Next Level Mindset - Bootcamp For Your Consciousness

Talent is a special thing. It’s often referred to as a natural aptitude or skill. I disagree with this definition. Athletes at the Olympics are not naturals at what they do. They worked harder at developing their talent than others. They know how to persevere. Saying they have a natural aptitude or skill is just a way to drink the Kool-Aid. There are two key ingredients for developing talent. The first is what I’ve already mentioned—perseverance. The second is being methodical. Wh...

A common structure of adventure stories is called the hero’s journey. In the hero’s journey, the hero accepts a call to adventure because she receives some form of knowledge that makes her realize accepting the call is better than refusing the call. That the perseverance before her is much better than the comfort of conformity. The hero transforms from the confident person she was into a novice at something new. Like a baby transforming from a talented crawler into a baby that has no id...

An adventure happens when we put effort into something that isn't the easiest way of doing something. For example, if we work or live in a building and we choose to take the stairs instead of the elevator, we’ve had a simple adventure. Imagine we decide to always take the stairs and that we get winded every time we do so. That is a bigger adventure because we persevere through an effort and it might make us proud of ourselves. There was a time when we climbed 2 flights of stairs and ...

The hero’s journey is a story template. It’s often used to create action films and its first stage is the call to adventure. The call is typically an ambitious goal that will change the world. There will be intense obstacles that will tempt our hero to refuse the call. This is what makes the audience excited to see how perseverance unfolds. What would it be like if you received a serious call to adventure? Would you refuse it to live the life you know today, or would you persevere throu...

When people develop their next-level mindset, it is only natural that the byproduct of everyone’s effort targets something ambitious like the world's greatest moonshot. In this inaugural episode, we have a full summary of the next-level mindset, the bootcamp for your consciousness (the subtitle of this podcast) and the world’s greatest moonshot. In the notes of each episode (like what you are reading now), you will see a table of contents of the episode. I suggest reading these notes ...

Organizational culture is effectively group intelligence at some stage of domestication. To unlock its full potential, we will look at forms of group intelligence—namely collective, collaborative and incidental intelligence—as the insights we find enable us to design the metamorphosis that makes an ultramodern organizational culture self-sustaining.Recommended light research:collective intelligencecollaborative intelligenceincidental intelligence (first introduced in The Flourishing Method, which is available at www.moxiefrontier.com)Miep Gies interview at Scholasticcenter of excellenceThe Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian AndersenSeason 2, which will begin in January 2024, gathers our richest examples of certainty and bravado to domesticate ambition.For additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

An organization as a whole has an intelligence like you and me though it is extremely primitive. In this thought-provoking episode, we understand both an individual’s intelligence and artificial intelligence so that we can give organizational culture the spark of life. This is its rite of passage.Recommended light research:Rene DescartesConfirmation biasArtificial intelligenceNicolaus Copernicus Galileo GalileiFor additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

The organizational culture of a business has a mind of its own, or a primitive intelligence. We can ‘Clockwork Orange’ its arse to do our bidding or we can understand what enables it to flourish. This insightful episode sets the stage of the latter approach.Recommended light research:'Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess'Creation of Adam' by MichelangeloCrab mentality (listen to episode 7)For additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

To succeed with amplifying the most admired qualities of organizational culture and be done with it once and for all, we need to know its most idyllic state so that we know what to aim at. This daring episode aims to modernize an overlooked ultramodern organizational culture that has stood the test of time, has solved every challenge the world has faced and will continue to do so to the end of time.Recommended light research:Technology adoption life cyclelift force (for a plane's wing)For additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

Would you rather 'change' your mindset and behavior or ‘fully enable the most admired qualities’ of your mindset and behavior? If organizational culture could think, it would answer the same way as you.The art of organizational culture enables its most admired qualities to unify and flourish, which leads the undesirable features to fade away. The trick is to uncover what induces a constructive evolution then to use this new-found knowledge to build the foundation moving forward. In this episode, I reveal what lies beneath the surface of organizational culture then I present resources that enable the goose-bump-inducing transformation.Recommended light research:The 12th player (12th man) (Also called 'ultras'.)Governance 3.0 (listen to episodes 1 through 5)Leadership 3.0 (listen to episodes 6 through 11)For additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

Sustaining the art of leadership 24/7 is not an act, it is a way of life, it is ultramodern ambition, it is the essence of leadership. In this aspiring episode, we make that evolution fully transparent so you can walk the talk.Recommended light research:The katana swordThe sweet spotFirst mover advantageSecond mover advantageCutting edgeLeading edgeBleeding edgeIndoor skydiving (watch a video of a beginner and an expert) NirvanaFor additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

Leadership is like a martial art and there are many levels of skill that come before the black belt. In this enlightened episode, you get to see the leadership art in full transparency, which enables ambitious people to live up to and exceed the expectations others have of leaders. Recommended light research:Jeet Kune Do (Bruce Lee's martial expression)For additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

The greatest byproduct of an leader is the ‘center of excellence’. While this term conjures similar ideas in all of our minds, what matters most is understanding how a center of excellence forms. In this episode, we will look at its inner workings and what it takes to bring a center of excellence to fruition. Recommended light research:Cirque du SoleilGoreTexBirkenstockZippoCenter of excellenceOne-trick ponyByproductFor additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

Have you ever felt the euphoria that comes when you do something special, like what people feel when they come out of the closet? If the answer is yes, you have the sense of the highly sought after ultramodern ambition. A person with traditional ambition avoids what she doesn’t know whereas someone that seeks a highly calculated adventure, is always on the lookout for what changes the game. In this episode, let’s get under your skin, as, once you get a taste of adventure, it will become your obsession.Recommended light research:Game changerAlex HonnoldThe 2018 documentary, Free SoloCrab mentalityHazard and riskComing out of the closetRubik's CubeFor additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

The purpose of a leader is to sustain momentum, continually raise the bar, lead people to greener pastures and more. The ultimate purpose of a leader is something that distills all of these ambitions into a single concise statement. With this statement at hand, there is no looking back.  In this episode, we break leadership down to its most basic ambitions and give you the ultimate purpose of a leader.Recommended light research:MetanarrativeCrab mentalityConfirmation biasGolden era of horror films800-pound gorilla Start caseFor additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

Ultramodern leaders are the best of breed as they do their homework and the homework for others. In this episode, You will see how leadership organically formed, reflected on its highly admired traits, reassembled itself into its dream structure, and discovered what is needed to complete the paradigm shift. Recommended light researchWeb 2.0EcosystemLeadership 2.0For additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

It is time to take Governance 3.0 for a test drive. But not along a curvy mountain-side road. You will take it off-road through an epic mental obstacle course that gives you white knuckles today and makes you thirsty to come back for more. In this episode, I give you the keys and the opportunity to find the limits of its potential. Recommended research:G-forceThe Flip Flap RailwayHuman centrifugeG-suitsReturn on investmentStarling murmuration12th player (12th man in football)For additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

Many leaders view the highest levels of business performance as the byproduct of an operation that nimbly adapts to the unknown and skillfully anticipates constantly evolving conditions. In this episode, we go into the high-performance workshop of Governance 3.0 to see the ease and effectiveness that goes into enabling any ambition. Recommended light research:Rallying (watch a video)Rally co-driverFlow stateStarling murmurationFor additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

The inherent nature of anyone in a governance capacity—the directors and senior executives—is to pursue change that guarantees a return. The seeds of these opportunities are sometimes found in the boardroom. Most other times, they are found in the most interesting places, like a circular file, garage, beer parlor or podcast.In this pivotal episode, I’ll take you on a tour of governance, from its humble beginnings to what expresses an ultramodern ambition. This tour gives governance leaders the disruption they have been looking for, which enables them to hit their stride soon after they open the gate.Recommended light research:Web 2.0Spontaneous order (listen to episode 2)Long tail Crossing the chasm Note how the images for the above two terms look different."The Art Of War" by Sun Tzu (note the structure of the table of contents)The Hero's JourneyDavid and GoliathSoftware versioningFor additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.

A disruption is a game changer. It is often initiated by a game changing leader and brought to fruition by a game changing team. The leader who brings a disruption to fruition has delivered an intense depth of integrity that inspired every team member to do the same. Further, this integrity creates behaviors that prepare the leader and the team members to nimbly respond to the unexpected, maintain momentum and produce other game changers as a matter of course.In this episode, I will explain how teams become, and sustain being, game changers, which also hints at the ultramodern design of governance.Recommended light research:self-organizationspontaneous order"The Art Of War" by Sun Tzu (note the structure of the table of contents)center of excellenceorganizational cultureFor additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com. Suited for leaders, managers, directors and anyone that seeks ultra modern ambition.