Meaningful Work Podcast

End of season 1: Connection, belonging, self organisation and play

This is not the end but it is an end. Amit and Nils speak of what we learned from this first season of the Meaningful Work Podcast and go for a summer break. This was a really rich conversation and some of the main themes were connection at the centre, self organisation as a fact of life and why play might be really important in whatever comes next. If you want further links and tips for deeper reading check out the meaningful work podcast substack: meaningfulworkpodcast.substack.com [meaningfulworkpodcast.substack.com]. Enjoy summer in the meantime!

Johan Thiel: Business building and strategy as navigation.

⁠Johan Thiel ⁠ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/johan-thiel-building-business/]is the ex CEO of MIPS, and ⁠Trifilon now investor⁠ [https://trifilon.com/] and colleague to Amit. Amit and Johan address the topics of business building, the challenges of pushing the edges of what can be done. We get to tap into Johans long experience of getting what should be impossible done. Also what sailing and horizons has to do with business building and how he feels about the word impossible (spoiler: it's not a word he uses often). Enjoy!

Sensemaking: Connection

It’s time for another sense making episode. This one on the second 21 day story we did in social media. The story was on Connection. Amit and Nils dive into the topic. After having modeled a check-in we touch upon some of the core aspects of this story. Like * How central connection is to everything? * How it yields opportunities for moving radically faster and more efficiently in business contexts if we put our connection before the results. * Why we should be in business to make friends rather than the opposite * Why connection is such a good antidote to burnout and stress. And lots more. We refer to some our wonderful guests in this podcasts. Here are those episodes: Andrew Horn [https://open.spotify.com/episode/5hNa3DoMzs1ohAFw8FsPHz?si=31bae7a37e7945b6], Victoria Vallström [https://open.spotify.com/episode/5I9fgS6bBYBylj0WBqw2tL?si=3b9e92284d17456a], Ricky Godall [https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Fmu9bKqRhoLZVduRHExF8?si=eed70d20b7d74de3], Giles Hutchins [https://open.spotify.com/episode/45tIY2fLvXhHYwBjtkbhDd?si=95a81da6c9c04972] Enjoy the episode!

Niklas Huss: The intrapreneur, large scale systems transformation and leveraging the 3rd space in transformation

Niklas Huss is an intrapreneur in the true sense of the word. He started his professional career running a major transformation of the Swedish Internal Revenue Service (Skatteverket), after that he went on to Länsförsäkringar (one of the largest cooperative insurance companies in Sweden) and then moved on to create a space for interagency cooperation. We speak of the resistance to change, the challenges and cost of transformation both to the individual as well as the organisations. Why it is so important to allow people to get a taste of the change that is planned to bring them along and make it less threatening. We also speak of the 3rd space and the importance of cross agency and functional collaborations in organisations in general but in these current times in particular. And how, regardless of what we would like to think sometimes, that pain is a much stronger driver for change than most other things we know about. Curious to find out more and find show notes to the episodes etc? Subscribe at meaningfulworkpodcast.substack.com

Sensemaking: Languishing

It’s time from a sense making episode. This one on the first 21 day story we did in our social media. The story was on Languishing. Amit and Nils dive into the topic. We end up addressing a number of important questions, like: * What it is? * Who it makes us? Is it purely negative or is there also some positive aspects we draw from the languishing identity? * What does languishing have to do with quiet quitting? * What are some of the antidotes to languishing? * How can we understand the prevalance of it in our current society? * Why is it important to care about that blah feeling and why do Amit and Nils seem to think that it is important even for the course of our society? We refer to some our wonderful guests in this podcasts. Here are those episodes: Anna Katharina Schaffner, [https://open.spotify.com/episode/5gBb8rsjDpZ3Vof742urtd?si=73266a0a22614c8b] Imran Rehman, [https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Z5gavFMheocn82NktNLW6?si=170fb168cd3446ba] Johan Reunanen, [https://open.spotify.com/episode/6LVEaX4H4OdgAcaLtivMo1?si=23bce7280f3b48da] Helena Önneby [https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DG3wIfraMkiyGMOCkJJQt?si=4db0266e00dc44bb] Enjoy the episode!