A wise man once said – if you are not embarrassed by your first version, then you waited too long to launch it. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Have you ever looked at what you were doing and realized that you were just washing the walls, and not pushing the balls? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Do you know your customer journey? Have you mapped it out lately?  Do you make it easy for customers to do business with you? After a time, your processes may have begun to deviate from the ideal customer experience. Are you seeing an increase in customer service calls, lower net promoter scores, and other key indicators that something is amiss in your customer experience?  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

As humans, we’ve been biased to go after short term results over long term results ever since we were primitives wandering the savannah. The ability to plan and think to the future, to save for tomorrow, to think about what is next, is something that only human beings have, along with the ability to think and reason. But like most humans, we are lazy, and only look as far out as we need to. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

In every company, there are troublemakers. These are the radicals, those who don’t toe the party line, they use different processes, they don’t go through channels, they might say or do things that cause some discomfort. Some may describe them as “pains in the ass,” rogue elements which create all manner of disruption, and the company would be better served if they either just went away, or just shut themselves up and fell into place along with everyone else. You all know the type. The question is when you come across this type of person, what do you do? How do you handle this kind of “rogue” individual or team? Do you try to stop them, to turn them into “normal” workers who don’t cause trouble, do you leave them alone, or do you actively work to shut them down and expel those elements from the company? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Do you know which role in your organization is ultimately responsible for innovation? Some people might guess the CTO or the CEO. If you have a dedicated innovation group, then it might be the Chief Innovation Officer (CINO), or the VP or Innovation, or some other senior leader with innovation in their title. But you’d be wrong. Innovation is more than a job title – its a risk-taking, experimental culture. It’s an ethos which looks it as a continuous improvement as well as groundbreaking new ideas. It’s not afraid to move fast and break things, as long as it learns something from breaking those things. It’s not scared of following trails until they either dead-end or lead to the holy grail. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

The story of Popsockets, founded by a philosophy major (just like me) is an awesome example of invention, design thinking and pivoting. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

A fantastically interesting conversation as we discuss the future of work, culture change, agility, personal branding and much more. Here are the books we referenced. BTW, did you know that Warren Buffet spends 80% of his day reading? I know I'm slacking, are you? Drive, Daniel Pink Startup of You, Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus, a Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari Activate Your Agile Career, Marti Konstant Designing Your Life, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans Wisdom@Work, Chip Conley You can reach Marti at  https://www.martikonstant.com/  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We unpack what it takes to build a successful brand right now - and it's not as hard and you might think. Its an amazing wide ranging interview with Henry Kaminski, Jr. – Founder of Unique Designz. We dig into the best way to have a unique voice among all of the other voices out there, talk about the past, present and future of branding, the ups and down of building a business, and talk about how we are both members of the Jeff Bezos club.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Your customers are trying to complete a specific task when they contact you - how easy do you make it? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Today's episode digs into AI based recruiting and bias. What if we did eliminate bias, but we didn’t think it was, because of the output of the system? Even with a fully transparent AI picking candidates, would we ever get to a fully unbiased system? Maybe, but I think that the only way we could do that is to allow the system to make the decisions and eliminate the human from the process. We all come with inherent biases that we can never eliminate – would it be ironic or not that the only way that we can eliminate bias from the system is if we exclude any humans from the decision-making process? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

 To innovate – you must absorb many different sources of information – especially in the areas not in the area you are trying to innovate in, let those percolate in your brain, then apply them to your current challenges.  If you don’t fill up your funnel with new materials, (as in new experiences, new learning, new people, new places), then it becomes challenging to solve problems with new solutions.  You need to be a funnel – to capture many different and disparate sources into your head – capture new material so to speak and then allow your brain to use that new material to build new neural connections, which will trigger new ideas and fresh thinking.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Wondering what SEO even means anymore? We peel back the layers of work needed to get the organic relevancy you've always wanted. In discussion with Damon Burton of SEONational, we cover meta keywords (not a thing anymore), loading speed, mobile friendliness, intuitive structure, relevant content creation, getting quality backlinks, newsjacking, what cadence of blog posting is ideal, length of posts, video, podcasts, and a number of tools to test your site and make it better - gtmetrix, wp fastest cache, wp smush, link assistant and awr cloud. The SEO of 2019 is more closely aligned with content marketing, than anything else, in my view. Listen and decide for yourself.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

 We talk about the past and future of AI and all of the elements of it - from computer vision to machine learning to data science. We cover AI taking your job, how virtual assistants work (and don't work), some of the most exciting breakthroughs in AI (many of which have just occurred in the last few years, as we finally have the data and the processing power to make them happen). We wrap up with how to start getting into AI. Her book, The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence: What You Must Know about AI  is available on Amazon.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We delve into deep data analysis, does it have the answer to every question? A while back I blogged about big data, and the possibility that with enough of it, we'd be able to answer every question. While this was a future vision, we may be there right now. Today, we have a great conversation with Rado Kotorov, a Technology Innovator and Leader and his new startup, Trendalyze. They do time series patterns discovery and analytics for IoT, transactional and event data, which may finally unlock all of the secrets of big data. Imagine a world where we can track the patterns of a heart attack hours before it happens and proactively send medical personnel to your location. Yes. its that cool. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We chat with Bob Sager, author of 101 Freaking Brilliant Business Ideas: And Ten Ways YOU Can Create Your Own. We range from discussions on innovation and great new business ideas - how to get training to stick, and exercises to make you more creative.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Today we feature a great wide-ranging interview with Coach Mya from coachmya.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Are you in it for the money, or are you in it to help people? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Automation should take jobs that humans are no longer fit to do, so we can be free to do more human jobs --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Why is Elon Musk so interesting? He solves problems with solutions of the future - we need to invent new things before we can solve them. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

How can you tell if your innovation is real or fake? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Ideas can never be right or wrong - everything is an experiment --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Even if the unknown is better, we still fear it, which is a normal human reaction we need to conquer --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

When it comes to feedback to your inventors, saying nothing is worse than saying no. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Its still too difficult to configure things - we need to figure out a new generation of true plug-and-play --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Your crowdsourced innovation program probably created too many ideas, so why not fund them all? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

As we go through life, we experience it. And as we experience it, we make decisions to take on things that we need to do, actions that we need to take. As the world floods over us, we filter and capture an infinitesimally small portion of it, then decide to act on it. Its simply too much. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Why Chatbots Are More Important Than You Think --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Stern Robots are better than friendly robots if we want humans to just get stuff done - we need our robots to be more proactive --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Having your brainstorming sessions in the afternoon, will trigger more creative, out-of-the-box thinking. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Why do we ignore inventors who have submitted ideas into our innovation programs, simply because we dont like giving them the bad news that their idea may not be the right fit right now? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

As we travel that road to the future faster and faster, we need to look up, focus our eyes way down the road, put on our high beams, and look as far forward as we can. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Innovation is that at its best, it’s a messy process, very experimental, and like a lot of experiments, there can be many, many failures before you see success --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We dig deep into design thinking, lean, agile, AI, Chatbots and the Future of Work --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

What exactly is innovation, and do you know how to innovate? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Now is not the time to relax, but to turn up the volume on your innovation efforts. While you may be doing well today, this is the best time for you to prepare for the disruption that tomorrow will bring. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

If everything is changing, and will change, how do you deal with the change? How can you anticipate the changes, prepare for the changes, and be ready to make the leap when the time comes? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Which of the companies are more innovative: those who talk about innovation incessantly, but do not provide any mechanism, time, or resources to building innovative products and services, or those who do? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Visionary companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook understand that they cannot rely on their core business forever – they are leveraging these good times to expand into even more market segments, probing for new products and services, and driving innovation --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Chris talks about the lost art of curiosity - why have we let it go and if we really wish to innovate we need to bring it back --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Chris interviews Craig Shames of Greatest Idea Ever, a site where Craig curates the Greatest Ideas Ever - Very cool, mind expanding new ideas. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

When you say Innovation is everyones job, then you may have just made a huge mistake --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Everyone want to be the next Elon Musk, the famous-eccentric-rich-guy-that-I-would-really-like-to-be-like. Here's how. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

To change, we need help. We need structure. We need to revise our environment in order to force or trigger ourselves to the behavior that we want. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We will still need humans for a long time... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Today Chris chats with the founder of Lead Cookie, Jake Jorgovan, who grew his business from Zero to $33k MRR productized service in 6 months --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We are born curious, with wide open minds. We are genetically and chemically designed to be open to new experiences from the moment we are born --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

If you feel stuck or uncreative, try killing your feed --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support