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The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton

Richard Atherton

Being Human is for people who want go deep on what it means to be a human making a difference. We’ll discover how to be better humans at work and in life. We’ll explore leadership, relationships and how to make changes in ourselves and our environments. Nothing will be off limits. Welcome.

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01:34:11

#168 Embracing Flow - with Nigel Thurlow

The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton ·

2021/06/17

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with Nigel Thurlow, ex-Chief of Agile at Toyota and co-author of The Flow System. Tired of the framework merchants and the over-commercialisation of the Agile movement, Nigel could see that a new approach was needed. A philosophy that went beyond Lean and Agile to embrace complexity thinking, team science and the critical question of leadership. He believes, first and foremost,

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01:04:18

#167 Rare Breed - with Sunny Bonnell

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2021/06/10

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with author, speaker and CEO Sunny Bonnell. Together with her co-author, Ashleigh Hansberger, she wrote Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different, a book that empowers people to take what society deems as "vices" and turn them into unrivalled assets. Sunny, herself a rare breed, dropped out of pre-veterinary school to start a branding agency with

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01:15:17

#166 Cultivating Well-being - with Marion Kiely

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2021/06/03

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with complexity practitioner and well-being advocate Marion Kiely. Marion has dedicated her career to figuring out how the latest complexity thinking can bring sustained change to organisations. From her home in Cork in Ireland, she talks passionately about how we can truly be well at work. In this episode, we talk: Why yoga and yoghurt is not the answer Could your

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01:21:02

#165 Letting Go of Certainty - with Sonja Blignaut

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2021/05/27

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with author and complexity consultant Sonja Blignaut. Meteorologist then IBM consultant, Sonya took a varied path to her latest role as CEO of leading complexity practitioners, Cognitive Edge. Sonja is a born-and-bred South African. As she points out, things don’t get much more complex than in the Rainbow Nation. In this episode, we talk: Complexity and

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01:05:47

#164 A Strategy for Uncertainty - with Steve McCrone

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2021/05/20

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with former bomb disposal team leader and pioneer in adaptive strategy Steve McCrone. Adaptive strategy applies complexity thinking to the art of high-level planning to enable firms to build resilience in the face of uncertainties. Steve is a very passionate speaker and presenter and brings this approach to life brilliantly using a strategically placed whiteboard. A good one to watch on

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01:04:43

#163 Future Sense - with Malcolm Parlett

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2021/05/13

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with psychological researcher, consultant and author, Malcolm Parlett. From an orthodox academic background, at Cambridge then MIT, Malcolm discovered Gestalt psychology, which changed his life and work. It opened up a new sense of connectedness and took him away from more traditional, reductive approaches. Malcolm went on to co-found the UK's Gestalt Psychotherapy and Training

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#162 Embodiment Now - with Mark Walsh

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2021/05/06

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with embodiment coaching specialist Mark Walsh. Embodiment is about working through gentle non-athletic movement, posture, awareness, and breathing to pursue deeper, faster and more permanent change. In this conversation, Mark shows us how to make friends with our bodies and feel at home again in our skin. In this episode, we talk: - From drug dealer to aikidoka - The

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#161 How to Make Optimal Decisions - with Dr. Timothy...

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2021/04/29

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with psychologist and former U.S. Army mental health specialist Dr. Timothy Yen. Dr. Yen has used his experience to create a framework that helps you build up your inner decision-making capability and use it successfully to address your most important choices. In this episode, we talk: - How trauma impacts how we make decisions - 5 pillars to help you make great choices - Growing

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#160 How to Build a Human Business - with Dr. Thomas...

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2021/04/22

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, our favorite tangoing, mountain-climbing business philosopher Dr. Thomas Juli returns to share the wisdom in his new book 'Human Business: Life and Work in the Digital Age.' As well as being an Agile Transformation Coach for the insurance giant Allianz, Thomas is a regular speaker at international conferences worldwide. These have included the NASA Project Management Challenge, the World

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01:03:03

#159 The End of Jobs - with Jeff Wald

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2021/04/16

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with author, former cop and serial entrepreneur Jeff Wald. After selling WorkMarket, the multi-million dollar labour platform Jeff helped build from scratch, he found some time to pen The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations. Jeff claims that we're now entering a fourth great leap forward in technology, after mechanisation, electrification, and

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01:23:46

#158 Learning War - with Trent Hone

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2021/04/08

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with Trent Hone, an authority on the U.S. Navy of the early twentieth century and a leader in applying complexity science to organisational design. Trent hooked me with his powerful story of U.S. Navy's rapid learning techniques in the 'Cyenfin at 21' book, the subject of my recent podcast with Dave Snowden. In our conversation, we talk about how the U.S. Navy was forced to learn some

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01:01:57

#157 The Wisdom of Psychopaths - with Kevin Dutton

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2021/04/01

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with Dr. Kevin Dutton, University of Oxford Research Psychologist, Bestselling Author and Elite Performance Consultant, also known as The Psychology Guy. The topic might seem odd for a show dedicated to humanising people’s lives and workplaces, but psychopaths are part of the forest of humanity. As we’ll explore in this episode, they can and often do take on productive roles in our

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#156 More Moose Heads on The Table - with Karin Tenelius

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2021/03/26

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Karin Tenelius, one of the world's leading experts in self-managing organisations, or, in her own words, "workspaces that work for people and bring out the best in them." Karin not only trains others to lead through self-managing principles, but she has served as CEO to several businesses that she has managed in this way. For those of you who loved our episode with Lisa Gill,

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53:06

#155 Pioneering Self-Management - with Jos de Blok

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2021/03/19

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week, Jos de Blok, has been on the bucket list of Being Human for a number of years. He's the founder of Buurtzorg, a community nursing organisation that has embracing the self-organising principle to stunning effect. In recognition of his contributions, Jos shares the RSA's Albert Award with the likes of Tim Berners-Lee and Stephen Hawking. Recently, having grown Buurtzorg to become an international

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01:18:55

#154 Training Your Inner Warrior - with Robin Rice

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2021/03/12

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, we talk with Robin Rice, an internationally published author, transformational speaker, social change artist and mentor to leaders. A big thank you to renowned Transformation Coach Lyssa Adkins who recommended Robin to me as a guest. Our conversation was a powerful reminder for me of that paradox that developing enhancing our personal impact rests in dropping our 'I' in service of the

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01:01:53

#153 Leadering - with Nancy Giordano

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2021/03/05

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, we talk with Nancy Giordano, one of the world’s top female futurists. Nancy has worked with many leading companies to evolve over $50 billion worth of business. The first TEDx licensee and guest lecturer with Singularity University, Nancy is currently advising an AI startup and advancing horizon efforts that aim to dramatically reshape the ways we recognize, create, and exchange value with

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#152 Be Kind - with Jack Parsons

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2021/02/26

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, we talk with Jack Parsons. He's an entrepreneur, public speaker and subject expert on youth, and serves as CEO of The Big Youth Group. Jack has made it his mission to help young people better themselves, in order to help them take advantages of opportunities in the business world. Jack's efforts have paid off, as he has become publicly known as the UK’s Chief Youth Officer. In this episode, we

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#151 Kick Out Your Budget - with Bjarte Bogsnes

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2021/02/19

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, we talk with Bjarte Bogsnes, Chairman of The Beyond Budgeting Institute and an HBR/McKinsey Management Innovation Award winner. Beyond Budgeting is a movement from CFOs themselves to kick out budgets from corporations. Yes, you read that correctly, CFOs burning budgets, and Bjarte was ripping them up before Beyond Budgeting was a thing. How does this relate to Being Human, you might ask

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#150 The Smartest Person in The Room - with Christian...

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2021/02/12

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, we discuss cybersecurity with expert in the field and author Christian Espinosa. Don't worry, we're not talking about bits, bytes, and firewalls. We're talking about the biggest security threat of them all. The one between the keyboard and the chair. Christian shares with us his journey becoming a world-renowned cyber security coordinator, managing on one hand the whims of extremely

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01:27:45

#149 Cynefin at 21 - with Dave Snowden

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2021/02/06

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode Being Human, we have a return visit of one of our most popular guests, Dave Snowden. Dave is by far my favourite Welsh National Treasure. He's a philosopher-cum-management thinker and developer of the Cynefin framework, a decision making framework that has transformed the way people work and think from the military generals to software developers to humble business coaches like me. Professor Snowden is

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