There are lots of factors that affect how you're going to act in specific environments. If you're in a messy environment, you're more creative. If you're in a clean environment, you're productive. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We have a sense of the past, and in that sense of the past, we feel that there is a certain thing called a self. So in this, there's a continual between our past selves. I think this way. The past is done.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Stephen Lehtonen is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kasvaa. He’s spent the last 17 years helping businesses grow. As a business development executive, he has honed strategies for winning business and loves helping clients create sales strategies that win. He has an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA from UCSD. Lehtonen is also a father, husband, and stand-up comic in Los Angeles. Stephen’s comedy can be followed on Instagram @stephenlehtonen --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Both matter. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Despite the bad "news", things are getting better for the human race. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Rudy describes his purpose in life in three simple words; “Change. For Better.”   No stranger to change, Rudy is an entrepreneur and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has co-founded two highly successful companies (in completely different industries) and produced over two hundred hours of documentary productions that have covered a wide array of topics. An adept innovator and storyteller, Rudy has become an expert at pulling disparate resources together and merging them into his projects.   His passion, professional skills, and sixty years of life experience are the driving force behind his latest project entitled, Embracing Change: Your Go-To Guide To Your Desired Future.  The project (both the book and companion online video course are available at embracingchange.io is designed quite simply to foster positive change in our rapidly-evolving world and to help those who wish to navigate these sometimes treacherous waters toward the place he calls, “Your Desired Future”.   Rudy has taken a documentary approach to Embracing Change as the pages include the wisdom and perspectives of world-renowned entrepreneurs, philanthropists, entertainers, scientists, and professors drawn from his personal video library.  Quotations and facts have also been culled from a wide variety of sources to provide readers with additional inspiration and a path toward deeper insight.     Providing additional insight and levity to Embracing Change, Rudy’s unique cast of colorful characters he affectionately calls, “The Voices in your Head”, are certain to both entertain and help you understand yourself and why change can be so difficult to master.  linktr.ee/rudypoe --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

And I think we need to start with definitions because if you don't define something properly, how can you possibly determine what it is. Because I think we're in this current malaise, we haven't fully defined the problem we're trying to solve.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

So one of the things about the future, one of the things about strategic planning, one of the things about trying to figure out where we're going what we're doing is that uncertainty is huge, right that's why a lot of people say it's challenging to think about the future how are you going to think about the future if you have no idea what's going to happen next? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Enterprise Podcast Consultant, Serial Entrepreneur, Blogger, & Creator.  A powerful new business building framework: a must-read for all startup founders.   https://jake-jorgovan.com/blog/my-framework-for-starting-a-new-business --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Is the reason why things are crazy right now that we are approaching post-scarcity? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Instead of creating easily solvable problems to solve, we should try to solve the big problems we already have.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Your job and mine are impacted by accelerating, converging technologies, and may not exist in a few years' time. We all need to develop different mindsets to thrive in this difficult work environment and to make wise next-job and next-career decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

If we could, if it was an easy thing to do, everybody would do it, and we'd be able to figure it out and the scenarios and the plans and the strategies that we build for these futures. But, no, I can't tell you exactly what will happen on the exact date I will tell you. All of these things will happen, will we?  So it's almost impossible to figure out what the future holds, but you can throw a few things in there and say, well, we can assume that human beings will. So continue to use their inventive powers their big brains to figure out some of the biggest problems all the day, so that's why I'm optimistic that's when the optimistic futurist you see I see all these problems of people or drip pulling out. Still, I also see solutions for all these problems that people are bringing forward. The solutions are there. We just have to apply ourselves to them we can do this. We have the capacity to do this, and if we don't have the capacity to do this, we can build eyes that will have the capacity this; in fact, one of the things about climate change I'm thinking is that maybe we should just get in an I or a bunch of ice together have them figure it out. Don't. Human ingenuity will go a long way to solving a lot of the problems we have today. Still, the other thing you should understand is that you have to factor in surprise you have to be ready for shocks you have to be ready for major changes you have to be ready for the shock, and all you have to be ready for things you never expected to happen to happen. So expect the unexpected, but what you can do is that when the unexpected comes at you.  Now that that happened, what can I do to mitigate that if it's a negative thing, or what can I do to enhance that it's a positive thing? So you have to look at it in a more Zen-like way that these things that are out of our control will occur many many things are going to occur they're going to be a complete surprise to you you'll never have thought that this thing will happen some people call them blacks ones if they're massive events these massive events will occur. And when the surprises occur you have to think to yourself, how will I deal with these surprises? Am I going to allow it to completely derail me? Well, in some cases, it might depend on what the problem is. It depends on what it is that's happening, so if you build something on top of any API which suddenly goes away, you might have to do something completely different. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

So I talked in the past about low-hanging fruit. I talk about how the heat the term low hanging fruit because everybody uses the term low hanging fruit. It's always it's the easy stuff. Let's go after the easy stuff. Everybody's okay with going after the easy stuff. Nobody has a problem with the low-hanging fruit; in fact, everybody loves it because it's easy. Human beings, that's what we're like we'd like easy we don't like doing anything difficult we don't like doing anything hard well it's so hard I hate doing it because it's hard. Here's the problem, though. The high hanging fruit, the hard stuff, the stuff it takes work to get to the stuff we've got to pull out the latter you gotta get somebody to brace for you we've got to go to the very top with high-value high-risk stuff is we never seem to get up there we do the low hanging fruit. Then we stop in the midst of what happens to the high-hanging fruit nobody gets up there and get the high-hanging fruit, and you know why nobody goes up there to get hang fruit is too much of a risk.  When you start looking up for the high-hanging fruit, you start looking at the high-hanging fruit. You realize what you have to give up what you have to change to get to the high-hanging fruit. That's when he gives you pause. It gives you pause because most likely, that high-hanging fruit is up there for a reason because it's tough to get to. It may not be that valuable. After all, what am I going to get out of it? Is it going to help my company? Am I going to make millions of dollars out of it? Who knows, we don't know we know it's going to be hard to get to, and we figured that I will be super profitable because it's high-hanging fruit that we never touched before. Still, we don't know. When you do a patent valuation, I come up with a great idea, and I've had that idea, so he says, well, how much is the idea of value? I said I don't know. And because human beings being what they are, we don't like things in their heart. We like doing the easy stuff, but what do you do next once the easy stuff is done? You have to do the hard stuff, and it takes courage to do the hard stuff, and the question is, do you have the courage to do the hard stuff? Do you have the courage to fight through the fear that you might have to get to the hard stuff? Do you have the courage to discard what you need to discard to get to the high-hanging fruit? I'm done with the low-hanging fruit. I'm only going after the high-hanging fruit, and if I go up to the high-hanging fruit, what do I have to give up to get to that high-hanging fruit. Slight. Human beings invented the computer-human beings invented the internet. It's the high-hanging fruit that's where the good stuff is --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Your job and mine are impacted by accelerating, converging technologies, and may not exist in a few years' time. We all need to develop different mindsets to thrive in this difficult work environment and to make wise next-job and next-career decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Occam's Razor cannot really be applied to life. Life is to too complex.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Fear is the mind-killer. Everyone knows the old saw right what's the difference between fear and anxiety. Fear is being tied to the railway tracks anxiety is thinking about being tied to the railways tracks.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Dropped out of college in 2017 because I was doing it for other people and not myself, flew from my hometown in Germany (Bremen) to NYC with no plans, documented the journey on social media, and built an audience of 35,000 followers across platforms (LinkedIn, Instagram & Youtube). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Their statistics tell them all these things will happen, and the end of the world is not. Some of them use it as a grift. The user is a way to get more money out of people. I mean, because people will use all sorts of tactics to try and get more money out of people, you know, they don't necessarily need to be truthful.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

To understand where the future is going to go, but when you're making decisions favor their reversible ones because reversible decisions may be completely wrong moments after you make them. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Cecile Alper-Leroux is the Group Vice President of Research and Innovation at UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) where she writes and speaks extensively on the changing nature of work, people, and technology in the workplace. Since 1999, she has focused on fostering a culture of innovation in the workplace, resulting in the delivery of advanced, people-centric technology solutions and services. A best-selling author of From Dissonance to Resonance; Bringing your people and organization into sync, Cecile is a Top 100 HR Tech Influencer and a Great Place to Work® For All™ Leadership Award recipient. She is an internationally sought-out speaker, thought leader, and visionary on HCM trends, hot topics, and global strategies who has been featured in Forbes, HuffPost, HR Magazine, HRD Canada TV, and The Wall Street Journal.   Passionate about people and technology in the workplace, Cecile has dedicated her life's work to helping companies design the best possible experience for people at work so they can achieve great things. A seasoned economic anthropologist, she loves uncovering micro-cultures within organizations and helping leaders and HR professionals effectively respond to evolving workplace dynamics, trends, and opportunities. Never one to shirk from a challenge, Cecile has scaled Mt. Kilimanjaro during a record-breaking weather event, hiked the Machu Pichu trail—several times (taking 24 women with her once), and perhaps most challenging of all, picked up and moved her young family to France with nothing more than 6 suitcases and an open mind. Surely, they’d find work and happiness on the other side (spoiler alert: they did).  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

 Pretty much anything that comes along, if we want to work with it, we can modify our behaviors to work with it --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

And one of the biggest problems I see with remote work was a study when I was a Stanford on working from home and how remote piece affects employees when they're out of the office and study after study after study. We have through tons of different studies. Employees to work from anywhere, not to mention the connections they can make innovative connections they can make if they worked in various places. If they didn't come could go to the same office every day, hang out with the same people every day, think of the innovative things that they would see when they would be they could clash all these you know serendipitous encounters I mean better than just working from home working from anywhere go-to cold coffee shop immerse yourself in other locations expose yourself to new things and come up with innovative new ideas.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Great interview with the VP, Insights & innovation of Shur-Tape - the folks ho brought you Duck Tape! http://www.duckbrand.com http://www.shurtape.com http://www.psycletherapy.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

All these virtual assistants don't work for us today. They work for Google, or they work for Apple, work for Amazon.  They work for whatever corporations created them, so the Alexa sitting on my desk right now is listening in on every bit of my conversation, which works for Amazon. It's like having an Amazon employee sitting in your office.  We need personal AIs. We need an A. I. they can help us to fight back and negotiate with these corporate AIs because we're in a fragile position right now. I mean, we're just human beings. We're just poor human beings with limited brainpower. We can only do so much.  They will become the interface between me and all of these A. I. is there pushing their agenda because I will personally push my agenda, my family's agenda, my friend's agenda, my relative's agenda, the agenda of the human being at the other end of this chain of communications.  I would love to talk to that person. I think it's well past time that we would have AIs that can personally fight on our behalf for our interests as human beings against this massive infrastructure of eyes that we can barely touch because we are, after all, simple humans. We need eyes on our side. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We need to push human beings closer together to take advantage of electricity, so if you think about it, this might be part of the pushback against electricity across the board because it's anti indeed individualistic and tough. To be an individualistic hi Tracy lover when you need to be connected to a grid to get sufficient electricity to run your life because that's the life we're in if we ran out of electricity today. Only those with internal combustion engines would be able to provide electricity. Only those with individual energy sources would be able to provide electricity, so if you think about it, one of the things about electricity is that it's a more communal social thing. Maybe that's why there's so much pushback against it. Maybe that's why we need to think about some ways. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Darren is the Co-Founder & COO, of Hugo (www.hugo.team). Originally from Sydney, Australia and now based in San Francisco, Darren co-founded Hugo following his shared frustration with costly, inefficient meetings that he experienced first-hand in a prior life as a corporate lawyer. Today, Hugo is the leading meeting workflow solution, powering meetings for tens of thousands of customers. Backed by Google, Slack and leading VCs, Hugo is on a mission to connect the way we meet, to the way we work. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Can we use machines to bring order to the chaotic human world? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

No matter how much misinformation we are surrounded with, we need to never forget reality. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

John Standish is a Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer for Infinilytics, Inc., and is responsible for the development of Charlee advanced analytics solution for the insurance and health- care industries. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

On your death bed, imagine yourself where you whether your home in your hospital or whether you're wherever you are, imagine yourself dying you're in your death that you're just about ready to go, and you're looking back on your life.   People want to talk about today. People want to talk about positive things. Nobody wants to talk about the future. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Is what you want more important than what everyone else wants? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

David is the Co-Founder, and Lead Developer of Sia, which is a decentralized cloud storage network that ultimately allows its users to have more control over their data. Sia leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace that is more robust and more affordable than traditional cloud storage providers. David has been active in Bitcoin and the larger cryptocurrency space since 2011. He studied computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and co-founded Sia parent company Nebulous in 2014 during his senior year of college. David is based in Boston where he also serves as the founder of Obelisk, an ASIC mining hardware company. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Not sure why we got so pessimistic about the future - things ARE getting better - and we need to make it so. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Have you decided how you will dent the universe yet?   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Interview with the director of brand innovation at JustJans at justjans.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

See if you can guess what kind of person I'm talking about in this video. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

What is a better space to be in - one with competitors or one without? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Manpreet Randhawa is a beauty enthusiast, author, avid hiker, and aspiring entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in the health & wellness industry. She brings expertise in scientifically driven health care solutions in different categories with a passion to innovate and create products that connect with consumers and deliver meaningful results. With an educational background in cellular biology and clinical evaluation, her career is dedicated to providing scientifically sound solutions for health & wellness. Dr. Randhawa is a Director of Research and Innovation at Sytheon and is responsible for new technology development across both consumer and pharmaceutical sectors.  Prior to joining Sytheon in 2019, she spent 10 years at Johnson and Johnson in the skin health & wellness category. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

kalaboukis discusses Girard's Mimetic Theory and how it applies to design thinking and other customer-centric desire determination methodologies.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory https://amzn.to/3BhaDW4 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

So many of us have lost touch with objective reality or truth. How can we get back to it? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Serial Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor, and a Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence. Coined the term ‘AGI’ (Artificial General Intelligence) with fellow luminaries in the space. Started in electronics engineering, then fell in love with software. The first major success was developing a comprehensive ERP package and taking that company from Zero to 400-person IPO in seven years. Fueled by the fragile nature of software, I embarked on a journey 15+ years ago studying what intelligence is, how it develops in humans and the current state of AI. This research culminated in the creation of our natural language intelligence engine that can think, learn, and reason -- and adapt to and grow with the user. Currently, I’m focused on commercializing the second generation of our AGI-based ‘Conversational AI’ technology called 'Aigo' (say: I-go). Aigo.ai is the most advanced natural language interaction platform available. It is implemented using a brain-like cognitive architecture – also known as ‘The Third Wave of AI’. This approach puts Aigo at ‘Light Years’ ahead of chatbots and other so-called ‘Personal Assistants’, and puts the forefront of the 'Conversational AI is the new UI' trend. Current chatbot technologies used in the enterprise and consumer space, have serious inherent limitations: They do not remember what was said before, cannot learn interactively, do not have deep contextual understanding, and cannot reason or explain themselves. This makes meaningful ongoing conversation impossible. This capability gap has created massive unmet demand – one we expect to fill with our revolutionary technology. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

There are ways to balance innovation and profitability: it's not a zero-sum game. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Normal is contextual. In reality, there is no such thing as "normal". --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Jeff Phillipich serves credit unions in AR, OK, and TX as the SVP of Strategic Development for Cornerstone. He has worked in financial services for over 15 years with 10 years of non-for-profit financial cooperative work. Currently, Jeff is working on projects applying the cooperative model to fintech start-ups and established providers to create economies of scale for small financial institutions. Jeff is originally from MN, currently lives and works in TX…has a wonderful spouse, and 3 great kids that keep him in line. Last but not least he is an avid buyer and seller of sports trading cards of all kinds (especially hockey). Never hesitate to reach out to him with the next big idea…or ways to provide an improvement on some of the old ones. Plus - We Talk NHL :) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Sometimes you need to disagree with yourself to get to the truth. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

There are always more than two sides to everything. Human beings are more complicated than that. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Melissa Rojo is leading the data migration and conversion of one of the largest American bank's most prominent loan products. She is also a project manager of an internal IBM initiative known as TechTalks. This end-to-end internal strategy is started by inviting the most up and coming startups, across all sectors to present to an exclusive group of IBMers and interested external parties. These start-ups are brought in with the end-all goal being collaboration and integration into IBM's business model. Prakash heads the consulting practice for AI and Mindtree Innovation Labs for the North American region. In this role, Prakash works for a portfolio of clients in Retail, CPG, Manufacturing, Airline, Hospitality & Media domains. He actively engages with the Client Senior Executives to define their Digital Transformation roadmap that will enable them to differentiate themselves from the competition through intelligence-powered 'Connected Experiences' and 'Operations' at the intersection of Edge, Design, and AI. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support