OutsideVoices with Mark Bidwell Podcast
1) 12 - Rob Swan: Leadership Lessons From 40 Years of Polar Exploration
On some of my previous podcasts I have talked to people about how to survive and thrive in hostile and high consequence environments. This episode's guest Rob Swan took his 23 year old son with him on...Show More
2) 11 - Nicholas Thomas - The Return Of Curiosity: Encounters With The Unknown
The word "curiosity" seems to be appearing increasingly frequently in the world of business. Someone with a very distinctive perspective on the topic is Professor Nick Thomas, author of a recent...Show More
11 - Nicholas Thomas - The Return Of Curiosity: Encounters With The Unknown
37:43 | Aug 6th, 2019
3) 10 - Chip Conley - Airbnb, Modern Elders, Navigating the Midlife Crisis
I find stories of leaders who have successfully reinvented themselves mid-career both compelling and informative. This is mainly because I have been on this journey for the past 4 years and am always ...Show More
4) 09 - Benedict Allen - Exploring Cultures
Benedict Allen is described by a British newspaper as one of the top 10 British explorers of all time. Benedict is also an environmentalist, film-maker and author of a number of books, including "Mad ...Show More
5) 08 - David Kesby: Herding Cats - Unconventional Team Leadership
Dave Kesby is an organizational coach and author of the book "Extra-Dependent Teams: Realising the Power of Similarity", in which he challenges much of the conventional wisdom of teams. As he writes i...Show More
6) 07 - Safi Bachall: Loonshots - Innovation Through the Lens of a Physicist
Safi Bahcall is a second generation physicist and entrepreneur, whose first book, Loonshots, has been described as a cross between Freakonomics and the da Vinci Code. At the heart of the book is a phi...Show More
07 - Safi Bachall: Loonshots - Innovation Through the Lens of a Physicist
1:01:07 | Jun 11th, 2019
7) 06 - Jennifer Berger - Thriving in Complexity
We all wish that our lives were a little less complex: as Jennifer Berger explains in her latest book on the subject, while humans are brilliantly designed for operating in a less connected, more pred...Show More
8) 05 - Chris Rainier and Olivia McKendrick - The Race to Save Cultural And Intellectual Diversity
Diversity in all its forms is key to solving many of the most significant challenges we face today, and if we fail to address these challenges, future generations will inherit the consequences. Preser...Show More
9) 04 - Vas Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis: Transforming the Organization
Vas Narasimhan is not your typical CEO, having started his career in public health, where he became passionate about how to impact health on a large scale. Now, many years later and a little over a ye...Show More
10) 03 - Efosa Ojomo: See the World Through New Lenses
So reads the title of a chapter in the keenly awaited new book by Professor Clay Christensen, Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon, The Prosperity Paradox. The concept of looking at markets from different per...Show More