We speak with Tyson Yunkaporta about indigenous thinking and why paying attention to pattern and context matters. Tyson is an indigenous academic, researcher and carver of traditional tools and weapons. 

Tyson Yunkaporta is an indigenous academic, researcher and member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne and also carves traditional tools and weapons.  

Tyson is the author of Sand Talk: How indigenous thinking can save the world, in which he uses sand talk, which honours the Aboriginal custom of drawing images on the ground, to bring clarity to complexity. He asks: what happens if we bring an indgenous perspective to the big picture - to history, education, money, power? Can we, in fact, have proper concepts of sustainable life without Indigenous Knowledge?

Tyson is also the host of The Other Others podcast, in which hosts wide ranging and always paradigm-cracking yarns with a diverse bunch of thinkers and doers.

You can also follow Tyson’s work at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyson-yunkaporta-04a9b969/

• How humans are contextual beings and how our cognition depends on context, relationality, place and story.
• How the best outcomes can’t be planned.
• Why attention and responsiveness to the pattern of relations you live within is important
• How the indigenous idea of wisdom or knowledge is so closely related to listening/observing, and what that means for those too married to a specific outcomes.

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Culture, complexity, leadership, sensemaking, indigenous knowledge, indigenous wisdom, systems thinking, pattern mind

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We speak with Ben Smit about how leaders can use tech to help grow high performing teams from the bottom up.  Ben is an entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Teamgage, software that enables team collaboration, wellbeing, and continuous improvement. 

Ben Smit is an entrepreneur and highly skilled at growing scale-up companies and leveraging technology to solve human problems, with a focus on engaging team members to own and advocate the improvement process. Ben is part of the husband and wife team responsible for founding Teamgage, software that builds employee engagement by regularly collecting workplace feedback while empowering teams to take action on their own results and select metrics that are relevant to the team at the team level. The system measures behaviours and sentiment aligned to the strategy of the organisation and drives teams and managers to action their own improvements in real-time. Ben and Teamgage are taking on the worldwide market, and it has grown to service clients across Australia, Asia Pacific and North America. Ben recently won a 40 under 40 award for his passion, vision and achievements as one of SA's finest entrepreneurs under the age of 40.on their own results and select metrics that are relevant to the team at the team level. 

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ben-smit-2594b321

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ben7smit 

Website:www.teamgage.com, www.code360.com.au

• Thinking about culture and employee engagement as a bottom up dynamic
• Leadership setting principles, teams being enabled to deliver
• Explosion of HR tech
• Making space for failure and learning  
• Innovation culture
• The role of trust in team performance
• Applying agile thinking to culture and staff engagement
• Continuous improvement and how it can be applied to team performance

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Organisational culture, culture change, employee experience, employee engagement, complexity, leadership, human resources, people matters, hr technology, continuous improvement, agile, teamgage, teamwork

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We speak with Joan Lurie about how the systems lens can fundamentally shift the way we think about organisational change. Joan is an organisational ecologist and the Founder and CEO of Orgonomix

Joan Lurie is the Founder and CEO of Orgonomix, an organisation strategy and leadership development consultancy she established in 2008 to help leaders and organisations develop, perform and transform. She is a Fulbright Scholar with a Master’s Degree in Adult Education and a Master’s Degree in Developmental Psychology.

Joan works with boards, executives and leadership teams to help them to develop systemic intelligence and to design and lead complex adaptive change in their organisations with turnaround results. Working together they emerge new cultures, operating models and organisational forms.

Joan applies the OrgonomixTM methodology she created which is most often referred to as ground-breaking. It’s a novel theory and practice for organisations which integrates strategy, systems thinking, complexity and adult development theory. It provides an ecological

‘map’ for leaders to navigate the unique challenges they face and be fit for the current complex landscape we are in. It enables leaders to fundamentally shift how they take up their roles; reframe their assumptions, mental maps and ways of knowing and repattern their organisational systems for new ways of relating and operating to achieve higher order functioning.

In a nutshell, Joan’s work enables leaders and organisations to liberate themselves from the constraints and patterns which no longer serve them, but in which they are stuck.

You can follow Joan’s work or get in touch with her at:

• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Website

• How organisations are complex systems
• Why individual behavioural/psychological and technical analysis of organisations can’t fully explain organisational dynamics
• What the systems lens is, and why it matters
• How culture is the emergent property of the relationships between role and role, role and system, and individual and role.
• Why coherence of mental maps between individuals within a system can reduce noise
• How boundary maintenance is is system maintenance (is organisational maintenance)
• How behaviour of individuals in systems can change for the better without trying to change the person
• How the systems lens can relieve leaders of having to play the change agent hero or fixer
• Why the boundaryless organisation isn’t a good idea
• Why “breaking down silos” doesn’t work, and how the systems lens can enable better collaboration across boundaries

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Organisational culture, culture change, employee experience, employee engagement, complexity, leadership, systems thinking, family systems therapy, systems lens, repatterning, mental maps, boundaries, systems change, organisational ecology, diversity, transformation, enabling constraints

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The Work is a podcast for curious explorers blazing new trails for the way we work.

We explore the subtle forces that shape our experience of work, and the big ideas that are nudging it somewhere better.

In this brief intro episode, co-hosts James Allen and Angelo Saridis give a quick breakdown of what The Work is all about and what listeners can expect in the episodes ahead.

Because workplaces and the way we work matters.

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