People First - All Else Follows

It's longer than I would like - but as you'll see - it could be a lot longer.

I am joined this week by a long time associate and business colleague, Mark Roman, who is not just an absolute mine of information, he is here to share it with you.

Mark is not just a Fortune 50 Executive, having founded several companies in his career, he is also a best selling author, with a second book on the way which we talk about on the show.

We talk about

• A new book he is writing, where he is collating and curating interviews with 400 experts from across the globe on raising money and funding your business.
• Health care and the business of health.
• Childhood, love, caring and about what it means to be rich (though not in the way you might be thinking.)
• How ‘Business moves at the speed of trust’ - but also that ‘Business is Personal’.

And that was just the start - because at the end of the show, you discover that it is not the end of the show at all. We move on - but you’ll have to wait for that until the next episode!

Quote of the day:

"People matter in business and personal relationships, people get work done, not machines, not 'bots', 'software agents' or 'AI algorithms'. These are all just tools. People get the business done."

Find Mark on LinkedIN at:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/markroman

Not much more to say, other than provide the promised links.

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Want To Be A Guest On The Podcast?

It's a question I was asked recently, and it took me a while to formulate my answer.

Yes you should - but maybe not .. sometimes it's complicated.

It also hides a larger question and an even larger opportunity.

The episode was recorded shortly after Episode 49 with LaTonya Peoples

During our conversation, Stuart referenced Chadwick Boseman's Howard University 2018 Commencement Speech - well worth a watch.

We also drill into what People First is ... an ongoing conversation - and Stuart highlights an earlier podcast where what I said - resonated with him at least ...

This is the podcast that Stuart referenced where he felt that I had articulated what People First means ... spin through to 'minute 6' and on to hear the part Stuart was highlighting ... 

Greg covers off the 4Cs of humanity; Consciousness, Curiosity, Creativity and Collaboration and helps us understand what we each need to do to maintain our humanity and not be subsumed in the race to automate.

More About Greg

To find out more about Greg’s latest work, you can check out his website here, where you will find Greg’s latest blog posts or follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter

If you’d like to purchase The Human Edge it's available in hard copy and Kindle editions via most online book stores - including Amazon

More About People First

If you are interested in being a guest on People First, we do have a process and are taking bookings into 2021, but we still want to hear from you.

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People First is many things and in the process of developing a range of new services that we think you will find very useful. If you want to be kept up to speed with what we are doing - lets us know.

LaTonya Peoples is her name - and you are already acquainted with her - because she is the brains behind the music and the 'musical punctuation' you hear on every show.

Musician, Musical Therapist and IT consultant, LaTonya 'talks to the universe', followed and follows her dreams, in fact, she routinely practices many People First disciplines which is just one reason why I was absolutely delighted to catch up with her from her studio in Atlanta.

We touch on 

• Pay, Purpose, Passion and Play
• Following Your Dreams
• Travels Without Charlie
• Serendipity
• Talking to the Universe

... we get into it all. The show is a little longer than my promised target, but trust me, the time will just rush by as you settle into my conversation with LaTonya Peoples.

Links To LaTonya Peoples

Website : https://latonyapeoples.com

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and don’t forget 

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... where it all started!

‘The Voice of God’ … opens the episode which is another conversation with Stuart Robbins where we discussed direct, delegated and consensus decision making. We should have taken our own advice since we ended up with more questions than decisions.

For example, John asks whether he really is trying to "unlock the potential of humanity" - a phrase that popped up in another conversation that we will have to save until another time.

We ask 'What Is A Movement?' and with that answered we then ask is People First a movement?

John said yes. Emphatically yes.

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Jacob and I have known each other for a few years, first meeting in the earliest days of the forming of Merchant23. Jacob keeps growing the business but is now taking the lessons from Merchant23 developing them and turning them into new businesses.

About Jacob

If you are a business and struggling with how to engage with people in your customer base - it might well be that Jacob is your solution.

Empathy, connecting with humanity, feeling the energy, putting yourself into the shoes of your customer - these are phrases Jacob uses in his natural conversation. These aren’t glib buzz words - this is who Jacob is … and with him, his customers are in turn taken on their journeys to better engage with their customers.

Get in touch with Jacob at Traffic Labs and Merchant23

Small Print:

John works with Jacob at Merchant23 as a board adviser.

As always - the People First Newsletter can be found here.

Part two of my conversation with long-time friend and colleague Stuart Robbins.

The conversation fell into two parts - this is part two.

Part One Is Here.

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And this week - a link with a difference ...

Stuart's book 'The System Is The Mirror' can be found and ordered right here.

I called long-time friend and colleague Stuart Robbins to let him know that we would be doing an occasional podcast together. We ended up talking - as you do when you call. I recorded it - and spent some time slicing out some nuggets of gold to give you an idea of what's in store for you when we do future calls.

The nuggets fall into two parts - this is part one.

As always - don’t forget to subscribe to the weekly People First Newsletter.

And this week - a link with a difference ...

Stuart's book 'The System Is The Mirror' can be found and ordered right here.

There is no point in talking about People First and its principles in the abstract without bringing the lessons down to earth. In this episode, John gives you 4 stories from - and about - 4 different people in the 'Travels Without Charley' series. 

The stories are real, the people are real, the experiences are real - and they all come together in this short episode that concludes with some thoughts about opportunities. (To protect the innocent - all names and locations are changed to maintain the anonymity of the people telling their stories.)

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The People First Framework - With The 8 Pillars

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For each pillar, John shares a truth ... asking questions that society seems to have accepted - if not actually adopted. But why.

Why has Identity been conflated to ID - which is really just the 'proof part' of who we are - whilst completely ignoring 'Entity' - which is actually who.we.are.

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Maybe Listen To Part One First ...

Part two of a great conversation with an erstwhile colleague and long time friend Daniel Szuc who has been working on a very ‘People Firsty’ initiative called Make Meaningful Work.

Daniel On LinkedIN : https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-szuc-227b/

Find make Meaningful Work’s website

Watch out for part two of our conversation.

I am in the process of moving my podcast to Philpin.com  and sadly the Substack software only seems interested in moving a few episodes to here. So I am experimenting in unpublising and republishing to force the rest into the feed. If this works, I will move the rest. Let's see. Many thanks for your patience.

This episode was originally published on January 21st, 2020. 

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Great conversation with an erstwhile colleague and long time friend Daniel Szuc who has been working on a very 'People Firsty' initiative called Make Meaningful Work.

Daniel On LinkedIN : https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-szuc-227b/

Find make Meaningful Work's website

The conversation was one of great quality - you can tell, because I stopped watching the clock and so we ran over. The benefit to you? Two for the price of one. 

Watch out for part two of our conversation.

https://vurbl.com/station/4KU8hWp2JBy/