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68: Building The Best Workplace in The World with Vishen Lakhiani of Mindvalley

Vishen Lakhiani is the Founder of Mindvalley, Entrepreneur, Author of "The Code of the Extraordinary Mind" and Education Hacker.

Vishen Lakhiani - Unleashing The Power Of Your Extraordinary Mind

Solving Problems with Design Thinking by Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett on Audible:
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Summary:

Design-oriented firms such as Apple and IDEO have demonstrated how design thinking can directly affect business results. Yet most managers lack a real sense of how to put this new approach to use for issues other than product development and sales growth. Solving Problems with Design Thinking details 10 real-world examples of managers who successfully applied design methods at 3M, Toyota, IBM, Intuit, and SAP; entrepreneurial start-ups such as MeYou Health; and government and social sector organizations including the City of Dublin and Denmark's The Good Kitchen.

Using design skills such as ethnography, visualization, storytelling, and experimentation, these managers produced innovative solutions to problems concerning strategy implementation, sales force support, internal process redesign, feeding the elderly, engaging citizens, and the trade show experience. Here they elaborate on the challenges they faced and the processes and tools they used, offering their personal perspectives and providing a clear path to implementation based on the principles and practices laid out in Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie's Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers. 

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Solving Problems with Design Thinking by Jeanne Liedtka et.al, Narrated by Dina Pearlman

*** Podcast programming alert!! ***

Today we have something a little different. Not only do we have Vishen Lakhiani, one of the most forward-thinking CEOs in the world, but we also have him in conversation with one of the Blinkist co-founders, Niklas Jansen. Niklas is a huge admirer of Vishen’s distinctive approaches to his companies, so we figured we should let him ask Vishen whatever he wanted!

Vishen is the founder and CEO of Mindvalley, a transformational education company, and Afest, an invite-only festival for entrepreneurs and change-makers that takes place in exotic locations all over the globe. He’s also an author now, and his book The Code of the Extraordinary Mind is just out and already a New York Times bestseller. (Read it on Blinkist here: http://buff.ly/2c41ZNF)

It’s cool to hear the two entrepreneurs chat. They talk about morning routines, exercise, and how to get the best possible company culture. But they also talk about the book, and get into Vishen’s distinctive way of optimizing his life, focusing on what he calls Consciousness Engineering and Brules (or bullshit rules).

Oh, and as a complement to the new magazine edition on #AlwaysLearning, we have a giveaway! We have five signed copies of Vishen Lakhiani’s book and five memberships to Mindvalley to go with it.

Here's what to do to win: download the Blinkist app, sign up, and open the blinks to The Code of The Extraordinary Mind. If you already have the app (well done you!), simply open up the blinks to The Code of The Extraordinary Mind to be in with a chance to win.

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- If you like what you hear today, please do hop on over to iTunes to subscribe to the podcast or give us a review: http://blnk.st/28JBVIY

- Read the key insights to The Code of the Extraordinary Mind on Blinkist: http://buff.ly/2c41ZNF

- That excellent intro and outro music you heard is by Nico Guiang. You can find more of it on Soundcloud [@niceaux] and Facebook [www.facebook.com/niceaux].

Entrepreneur Vishen Lakhiani of Mindvalley on Breaking Rules & Optimizing Everything

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Todays guest is Vishen Lakhiani and he's here to talk with us about setting and achieving goals. Don't forget to rate and subscribe to the show!

Vishen Lakhiani: Setting and Achieving Goals

Welcome to the Process Hacker News, your weekly roundup of useful news and updates from Process Hackers who have been guests on Hack the Process with M. David Green. This week we’ve got music releases, presentation tips, falling cryptocurrencies, and more. Enjoy!

And for all the links, check out the show notes at http://www.hacktheprocess.com/process-hacker-news-for-may-15-2018-music-releases-presentation-tips-falling-cryptocurrencies-and-more/

Launches
Bravo, the new album from Mike Massy, is now out on iTunes, YouTube, and Spotify. Physical copies of Bravo may also be purchased at Buy Lebanese.

Events
On May 22, join Rich Mironov at Understanding Enterprise Product Management as he differentiates companies building enterprise tech products from companies creating mass consumer tech products.

Writings
Congratulations to Andi Galpern, who has joined Cloud App as a Design Educator and Producer. She also just published a blog post full of great presentation design tips to wow your audience.

Media
The most recent Hack the Process guest, Steve Goldbach and his co-author, Geoff Tuff, were interviewed by The Marketing Journal about the concepts in their newly-launched book, Detonate: Why and How Corporations Need to Blow Up Best Practices.

The Resilient Lawyer Podcast features Rhonda Magee sharing her ideas about how compassion and mindfulness can fight social bias.

Being partners in business and partners in life can cause some friction in one or the other, but Omar Zenhom dishes out some secrets about how to work and live with your significant other in their 1000th episode.

Doug Morneau is a guest on The Business Building Rockstars Show with Nicole Holland, and explains how to identify your customer avatar to generate sales.

On the We Have A Microphone Podcast, Michael and Hampton Catlin sip on a Park Life Swizzle and chat about hauntings.

Mom Is In Control has a new episode in which Heather Chauvin gets honest about how jealousy can be a mental cancer. Don’t let it consume you!

Bitcoin dropped more than ten percent in the past week, sending the cryptocurrency market scurrying. Find out on Carter Thomas’s Coin Mastery if he believes it can recover.

Recommended Resources
You can join Mindvalley U for a month-long transformational journey in Tallinn, Estonia from June 28 to July 22. Mindvalley is brought to you by Vishen Lakhiani, who was recommended by Michelle Dale.

Modernization in digital transformation and innovation isn’t enough without a true purpose according a new blog entry by to Brian Solis, who was recommended by Tara Hunt.

Thanks for checking out this Process Hacker News update from Hack the Process. If you liked what you saw, please leave a comment to let us know what processes you’re hacking.

Process Hacker News

2018-05-15 Process Hacker News from Hack the Process Podcast

The ability to recognize, understand, and regulate emotions and feelings– commonly known as emotional intelligence – is a full-spectrum wave that helps us humans engage with others, and communicate non-verbally. This is also one aspect that AI and machines find difficult to emulate. In the age of the smart machine, an employee’s relevance will depend on various dimensions of emotional intelligence.
Lanny Cohen, Capgemini Chief Innovation Officer and Ron Tolido, CTO, Capgemini Insights & Data discuss the significance of Emotional Intelligence in the era of the smart machines.

Emotional Intelligence in the Age of AI

With over 100 years combined training deliver experience Capgemini’s team of training professionals talk about how they measure how successful their training programmes and courses have been. If you haven’t heard of Donald Kirkpatrick, then it is time you did!

Training Evaluation

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