S6 E10 'Collective wisdom'

The Business of Being Brilliant podcast

S6 E10: 'Collective wisdom on balancing today with tomorrow'

Monday 13th November 2023

To wrap up this series you get to hear a little bit from all of my guests who have chatted with me over the past 9 weeks. I’ve been joined by business leaders, professors, authors, coaches, and HR leaders and we’ve explored a whole host of topics from tapping into your employees’ brainpower and scaling your business up for growth to how to hang onto your older female talent and what leading responsibly really means. For this ‘collective wisdom’ episode, I’ve picked out snippets of conversations which all touch in some way on the question of how we enjoy today whilst keeping an eye out for tomorrow.

Perspectives from all my guests in this series

Hal Hershfield on our current vs future selves

When we get overly anchored on our feelings in the moment what can happen is that we don't do enough work to think ahead to the future.

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Kate Adams on the today/tomorrow challenge

How do you live in the present? Because life goes too fast. Work makes life go even faster.

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Professor Robin Dunbar on stopping for social time

One of the things that never gets mentioned, let alone measured is social time, interaction time.

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Jen Sundberg & Pippa Begg on the CEO's role

All chief execs need to lead the business of today and build the business of tomorrow Those are two enormous jobs of equal importance and very difficult to do at the same time.

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Sam Smith on educating children about entrepreneurialism

It's quite complicated to explain, what is an entrepreneur? What is a CEO? What's even a company?

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Sophie Hulm on measuring socio-economic diversity

What I'm really wary of is employers putting it in the too difficult box because it's a challenge. But it's not impossible, and we can prove that.

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Helen Beurier on career experiences

I'm really keen to understand what is it that we're trying to achieve and what's the journey going to look like in broad terms over three years and over five years.
Dr Lucy Ryan on mid-life checkins

Find out what actually is going on in their lives. Where do their aspirations lie here and now and in the future?
Sandra Burley on the 4 day work week

What it does is it makes people think a little bit harder about being organized. And I think that's a great thing.

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