Wade Martin, PhD is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at California State University, Long Beach. He works primarily in the area of risk analysis related to business development and sustainability for local economic development. He has worked on projects for Downtown Long Beach Alliance, CalRECYLES, the World Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the USDA Forest Service, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Government of Indonesia and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard Institute for International Development. His area of expertise is applied microeconomics with a specialization in environmental and natural resource economics. He uses these tools to support entrepreneurs and small businesses to support local economic development from the ground up. The Institute welcomes everyone but does have a focus on women and entrepreneurs-of-color for the diverse community that is Long Beach and uses a sustainability model to guide business decision-making! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

What if you have the most amazing idea which will improve the human race but n o one will pay for it? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We constantly use negative options to prey on our customer's innate human laziness. Are we not better served by serving our customers and giving them better options? We have all the data and intelligence - why can't we use that to improve their lives in addition to maintaining profitability? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

do you comply, then change the law, or the opposite? http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Innovation is the furthest thing from most "innovation"  http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Suzy Engwall is the National Director at the Innovation Lab at the Innovation Institute in Southern California.  The Innovation Institute is a for-profit, limited liability company currently owned by six non-profit health systems.  We serve as the commercialization arm of these health systems as well as the change agent for creating a culture of innovation.   Suzy is responsible for translating the innovation strategy and vision for 3 of the 6 member systems as well as 1 large hospital system subscription partner. She works closely with the C-suites at each to ensure the Innovation Lab is delivering value to these organizations and their key stakeholders. She oversees a team of client engagement executives, most of whom reside on-site with the hospitals we work with. This team is responsible for the engagement of clinicians, physicians, and other employee innovators. In addition, Suzy and her team build and implement programs that inspire innovative thinking across member systems. These programs include 1 to 1 mentoring and coaching, design thinking classes & workshops, running innovation challenges & hackathons, as well as reverse pitch events and shark tanks. The goal of all of this is to solve some of the biggest challenges we have in healthcare today. Suzy came to the Innovation Lab after almost 10 years at St. Joseph Health System where she served as a Performance Improvement Business Partner. Suzy has a wide range of experience working with healthcare leaders, physicians, clinicians, and support service teams on both clinical and operational initiatives. She has a true passion for healthcare innovation and its impact on the lives of those we serve. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

It's past time that the internet needs to be reformed.   http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

you can't ever change if you are never uncomfortable.   http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Most media lacks emotions since there is no longer a BIG BAD or even a BIG GOOD  http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

constraints can make you more creative  http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Nigel Smith is a passionate and visionary entrepreneur and board director. He is the Founder and CEO of Zurena LLC, a Silver Spring MD-based startup that is defining a new category of drink mixers – the premium universal drink mixer. Zurena all-natural drink mixers can be used to create an unlimited number of high-quality tropical cocktails, mocktails, and hot toddies with just a splash. In his role as CEO, he leads strategy development, innovation, business development, operations, and general management. Zurena LLC is a nationally certified minority business enterprise by the Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council.  Please follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @MyZurena. We use these platforms to share new and exciting recipes and pathways for community engagement.  For collaboration opportunities, to get in contact with CEO Nigel Smith and to join our mailing list, please email [email protected] We invite you to purchase Zurena All-Natural Drink Mixers for the holidays. They make the BEST gifts and are a must-have for family entertainment. Use discount code FUTURIST for 15% off on MyZurena.com and Amazon. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

the post-scarcity society is on its way, but we are too afraid to embrace it - this might be why we are tearing ourselves apart trying to maintain the scarcity society.   http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

changing your name won't absolve you of your responsibility to allow every human to connect with every other human  http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Current depictions of the future never seem to get it right - all they do is thrust 21st-century human beings into the future without thinking how future human beings will be like. Future humans will be very different from the humans of today: it's up to us to make them better.   https:/hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Sometimes, to make things better, you need to break out of your current state.   https://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

As the Head of Innovation in Silicon Valley at North American Lighting (NAL), A Koito Group Company, Amit works with startups, Tier 1s, and OEMs to find partnerships/investments in adjacent and transformational areas that can contribute to vehicle safety through the evolution of lighting.  Prior to this, Amit lead the technical marketing department in Michigan for NAL.  Before joining NAL he held positions at Bosch Automotive and Power Tools and McDanel Advanced Ceramics. Amit has a BS in mechanical engineering and an MBA.   Amit is the host of the podcast ‘Mobility Now!’ with 1500 subscribers and the founder of Sunnyvale Sensor Fusion Meetup which hosts monthly meetups and has over 1500 members.   https://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Time to take back our individuality from the crowd. https://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

If you need to present your work, do you go first, last, or somewhere in the middle? As innovators, we need to tread new ground.    https://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Unlike my futurist peers, I don't think we are anywhere near losing jobs to AI - sure in very narrow and specific tasks, AI might be able to do the trick, for everything else, we need human beings to step in and do the work.   https://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Everyone is resigning because their employers are turning a blind eye to how much more their employees prefer remote work to commute work. Remote work is the future - commute work is the past. Remote work is SO much better for everyone's productivity, health, wellness, and sustainability, that no one should be surprised by the Great Resignation.    https://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Brian R Johnson has helped over 20,000 brands sell over $1B on Amazon through ad strategy and conversion rate optimization. He offers guidance to, and partners with, brands & sellers through his online community, Amazon PPC Troubleshooting, as well as through coaching, software, training courses, and, his flagship advertising agency, CANOPY Management.   http://www.canopymanagement.com/  https://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Internet search is broken. It's 99% crap. We need the original Yahoo! back - the hand-curated, hand-coded directory of only the good stuff - human selected only!   http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

It is time to retire the individual and only focus on the collective? Have we finally evolved beyond homo sapiens (wise) to homo nexus (connected)?   http;//hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Despite the dystopian futures which seem to be in style - we are the ones who can make these futures happen. Many of the horrible things we thought were going to happen never happened due to human ingenuity. We need to look at the future through the lens of the future. The future has always provided more unseen and unknown opportunities.   http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Innovators come from everywhere, but they all have the same challenges. Is innovation a thing - is it marketing? Is it cultural? Is innovation just lip service? http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Ryan Knox - Director of Marketing & Innovation at Flexfab, LLC discusses innovation in the silicon space and how small manufacturers can innovate.   https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-knox-501a122b/  http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We are so worried about being ostracized by the tribe that we have trouble doing anything DIFFERENT.   http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Try ordering the least popular item or listening to tracks no one else has - try going off the beaten path and who knows what you'll uncover.  http://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

These are not the roaring 20's - they are the fearsome 20's or the "Scary 20s" We need to get over our fear of change and the future in order to uplift the human race.  https://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

When everything is distilled down to TEXT, you better have a really good conceptual matching engine. https://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Board and strategic advisor, focused on emerging models of AI-Driven predictions and decision making in venture capital and corporate innovation. Founding member of Silicon Valley Blockchain Society, and an SDG Impact Circle Fellow. Strong focus on inclusive capital. https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardswartphd/ https://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Is the internet full of bots? Where are all the humans?  https://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

When something terrible is not changing in your organization, you can bet someone likes it just like that.  https://hellofuture.co --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

What books changed your life? For me, it's the ones that tell the truth - that explain reality AS IT IS, not as we'd like it to be. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

In the future of work, we are all free agents, free to work at any job whenever we want, whenever we like, and for whoever we want. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

I always thought that the act of connecting every human being on the planet with every other human being on the planet over the internet was going to help us to evolve the human race beyond our current misunderstandings. Now I find that might not be the right thing to do - allowing us to connect with other humans just increases mimesis. How do we stop mimesis from running out of control into a world where we have become Homo Nexus - the fully connected human? We need to get over our natural tendency to mimic all of the people around us and will ourselves to BE DIFFERENT. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

I can not wait for autonomous driving to come in because if you ask me going is one of those things human beings have too much brainpower to do that we spend too much time thinking in order to do something like driving I think machines we should probably get to to a Thomas driving sooner as opposed to I later believe Thomas is driving. When I went to driving school you were supposed to stay on the right and pass on the left but most everybody was sitting in the left lane the entire way and driving below the speed limit now I don't know if they were on their phones I don't know if they're playing candy crush a fortnight or whatever while they were driving but he was desperately annoying.  What is the number one trait I saw amongst all these drivers none of them wanted to drive boldly at all they were all driving below the speed limit they were all going very timidly? And it led me to realize something and this is something that I've I've seen for a long long time is it human beings we tend to timidity we tend to fear we trained to do nothing when there are options about doing something we're doing nothing even if it's egregious. So on that road, and when I thought about it, I thought to myself, well, this is something that's been going on forever. When I was working with Yahoo for a long time, we were in meetings, and all these great ideas were being discussed. All this creativity was happening all these products, all these fantastic new proxies were coming up. Nobody wanted to pick up the ball and run with it.  It was so timid he didn't want to stick their necks out they didn't want to take a risk they didn't want to do anything different they wanted to just sit in comfortable jobs and do nothing and that's not how you go through life. So many of us are now so timid and it's not just in our driving it's not just in our actions and not just in our day-to-day lives it's in our work it's in our businesses it's in everything around us we are timid now. Most of us are tenet.  It doesn't really take that much to break out of your timidity and be bold don't have to be bold all the time with everything and everyone knows unnecessarily could start small do something small do take a small bold step like drive better on the freeway. The timid ones are not the ones who are going to win you we need to be bold and you'd be surprised at what would happen if you suddenly became the bold one in the group of the tenants. And if we're not bold.  We'll never get there I mean can you imagine what the human race would be today if we didn't have the inventors of old and the inventors of now being so bold as to create the things they've made. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Let me ask you something. We're in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. We have. Full doing tons and tons of work, I mean. The sense that if you're in the middle of a corporate environment. You're probably feeling the stress in the paint. Because. There are so many open jobs. There's so much. Work to be done, and people are doubling and tripling up their work their soul much work that they're doing their focus on their core vision. Giver sat back and realized all you do is work work work. All you do is work work work, and you don't have time. To do anything different, you have time to do anything out of the ordinary I did anything new, anything innovative; you are just churning and churning and churning because you're focusing on your core vision, your core business. You don't have time to innovate. Who has time to innovate? I did get that Sir spreadsheet is done; I gotta get that report done I gotta get this project done I got to get this innovation has no space, no time, no place in many organizations today. And it's sad because the problem is is that. How do you increase pub profitability? Well, you cut right. The first thing people do when they come in the door is a new CEO coming into the organization. The first thing they do is cut. It's cut. And when the car looks good for a while but then the camera cuts so far because you've let people go, and you've got doubling and tripling of people spending so much time working if they have no time to innovate. No time to innovate, so what do you do? How what's the other side of the profitability argument? Well, you have to get people to pay more they need to increase your willingness to pay. If you can't get you can cut your operations down to increase profitability, you have to increase the amount of money you charge people and increase the amount of money you charge people you have to make them more willing to pay higher prices well how do you make the more willing to pay higher prices or to buy new products and services Vetr improvements on the old ones well you need to innovate able to have innovators within your organization who can develop those new products and services which can develop those new enhanced things that will increase your profitability. But what have you just done? You could drop rations down so much the people are double and tripling jobs, and they don't have time to innovate. They just have to do their work and their co-workers working their colleagues working their coal you too much work. They're drowning. They're drowning. So we have to do well. You got to bite the bullet. You've got to hire more people. You have to allow your people to have time to innovate. It was familiar with Google 20 percent, I mean, if they don't do it anymore, but it's the same in all these organizations if you do not allow you. Employees. Members of your organization if you don't allow them to innovate if you don't give them the free time. To be able to innovate. And the money to be able to build prototypes in this safe space for them to be able to share their ideas then you're not gonna get the innovation you're not gonna get the increased willingness to pay you're not gonna get that you're going to constantly be. Low low low low low, and you're never going to be able to innovate. You're never going to be able to create new businesses. New products new services change the corporate culture. You never gonna be able to do those things unless you give your people time to be able to do those things it has to be built right in. To their roles, S. B. built right in as part of the organization's culture that we're not gonna work it to the bone. We're going to give you time-space and be patient. So that when you generate new ideas. New innovative services and products you can bring in new product profits. You'll be able to do that. You will have the space in which to do that. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Now I want to talk a little bit to the corporate innovators out there. Right I feel your pain; I can't; I can't do it is an accent at all. But I feel your pain because you probably think yourself, why don't I do that? Sometimes why am I doing this? The organization that I'm in says they want to be innovative. We talk about an additional time the the the bring in all these gadgets and toys for us to play with. But when it comes down to actually innovating to bring out new innovative products and services or to changing the culture of your company, so they are so innovative there's more innovative they're always falling down there never executing his plans and plans and plans. I feel for you, I feel for you. I know exactly what it's like. I've lived through a number of them, and it just happens all the time up and down up and down up and down. When you think about it, it's so N. T. ethical to actual innovation because a lot of times, they cut innovation out when they need it the most when they need companies. When you're in the liver session, you need to figure out how to get yourself out of a recession in. The innovation will help you do that, but that is the one time when you read it in. The problem is is that. You want to see change because change means. It means shaking things up. I mean, who knows what new things can come out? I mean, the reason you probably got into this business is that you love new things. I mean me I got into corporate innovation because I wanted to be. What was next? What's next. That's why I got into innovation because I thought one of the things I'd be doing. As an innovator is to help companies move in the move, become more innovative create more innovative products and services. Be new, but it doesn't happen all the time, but it's hard. I know it. I know it's hard for all of you out there. Even in some of the most enlightened organizations, you have a tough job. But you know what you love it I know you love it because you're seeing the potential of what happens when things finally break 3 when the iceberg finally breaks away from the glacier, you know that your efforts are not going to be in vain that this organization these individuals that you're working with are slowly going to become more innovative in there might create. This is too difficult. I can't do this anymore; I'm at it's too hard. But you know that you can't do that. You know the drug of working on new products, new services, new things. Being able to change C. Dickey organizations they're stuck in a groove. U. P. people say that organizations can change on a dime, but they can't they've been able to because all the organizations are made up of people who only to be aligned with changing on a dime. We know it's a hard thing. Kudos to you for being a corporate innovator. I love the role of a corporate invader because there's so much you can do as long as your company values innovation values, the culture of innovation values changing your culture to be more innovative values executing on the products and services that you create in your innovation lab in your innovation sessions. I know it's hard, but you know what your changing the world, and isn't that worth it. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

I went to a conference of the association of professional futurists. And it was an amazing conference because we had futurists from all over the world come on and talk about it. And it was great it was optimistic he was looking at technology from a perspective of how it could make things better for us.  The technology coulTechnologyhuman race the human condition it was great I was speaker after speaker went up there, and they talked about all these different things Qatar computing, etcetera etcetera. Still, I think the one that's the most annoying to me is between the should we use and the do it I do it for example if somebody like Thomas Edison Ilan must Nicolas Tesla in a Marie Curie all these inventors who created all these great things for the human race will burn over right people who invented you know figured out how to how to get us off the ground flight. They do it's are the people who look at a problem.  I get hurt or killed, then that's okay because I'm doing it for the cause of science I'm trying to improve humanity. I'm willing to take the risk that something bad will happen to me so that I can actually do something really, really good, really, really good I don't know if it's gonna work; I know it's gonna work. By the should weeks, that's right, folks, the people who have to make the ethical decision first as to whether or not something should be done before we even know it can be done.  I love to be more; I can't imagine. I mean all his ethical issues about people being immortal, I would love to be more likely to be great. Is the should be's saying should we do that should we be a moral human being.  Should we even think about doing anything that gets my goat? They talk about things that aren't even possible. Yet, we don't even know if they're possible, so we don't even know we haven't even experimented yet we want to stop they want to put a hold on experiments that can prove the life of every human. Because we don't know if we should be doing.  We don't even know if we can do it but at least let's try let's experiment let's take the risk because if we don't take the risk, then how we are going to know some of the biggest breakthroughs that improve humanity immensely have been through people taking the risk and ignoring the should we are not putting an ethical filter on science and just moving forward unfortunately nowadays we have an ethical filter on science all the time the first question we ask is should we do this should we do that when the quick first question should we should ask is can we do this is it possible. So in all of those things, all these technical things that they're talking about can be used in different ways, right? I mean, you can use technology for good. Who knows what you can do so we can invent all sorts of things we can extend our lifespans like crazy if we just told the should we use shut up sit down and let's see if we can do this before we decide we should do this, so I ask you.  Watching Mr listen to this, which one are you are you should we were you know to do it are you in a should we organization or you in a do it organization. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

In my last show, we were talking about. Life is a series of moments as opposed to a line. And one of the things I forgot to mention in that show is that. Hi, as an optimistic futurist, I always choose the positive way at each one of these structures early should try to choose a positive way at which one of these gestures and we always have the ability to do that we always have the ability to choose to improve our lives were improved the lives of everyone around us or develop products and services that improve other people's lives, or we can choose to devote our time to things that denigrate others that destroy others that work to the negligence of the human race we can make that decision, at that moment. And I like I said I usually choose joy I choose to improve the life of human beings around me and the human beings in the future. We can decide we have the power at every one of those moments they described yesterday. To make that change, all we have to do is choose the right direction. We have to choose the direction that improves. The lives of the people that you're affecting. And not brings it down. Think of it this way. Every moment you have a choice to do X. or Y. in fact, you have a choice to more do more than excellent you have a choice to do end things in things and in that choice of doing and things do you make a choice to improve your life and people's lives around you or do you make a choice to improve your life in and make things other people's lives worse or do you choose to make your life worse and their life force. You can choose all of these things to improve your life and improve the lives of everyone around you. All you need to do is make that decision and don't look at the past. I don't see yourself; this is how I've always been. This is what I've always done because you don't necessarily need to do that anymore. You can choose joy is that choosing hate; you can choose joy instead of choosing anger. You don't have to do worse. You can do better. You could do better for everyone. And that's one of the other things that is driving me crazy about these times is that we seem to want to separate people into these tribes and throw them in there and pit them against each other. And I want to see beyond that. I want to see beyond what most people say; well, you know, color blindness is another way of being racist. I disagree with that. I think we need to look at everyone as a human being. Everyone as a human being has the capacity for the reason they can think they have a brain. Everyone has the capacity to be creative. They have the creativity in their bodies, maybe they had when they were children in it's been slowly drummed out of them over time. However, as they get older, they've lost some of that creativity is still there. You are still there, just they don't get a chance to use it. And if we just worked on uniting the human race aligning the human race towards the improvement of the human race. In all ways, then would be great. We love to see the human race improve because we have all sorts of problems; right, we have things that plague us: some of these are man-made, and some are not man-made. But the ones that are man-made, can't we just work around them? Can't we just say, okay, you want, let's stop? Let's stop doing what we're doing. Let's stop fighting each other. In line up together to improve the human race, why can't we look at humanity and say we have a lot of problems already we just stop fighting amongst ourselves it's a running in the same direction the fire is taking out the forest, let's all go. And save ourselves together. Let's help each other save ourselves. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

So I've been reading up on February in psychology and Adler. I forget his first name was a psychologist; basically, he was a contemporary of Freud and young. And he was basically one of the biggest names in psychology at the time, but we hardly ever hear from him because a lot of the stuff he wrote wasn't written for the psychoanalytic field. He was more written for the layperson. He was focused more on how individuals could improve their lives, and he had a lot of very interesting. Elements to his psychology and was almost of philosophy. When it comes to all sorts of things like living your lifeline, everybody thinks of life as a line, it's a line that starts at point 8, which is when you're born, and point B. when you die, and there's a line. It runs from beginning to end. But the reality is that he's postulating is that it's not a line but a series of moments, a series of dots in if you zoom into this line. It's not a line. It's actually moment after moment after moment. If you think about your life as a series of moments, you can think of each individual moment as a moment when you can actually decide what path you're going to take next, so if you think about it that way. Then you could. You can actually ignore the past so let's say you had a terrible past, and you're allowing this past to determine how you are today well how you will be in the future if you look at life as a line. Then you're gonna say, oh well, this past is determining my future. Still, if you look at this life as a series of moments,s then you could say this is the moment I stop acting like this. I start acting like I am making a conscious decision to do something completely different from what I did in the previous moment. I'm not on this line; I'm not on this tram line of history. I am at this very moment, and at this very moment, I can decide to go this way instead of that way. So if you think about it that way, then change is actually easy because you're not on the road once you understand that. Still, you're on, I don't know, jumping from lily pad to lily pad, you can decide why you're on that lily pads to jump to this lily pad instead of that lily pad you're not on a road which is always going in the same direction you're on almost like a grade or network which allows you to jump back and forth in any direction that you want such a lot of us are trying to make a change in their lives make a change in their organizations make a change like they want to change what they've done before because it was just not working for them right well if you think about it this way if you think about your life or the life of your organization is not just a line but moments. At each and every moment, you can decide to change the direction. Wholeheartedly change the direction of the way you're going. Then think about how powerful that is if you can decide to do something completely different in a second. Because you've decided at that moment that the past is no longer going to drive your future, can imagine how powerful that is when you're trying to bring change into your life or into your organization now it's difficult, of course, it's difficult to get people to understand that life is not. A-line but a series of moments, but once you get through that conceptual. Thing and once you get people to understand that the past really can be discarded at any point then. You can decide if you want to change your direction, but if you want to change your organization's direction, you can do that in a second as long as you make the decision. That life is a series of moments and not just a line. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

So today, I'm gonna talk about workarounds. Everybody knows of workarounds are right workarounds are like the patch is you put in a bicycle tire when you you you don't want to have to replace the tire and. Is basically how it works so. You build software any releases suffered any realizes the massive bug in the software that you didn't see because it wasn't tested properly or when it gets the real world everyone knows the adage no plan survives contact with the enemy. When you put things in the real world, there are tweaks. There are differences. The real world is messy, and it's not the test environment, so bugs will occur. Thanks to me tell me once testing because bugs we just don't do any testing, but I digress. People need a fix, and we need a fix right away, so what happens? Somebody develops a workaround some way of. Appearing to solve the problem without actually solving it right, the throat patch on it is for a workaround big we get around it. I think a lot of people do this because there is time sensitivity. Right people need to fix whatever problem they broke right away to work around it slapped him. Still, the problem with workarounds is that workarounds become the actual solution a lot of times because nobody her clothes back and looks at solving the problem in the first place. And I don't know. I may complain like super-fast software development cycles. People need to get things out right away because they're concerned this will happen. It was going to happen, and I argue that what we need is a little bit more of a measured approach. I mean, we're pushing stuff out to customers this half-finished patched with walk workarounds all over the place we need to be a little more patient we need to be a little more circumspect we need to be a little more respectful of our end users and not push workarounds all the time why can't we just think through the problem a little bit longer, or if we do have to slap in a workaround in sometimes you do have to slap in a workaround there's no way around it. Then do it with a little more thoughtfulness than when you put that workaround in. Put it in there as a. Just a holding point until you actually solve the underlying problem. Often, it's just working around after workaround after workaround, and we never get to the real solid thing, and partially it is because people are lazy they want to get the work done. They want to get it done quickly but. They can do it anyway, like instead of doing it in a more planned way where they can actually work things out and solve the problem. So workarounds are great between minimizing them as much as humanly possible. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

George co-founded Greater Good Studio to use design to heal, to be just, to be restorative, Previously, he spent seven years at global innovation firm IDEO before being hired as the first human-centered designer at the Chicago Transit Authority. Since founding Greater Good he guides clients and teams through complex projects that honor reality, creates ownership and builds power. He speaks frequently across the US and internationally. George holds the position of Full Professor (Adj) at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and visiting lecturer at Northwestern University. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

In sales at 1. so I was an engineer. And there was a period of time where I was working for a web design company. I had people working for me who was coding. But I really love the United States I want to stay here so so what can you do how can you how can you help me stay here and they said well you can keep your current job but you also have to do sales you have to sell as well and I'm like I don't know anything about sales how the hell am I gonna sell I have no idea how to sell and I ended up actually doing quite well a bundled into it I guess was like a beginner's mind sort of thing I went to all my friends and and I talked to him I said Hey listen to you on the web one of my website I mean everybody's web design services and it turns out that I got it a bunch of business and actually did quite well in the business and but it was my exposure to sales and I thought to myself man sales really sucks it's really really hard it's really really hard so I thought to myself this could be a better way to do this and if you look at all the steals messages were bombarded with day after day after day after day yeah there's billions of messages on the internet that are all sales related it's a. So that's why we get pelted by these messages that are missed the target, so I thought to myself, I'm an engineer; there are engineers out there why can't we figure out a better way to match up the supply-demand why can't we match up the buyers and the sellers in some kind of market where buyers and the sellers are matched together I mean if you think about it we know everything there is to know about everybody nowadays I mean we could just go into their browser history or or or look at their it looks at their trails right the internet we get a pretty good idea of what people want. So why is it that we get a pretty good idea people want? Shredding the internet, I mean some people might say, well people don't really know what they want, but I would suggest that maybe people don't know what they want. And I think myself why we have done this? If we haven't done this, we should probably do it, so if you're out there and you're thinking about building a startup, this would be a great area to work in. Some people may say, well, you know people are too ingrained in the system the way it is, we're not gonna be able to break this thing up. In fact, if you think about it, maybe some of the big tech companies actually make money based on the mismatch, the more with even if it's a close match people so click on things they still make money on the mismatch so maybe people are making money on the mismatch maybe there are huge industries maps to the mix match. If you ask me, that's not a very good experience for the end-user the end customer for the regular human being who wants to buy something they should be able to be optimally matched to a seller at the right moment, in fact, there's no internet demand engine but even if we tried everyone who's tried to building an internet demand engine that fails because every time you put it demanded that the man engine all they do is they cover you with sales messages and that's the last thing people want we need to build some kind of an engine which optimally matches buyers and sellers at the moment they need to be matched once we have this then we can reduce the 99.9 percent of junk it's on the internet wouldn't that be a great thing wouldn't you like to see them clean and clear internet devoid of sales messages or at least. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Now lately, we've come into a world. It seems like we're all at odds with each other. Everything is split down the middle. Things are a duality. It's either black versus white. Male versus female, this verse is that everything is split in 2 right it just seems like it's one thing versus another thing. But. The reality that there is no duality is something that we just created to get more eyeballs. That's right, folks, all this conflict that you're seeing a lot of discomfort vision scene is a duality that's been built on a false premise that people are either this or that there's this way or that way the reality is so there's always a third way, in fact, I would argue that there's more than a third way there isn't any way life is just not that simple and talk about simplicity before. We live in a very complex world, and human beings are very complex creatures. We don't live in a black and white world. We live in a multi-colored, multi-hued, fluid world where things are changing all the time. And I think what happens is that with human beings, we simplify things too much by putting him in this campaign other you're either us or with us or with them. You're there, you're there is for their cars, and the reality is it is a lot more gray than that. It's a lot more gray than that, so the reality is not the duality. When everyone is trying to get you into a position where you hear us versus them, rise above that see if you can go beyond that and see yourself. What can we do here? They will help both sides are insights. Do we really need to have taken one side over the other is there any way to work together. To improve things or look at a third where fourth we are a completely different way something totally out of the box the nobody has seen before. Let's break out of the duality. Let's understand that there are more than 2 ways of doing things. Once we understand that, I think you'll find that we'll get much closer to reality, the complex reality that underlies everything around us. We have to stop oversimplifying things to us versus them where one race where the human race and. As the human race, we should be working towards the improvement of the entire human race. All of this us versus them stuff is just getting in the way. It's clouding things we all have to align in the same direction. Improving humanity if we all aligned in the same breath direction improving humanity and stop wasting cycles on internet seen fighting then who knows how far we can go --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

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And maybe I'd like to sell those one day even though I'm the kind of guy who just sits on the couch after a long hard day and relaxes and watches TV. Maybe I could be this other guy if I disconnected myself from my past's etiology and said, you know what? I don't necessarily need to be like that person anymore; I can be like this person and be more like the person I want to be. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support