Plan Your Year Podcast

In Episode 57 of the Ideas Architect Podcast we share three of our most popular recent blog posts all on the topic of how to plan your year. The first part shares the ten questions I use to plan my year. The second part focuses on creating and sharing your word or theme for the […]

Mike Allen – Political Intelligence

Mike Allen, CFOD

Our Guest: Mike Allen Mike Allen is the Managing Partner of the Centre For Organisation Development (CFOD) based in Melbourne. CFOD provide leadership, team and career development services to business and government organisations. Mike has extensive experience working within organisations at the senior level and with multinational companies. And, for the past 20 years has […]

Best Books of 2014 – Podcast

Our Topic What are the best books you’ve read in 2014? Each year for the past 12 years I’ve read between 40-50 books a year (except one year when I only read 30+ books). So far this year I’ve read 49 books. And, this sparks the obvious question: which ones are the best books I’ve […]

Unlock the super simple secret to Innovation Work

Innovation Work

Innovation Work Innovation work is now something we all need to perform. Innovation is so fundamental to not just growing a business, but also ensuring it stays relevant and viable. Disruption is potentially all around us and because we have previously been successful is not guarrantee it will continue. It is no longer adequate to […]

The Great Business Gestalt

The Great Business Gestalt What’s the Great Business Gestalt? It’s one of our big ideas from the 25 big ideas from my new book: What the #$%?! Is Going On? In this Podcast Episode This big idea is about the Great Business Gestalt. A Gestalt is a German word that means the whole cannot be […]

The Future of Twitter

Our Topic Here’s one more of our big ideas from the 25 big ideas from my new book: What the #$%?! Is Going On? In this Podcast Episode This big idea is about the Future of Twitter. In particular, we consider the emergence of The Internet of Everything. When this article was first written way […]

Authentic Leadership

Goffee and Jones - Why Should Anyone Be Lead By You

Most leadership research focuses on the internal qualities and traits of the person in charge. In contrast, when we focus on the relationship between the leader and their followers, what’s needed changes according to the current context and people involved. And, the prized qualities of what makes an effective leader also changes: To have a […]

Lessons from Podcasting

What does it take to put a podcast show together? What are the emerging trends for podcasting? And, what tools and work flow do you need to make your show happen? Our Topic This is episode #50 of the Ideas Architect podcast. Yeehar! And, given it’s a milestone issue we thought it would be a […]

Good to Great Summary

Jim Collins, Good to Great summary

What do you need to focus on to transform your company from good to great? This is the fundamental question that underpins today’s book. Our Topic This is episode #49 of the Ideas Architect podcast. And, it’s a Book Rapper recording derived from an important business book. Today we share the Book Rapper Good to […]

Turn Your Blog Posts into Books – Podcast

Reading Books - My Passion!

Recently I clocked up the magnificent milestone of having published 650 blog posts. And, this started me thinking about how I could re-purpose and re-use this content in new ways. The obvious question for me was how to turn these blog posts into books. Our Topic This is episode #48 of the Ideas Architect podcast. […]