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My favourite tip: Adam Grant on how meetings kill productivity - and what to do about it Mar 11, 2019

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My favourite tip from my chat with Adam Grant came about when I asked him what was his favourite research study into productivity. Turns out it’s one to do with meetings, and how to improve them.

You can find the full interview here.

If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.co

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My Favourite Tip: How WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg tunes out digital distractions Mar 08, 2019

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My favourite tip from my chat with Matt Mullenweg where he talks about some really practical strategies for tuning out digital distractions and creating healthy tech habits.

You can find the full interview here.

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Why New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles doesn't write her stories at a desk Mar 06, 2019

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My guest today is journalist Nellie Bowles. Nellie covers tech and internet culture for The New York Times. Before joining The Times, she was a correspondent for “VICE News Tonight.” She has written for Recode, The Guardian, and started her writing career at the San Francisco Chronicle.

I met Nellie because she interviewed me for a story a couple of months ago and I thought it would be fascinating to hear about how a NYT journalist actually spends their days. We cover lots of topics in this interview, including:

How Nellie scored herself a job at the NYT
Nellie’s quirky strategies for becoming a better writer
Where Nellie finds ideas for stories
How Nellie prepares for an interview
Nellie’s go-to interview questions
Why Nellie doesn’t like reading about people before she interviews them
Nellie's approach for tuning out digital distractions
Nellie’s Digital Shabbat
Nellie’s go-to websites for staying up-to-date with tech news
Why Nellie doesn’t listen to podcasts

And much more.

Find Nellie on Twitter at @NellieBowles https://twitter.com/nelliebowles

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Why we need to redesign our workdays Mar 04, 2019

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This episode looks at challenging the standard 9-5 default that most businesses run by, and instead, using neuroscience to guide how we structure our workdays.

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Dr Catriona Wallace on life as the Founder and CEO of an ASX-listed company, why she taught herself to be extraverted, and her unconventional approach to parenting. Feb 27, 2019

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My guest today is Dr Catriona Wallace, who is the Founder and CEO of high-profile FinTech and ASX Listed company Flamingo. Flamingo provides a Cognitive Virtual Assistant (Artificial Intelligence) called ‘ROSIE’ that helps Financial Services companies across the world improve online sales conversion rates and the better servicing of customers.

Based between NYC and Sydney, Dr Catriona Wallace is one of the world’s most cited experts on the Future of Customer Experience, Artificial Intelligence and Bot Strategy.

Catriona was recently named one of the AFR’s 100 Women of Influence and topped the Business and Entrepreneur category. Catriona also happens to be one of my most influential mentors and a really good friend.

We cover so much ground in this interview, including:

The difference between being a CEO of a private company versus a publicly listed company - and why it requires a completely different skill set
How Catriona became a "gun" salesperson
Catriona’s secret to building rapport in sales meetings
How she structures a typical one hour sales meeting
How to build credibility quickly
Catriona’s counterintuitive strategies for engaging prospects
How to pack three week’s worth of clothes in a carry-on suitcase
Catriona’s secret for getting over jet lag
Why Catriona doesn’t believe in work-life balance
How to build deep connections quickly when networking

And much more.

You can find Catriona at www.flamingo.ai, and also on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Why it's more important for staff to review their own performance Feb 25, 2019

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This episode looks at performance reviews, and why it’s more important to have your team review their own performance.

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Daniel Pink on coming up with great titles for projects, how he structures his working days, and why he doesn't believe in willpower. Feb 20, 2019

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My guest today is Dan Pink. Dan is the author of six bestselling books, including Drive, A Whole New Mind, and his latest book "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing", which has spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. You might also be familiar with Dan through his TED talk about the surprising science of motivation, which has been viewed over 20 million times.

I am a big Dan Pink fan so I was very excited to be able to chat with him. I think he has such a knack for dissecting complex science and finding a way to make it not just accessible, but memorable and impactful for his readers.

We cover a bunch of things during this chat, including:

How Dan works out whether an idea is great or whether it stinks
How the idea behind his latest book "When" came to be
The importance of the structure of a book, and Dan’s approach to mapping out a book’s structure
Dan’s process for coming up with the title for a book or project
How he came up with the title for Adam Grant’s bestselling book Give and Take
Why Dan structures his work day into three distinct sections
Why Dan isn’t a big believer in willpower
How Dan constructs his working environment to make it easy to stay off digital distractions
Dan’s approach to radically reducing the amount of emails he receives
How Dan decides what to say yes to and what to say no to
Dan’s approach for saying no politely
Dan’s process for translating a book into a keynote speech
Why Dan asks his wife to read his books out loud to him during the editing process

Find out more about Dan at danpink.com and subscribe to his newsletter right here. And you can check out his latest book When here.

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My Favourite Tip: Janine Allis on how she structures her work week Feb 18, 2019

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My favourite tip from my chat with Janine Allis was how she structures her working week with some very interesting rules.

You can find the full interview here: https://www.amanthaimber.com/blog/janine-allis-on-her-rules-for-the-work-week-her-trick-for-making-email

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Dr Jason Fox on daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly rituals Feb 13, 2019

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My guest today is Dr Jason Fox. I’ve known Jason for the best part of a decade. Like me, he is a scientist at heart and has a bias for strategies that are grounded in research. Jason travels the world helping leaders from companies such as Microsoft, Salesforce, McDonalds, and Toyota in the area of motivation design. Jason is also the bestselling author of The Game Changer and How to Lead a Quest, and in 2016 was awarded Keynote Speaker of the Year.

Something I really like about how Jason organises his working life is that he thinks a lot about rhythms and rituals. In this chat, we talk about many of the ones he has incorporated into his life, from his daily rituals through to weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually.

Here are some of the other things we cover in this chat:

Why he picks a one-word theme at the beginning of every year, and his process for picking one
Why Jason and his partner Kim track progress against their “fulfilment factors” - and how to identify your own fulfilment factors
Jason’s process for making small versus big decisions
Jason’s daily, weekly, quarterly and annual rhythms and rituals for work
Jason’s morning routine
Gratitude Calendars and how Jason uses one
How Jason uses his time on planes
Jason’s experiments into how to make email more bearable
Jason’s strategy for saying "no" politely
Jason’s process for reading non-fiction books

Find Jason at drjasonfox.com and you can subscribe to his muse letter at drjasonfox.com/ahoy. And you can listen to Jason’s podcast The Cleverness at drjasonfox.com/podcast

For comprehensive show notes on this episode, go to: https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast

Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au

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My favourite tip: Amanda Palmer on her three check-in rituals Feb 12, 2019

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My favourite tip from my chat with Amanda Palmer was how she has three basic benchmarks or rituals that she uses to check in with herself about how she is going.

You can find the full interview here.

Visit amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes.

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