Price of Tomorrow
Jeff Booth has been at the forefront of technological change for over 20 years. He founded a company called BuildDirect based in Vancouver, an e-commerce platform that was on its way to being a unicorn before he dramatically and suddenly left because, as he says it, his integrity was not for…
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Dorie Clark: Playing The Long Game
My guest this week is Dorie Clark, a consultant and keynote speaker, who teaches executive education at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School, and she is the author of "The Long Game," "Entrepreneurial You," and "Stand Out." A frequent contributor to the Harvard...
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Eric Jorgenson: Leverage, Permisionlessness and Naval's Book of Wisdom
Eric Jorgenson is an investor, business builder, startup growth strategist and the author of "The Almanack of Naval Ravikant". He also runs the online Leverage Course which I'm attending right now. In this conversation, we discuss both Naval Ravikant's wisdom, why and how Eric curated it into a...
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Jim Mellon: Moo's Law and Investing in Cellular Agriculture
My guest Jim Mellon is an accomplished investor, entrepreneur, author and philanthropist. His most recent book called "Moo's Law" focuses on the investment opportunities in the field of cellular agriculture, which is a production of proteins and materials directly from stem cells. Jim Mellon...
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Mohnish Pabrai: Cloning, Learning from Charlie Munger, 100 Baggers
My guest in this episode is Mohnish Pabrai, who I first met at the Berkshire Hathaway AGM in 2014 in Omaha, Nebraska. Mohnish is the Founder and Managing Partner of Pabrai Investment Funds and the author of "The Dhandho Investor," which is just as useful if you're interested in learning about...
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Chris Yeh: Blitzscaling and Lifelong Learning
Chris Yeh is an entrepreneur, investor and author of several books, including two with the founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, the most recent of which is called "Blitzscaling." Today we cover the fascinating topic of blitzscaling - how to scale a business in record time, how to take advantage of...
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Gillian Tett: Anthro-Vision - Shifting the Perspectives on Life and Business
It's a great pleasure to welcome back Gillian Tett, who chairs the Editorial Board in the US for the Financial Times. She has a regular column at FT, writing about finance, business and the political economy. Gillian's work is all about looking at the world through different lenses, and moving…
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Joel Greenblatt: The Common Sense of Long-Term Investing
Joel Greenblatt is arguably one of the best investors in the world. He is a Managing Partner at Gotham Asset Management, an investment firm he founded in 1985. He has spent more than two decades teaching at Columbia Business School, and he's the author of five books focused on investment…
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Richer, Wiser, Happier: Practical Wisdom From Some of the World's Greatest Investors
William Green is a journalist and author, who has written for many leading publications in the US and Europe, including The New Yorker, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Money, The Economist, and others. He has interviewed presidents and prime ministers, inventors, criminals, prize-winning authors,...
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The Art of Impossible: the Playbook for Impractical People in 2021
Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award winning journalist and the executive director of the Flow Research Collective. He's one of the world's leading experts on human performance. He's the author of nine bestselling books, including The Future is Faster Than You Think,...
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Gillian Zoe Segal - The Power of Proximity, and What We Can Learn From The World's Greatest Entrepreneurs
Gillian Zoe Segal is the author of Getting There: A Book of Mentors. In that book, Gillian interviews incredibly successful entrepreneurs, mentors and people like Warren Buffett, to discover their secrets to success and innovation. On today's show, she discusses some of the insights into the…
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Turn Your Ship Around with David Marquet
In this episode, we are joined by David Marquet, who was the Captain of the USS Santa Fe from 1990 to 2001 and now works as a leadership expert with businesses worldwide. We cover his book, Turn The Ship Around! A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking Rules, which has been recently…
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Wrap Up 3: What Is Your Most Significant Failure/"Low", What Have You Learned From It and How Have You Applied That Learning?
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm". So said Winston Churchill, a man who had his fair share of professional disasters to accompany his well known successes. A less painful and more practical strategy for many of us might be to learn from other people's...
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Wrap Up 2: How Do You Remain Creative And Expose Yourself To Fresh Perspectives?
We believe passionately in the power of multiple perspectives to build and sustain innovation ecosystems. And yet we are all creatures of habits, following schedules and routines that enable us to continue to perform at high levels, but which might leave us with little room for exploring the new....
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Wrap Up 1: What Have You Changed Your Mind About Recently?
We have been extremely fortunate to have been able to attract some remarkable guests on OutsideVoices Podcast from the worlds of business, academia, sports, science and the arts, and all of these guests are world-class in their chosen field. We ask our guests the same three questions, which get…
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Fearless Outperformance: Creating Conditions for the Very Best Teams to Excel with Amy Edmondson
In this episode, we are joined by Amy C. Edmondson to discuss her latest book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth. Amy is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and is the world...
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Human Innovation, Smart Machines with Ed Hess
In this episode, we are joined by author and professor, Ed Hess. Ed has published several notable books on learning and innovation including Learn or Die and his most recent work, Humility is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age. Ed is currently a professor, Batten...
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Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in Today's World with Wade Davis
My guest today is Wade Davis, an author and anthropologist, who was until recently Explorer in Residence for the National Geographic Society and is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Some of his books include "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in…
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Thriving in Complexity with Jennifer Berger
My guest in this episode is Jennifer Berger, the CEO of Cultivating Leadership, an organization that helps leaders use complexity as the key that unlocks new possibilities for a better future. Jennifer has worked with senior leaders in companies like Google, KPMG, Lion, Microsoft and Wikimedia.…
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Anyone Can Do It: Sahar's Remarkable Entrepreneurial Journey
Sahar Hashemi OBE is best known as the founder of Coffee Republic, as well as a confectionery brand Skinny Candy. She is active in the world of entrepreneurialism and charity, and is an accomplished author, having written "Anyone can do it" about her journey from corporate lawyer to founding a...
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Catalysing Innovation with Questions with Hal Gregersen
In this episode, we are joined by Hal Gregersen, author of The Innovator's DNA, to discuss his recent book, Questions are the Answer. Hal is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation and the Executive Director of the Leadership Center at MIT, and has previously taught at Dartmouth College…
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Innovation Swiss Style: The Untold Story Behind Switzerland's Success with James Breiding
James Breiding is the author of Swiss Made, a book on why Switzerland - a tiny country with few natural advantages - has become so successful in the world of banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, and more. James discusses innovation in Switzerland and makes the point that when an entrepreneur…
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Hacking flow: How to Make Outperformance a Habit
Steven Kotler is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist, and the Cofounder and Director of Research at The Flow Genome Project, a research organisation dedicated to understanding the peak human performance state of Flow. Today he joins us to discuss how to hack Flow and how it can...
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Colliding with the Unexpected with Gillian Tett
In this episode, we are joined by author and journalist Gillian Tett, to discuss the role anthropology plays in today's business world. Gillian is the author of the award-winning book, Fool's Gold, which analyses the origin of the 2008 financial crisis, and most recently, The Silo Effect, and is...
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The Return on Investment of Mental Models with Robert Hagstrom
In this episode, we are joined by Robert Hagstrom, who is an author, investment strategist, and portfolio manager. His books include The New York Times bestselling The Warren Buffett Way and The NASCAR Way: The Business That Drives the Sport and Investing: The Last Liberal Art, in which he...
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Technonomics and Why My Profits Might Just Disappear with John Straw
In this episode, we are joined by digital and marketing entrepreneur, John Straw, who describes himself as a "technonomist" – someone exploring the cutting edge of technology and looking to understand where it fits from both an economic and commercial perspective. John is a Senior Advisor at...
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Harnessing Corporate Activism To Transform A Pharmaceutical Giant with Celine Schillinger
Céline Schillinger is a self-described corporate activist, who was called a troublemaker by her bosses. But thanks to her passion to grow and improve on rigid corporate systems, she was awarded Woman of the Year — La Tribune Women's Awards in 2013. Céline was the Head of Quality Innovation &...
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Talking 100% Entrepreneurship and 0% Bureaucracy with Resourceful Human's Heiko Fischer
Heiko Fischer is the CEO and Founder of Resourceful Humans. The company's motto is 100% Entrepreneurship and 0% Bureaucracy. How does Heiko incorporate this motto into his company and the companies he consults with? Find out on this week's episode.
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Confessions of a Corporate Insurgent with Gib Bulloch
In this episode, writer, speaker, and intrapreneur, Gib Bulloch, joins us to discuss his book, The Intrapreneur: Confessions of a Corporate Insurgent. He spent 20 years at Accenture where he started Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP), a buinsess unit set up to leverage that business's...
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Benedict Allen - Exploring Cultures
My guest in this episode is Benedict Allen, an English explorer, environmentalist, film-maker and author of a number of books, including "Mad White Giant", "Into The Crocodile Nest" and "Hunting the Gugu." Benedict has become famous for his immersive style of exploration, by disconnecting from...
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Rob Swan - Leadership Lessons from 40 Years of Polar Exploration
My guest in this episode is Robert Swan, a world renowned polar explorer, environmental leader, public speaker and the first man in history to walk to both the North and South Poles. He is currently an advocate for the protection of Antarctica and renewable energy. Robert is also the founder of...
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Chris Rainier and Olivia McKendrick - The Race to Save Cultural And Intellectual Diversity
Diversity in all its forms is key to solving many of the most significant challenges we face today, and if we fail to address these challenges, future generations will inherit the consequences. Preserving cultural and intellectual diversity is the purpose of the Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation…
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Democratising Elite Performance Tools with Dr. Andy Walshe
Dr. Andy Walshe is a globally recognised leader and expert in the field of elite human performance. He has spent more than 20 years researching ways to "Hack Performance" in sport, culture, military and business to create a deeper understanding of the "Human Potential Construct". Andy's ultimate...
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The Space Between Hesitation and Commitment with Michael Gervais
Michael Gervais is a high-performance psychologist who works in the trenches of high-stakes environments, he is a recognized speaker on optimal human performance, and he is the host of the Finding Mastery podcast. What can Michael teach us about success in the corporate world? Well, just a few of...
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Scott Peltin - Multiplying Your Results From Your Mindset, Energy and Recovery Rituals
Scott Peltin is founder and chief performance officer of Tignum, a company that helps his executive clients achieve their full potential. He's worked with CEOs, C-level executives, professional athletes, and many top leaders to improve their performance and sustainability. Prior to founding…
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Little Nudges, Big Results with Steven Macregor
In this episode, we are joined by Steven MacGregor, who is the founder and CEO of The Leadership Academy of Barcelona and author of Sustaining Executive Performance and his latest book is Chief Wellbeing Officer, in which he discusses the importance of maintaining positive mental health in the...
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David Allen - Creating Space, Getting Altitude and Mitigating Against the Stress of Opportunity
David Allen is widely recognized as the world's leading expert on personal and organizational productivity. He is the author of Getting Things Done and has shown millions of people how to transform their overwhelming lives into a relaxed and more productive one. Listen to David's popular...
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Beautiful, Transformative Constraints, and Why They Are Core to Innovation with Adam Morgan
Adam Morgan founded the company eatbigfish, which challenges the status quo and creates an environment of challenger thinking and behavior. In this episode, Adam discusses his book "A Beautiful Constraint," and talks on how intrapreneurs can leverage their limits to come up with creative…
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Hacking Reality to Have a Great Day with Caroline Webb
Caroline Webb is an author, economist, executive coach and the CEO of How To Have a Good Day, a firm that shows people how to leverage behavioural science to improve their working life. Caroline is also the author of the book How To Have A Good Day, which has been published in 16 different...
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Only Curious Leaders Escape The Advice Trap with Michael Bungay Stanier
We are pleased to welcome Michael Bungay Stanier back on the show. He is one of the world's most respected coaches, author of The Coaching Habit, and founder of Box of Crayons, which helps organisations harness the power of curiosity to drive culture. Since we last spoke, Michael published a new...
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Pre-suasion: How to Influence With Integrity with Robert Cialdini
Robert Cialdini has spent his entire career researching the science of influence. This has earned him an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation. On this week's episode, Robert discusses how to enlist the support of your senior managers prior...
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Meaning Makers: How Top Leaders Use Stories with David Pearl
In this episode, we are joined by award-winning author, David Pearl, to discuss his career as a creative confidante and personal development advisor to a number of the world's top CEO's and organisations. David is a respected public and keynote speaker and is the founder of Pearl Group, Opera...
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Bottling Amazonian Wisdom with Tyler Gage, the Co-Founder of RUNA
In this episode we're joined by Tyler Gage, co-founder of the organic tea company Runa, and author of the book, Fully Alive: Using the Lessons of the Amazon to Live Your Mission in Business and Life. Tyler shares how his immersion into life in the Amazon guided him in building a socially...
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Chris Goppelsroeder - Curiosity, Clean Cows and Organisational DNA
Christoph Goppelsroeder is the Chief Executive Officer and President at DSM Nutritional Products. Christoph talks on how a large organisation can create the right space for innovation and sustainability. He believes in order to create impactful and disruptive innovation, you must understand...
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In OutsideVoices Mark Bidwell talks to remarkable and compelling leaders from the worlds of business, exploration, arts, sports, and academia. In these conversations he explores topics of fundamental importance to many of us today, both in work and in life, topics ranging from leadership and performance to creativity and growth.
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