Quantum Business Insights With Olivia Parr-rud

Did you know that employee satisfaction is a major driver of business success? As complexity increases, our human capital becomes ever more critical to adaptability, innovation, and long term profitability. Tune in and learn how wholehearted leadership leads to employee engagement – the key to unlocking dramatic business results as well as better health and relationships for individuals. Based on his own experience as a CEO, and his analysis of survey results on over 10 million people in 150 countries, Kevin Kruse reveals how growth, recognition and trust are the key drivers that turn average groups into high performing teams. You’ll get specific tactics to unlock emotional commitment, activate discretionary effort, and generate future confidence and clarity to combat the effects of change. You’ll be empowered to turn “task-managers” into “people-leaders’ and guide your employees to greater happiness at work.

Have you ever viewed your business as a hologram? Or an entity that can be understood, even optimized, as a single system rather than the sum of its parts? Quantum physics and evolutionary biology offer clues into why this may be your best approach. Tune in as my guests, Simon Robinson and Maria Moraes Robinson, and I explore the science behind Holonomics. Learn about the pioneers in the field of holistic science. Hear how companies are benefiting by taking a holistic approach to strategic planning, human resources, and day-to-day operations. Find out how they use this approach to strengthen their brand and enhance their customers’ experience. Learn ways to make this approach work for you: to leverage the energy of the interacting parts; to understand the characteristics of an adaptable leader; to fuel innovation by tapping the innate wisdom within the organization. Tune in and learn the secrets to long term adaptability and sustainable performance.

Does your business have a solid strategy for competing in a resource-depleted world? Do you want to successfully navigate our troubled economic seas? The linear throwaway economy of today–where we extract resources, process them, use them barely once, and then throw them away–is coming to an end. Commodity prices are on the rise. “Blue ocean” waters are disappearing. The old economic order is running its course and a new one is emerging–one that takes our linear approach and turns it into a circle. This radical shift requires a whole new set of rules. Leaders who understand this shift and master these rules are able to turn this new reality into disruptive innovation that results in a huge competitive advantage. As they ride ahead of the wave, new products, new business models, new markets, and new profits follow. Join us as we discuss how to build your Overfished Ocean Strategy and learn the five secrets of innovation.

Do you yearn for a more soulful workplace? The way most organizations are managed seems increasingly out of date. Many work environments feel soulless and lifeless. Yet we long for authenticity, community, passion, and purpose. The solution, in part, lies with more enlightened management. But when leaders go through an inner transformation, many end up leaving their organizations because they can’t express or give voice to the deeper longings of their soul. We need more enlightened leaders, but we need something more: enlightened organizational structures and practices. Every time humanity has shifted to a new stage of consciousness, it has invented a whole new way to structure and run organizations, each time bringing extraordinary breakthroughs in collaboration. Join us as we discuss Reinventing Organizations a practical overview of how organizations large and small can operate in this new paradigm. Gain insights as my guest shares numerous examples and inspiring stories

Many professionals have spent substantial amounts of time and money developing and maintaining their expertise, only to observe people not nearly as smart as they are making a lot more money and having a lot more fun; to find themselves in a situation where they are having the same year of experience over and over again; and to live each day in an environment where they have no freedom to use their minds outside a narrow range of thinking, resulting in burnout and boredom. Join me and my guest, ontological coach Ross Hostetter, as we explore what it takes to get out of the 'expert trap', and develop the mindset and practical tools to move into the next level of development—and to step up into a self-authoring life of leadership, influence, and personal fulfillment.

We are in the midst of a shift in human society from modernism to post-modernism, which tends to be more inclusive, more caring and more holistic – some would say, more Feminine. In organizations, this shift shows up as trends toward sustainability, appreciative inquiry, stakeholder engagement, and whole-systems thinking. In leadership, it looks like empathy, coaching, participative decision-making, emotional intelligence, etc. Tune in as we discuss one of the highest-leverage opportunities for transforming our world: Cultivating authentic Feminine wisdom and power. Learn about the importance of keeping the best of what we’ve achieved through the Masculine principle and cultivating more of the Feminine principle. A key to this holistic approach is developing change leaders who are self-aware, creative and capable of managing complexity – and who can integrate Masculine and Feminine leadership styles.

Are you overwhelmed by complexity? Tired of adapting to constant change? The secret to success in our complex, high tech, global economy is embedded in the fundamental business strategies of the world's most successful companies and organizations… it’s all in how they navigate complexity. Tune in and learn six key strategies that create a foundation for achieving business excellence in a highly complex economy. Business visionary and thought leader, John Spence, will share specific plans and action steps that will allow you to dramatically improve the success of your company. By bridging the knowing-doing gap, Spence offers countless tools, strategies, and measurements of success to make these concepts both vital and actionable. Whether you are thriving, surviving, or struggling in our current economy, Spence's straightforward, uncomplicated approach will inspire you to turn your best ideas into action and performance.

Entrepreneurs, business managers and salespeople alike benefit from lessons in how to get people moving on the path to greatness. Barbara Corcoran, who built The Corcoran Group, New York’s largest real estate company, is an expert in the art of leading a team to success. From hiring the right people and firing the wrong ones, establishing an atmosphere that breeds innovation, persisting when all the chips are down and creating fun in the workplace, Barbara has developed and fine-tuned her unique and winning strategies. Join us and learn how to build a powerful team that will break through barriers, inspire collaboration, ignite innovation, and produce benefits that permeate every aspect of your business.

To secure our future, we need a new economic model. No longer can capitalism ignore the environmental and social impacts of business activities. Nor can the public sector be allowed to prioritize the interests of the few at the expense of the many. Nor can we, as a society, ignore our responsibility to act in the interests of the common and future good. Leaders of the private, public, and civil sectors are building a new economic model. They’ve realized that inclusive and explosive growth can be achieved by creating solutions to our most vexing challenges. By working together on issues ranging from energy to water to healthcare, these organizations are discovering that they can future proof both themselves and the local communities they serve. Tune in a learn how The Collaboration Economy will help organizations within all three sectors work together to create real and pragmatic solutions to our global food, water, energy, materials recycling, ship breaking, and consumer industries.

Are you aware that the most successful corporations are often the most diverse? And that one of the richest sources of diversity is our cultural diversity? Complex systems, like companies, communities, even countries, grow stronger and more resilient from diversity. And many who have come to the U.S. from other countries have contributed to our growth. Tune in and learn the story of a man and his family who came to the U.S and lived the American Dream. Listen as she shares how he endured hardships, made choices, and worked to become the success he is today. Be inspired by an outlook and attitude that can serve to help us appreciate our privilege and opportunities.

Have you hired the perfect person for a position, only to have them fail miserably after onboarding and training? Are you hiring based on experienced resumes, then being deeply disappointed over the long term? Do you find that, as good as your HR or hiring manager is, lately it's harder and harder to find the right fit in new hires? Do you struggle with some new hires who look great initially, but on the job can't seem to work well with their manager and fit into a team environment? If you answered ‘Yes’ to any of these questions, then join me and Henri Schauffler as he describes how to immediately hire the superstars you need to start getting the performance your metrics require. Learn 6 ways to avoid wasting thousands and even millions of dollars by hiring the wrong people. Understand which stages of the hiring process require your involvement. Hear the ONE single hiring method that will turn your results upside down literally overnight!

Ever wonder why the old style of ‘command and control’ leadership is no longer effective? It served us well when our economy was simple and workers were expendable. But in today’s highly complex, global economy, our employees are arguably our most valuable asset. Big data, new technologies, and the complexities they introduce require us all to engage as leaders. However, it requires a different set of competencies. To be successful, we must all develop our ability to collaborate, motivate, and inspire. We must develop our emotional and social intelligence as we consider opposing points of view and engage in creative conflict. Tune in and learn as we explore how collaboration, inclusion, and everyone’s contributions are changing the landscape of leadership forever.

Want to know what drives someone to buy from you? Want to understand your customers’ attitudes, motivations, and unspoken needs? Discovering their archetype brings into awareness the unconscious dimension of a product, project, service, concept or corporate culture. Tune in and learn how to improve your business through better product development and marketing. Gain insight into the effectiveness of any brand name or generic product in a particular culture (country) or many different cultures (countries). Tailor your advertising campaigns or communication strategies to a brand name, type of product, person, concept or issue. Examine the use of a particular media communications strategy and its effectiveness with a particular product. And learn about the generic/biological concept of beauty to understand its implications for product design packaging as well as for distribution in multiple global markets. Learn why “The Reptilian always wins!” www.archetypediscoveriesworldwide.com

Max Weber credited the Protestant ethic with giving rise to capitalism. Now it sometimes seems as if it is the Buddhist ethic that is keeping capitalism going. – The Economist, 11.16.13. Just 5 years ago, who could have imagined that The Economist would consider Buddhism to be a defining model for our modern global organizations? Yet today, Google, McKinsey, Wharton, P&G and dozens of other enterprises are exploring the impact that such ancient wisdom has on employee well-being and business outcomes. So can 2,600 year old spiritual practices actually make a difference? And how are organizations applying this spiritual wisdom to our current chaotic global challenges? Join me and author, executive coach, and former corporate executive Michael Carroll, as we explore the practice of mindfulness awareness meditation, review how such training is being applied in organizational settings and discuss the impact Buddhism is having in promoting health and well-being in the workplace.

What does take to predict effective leadership in complex, rapidly changing conditions? According to my guest, Dr. Leslie Pratch, an answer lies in understanding how executives will cope with unexpected complexities and challenges. Central to her predictive model is a structural psychological construct called active coping, which she conceptualizes not as a situation specific behavior or trait but as a style of functioning. She defines active coping as the readiness, willingness, and ability, not necessarily revealed in overt behavior, to adapt resourcefully and effectively to novel and changing conditions. Tune in as we explore the dimensions of active coping that contribute to effective leadership. Through numerous case studies, you’ll hear how the coping styles of leaders shaped their effectiveness.

Is your organization agile? Are you able to adapt quickly to new technologies and changing markets? Agile organizations require agile people – people who are able to maintain mental flexibility, balance, adaptability, and coordination. Tune in and learn how our unconscious operating system drives our behavior. Learn how Human Agility Mapping helps us develop agility by allowing us to detect the underlying rules of some of the most complex aspects of ourselves. Understand how to satisfy deep needs and drives, engage our talents to get those needs and drives met, and set them aside, when necessary. Human Agility Mapping uses lightly held, multiple models to help us identify what is at our core as well as a path to development and agility. By improving our ability to understand and manage stress, engage with others more effectively, and increase employee engagement, we become more effective leaders, teammates, contributors, and change agents.

Are you bogged down by endless meetings, company politics, and bureaucratic stagnation? Would you like to learn a few simple actions you can take right now to improve profits? According to my guests, Jeremy Eden and Terri Long, there are at least 77 easy tactics to improve production and increase profits. Company insiders, not outside consultants, have the answers. Your employees, when given the right tools, have hundreds of ideas to help your company to succeed. But senior executives need a well-designed process to get those answers – a process that results in actionable steps to grow revenue and improve the customer experience. Join us as we discuss Jeremy and Terri’s new book “Low-Hanging Fruit – 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits (Wiley 2014). Learn how to turn misleading metrics upside down, discard benchmarking, and challenge the status quo. Gain insight into an often untapped resource. Discover the easy route to higher earnings

Would you like to engage in a new mental operating system that allows you to make sense and truly comprehend the complex problems and issues you face today? In their ground-breaking book, Holonomics: Business Where People and Planet Matter, Simon and Maria describe our economy as more than the sum of its parts – it’s actually a system of interacting parts. This requires us to move beyond our rational-logical way of seeing. To understand the whole system, we must leverage our subtle perceptions and intuition to reveal the underlying qualities and values that fuel the system. These qualities and values can guide our strategy, organizational design, change management, innovation, sustainability, human resources, brand management, and communication. Tune in and learn how to move into a higher level of cognition, one which takes you from a consciousness based on logical-rational-symbolic processing, to one that includes sensing, feeling and intuition, one from which meaning can emerge.

Do you consider yourself a Millennial? A Baby Boomer? Part of the Gen X or Gen Y generation? These demographic groups are not only popular, they are often used by marketers to predict future behavior based on past behavior—measured during historic time periods that are attributed to these generational groups. However, they do not accurately reflect powerful shared experiences, nor do they address shifting global markets and technological acceleration. Yet, they seem to go unchallenged…until now. Tune in and learn a new approach to generational demography. Gain insights into why people behave the way they do and learn to predict future behaviors based on deep-seated and often unconscious values—values that were created by experiencing shared events in the cultural environment during formative years. Learn why values are a key driver of behavior and how they act as motivational filters through which past behaviors are more easily understood and future actions are more predictable.

Did you know that the success of a leader is highly predictable? And that one of the key drivers of that success is a leader’s ability to cope with stressful situations? With the current level of economic volatility, leaders must not only be able to navigate complex issues. They must continually and successfully handle unexpected situations and difficult people. Tune in and learn about a psychological model for predicting successful leadership. Learn how an in-depth personality assessment allows you to evaluate candidates for senior management roles. Gain insights by identifying which candidate possesses the personality strengths required to be successful in the role—before you make a hiring decision. Understand the crucial importance of active coping in leadership