Learning to Flex with Jeffrey Hull

01/12/22 • 36 min

This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, Jean and Scott talk to author, educator, and consultant Jeffrey Hull PhD. In addition to his writing and consultancy, Jeffrey is a clinical instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School and an adjunct professor of leadership at New York University.

Flex, The Art and Science of Leadership in a Changing World

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Flex, The Art and Science of Leadership in a Changing World

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New Realities of an Exponential World with Azeem Azhar

In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to entrepreneur, investor, and the creator of highly-regarded newsletter ‘Exponential View’ Azeem Azhar. Much of the world is witnessing radical societal change driven by exponential technologies that are transforming how we live and interact with one another and disrupting our economic and social norms in highly unpredictable ways. In his recent book ‘Exponential: How to Bridge the Gap Between Technology and Society’, Azeem Azhar describes the widening gap between technology and society and its ramifications.
Reading suggestion -
'Exponential: How to Bridge the Gap Between Technology and Society’, (Random House, 2021)

0.00 Introduction

2.30 Tell us about your journey and how that influenced your views regarding how new technologies are accelerating change and as a result creating an exponential gap between the impact they have on the world and the scope of our institutions and policies.

11.33 What is the central message in your book from a leadership perspective? What could business leaders learn from the book?

17.06 How do you start the conversation with a CEO who hasn’t started to consider the use of exponential technologies within their organisation?

20.17 At a time when mankind’s biggest challenge is tackling climate change, can you share what you’re seeing in terms of the conflict of technology, political will and capability.

24,45 Another huge risk to our future is AI enhanced warfare where (for example) humans could be excluded from making decisions which could lead to catastrophic escalations. Could you give us your view on how this is developing?

30.47 In your view, how is remote working transforming the world?

37.57 If we pause to think about the future Metaverse (with Facebook having recently rebranded to Meta), how do we prevent it from deepening the problems with mental health and wellbeing that are dogging social media at the moment?

43.39 Thinking about some of the other major players in the techspace (including Apple, Amazon and Microsoft), what do you think their evolution is going to look like in the next ten years?

46.57 As leaders, how are we going to manage the exponential gap?

53.52 What has excited you during the last 6-12 months?

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Solving the Imagination Crisis with Gerard Puccio

In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, Jean and Scott talk to Gerard Puccio, author, creativity researcher, TEDx presenter and Chair and Professor at the International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State. Gerard helps individuals, teams, and organizations reach their greatest potential by tapping into and expanding their capacity to imagine new possibilities and to creatively address complex problems. He states that in a world defined by complexity and change, creative thinking has become the number one survival skill and on the back of that his mission is to help individuals, teams and organizations ignite and fully maximize their creative potential – not just to survive, but to thrive.

0.00 Introduction

2.33 Please start by giving us a sense of your research into creativity and areas that currently most excite you

5.18 In a much cited piece of research published by IBM as far back as 2010, creativity was selected as the most crucial factor for future success. In 2022, why are so many businesses still prioritising what they have now with a focus on ways to prevent risk and deviation?

14.48 In an organisation where there are a lot of good ideas at the top, but they repeatedly fail to become commercial realities (in other words creativity breaks down), what needs be developed in the team so they are able to take the ideas through to becoming a reality.

18.45 Tell us a little about the FourSight tool

26.29 Do you have a view on the best ideation techniques

29.15 What have you learnt about yourself in terms of being in a social environment and generating ideas?

34.38 How do you prevent yourself from falling in love with an idea and potentially stalling when in fact you should be detaching yourself from that originally idea allowing yourself to create more and more alternatives?

38.49 Who is doing well in the creativity space?

42.01 Do you share the view that there is a problem nurturing creativity in education?

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