In Episode 103: Abby Wambach, drawing on nearly two decades of teamwork and sporting successes, shows us what teamwork looks like, what leadership stands for, and how you can achieve bigger goals, overcome any obstacles in your way, and unleash your true potential in her book - Wolfpack.
In Episode 102: Patrick Lencioni's, The Ideal Team Player, presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself.
As it turns out, they have three qualities or virtues in common: they are humble, hungry, and smart.
In Episode 101: Patrick Lencioni's, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team describes the many pitfalls that teams face as they seek to "grow together". Exploring the fundamental causes of organizational politics and team failure. Much like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, the five dysfunctions are stacked like a pyramid.
Without building a strong foundation on the bottom, there is no achieving the higher-level goals at the top.
In our 100th Episode, we mark our centenary show by taking a look at what really makes a ‘Moonshots’ thinker. We'll shine a light on past shows and ask ourselves: 1. What lessons did we learn. 2. How have we used these lessons in our own lives.
Innovators, we'll celebrate are Lady Gaga, Simon Sinek: Start with Why, Brené Brown: Gifts of Imperfection, Michael Jordan, Elon Musk, and David Goggins.
In Episode 99: We discuss Extreme Ownership from Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. Extreme Ownership challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win. How to apply their learnings to any team, family or organization.
In Episdoe 98: Tim Ferriss shares the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure book—a compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from the world's best mentors. In Tribe of Mentors he gives us 130 of the best to learn from! When facing life's questions, who do you turn to for advice? We all need mentors, particularly when the odds seem stacked against us. Through short, action-packed profiles, he shares their secrets for success, happiness, meaning, and more.
Episode 97: Tim Ferriss: Tools of Titans. Join us as we discover the tools, tactics, and ‘inside baseball’ you won’t find anywhere else from Tim Ferriss's interviews with almost two hundred world-class performers. We look at the most common lessons 'winning your mornings' and consistent themes and habits of the highly successful.
In Episode 96: Tim Ferriss’s: The 4-Hour Chef isn't just a cookbook. It's a choose-your-own-adventure guide to the world of rapid learning. Featuring tips and tricks from chess prodigies, world-renowned chefs, pro athletes, master sommeliers, supermodels, and everyone in between, this is a guide to mastering cooking and life. The 4-Hour Chef is a five-stop journey through the art and science of learning.
In Episode 95: let's talk Tim Ferris and his 4 Hour Work Week. Forget the old concept of retirement and all of those deferred-life plans–there is no need to wait and every reason not to. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race or earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management. The 4 Hour Work Week is the blueprint.
In Episode 94: We tap into some serious inspiration with David Goggins. The toughest man alive! and his book Can't Hurt Me, and look at how his astonishing life story reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.
In Episode 93: We end our series on Malcolm Gladwell with his book, David & Goliath, and learn how and why some people overcome personal challenges to achieve amazing results and what lessons can we learn from stories of ADVERSITY to achieve our goals.
In Episode 92: Gladwell's third book, Outliers, we examine what sets high achievers apart - from Bill Gates to the Beatles - a person's environment, in conjunction with personal drive and motivation, affects his or her possibility and opportunity for success. Join us on a journey through the world of “outliers”, those people/groups who break the norms.
In Episode 91: We look at how Malcolm Gladwell's book 'Blink', changes the way you'll understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.
Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem.
In Episode 90: We dive into a new series on Malcolm Gladwell, starting with his breakthrough bestseller, The Tipping Point, that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behaviour crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
In Episode 89: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Part 2: We delve into his book "skin in the game", a phrase we've often heard but rarely stopped to truly dissect and what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others.
In episode 88 we explore Part 1 of our 2 part series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The scholar and former options trader who has devoted his life to problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.
We dive into his book, Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder and discover how to approach the world in the face of uncertainty and what lessons can we take from his work to ensure robustness, to set ourselves or your business up for potential positive and negative events.
We take inspiration from Admiral William H. McRaven and his best selling book, Make Your Bed: Little things that can change the world and your life.
In 2014 he addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas, in a video which immediately went viral. He shared 10 life lessons he had learned during his Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his long Naval career, but also throughout his life.
In Make Your Bed, he builds on these principles by sharing inspiring tales from his own life and those around him in the military, explaining how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves for the better.
In episode 86 we round out our series on Habits with Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and the author of The Power of Habit, about the science of habit formation in our lives, companies and societies.
A graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Business School and a reporter at the New York Times for over a decade, Duhigg was one of a team of New York Times reporters who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series of 10 articles about the business practices of Apple and other technology companies.
He has no less than 13 different literary awards throughout his journalism and writing career. Today, he writes books and magazine articles for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and The Atlantic.
We are digging into James Clear one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, to learn how to maximise our time, and form positive habits.
Known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. His work has appeared in Entrepreneur magazine, Time magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and on CBS This Morning. He wrote the New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits, a guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Atomic Habits, offers a framework for getting 1 percent better every day. It's the ultimate guide on how to design a system where good habits emerge naturally and unwanted habits fade away.
