Collective intelligence is an important ingredient for all enduringly successful businesses. They know that relying on a superstar CEO or hiring the smartest people out there is not enough. But building collective intelligence is not an easy task

In this short podcast series, co-authors of Collective Intelligence, Jennifer Sundberg and Pippa Begg, explain the three capabilities that underpin collective intelligence.

This first episode explores the first capability - critical thinking. 

➡️ Check out the book: https://www.lidpublishing.com/books/collective-intelligence/

339: Collective Intelligence: Critical Thinking

In this episode of LID Radio Podcast, we speak with Rosie Duncan about her book The Early Career Book: Your Guide to Starting Out, Stepping Up and Being Yourself

About Rosie Duncan

Rosie Duncan is an award–winning communications consultant, author and mentor who specialises in mental health. In her 15-year career, she has flourished, failed and had to refocus, and now imparts her experience in the hope that it will help others along their way. She is co-author of the 5th-anniversary edition of the Excellence Book.

About The Early Career Book

The Early Career Book is designed to walk you through important decision-making processes, act as a helpful support when things get tough and help with those big decisions to keep you on the right path in your early career phase of when changing careers.

338: Navigating Your Early Career with Rosie Duncan

In today's episode of LID Radio Podcast, we're joined by Adhirath Sethi to talk about his new book The Moving of Mountains: The Remarkable Story of the Agastya International Foundation

About Adhirath Sethi

Adirath Sethi is a Trustee of the Agastya International Foundation. He was formerly a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and is today a Director of his family’s business in India.
 
About The Moving of Mountains

The Agastya International Foundation is an Indian education trust and non-profit organization based in Bangalore, India, whose mission is to spark curiosity, nurture creativity and build confidence among economically disadvantaged children and teachers in India. The Moving of Mountains tells that story of Agastya’s remarkable origins, the individuals who devoted their resources and efforts to make a difference, the vision and beliefs behind Agastya, and the many children who have benefitted from Agastya’s renowned experiments in educational innovation and project-based learning programs.

338: The Moving of Mountains with Adhirath Sethi

In today's episode of LID Radio Podcast, we hear the second part of our conversation with Lowell Sheppard, author of Dare to Dream. We talk about his DARE program to achieve high stake dreams.

About Lowell Sheppard

Lowell Sheppard is a seasoned adventurer, author, YouTuber and most recently the host for a new TV series on History Channel called Dare to Dream (to be released in spring 2024). He is also the founder of the Never Too Late Academy, which seeks to “help people everywhere acquire the courage and the tools to realize high stake dreams.” He currently lives in Japan on his boat. 

About Dare To Dream

Based on Lowell’s own experience, this book provides important insights on to how to redesign your life, awaken dormant dreams, create audacious goals, and take high-stake risks to achieve them. It examines the anatomy of a dream and shares a four-step (DARE) program to realize high-stake dreams. Lowell has learned from both success and failure, but most of all, he has learned the benefits of pure grit and tenacity. This book will not only inspire the reader to have the courage to reach for the sky but also equip them with the tools to navigate into a better future. 

337: How to Achieve High Stake Dreams with Lowell Sheppard

In today's episode of LID Radio Podcast, we're joined by Lowell Sheppard to talk about his latest book, Dare To Dream: Develop the courage and tools to realize high stake dreams, and his adventurous life.

About Lowell Sheppard

Lowell Sheppard is a seasoned adventurer, author, YouTuber and most recently the host for a new TV series on History Channel called Dare to Dream (to be released in spring 2024). He is also the founder of the Never Too Late Academy, which seeks to “help people everywhere acquire the courage and the tools to realize high stake dreams.” He currently lives in Japan on his boat. 

About Dare To Dream

Based on Lowell’s own experience, this book provides important insights on to how to redesign your life, awaken dormant dreams, create audacious goals, and take high-stake risks to achieve them. It examines the anatomy of a dream and shares a four-step (DARE) program to realize high-stake dreams. Lowell has learned from both success and failure, but most of all, he has learned the benefits of pure grit and tenacity. This book will not only inspire the reader to have the courage to reach for the sky but also equip them with the tools to navigate into a better future. 

336: Sailing the Pacific Ocean by 70th Birthday and Other Adventures with Lowell Sheppard

In today's episode of LID Radio Podcast, we're joined by Jennifer Sundberg and Pippa Begg to talk about their book Collective Intelligence: How to Build a Business That's Smarter You

About Jennifer Sundberg and Pippa Begg

Jennifer and Pippa are co-CEOs of Board Intelligence, a leading provider of business reporting software. To date, they have supported more than 3,000 organizations and 40,000 leaders to unleash board performance and collective intelligence.
 
About Collective Intelligence

In Collective Intelligence, the authors show how the world’s most enduringly successful businesses aren’t reliant on a super-star CEO or executive team. They empower everyone – from the boardroom to the shop floor – to think hard and act fast by systematically building three capabilities: critical thinking, great communication, and a shared focus on what matters most.

335: How to Build A Business That's Smarter Than You with Jennifer Sundberg & Pippa Begg

For this episode of LID Radio Podcast, we’re joined by Lukas Michel and Herb Nold to talk about their book The Transition of Organizations: Managing for Growth at Each Stage of the Organization’s Life Cycle.
 
About Lukas Michel & Herb Nold

Lukas Michel is the founder of Management Insights, with over 30 years' senior executive experience, supporting executives worldwide with agile management. He is the author of six management books.  Dr Herb Nold is a professor of business administration at Polk College, Florida. He holds a doctorate of management in organizational leadership).
 
About The Transition of Organizations

The book explores various common patterns of management styles and then offers transition strategies to help managers succeed in the digital economy. The authors guide leaders to prepare for these transitions by laying the foundations or infrastructure needed to prevent a crisis that inhibits further growth. They also provide leaders with a greater understanding of the growth framework, which will help leaders to manage better the development of their companies. 

334: How to Manage Business Growth in the Digital Economy with Lukas Michel & Herb Nold

On this episode of LID Radio Podcast, we're joined by Matthew Butler-Adam and Yusuf Ameer to talk about their book Cracking Corporate: Building a career that you can be proud of.

About Matt & Yusuf

Matt is a Regional Managing Director at Duke Corporate Education in the UK, and was previously a Mergers and acquisitions manager at Deloitte and a consultant at Bain & Company.

Yusuf Ameer is an Associate Director in Mergers and Acquisitions at Deloitte Australia, previously ran a consulting business of his own and was the head of strategy and business development at Caltex North West. 
 
About Cracking Corporate

Cracking Corporate offers valuable lessons in choosing career options and tackling the different challenges at each stage in your career. The authors provide insightful advice on thinking about your purpose in life, planning your education becoming an expert in a particular field, developing your network of contacts, handling difficult people and situations, and using good ethical principles.

333: How to land and navigate a successful corporate career? with Matthew Butler-Adam & Yusuf Ameer

On this episode of LID Radio Podcast, we have EQ practitioner Nicole Soames with us. We talk about her latest book, The Emotional Intelligence Book.
 
About Nicole Soames

Nicole Soames is a highly qualified coach and emotional intelligence practitioner. She is the founder of Diadem, a leading commercial skills training and coaching company. Nicole is also the bestselling author of The Negotiation Book, The Influence Book, The Presenting Book and The Coaching Book, all part of the Concise Advice Series from LID Publishing.
 
About The Emotional Intelligence Book

In The Emotional Intelligence Book, Nicole shows you how to develop your self-awareness, social skills, self-management and ambition in order to cope with and succeed in your work and personal life.

332: How to enhance your emotional intelligence to succeed in your work and life? with Nicole Soames

For this episode of LID Radio Podcast, we're joined by Mark Powell to talk about his new book The Fifth Phase: An insight-driven approach to business transformation.
 
About Mark Powell

Mark Powell is a Partner at Ernst & Young, a world-leading consultancy firm. He specializes in the application of data and analytics to drive business transformation. He is the author of three other business books and is based in the UK.
 
About The Fifth Phase

In his new book, Mark analyses the new, Fifth Phase of business transformation, which will build the refineries that turn data into useful products.

331: What's the Fifth Phase of Business Transformation? with Dr Mark Powell

In today's episode of LID Radio Podcast, we're joined by Sally-Anne Airey to talk about her first book Mindful Command: The Way of the Evolving Leader

About Sally-Anne Airey

Sally-Anne Airey is the founder of Skilful Leaders where she coaches leaders and their teams to become who they really want to be and to do the work they really want to do. Earlier, in her 23-year career in the Royal Navy she was at the forefront of leadership practice and development. She left as a commander, and the Navy’s first serving mother. 

About Mindful Command

In Mindful Command, Sally-Anne delivers the lessons she learnt in her impressive career in a clear and accessible way. Introducing her Mindful Command framework, she simplifies the journey for others treading the path to developing real leadership skills. 

330: Leading with Mindful Command with Sally-Anne Airey

For this episode if LID Radio, we're joined by Max Landsberg to talk about his latest book The Power of the Dao: Seven Essential Habits for Living in Flow, Fulfilment and Resilience.


Max Landsberg is a bestselling author whose previous books have sold over 1 million copies and been published in 15 languages). He is a former partner at McKinsey & Company; Senior Partner at headhunters Heidrick & Struggles and Korn Ferry. Most currently, he was a Director at McKinsey & Company and is based in London.  

In The Power of the Dao, Max shows the reader how to live in a sate of flow all of the time, based on the enduring, ancient wisdom of Daoist principles and practice.

329: How to Live in Flow All the Time with Max Landsberg

In this episode of LID Radio, we’ve got Chris Budd with us to talk about his new book The Four Cornerstones of Financial Wellbeing. He also shares what role money plays in our happiness and how to create a financial wellbeing plan.

Chris Budd is the founder of the Institute for Financial Wellbeing and is the Chairman of Ovation Finance. He is the author of The Financial Wellbeing Book (part of LID’s Concise Advice series).

The Four Cornerstones of Financial Wellbeing presents an understanding of our finances that is defined not in terms of wealth or status, but by your happiness. Through a four-cornerstone approach, it provides practical advice on how to create a financial wellbeing plan that will help you focus away from simply accumulating wealth, and instead focus on enjoying your life.

328: What role does money play in our happiness? with Chris Budd

In today's episode of LID Radio Podcast, we're joined by Per Wimmer to speak about his autobiography The Sky is No Limit, his work in investment management, his record-breaking adventures and the upcoming space trip. 

About Per Wimmer

Per Wimmer is a global financier who founded investment management companies Wimmer Financial and Wimmer Family Office. Outside of work, he is an astronaut, adventurer and philanthropist.  
 
About The Sky is No Limit

Per’s life story is far from ordinary and very much driven by the desire to push boundaries. This first volume of his autobiography, The Sky is No Limit, covers Per’s formative years, his growing fascination for adventure, travel and space, and the growth of his career in international finance, culminating in the founding of Wimmer Financial.

Check out The Sky is No Limit: https://www.lidpublishing.com/books/the-sky-is-no-limit/

327: From Financier to Astronaut with Per Wimmer

In today's episode of LID Radio Podcast, we're joined by Marco Buschman, author of The Connection Quotient.

Marco Buschman is a leadership expert, inspirational speaker and master certified coach. He specializes in facilitating and supporting organizations in creating high-performance cultures.

In his book, Marco demonstrates how the Connection Quotient enables an honest, courageous and humane interconnection to form, while still focusing on financial outcomes and results, developing these relations to improve the business networks they serve. The CQ enables us to illuminate our human qualities and use these to connect with others, discuss differences, expand insight and encourage the development of new ideas. The CQ will introduce a new workplace culture where organizations and teams can approach the personal and professional through a more transparent and inclusive style. Ultimately, the CQ makes it possible to play “hard on the ball, and soft on the individual”.

Episode Questions:

00:57 - Why did you decide to write The Connection Quotient back in 2020 and why do you think its messaging is still as relevant?
03:41 - What is the connection quotient, how would you define it?
05:33 - Why is it important to be in Connection with Yourself and how do we achieve that?
09:53 - When it comes to the connection with yourself, in the book you say that we have patterns, or behaviours, that we’re not happy with but we justify them by saying ‘that’s the way I am’. Why is that detrimental and how can we change patterns? 
14:50 - What are some strategies for happiness?
18:12 - Why is it important to be in connection with the other to be a great leader? 
21:49 - What are the important elements of building a connection with the other?
24:34 - How important is it to be connected to your team and your organization and what does it mean to be connected to them?
27:01 - What’s more important when connecting with your team and organisation – intellect or emotions? And how do we strike the right balance between them?
35:30 - What would be your tips for any leader looking to work on their CQ, where should they begin?

326: How to Unlock Your Connection Quotient? with Marco Buschman

In this episode of LID Radio, we're joined by Michael Farmer to talk about his new book, Madison Avenue Makeover, the transformation of the global digital agency Huge and the transformation of the ad agency business. 

Prior to founding Farmer & Company in 1992, Michael Farmer was a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group and a Director of Bain & Company. He headed Bain’s Munich, Paris and London offices during Bain’s decade of European expansion in the 1980s. He is the author of Madison Avenue Manslaughter (LID).

His new book, Madison Avenue Makeover, tells the riveting story of Huge and its journey through its transformation effort. It also provides a unique insight into how one company changed in order to survive, and at the same time, redefined the advertising agency business.

325: How can we transform the ad agency business?  with Michael Farmer

In this very special episode of LID Radio, we're joined by Nicholas Janni, the author of Leader As Healer - the Business Book of the Year 2023. 

Nicholas won the prestigious award at this year's Business Book Awards. The book also won its title category - Leadership Book of the Year.

This episode is hosted by Sally Dunsmore. Sally is the co-founder and director of FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival and consultant to HM Government of Gibraltar on Gibraltar International Literary Festival. She also co-founded the Blenheim Palace Festival of Literature, Film and Music. 

324: Leader As Healer, Business Book of the Year 2023: Conversation with Nicholas Janni

LID Radio with the LID team

In the last episode of our special series celebrating LID's 30th anniversary, we hear from LID's Communications Manager, Teya Ucherdzhieva. She shares what role an author plays in their book campaign, what makes up a successful campaign and what emerging trends in book marketing authors should be aware of.

Teya holds a first-class degree in journalism from Coventry University. She has strong skills in digital marketing, social media and content creation. At LID, Teya implements effective PR and digital marketing campaigns to engage the audience of each book and raise the profile of LID authors. She also hosts LID’s podcast LID Radio, in which she converses with LID’s authors on a range of topics from the world of business. Teya is fluent in English and Bulgarian.

323: LID Radio with the LID Team: Teya Ucherdzhieva

LID Radio with the LID team

In this episode of our series celebrating LID's 30th Anniversary, we're joined by LID's Associate Publisher, Alec Egan.

Alec shares what makes a successful book project, what kind of author fits best into LID and more fascinating insights.

Alec scans the book publishing horizon for cutting-edge thinking with a potential to appeal to a broader audience. A strong team player with a keen eye for commercial opportunities, he is instrumental in bringing new authors into the LID family.
Alec understands authors’ needs and the market; he knows how to create the right type of chemistry in a project to produce maximum impact in business outcome and reputation building. Alec is fluent in English, Russian and French.

322: LID Radio with the LID team: Alec Egan

In this episode of LID Radio, we're joined by Anthony 'Tas' Tasgal to talk about his lates book, The Insight Book, whether there is an effortless shift from data to ‘ta-da!’, some of the most common misconceptions about insight and much more.

Anthony Tasgal spent 15 years as an ad agency planner before setting up POV, a strategic brand consultancy. He is a Training Director for the CIM and a Visiting Lecturer at Buckingham, Nottingham Trent and Beijing Normal Universities. He is author of The Insight Book, The Storytelling Book, The Storytelling Workbook, Incitations, and The Inspiratorium (all published by LID). He lives in the UK.

About The Insight Book:

This book is an entertaining, instructive and accessible guide to understanding and deploying insight to see things differently and find creativity from all sources and in all places. Insight has become an important way to gain a deeper understanding of how your customers think and feel about your products and services. The book explains what insight is, why insight is so important (and yet so poorly misunderstood and under-used), and how can we nurture and develop it in our work and even personal lives.

➡️ Find out more: https://www.lidpublishing.com/books/the-insight-book/

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