Do More Great Work - by Michael Bungay Stanier
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Brian Johnson

Brian is the Chief Philosopher of Philosophers Notes, a website and business I discovered about a year ago and think is absolutely terrific. Brian’s role as Chief Philosopher is to study and share the the world’s greatest wisdom. He has picked the hundred best, wisest, smartest books, he has articulated the thousand best ideas in those books and from those he has extracted the ten core principles behind the real works of wisdom that guide us and shape is in our 21st century.

What makes this sweeter still is that Brian is also a brilliant entrepreneur. He founded an organization called E-Teams that grew, was massively successful and sold it in 2000 to The Active Network then came back and founded another brilliant online company called Zaadz which is now known as Gaia.com and which is also terrific – it’s like a Facebook or LinkedIn for people who want to save the world and change the world.

This is a really juicy call, full of ideas and in it we talk about:

  • How you know if you’re ‘following your bliss” (and what Carlos Castaneda has to say on the point)
  • One of the deepest choices of life: do you step forward into growth or back into safety
  • A brilliant mapping system to help you keep track of your path
  • And what Brian learned from Jim Loehr about projecting his shadow
  • The importance of ritual

And of course, a whole lot more.

You can find Brian at www.PhilosophersNotes.com and follow him on Twitter at @_Brian_Johnson. (And if you do so, you’ll see he’s just announced he’s getting married. Woo hoo!)

Listen to my interview with Brian Johnson

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Posted on February 24, 2010

Krishna De

Krishna De’s tagline is “Bring your brand to life” and she takes this message to individuals and organizations around the world and both on and off line. She comes with dirt under her fingernails from working in organizations. Krishna was the youngest person on the Guinness Board and the first woman, and she has worked in three continents and 30 countries.  She really brings a wealth of international expertise, gusto and experience to this conversation about branding and also about great work.

In this interview we talk about:

  • Why stability is as important as risk as the foundation for Great Work
  • What dealing with the threats from the mafia taught her about Great Work
  • How to become CEO of your own career – and what support structures you might up in place to allow that to happen
  • How to rail against the threat of a mediocre life

Listen to my interview with Krishna De

You can follow Krishna on Twitter at @KrishnaDe and on her blog.

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Posted on February 4, 2010

Naomi Dunford

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Naomi Dunford – wow, what a firecracker this woman she is. She’s a mover and shaker in the world of blogging and internet marketing and it’s been a meteoric rise – partially because of her savvy business and marketing skills, partially because of her provocative, disarming, somewhat scatalogical style. She’s like the Chris Rock of internet marketing, but a 29 year old with a punk haircut rather than a black man. IttyBiz is her company, and currently its tagline is ‘marketing for businesses without marketing departments’.  But I kinda liked an earlier iteration, which was ‘working from home tips to keep you from stabbing your own eye out.’  We did this interview almost a year ago, and since we did Naomi gone’s from success to success. In the interview we talk about:

  • The moment that tipped Naomi from being a temp to a powerhouse marketer
  • Why it’s not money that gets in the way of people being entrepreneurial, but something else. (Naomi’s got an opinion on that)
  • Decisions on her business model (and how it works with her authentic style)
  • A great insight she stole from Albert Camus
  • My cute accent.  (See, I told you I like her!)

Naomi’s on Twitter – @IttyBiz

The interviews are all between 25 and 30 minutes long.
You can either download them here as mp3s, or go to iTunes, type in “Great Work Interviews” and you’ll see them all there.

Listen to my interview with Naomi Dunford

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Posted on November 4, 2009

David Allen

David AllenDavid Allen wears the title “business guru” lightly. He’s well known around the world for his first book Getting Things Done (recently acclaimed one of the top 100 business books) and for his most recent Making it All Work. But while he heads the GTD movement (and you can Google that to see how deep and wide it goes), he does it was a sense of humour, a humility and a wisdom that is a delight. I have the pleasure of being David’s “creativity coach” on his membership site, and this interview is the latest in our on-going conversation on Great Work, productivity and doing the stuff that matters.

This interview is approximately 20 minutes long.

Listen to the interview with David Allen

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Posted on March 19, 2009
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