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While listening to my podcast interview with Rich Sheridan, you will get an innovative perspective on people, culture and design from one of the top organizational leaders and business builders in the US today.
I am fascinated with people who have the enormous courage, heart, vulnerability it takes to actually do things differently (in Rich’s case, radically different). Whether you are a business IT leader employed by a company, or an entrepreneur. Rich and I cover equally cover the two, because he has had massive success with both.
This discussion is a master- class. I felt like he was speaking to me personally on how to think about my own company and my own teams. I trust his message will be equally ring true for you.
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Make sure to check out the show notes page at redzonetech.net/podcast where you can connect with him via twitter.
About Rich Sheridan
Rich Sheridan got started as a kid programmer in 1971. He is the author of Joy, Inc. He is a Michigan graduate BS Computer Science + MS Computer Engineering. He has never shied from challenges, opportunities nor the limelight. While his focus has always been around technology, his passion is actually process, teamwork and organizational design, with one inordinately popular goal: the Business Value of Joy! He is an avid reader and historian, and his software design and development team at Menlo Innovations didn't invent a new culture, but copied an old one ... Edison's Menlo Park New Jersey lab. Henry Ford's recreation of the Menlo Park Lab in Greenfield Village was a childhood inspiration!
Some call it agile, some call it lean … Rich and his team call it joyful. And it produces results, business and otherwise. Six Inc. magazine revenue growth awards, invites to the White House, speaking engagements around the nation, numerous articles and culture awards and so much interest they are doing a tour a day of the Menlo Software Factory™.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- How to handle the chaos of software development with process and culture,
- The process of installing a culture of delight into your teams,
- His version of instilling accountability and service,
- The concept of team flow,
- One simple phrase to disarm every naysayer ever again.
Read full transcript here.
How to get in touch with Rich Sheridan
Website:
Blog:
Book:
Joy Inc.: How to Build a Workplace People Love
Video:
- Joy Inc.| Rich Sheridan - keynote at the 2014 VitalSmarts REACH conference.
- Entrepreneurship Hour Talk - Michigan Engineering, The University of Michigan College of Engineering
Richard Sheridan's Recommendations:
- Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change - Kent Beck
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable - Patrick Lencioni
- Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding the Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty - Patrick Lencioni
- Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior - Vital Smarts
- Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change - Vital Smarts
- Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box - Arbinger Institute
- The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict - Arbinger Institute
- IDEO Website - global design company creating positive impact through design
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About Bill Murphy
Bill Murphy is a world renowned IT Security Expert dedicated to your success as an IT business leader. Follow Bill on LinkedIn and Twitter.
I had a wonderful discussion with Steven Kotler. I don’t believe that you can talk about Exponential Tech, Leadership, and Enterprise IT Security without discussing Human Potential.
During this episode you will be a fly on the wall in exploring the Frontiers of Human Potential with one of the top leaders in this field.
By reading Steven’s books and engaging with the body of research around them, I have greatly expanded my capacity as an individual, father, businessman, and leader.
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About Steven Kotler
Steven is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist and the cofounder/director of research for the Flow Genome Project. He is one of the world’s leading experts on ultimate human performance.
His latest work, Bold was called a “visionary roadmap for change,” by president Bill Clinton and spent many weeks atop both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
His previous book, The Rise of Superman, was one of the most talked about books in 2013 and the first book in history to land on national bestseller lists in the sports, science, and business categories simultaneously. In it, Steven decodes the science of flow, an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best.
Just as Rise explores the upper limits of individual possibility, his book, Abundance, explores the upper limits of societal possibility, breaking down four emerging forces that give humanity the potential to significantly raise global standards of living over the next 20 to 30 years. Abundance spent 10 weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list and appeared on four prestigious “Best Book of the Year” lists.
His writings have been translated into over 40 languages and appeared in over 80 publications, including The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, Wired and TIME.
Alongside his wife, author Joy Nicholson, Steven is the cofounder of Rancho de Chihuahua, a dog sanctuary in the mountains of Northern New Mexico.
Make sure to check out resources on redzonetech.net/podcast to Steven Kotler’s programs at Flow Research Collective, which I am currently taking, and the three books I have mentioned. You can also find the link to his twitter profile on this page.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- Science and neurobiology.
- How to increase flow in your life.
- Leading in times of exponential change.
- Reducing the signal of noise to the brain.
- Reducing the inner critic.
- Developing lateral thinking,
- Staying focused.
Read full transcript here.
How to get in touch with Steven Kotler:
Websites:
Blog:
Books:
- Tomorrowland: Our Journey From Science Fiction to Science Fact
- Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think
- BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact The World
Publications:
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About Bill Murphy
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My guest for this episode was a great IT Leader Prabhash Shrestha.
Prabhash, Vice President of Information Technology, currently overseas, manages, strategizes business and operation of digital and Health IT at American Gastroenterological Association (AGA). He actively works with AGA's senior management team, board and volunteers, members, and business partners in analyzing the trends and the direction of technology of AGA.. Previously, he was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Association of Fundraising Professionals for eight years, from 2006 to 2014.
He was chosen as DC's Top Association Tech Gurus by Trending 40. He was honored as the Top Ten Association Technology Leaders by Association Trends in December 2015. He was also awarded Top Association & Non-Profit Innovators 2015. Prabhash was chosen as the Top Innovators in the Washington, DC Association and Non-Profit community in January 2015. He was featured on the The A List on 2014 Nov/December issue of Associations Now magazine. He also was featured as one of the Top 5 under 35 in 2007. He has been interviewed on by various publications, radio and news media, and magazines. He speaks frequently at non-profit/association technology conferences and other conferences on various technology, leadership, management and business issues.
Prabhash holds a Master of Science in Information Systems. and holds Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan Executive Certificate on Strategy and Innovation. He has been teaching at Georgetown University's Master's Degree program in Technology Management since 2010. He has won several teaching excellence awards at Georgetown University.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
1. His almost automatic focus on revenue and customer needs,
2. I don't mean the clique customer needs examine but really putting yourself in the customer, patient, experience so that you really, really know it,
3. How to bring quick wins to market,
4. He has an approach we discussed where you evaluate 5 areas a) Audit the market b) Build a MVP minimum viable product fill the gap c) Shrink the time to market d) Grow by examining data (a Core IT leader skill) e) and evolving the product,
5. Books and articles he recommends.
Read full transcript here.
How to get in touch with Prabhash Shrestha:
Book Recommendations:
- Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Eric Ries
- MIT Publications
- CIO.com
- Harvard Business Review Publications
Interview(s):
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About Bill Murphy
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Hod Lipson is a fascinating conversationalist.
Hod is a professor of Mechanical Engineering and Data Science at Columbia University in New York, and a co-author of the award winning book “Fabricated: The New World of 3D printing”, and “Driverless: Intelligent cars and the road ahead”, by MIT Press. Before joining Columbia University in 2015, Hod spent 14 years as a professor at Cornell University. He received his PhD in 1999 from the Technicon – Israel Institute of Technology, followed by a postdoc at Brandeis University and MIT. His work on self-aware and self-replicating robots challenges conventional views of robotics, and has enjoyed widespread media coverage. He has also pioneered many aspects of 3D Printing, including bio-printing, electronics printing, and now Food Printing, and launching the firs open-source printer in the US, the Fab@Home in 2005. Lipson has co-authored over 300 publications that received over 12,000 citations to date. He has founded four companies, and is frequent keynoter both in industry and academic events. His TED Talk on self-aware machines is one of the most viewed presentations on AI and robotics. Hod directs the Creative Machines Lab, which pioneers new ways to make machines that create, and machines that are creative.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing
- Why is Complexity free now? It used to be that you add complexity and you need more skill and add cost;
- The importance of AI design tools for 3D printing;
- The vision of Design on Demand;
- Understanding the downside risks;
- Understanding the 4 exponential trends giving gas to AI.
4 Exponential Trends making AI Spread like wildfire:
1) Moore’s Law;
2) Exponential Data Growth is the AI and Machine Learning Oxygen;
3) Algorithms that get better and better (with perceptions and differential equations);
4) Machines learning from each other competitively. Machines sharing knowledge. Driverless cars, for example.
Creativity, Perception, Design, Decision Making Breakthroughs with AI:
1. Using crowdsourcing to access talent to solve problems;
2. Who owns the data ? Data is the new oil;
3. Who owns the algorithms?
4. Analysis and Synthesis.
Historical trends of AI and Machine Learning:
1) Algorithmic approach dominated;
2) Now, Machine learning learns by itself;.
3) Deep learning is a programmatic off shoot of Machine learning.
I have linked up all the show notes on redzonetech.net/podcast where you can get access to Hod Lipson's books and publications.
Read full transcript here.
How to get in touch with Hod Lipson:
Website:
Books/Publications:
Video:
Other Resources:
- Creative Machines Lab
- Research: Current and Past Projects
- Full List of Public Talks
- TedxTalks Profile
This episode is sponsored by the CIO Scoreboard, a powerful tool that helps you communicate the status of your IT Security program visually in just a few minutes.
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* Outro music provided by Ben’s Sound
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