Doctor Christopher Jones is Orthopedic Surgeon and Associate Medical Director of Perioperative and Procedural Care Operations and Outside Medical at Kaiser Permanentee. Talking with Chris provided a great opportunity - Chris has experience and stories to share about cultivating collaboration as a leader of major bus... more
Ryan Ozawa is a native Hawaiian, journalist, technologist, , community builder and owner of the @hawaii handle on multiple social networks. We discussed the similarities and differences between an island network and an online network, how is network helped him spin up an organization to build respirators during C... more
Michelle Hoover is the principle at Baem Leadership. Michelle is an expert in First Generation Professionals and we spoke about the intersection of FGP's and social networks - the challenges and opportunities they have in mentoring, connecting at work and advancing in their careers.
Bryce Castillo is "technically in charge of media stuff" for Bizarre Magic INC. In that role he works on youtube shows and audio podcasts including The Modern Rogue, Scam Nation, and Great Night. Bryce's ambiguity about his title is connected to working and collaborating in a small organization. That context sh... more
Today I am talking to Doctor Dean Taylor, Professor of Surgery in the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Director of the Duke Sports Medicine Fellowship Program, Team Physician for Duke Athletics and Chair of the Feagin Leadership Program. Dean and I discuss collaboration in the operating room, how collaboration in medi... more
Today I am talking with Caricia Catalani, a designer in the public health field, about collaboration in design. Caricia shared how human centered design is collaboration with the ultimate audience of your design, the challenges that happen in distributed design, and a practice to overcome collaboration challenges.
Jim LaPage is a content creator and member of the Spike Feeders, a Magic the Gathering YouTube page. Magic the Gathering is a collectible card game and Jim and I we spent a lot of our time today talking about a concept in Magic called "Rule Zero" where players discuss how the group will play the game. I am exploring ... more
Matt Williamson is the a serial entrepreneur who has founded or been an early stage employee at three different companies. Matt and I discussed co-ownership of homes as collaboration, the challenges it creates and how his company Plum makes co-owning a home easier. He also shared his most desired trait in a co-col... more
Dani Fernandez is an actress and writer, her writing credits include shows on Netflix, and HBO Max as well as a comics for DC comics. We talk about how different levels of responsibility shapes how she experiences collaboration, the benefits of being collaborative when you are in a tightly-knit industry, and her exper... more
Alex Sheldon is the Lead Character Designer and a founding member of the Wallis Studio Ensemble. We discuss how being an introvert effects collaboration, how collaborating with the audience influences immersive theater and how a script provides a blueprint to collaborate.
Jason Inman, writer and podcaster, co-Host of Geek History Lesson, author of multiple comics and the book "Super Soldiers" a book about super heroes and villains who are veterans. Jason and I spoke about his collaborations on the early days of YouTube, a tactic he uses to see if people are ready to collaborate and how... more
Anthony Veneziale is the Tony Award winning co-founder of Freestyle Love Supreme and the CEO of FLS+, a corporate education company that brings play and improvisation and musicality to organizations. Anthony and I talked about how to fail collaboratively, the brain science behind FLS+ work and some education design pr... more
Ashley Victoria Robinson is an actress, comic book author and podcaster. Co-Host of Geek History Lesson, Ashley's comic Jupiter Jet has been nominated for the Ringo Award. Follow Mandatory Cocktail Hour on Twitter Follow JOE Houde on Twitter Show Notes
WE revisit my 2019 interview with Sanyin Siang, the Executive Director of the Coach K Center of Leadership and Ethics (COLE) at Duke University. Since the interview, Sanyin has been honored as the top Executive Coach in the world two times over. In our interview, we talk about how she grew the COLEthrough a collabora... more
This is a rebroadcast of my interview with Brian Brushwood from 2017. Highlights on collaboration include Brian's switch from one-man-show to constantly collaborating and Brian's new goal for how he fits in on his own production teams.
Jennie Josephson is the co-founder and an Executive Producer at Infinite Gains Studios. She helps people make excellent audio content, and has worked with Daily Tech News Show, Brave, Not Perfect, Talking Feds among others. Jennie and I spoke about her experience founding a networked company, running a purpose-dri... more
Tom Merrit is a podcaster extraordinaire. He currently hosts several shows including a Daily Tech News Show, Current Geek, Cord Killers, Let’s Talk About Star Wars and It’s A Thing. Tom was one of the first podcasters as a host on the host of CNET’s Buzz Out Loud. We spoke about his experi necessary in the early sta... more
Sanyin Siang is the Executive Director of Coach K Center of Leadership and Ethics, Duke University, a Professor in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke, an executive coach and author. Sanyin and I spoke about a mutual dislike of the term 'reverse mentor', the message sent by the questions you ask when getting to kn... more
Scott Johnson is the founder of the Frogpants Podcast Network and a host of 9 podcasts including The Morning Stream, the Instance, Current Geek and Filmsack. Scott has won multiple awards for his podcasts and was inducted into the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame in 2018. Scott and I talked about his intuitive pr... more
Edwin Reyes is a Coastal Management Administrator on the island of Guam. We speak about working in a job that is networked by design, the ups and downs of networks on a small island, and ways that he is an energizer in his own work networks.
This is a new kind of eposide - instead of an interview, it is a practicum on what to do during Mandatory Cocktail Hours in real life. It is inspired by a linkedin post I published a few years ago: http://www.thenetworkedleader.com/blog/2016/2/4/uncommonalities-your-secret-to-surviving-mandatory-social-hour
David Graham is a writer for The Atlantic Magazine. I speak with him about the unique nature of career progress in journalism,the realities of Washington DC cocktail parties and the power of finding good mentors.