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Over the years I've had the privilege of supporting thousands of people to make changes in their lives:

• entrepreneurs sharpening their focus and implementing their action plans
• executives growing their leadership and influence chops
• regular folks adopting healthy habits and uprooting self-sabotaging impulses

And I like to think that the net effect of all those individual changes is a more global shift, as the ripples extend beyond my clients to their families, organizations, communities, and the world.

But that's different from engineering large-change scale from the get-go.

And heaven knows, the human species could really use some transformation at scale at the present moment, if we are to survive on a livable planet for much longer.

So I reached out to change expert Huw Thomas to explore the keys to behavior change at scale.

In our conversation, we cover Huw's three keys to change:

• leadership
• management
• governance

We dig into empathy, resistance, adaptability, and influence, and a bunch of other buzzwords that actually contain real nuggets of wisdom.

And we talk about our own journeys of change, and the obstacles we've created, faced, and overcome.

Enjoy!

Links

HuwThomas.com.au

Maximum Achievement, by Brian Tracy

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R Covey

Leading with Emotional Courage, by Peter Bregman

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This is the first conversation that I had with Dr Richard Hodge, and it's the fourth podcast that I've published.

That's because after we talked, Richard sent me an email basically saying, "Hey, we covered some pretty advanced stuff, but I think we need to really break it down for folks."

So the last three conversations with Richard have been reverse engineering our way to this conversation, the culmination (so far).

This is the conversation about how to make a difference in the world.

How to use systems thinking, how to approach problems and issues holistically.

How to listen to up-until-now marginalized voices and community.

And how to still be how to be a small, insignificant human beings and still look at the world and know that there's "no problem too big."

I hope you enjoy our conversation, and that you're inspired to lend your mind, spirit, and shoulder to the wheel of Better.

Links

DrRichardHodge.com

Rory Sutherland's TED Talk

The Memory Code: Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of the Ancients and the Power of the Human Mind, by Kelly Lynne

Unlocking the Emotional Brain, 2nd Edition, by Bruce Ecker, Robin Ticic, and Laurel Hulley

Right Story, Wrong Story, by Tyson Yunkaporta

Antifragile, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis (Video series by John Vervaeke on the Four Ways of Knowing)

The Greatest Night in Pop (Netflix documentary on the making of "We Are the World" in 1985)

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You don't hear the word joy thrown around a lot in business. And that's why I'm delighted to share this conversation with you with business psychologist Simi Rayat.

Simi is the author of the upcoming book Productivity Joy.

And her thing is, are you a joy to be around at work, at home, on the streets?

It's such a great question.

It reminds me of my friend Howard Prager's trademark question: “How can I make someone's day?”

They’re both a sort of mantra that allows you to orient your whole life towards a really beautiful goal. And for Simi, it's about being a source of joy for others; being someone that other people actually want to be around.

And if you think about it — what a powerful focus for the workplace, for our volunteer organizations, for our families, for anywhere that we want to have a positive changeThere’s so much wrong with the world and there's so much to be angry about and there's so much to be sad about.

And if we want to mobilize people to action, to make a difference, to make a change, we can't just run on the fuel of negativity.

We also need joy.

And the harder it is to generate that joy, the more it's needed.

So I'm really excited to share this conversation. It's chock full of science. It's chock full of joy. And I hope it helps you bring about the world that you want to see.

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