Podcast appearances and mentions of benjamin taylor

Le stress chronique nuit à votre sommeil en maintenant votre corps et votre mental en état d'alerte, d'hypervigilance permanente.Alors vous rêvez de mettre votre cerveau en OFF pour enfin dormir...Et si c'était possible ?Et si vos yeux étaient la solution ?Cela vous surprend ? Normal !Dans cet épisode nous allons découvrir un protocole très spécifique, qui a fait notamment ses preuves sur les stress post-traumatiques, et qui est accessible à tous, même en restant chez soi !Je reçois Benjamin Taylor, neuropsychologue spécialisé en EMDR pour vous en parler.Bonne écoute

Wesely Leasy was misidentified at the airport and brought to the ground by police. His attorney, Benjamin Taylor, and Leasy join the show to share his story.

Wesely Leasy was misidentified at the airport and brought to the ground by police. His attorney, Benjamin Taylor, and Leasy join the show to share his story.

Dr Benjamin Taylor is a composer and has tons of great music for bands of all levels. In this episode we talk composition, band music with audio tracks, exercise routines for band directors, and much more! Teaching Music Creatively : A Practical Guide for Music Director. Get 50% off with code "Creative50" To gain access to all show notes and audio files please Subscribe to the podcast and consider supporting the show on Patreon - using the button at the top of thegrowingbanddirector.com Our mission is to share practical  advice and explore topics that will help every band director, no matter your experience level, as well as music education students who are working to join us in the coming years. Connect with us with comments or ideas Follow the show: Podcast website : Thegrowingbanddirector.com On Youtube The Growing Band Director  Facebook-The Growing Band Director Podcast Group Instagram @thegrowingbanddirector Tik Tok @thegrowingbanddirector If you like what you hear please: Leave a Five Star Review and  Share us with another band director!

Benjamin Taylor makes his third appearance in the Swamp and he brings some useful distinctions with him. We discuss the value and importance of understanding the positive and negative dynamics that differentiation and integration have on group dynamics and productivity. But it is not all that simple. There are at least four dynamics at play at any time in your work groups. Benjamin maps these group dynamics and shares moves that you can make to lead, manage and facilitate more effective group-work outcomes.Benjamin's LinksBenjamin Taylor LinkedIN postBenjamin Taylor's Medium Pagehttps://antlerboy.com/ Barry Oshry: Power and SystemsSandra Janoff: Future SearchSafford BeerBenjamin 10000 SwampLeaders Episode 21Benjamin Taylor 10000 SwampLeaders Episode 39Thanks for listening. Send me your feedbackI want to thank my great team that helps me sound better than I am. Jacki Hydock for her lending her wonderful voice to our introduction and outro Great music by Jazz Night Awesome episode production by the great team of We Edit Podcasts all the way up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Check them out at www.weeditpodcasts.com Thanks For Listening and Jumping into the Swamp

Practicing dentistry can be a challenging pursuit under any circumstances. Practicing dentistry for the U.S. Army in Iraq, however, is another level of challenging. Dr. Benjamin Taylor shares how his experience as a combat dentist forged him into the professional servant-leader he is today and prepared him for the daily demands small business owners can face. Dr. Taylor is a general dentist and has owned Dunwoody Dental Care in Dunwoody, Georgia, for nearly three years. In this episode, we're going to explore some of the lessons he's learned throughout his unique experience like: How the military influences his approach to problem-solving Strategies and frameworks that shape his approach to running a business Key lessons other entrepreneurs can incorporate from the world of military service Where small business owners can look for peer support How small business owners can learn from their mistakes Are you ready to take control of your future and start building your legacy? Visit getprovide.com. Provide is a division of Fifth Third Bank, National Association. All opinions expressed by the participant are solely their current opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Provide, its affiliates, or Fifth Third Bank. The participant's opinions are based on information they consider reliable, but neither Provide, its affiliates nor Fifth Third Bank warrant its completeness or accuracy and should not be relied upon as such. This content is for informational purposes and does not constitute the rendering of legal, accounting, tax, or investment advice, or other professional services by Provide or any of its affiliates. Please consult with appropriate professionals related to your individual circumstances. All lending is subject to review and approval.

This week we interview Benjamin Taylor, author of Chasing Bright Medusas: The Life of Willa Cather. This biography of Cather, a celebrated American novelist, was published in November 2023 by Viking. In 2021, […]

Today I am talking to Benjamin Taylor who is Chief Executive of the Public Service Transformation Academy and Managing Partner of Red Quadrant. I asked Benjamin about what led him into consultancy and we talk about his first job as coordinator of a youth development program, aiming to fill places on exciting expeditions, which would have been more straightforward if the cohort of people were very confident and were used to travel. The realities of young people with lower levels of literacy or just low familiarity with systems and bureaucracy meant that it was difficult to fill places.  Benjamin talks about the moment that his view of the system changed. Instead of preparing young people for THE expedition, Benjamin decided to prepare the young people for AN expedition and then call forward a group as each new adventure opened. This change led to a much higher take up of places. We talk about the challenges of the public sector and how systems thinking can help with the complexity of delivering local government services within a region, with partners such as the NHS. This experience has led to one of Benjamin's passions, which is enabling person centred, adaptive, agile provision of public services. Moving the thinking back to making public services centred on the people that they are provided for, not on the availability of staff, or the way that existing funding mechanisms as designed. We talk about adaptive systems and less adaptive systems. We talk about how the fire service don't fight fires – it is firefighters who fight fires and the service who create the capacity and capability to deal with a range of emergencies. We talk about how it is possible to make huge progress when we view systems in the right way and have the right kind of conversation, just as Benjamin did when his view of the youth development system changed.

This new biography is aimed at readers of any level of familiarity with the Nebraska author, “Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather” by Benjamin Taylor, takes readers on an exploration of Cather's life, poetry, stories, and letters.

Dominant, supportive. Immediate value, gradual value. Explicit, implicit. Scarcity, abundance. Consultant, Facilitator.It might be tempting to view the roles of a consultant, and that of a facilitator, through these opposing dichotomies, but nothing is ever really that black and white. And as Benjamin Taylor and I speak about this week, there's a great deal to be learnt from the intersection of the two!This episode takes a look at facilitation through the meta-lens; from afar, we inspect it as a movement and dig up some uncomfortable clichéd truths, and up-close, we unravel the intricacies of manipulation, shallow vs deep facilitation, and the most daring tool of all in our toolkit.Find out about:Where facilitation shows up in consulting and the interplay between the two disciplinesWhat Benjamin has learnt from decades spent as a consultant in the public sectorThe distinction between shallow and deep facilitation and why it is critical for an effective outcomeWhy the key to impactful facilitation lies in fostering an environment of connection, collaboration and empowering each participant's strengthsWhy consultants must resist the urge to prove instant value; instead taking a more measured, facilitative approach to collaborationDon't miss the next episode: subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.And download the free 1-page summary, so you can always have the key points of this episode to hand.Put the episode's best takeaways into practice with Skillding. Visit skillding.com/workshop to begin your journey from learning to doing. Track your progress as you hone your new skills. Start now!Links:Watch the video recording of this episode on YouTube.Connect to Benjamin Taylor:LinkedInRedQuadrantSupport the show:Make a one-off donation and contribute to the ongoing costs of running the podcast.Support the showCheck out the podcast map to see the overview of all podcast episodes: https://workshops.work/podcast-map

In the spotlight are Philip Roth and Benjamin Taylor. Mr. Taylor is author of the memoir “Here We Are,” a book that discusses his close friendship with Roth, one of the most original and decorated novelists of his era, before succumbing to congestive heart failure in 2018 at age 85.We discuss Philip Roth's: >> Personality>> Subject matter>> Favorite novel>> Writing style>> Relationships with women>> Thoughts on aging>> Suitability for the Nobel Prize for literature>> Etc. Learn more about Philip Roth here: https://www.philiprothsociety.org/Learn more about Benjamin Taylor here: https://www.benjamintaylorauthor.com/Novelist Spotlight is produced and hosted by Mike Consol, author of “Lolita Firestone: A Supernatural Novel,” “Family Recipes: A Novel About Italian Culture, Catholic Guilt and the Culinary Crime of the Century” and “Hardwood: A Novel About College Basketball and Other Games Young Men Play.” Buy them on any major bookselling site. Write to Mike Consol at novelistspotlight@gmail.com. We hope you will subscribe and share the link with any family, friends or colleagues who might benefit from this program.

We talk about a bunch of books and biblioadventures in Episode 180. What's new, right? #wink Some highlights include books we just read, which took us from a memoir about caring for animals (THE OTHER FAMILY DOCTOR by Karen Fine) to an idiomatic fowl in search of freedom (CHASE OF THE WILD GOOSE by Mary Gordon) and from an island in the Atlantic (SUMMER STAGE by Meg Mitchell Moore) to a road trip around America (TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY by John Steinbeck). Speaking of travel, we had a two-day joint jaunt to Manhattan, where we went our separate ways during daylight hours – Emily volunteered at the CHERRY BOMBE JUBILEE and Chris worked at the STAVROS NIARCHOS FOUNDATION LIBRARY. Closer to home, Emily went to see THE QUIET GIRL at the Madison Cinemas and Chris did some archival research at The Beinecke. Some fun biblioadventures are coming up–like Emily moderating two author events at the Newburyport Literary Festival this weekend: Fur, Feathers, and Scales: A Lifetime of Caring for Pets with author Karen Fine and Shaped by Loss: How Tragedy Changed the Lives of Emerson, Thoreau, and William James with author Megan Marshall. Chris is planning to attend a virtual event with author Benjamin Taylor who will be discussing Cather's MY ANTONIA on Thursday at 7pm CT via the National Willa Cather Center. Reminder: the show notes for each episode lists all of the books and events we mention. Happy Listening, and then, Happy Reading!

040_ Benjamin TaylorBenjamin Taylor, RedQuadrant founder, returns to the Swamp for an enlightening conversation on two topics:The Problem with Adaptive LeadershipThe Problem with Consulting I asked Benjamin to return to the podcast (listen here to Episode #021) because he has clear and strong thinking on both adaptive leadership and the world of consulting.Adaptive leadership is a bit of a mainstay in my consulting work and since I am a consultant, it was hard to resist discussing these two juicy Medium pieces. I respect Benjamin's deep thinking on these topics so I suspected he would bring some grounding and provocative perspectives. He did all of that and more. Enjoy his critical thinking and his experience based point of view.Benjamin's LinksRedquadrant ToolshedBenjamin's BlogBenjamin's Medium PageBarry OshryChris Argyris: Productive ReasoningPeter Block and Peter Koestenbaum: Confronting Our FreedomPeter Block: Six ConversationsDonald Schon quote Ed Schein Podcast EpisodeTop Tips For Consulting 'The Force'Being In The MiddleThe Terrible Dance of PowerRobust SystemsLimits to method/swampy lowlandsI want to thank my great team that helps me sound better than I am. Jacki Hydock for her lending her wonderful voice to our introduction and outro Great music by Jazz Night Awesome episode production by the great team of We Edit Podcasts all the way up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Check them out at www.weeditpodcasts.com Thanks For Listening and Jumping into the Swamp

Happy National Poetry Month! We kick off this episode with Emily reading Lucille Clifton's poem, “Climbing,” and end with an in-depth conversation with poet Shuly Cawood about her poem, “Starter Marriage.” [The full text of Shuly's poem is at the end of this description if you'd like to read it before or while listening to the episode.] Both of us have Writing and Creativity on our minds. Emily started Julia Cameron's THE ARTIST'S WAY, and Chris is listening to WRITING FOR IMPACT by Bill Birchard. And we have some reading/writing synchronicity going on with Natalie Goldberg. Emily is reading & listening to her classic, WRITING DOWN THE BONES, and when visiting McNally Jackson at Rockefeller Center in NYC Chris picked up WRITING DOWN THE BONES DECK. More recently read books include WHY AM I SO ANXIOUS by Tracey Marks, MY DEAREST DARLING by Lisa Franco, BOOKSELLING IN AMERICA AND THE WORLD, ed. by Charles B. Anderson. And thanks to listener Colleen's birthday book club tradition, we revisited a childhood favorite, Judy Blume's ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET. There's another #buddyread on our horizon: TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY IN SEARCH OF AMERICA. We're reading this for the Vintage Book Club which is sponsored by Book Club on the Go and will meet on Thursday, April 20, 1 pm at the Wood Memorial Library and Museum in South Windsor, CT. All are welcome. We had a fantastic biblioadventure together in Boston. After spending the day working in Simmons University's Beatley Library, we visited the amazing independent bookstore, Brookline Booksmith. Emily is going to be moderating two author sessions at the Newburyport Literary Festival, April 28-30: — The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us about Love, Life, and Mortality by Karen Fine, DVM —Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by Robert D. Richardson with a foreword by Megan Marshall (Emily's conversation will be with Megan). Chris is bummed that she won't be able to attend the Newburyport Literary Festival or either of the two Willa Cather conferences this June. She is, however, planning to attend a series of four virtual events with author Benjamin Taylor that the National Willa Cather Center is offering beginning on April 27th. Taylor's new book, CHASING BRIGHT MEDUSAS: A LIFE OF WILLA CATHER, is to be published in November. Visit the episode show notes for more details and links to the books, places, and events listed above.https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2023/episode179 Happy Reading! Chris & Emily ______ Starter Marriage by Shuly Cawood after Erin Adair-Hodges* First there was the word and the word was trying. Trying the apartment with white walls, popcorn ceilings, footsteps heavy above, thudding over our days. Trying the job I took filing papers into squeaking cabinets, the one you took answering phones for dentists. Trying the brown bag lunches with limp sandwiches and sliced cheese, the softening apple, the room-temperature soda. Consuming it all on church steps, hunched below the overhang as it rained. Trying the cold pool after work with dead insects needing to be netted. Unraveling towels, TJ Maxx suits, the walk back on the no-car driveway. All heat evaporated. Empty stomachs. No one wanted what the other craved. Trying the red Chevrolet with the bad battery, no parking without pay, the bus rides to and from work, your stop, my stop, the sun hitting hard, us squinting at the sky. Your last day, the blue electric toothbrush they gave you as goodbye. Buzzing in your mouth with all those trapped words. Trying the new queen mattress we could not afford but bought anyway. Trying the laundry we toted to the next building, plastic hampers in our arms full of every day's dirt. Coffee but no creamer, bread but no toaster, sugar hardened in the bag. Day-old everything bagels, buy-one, get-one veggie burritos, dollar theater on Sundays. New job but less pay, new boss but no promotion. Saving for tickets for never vacations. Trying the places we gave up for each other: city salted by an ocean, all those fish and ferry rides; town with three stoplights, two policemen, a forest to get lost in. Your dreams, my dreams, weeds by the parking lot. Trying your face a broken banister, my hands an unused map. *The first nine words are borrowed from “Portrait of Mother: 1985” by Erin Adair-Hodges ______

021_Benjamin Taylor: This week I am talking with Benjamin Taylor about Systems Leadership, Barry Oshry and his deep commitment to transform public services. His core purpose is improving the lives of those most in need of support. Benjamin has built his consultancy, RedQuadrant, into a dynamic resource for helping UK governments agencies, charities and NGOs. The depth and breadth of his knowledge and experience in providing the most useful resource and intervention to match the situation is based on his mastery of multiple change frameworks and tools. And to prove it, he has brought his treasure chest and parked it just down below. Enjoy.Benjamin Taylor ResourcesThe RedQuadrant tool shedhttps://bit.ly/RQtoolshedshowandtell Barry Oshry - There Is Now New Scientific Paradigm... Yethttps://www.powerandsystems.com/files/downloads/There%20is%20no%20new%20Paradigm.pdf Systems Leadership Theory (second edition) - Macdonald et alhttps://books.google.com/books?id=3v1cDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT574&lpg=PT574&dq=%22systems+leadership+theory%22+second+edition+macdonald&source=bl&ots=FVUWVFiPzJ&sig=ACfU3U1047d1WLFyiwxSMLUM7aRUjaExTg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisnZuZm9f4AhWHZMAKHdB0Ca4Q6AF6BAgaEAM#v=onepage&q=%22systems%20leadership%20theory%22%20second%20edition%20macdonald&f=false My rough systems thinking reading listhttps://stream.syscoi.com/2020/05/06/a-very-rough-and-partial-draft-systems-thinking-reading-list/ systems leadership theory-relatedWhat is work?https://chosen-path.org/2021/07/29/what-is-work-whats-your-definition/ systems leadership more broadlyMaking sense of systems change and systems leadershiphttps://chosen-path.org/2021/06/21/making-sense-of-systems-change-and-systems-leadership/#systemschange: the dangers of over-correcting in a good causehttps://chosen-path.org/2022/06/29/systemschange-often-over-correcting-in-a-good-cause/‘power and systems'The blue dot and the terrible dance of powerhttps://chosen-path.org/2022/03/09/the-blue-dot-and-the-terrible-dance-of-power/What do you do I want to thank my great team that helps me sound better than I am. Jacki Hydock for her lending her wonderful voice to our introduction and outro Great music by Jazz Night Awesome episode production by the great team of We Edit Podcasts all the way up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Check them out at www.weeditpodcasts.com Thanks For Listening and Jumping into the Swamp

Come join us for a conversation with Benjamin Taylor and April Johnson about the elections starting up in Georgia this year! Topics focused on include candidate's track records, gun control, and possible problems candidates may face! Please follow along with the links below to stay informed on things discussed: http://www.jbenjamintaylor.com/ https://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/ajohn551/index.php https://gov.georgia.gov/about-us/about-governor-brian-p-kemp https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/31876/brian-kemp https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/04/trump-michigan-republican-party/ https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/politics/donald-trump-brian-kemp-stacey-abrams/index.html https://www.ajc.com/politics/gov-kemp-to-sign-bill-allowing-concealed-carry-of-handguns-without-a-license/KO7EQUS3IVGWNDISVAKBGOMZOA/ https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/08/13/political-rewind-census-reveals-nations-shifting-demographics-and-georgia-no#:~:text=In%20Georgia%2C%20the%20census%20data,changes%20over%20the%20past%20decade. https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/10/09/historically-the-presidents-party-performs-poorly-in-the-midterms-infographic/?sh=aad7dc667325 https://conorlamb.com/ https://johnfetterman.com/ https://ballotpedia.org/Raphael_Warnock https://ballotpedia.org/Gary_Black https://ballotpedia.org/Herschel_Walker https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-claims-to-own-companies-that-dont-exist https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Dissociative-Identity-Disorder/dp/B001IV5W0I https://www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/what-georgians-are-saying-senator-reverend-warnocks-bill-to-cap-insulin-prices-would-be-a-gamechanger-2/ https://www.everytown.org/press/new-tv-and-digital-ads-in-georgia-everytown-victory-fund-unveils-new-ads-targeting-karen-handel-as-part-of-1-7-million-ad-campaign-in-georgias-6th-congressional-district-in-partnership-with/ https://www.carolyn4congress.com/ga07 https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/georgia/ https://www.onlineathens.com/story/news/state/2021/03/28/new-georgia-voting-law-what-does-sb-202-change-elections/7038406002/ https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_elections,_2022 #election #election2022 #georgia #Kennesaw #politics #politicalscience

I would like to dedicate this podcast to my nephew Benjamin Taylor. The second-weekday message of faith and inspiration. Music pieces licensed to use by author and licensee Laverna Spain. Scriptures are taken from both the Jewish Christian bible and the King James Version Bible. Please join me for the Lord's Supper following Sunday's Message of faith. God Bless!

Interview with Dr. Benjamin Taylor, Fellowship Director of the Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship at Grant Medical Center, Columbus Ohio, Associate Program Director for OhioHealth Orthopaedic Surgery Residency, and Associate Clinical Professor at Ohio University and Dr. David Galos, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. […]

Terms like API, real-time financial data, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and cloud-based business management are all part of today's market. With the right tools and expertise, organizations can leverage new opportunities and take their businesses to the next level. One of these tools is SoftLedger. Benjamin Taylor, CEO and Co-Founder of SoftLedger, shares insights on what SoftLedger is, how it works, and new opportunities that businesses can use to manage their financial data in real-time. In this episode, we discuss: - Managing critical financial data - API driven accounting - Real-time financials For more interviews from the CFO Weekly podcast, check us out on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player! Presented by Personiv https://insights.personiv.com/cfo-weekly

Benjamin – found on social media as @antlerboy – has been in public service reform and organizational effectiveness for over 20 years, and is passionate about the systems | complexity | cybernetics field. He describes himself as business evolutionary and avid learner, all of which he traces back to science fiction, studying philosophy (with politics and economics at Oxford University), and being an outsider despite his privilege.He began in a frontline role and then became Adviser to Leader in a London borough council and a career in public service consultancy through PwC, Sector Projects (part of Capita). He set up Red Quadrant, a network consultancy, in 2009 with the goal of transforming public services and disrupting consulting. In 2016, Benjamin established the Public Service Transformation Academy, a not-for-profit social enterprise which builds the capacity of public services to transform themselves. Benjamin curates and shares everything to do with systems/complexity/cybernetics at the Systems Community of Inquiry, hosts and supports and engages with many social media groups and systems societies, and is a Fellow of the Cybernetics Society  and a Director of Systems and Complexity in Organisation, the systems practitioner professional body. In that capacity, he has supported the development of the UK's level seven (post-grad) systems thinking practitioner apprenticeship. He is writing two systems thinking books, one for Routledge and one for Triarchy Press, and recording two podcasts: Transduction, the systems, cybernetics, and complexity podcast (I have come to sing songs to your cat), and Joy and Work: leading service transformation.

Mesa police department, whose officers are known for employing excessive and often lethal force against unarmed people, has been in the headlines this week due to numerous lawsuits alleging that same behaviour. Benjamin Taylor, a civil rights attorney, is presently suing the department for excessive force in two instances, including one in which police opened fire on an unarmed father with his hands up, surrounded by his five children. Lorenzo Jones, the father, had just handed over his youngest kid to the child's mother when cops opened fire. #LorenzoJones #BenjaminTaylor . . . . https://www.policebrutalityworldwidechannel.com/2021/10/in-front-of-his-children-cops-open-fire-on-an-unarmed-father/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/king-emjay/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/king-emjay/support

In this weekly podcast, industry professionals Jeff Franklin of Headwear USA, Stephen McFadden of Perfect Promotions & More, and Meg Erber of S&S Activewear, discuss, dissect, and debate one topic that impacts the promotional products industry from every angle. This week they talk with Benjamin Taylor from PMGOA.

Marcel Proust was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Benjamin Taylor, author of the Jewish Lives biography Proust: The Search, explores how despite momentous historical and personal events, Proust became—against all expectations—one of the greatest writers of any era. Music in this episode: Camille Saint-Saëns - The Swan Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune

Recorded: December 20, 2020 libsyn here About the podcast This will be a bitter-sweet episode at The Outliers Inn.  It’s the episode where Antlerboy (aka Benjamin Taylor) announces his retirement from pouring drinks and serving slop as co-host at the Inn.  Between his part-time gig at the Inn and his other interests and pursuits (including running his companies, other podcasts that he produces, and writing a book), the time constraints have become more than obvious, and he regrettably has to step out from behind the bar. It all started on November 3rd, 2014. This was the day that Tom Magliozzi, co-host of “Car Talk”, was recalled to that great junk yard in the sky, to be joyfully reunited with all his previous vehicles.  Car Talk was a radio show about cars, their owners, and maladies (of the cars, that is – mostly).  Guests would call-in and share various symptoms they were experiencing with their automobiles. The hosts would roast the caller, their automobiles, and their maladies in a respectful manner; perhaps sometimes less respectful of the vehicles themselves and their manufacturers. Every episode was a lot of fun listen to and certainly anyone who did would smile and laugh at least once. When JP read of the passing of Tom, he posted the article on Facebook.  And Antlerboy was the first to comment on my post.  Even though Antlerboy is from the United Kingdom, he had just started to listen to the show and even shared his version of Tom’s obituary; “So, it happened again. You wasted a perfectly good life amusing yourself and other people and upholding the values of intelligence, science, eloquence, and rude good humour. And even though St. Peter himself will run screaming from the Pearly Gates when he hears YOU say it.... ‘That was Tom Magliozzi. And, don't drive like your brother...'” But then we got to thinking. There was a lot of absurdities that occur and opportunities to poke fun of the goings-on in our own profession; businesses and their operations. Heck, we were guilty of some of these goings-on ourselves. Why don’t we start our own show?  And (eventually) The Outliers Inn was born with our first episode produced in October of 2015 (almost a full year later).  You can read the mostly complete history of The Outliers Inn here. Since then, we have produced 58 episodes over a five-year period; not a bad run rate. So, we give a proper send-off to Antlerboy by taking a walk down memory lane with a few select guests.  And it’s only appropriate that we start with Don Burshnick, our resident Biermeister Extraordinaire.  When he’s not brewing his beer, he is drinking it as a regular at the Inn and is even an occasional co-host when we find ourselves short-staffed.  Don shares with us his latest concoction; a “Gummy-Bear” IPA.  We are certain it would not pass the German Reinheitsgebot. Other irregular regulars include; Stephane who joins us from the lockdown in France.  Although from Belgium, and quite proud of their beer, he is very interested in Don’s Gummy Bear IPA and would be keen on having a sample; which JP promises to bring back a sample bottle from Don for Stephane’s tasting. Aiden is our next guest who gets Antlerboy to share the story of how he decided to prefer to be called Benjamin rather than Ben; confessing the real reason for the change was he read that people with longer and more formal names are perceived as being more intelligent, so; “Benjamin P. Taylor” it is. Marina joins us from Los Angeles where she has founded a design innovation studio and shares her experiences in 2020 having to quickly make the transition to the new business paradigm. Hal joins us from Seattle.  He shares with us his enthusiasm for beer and appreciation for Don’s “Gummy Bear IPA”.  He also shares a bit of trivia that Washington State supplies the majority of the hops used to make beer around the world.  Switching to business, Hal shares his observation that those who have had the most success in navigating the challenges are those who have a culture of being nimble. Ed joins us from London and, listening to our discussion of travel policies and protocols and recalls a saying form times past; “There is no reason, it’s policy.”  That about sums-up the way of the world in 2020 and how governments are engaging the challenge.  He expresses concerns about the lock-ins (preferring to use this term over “lock-downs”) and wanting it to end sooner rather than later.  Oli has some technical issues but rejoins us from the North Carolina after having them sorted.  He is about to return to Germany and we are discussing travel protocols that are supposedly in place, but that the reality is different than what is being shared by the policy makers and policy enforcers. And Chas takes a peek from behind the curtain to offer his fair-thee-well. And lastly, although the corpus delicti of Antlerboy as co-host is still warm, we are happy to introduce our last guest, David “Mule” Schneider as the new co-host at The Outliers Inn.  David shares a bit about himself, starting with the details of his being involved supporting STEM at the high school level by coaching and leading “robotics” as a high-school sport.  Mule’s expertise in logistics and warehousing has kept him incredibly busy over the COVID pandemic as the rush to ecommerce created a huge demand for his skills. So, as the Great Bard, William Shakespeare wrote in Romeo and Juliet; “Parting is such sweet sorrow.”  We all thank Antlerboy for his helping found and build the Outliers Inn and he has promised to grace the establishment from time to time.  And those who remain are all better off for having had the opportunity to hoist a drink together with him and share insights into life’s goings-on. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant.

Recorded: October 26, 2020 About the podcast Welcome to another “open mic” edition at The Outliers Inn with JP and stand-in co-host Don Burshnick who has co-hosted enough episodes that he can be considered the co-co-host.  JP and Don start-off the conversation by sharing how refreshing it is to get back out in the field and doing some face-to-face work after being largely confined to quarters during the COVID Pandemic.  For two guys who normally spend a lot of time in airplanes traveling to client-sites, being grounded for an extended period of time is as uncomfortable as it is unusual.  JP has traveled from Germany to the States a couple of times and Don just returned from Mexico. We share the “myth” of border crossings.  We read about all the rules associated with travel.  But where the expectation is stringent controls, paperwork validation, and health-checks, the reality has been quite the opposite; with no observable differences between travel pre-COVID and during (so long as you have the proper passport and paperwork).  The only real difference that JP noticed is that hardly anyone is on the plane.  JP shares his ideas about business and rules.  By and large, businesses don’t care what the rules are, they just want to know what the rules are and that the rules will not change with the wind.  Sure, they might lobby and lament, but at the end of the day, so long as they are predictable, all is good with the world. We welcome our first guest, Neal from Louisville, who shares that he has not experienced business growth.  While companies that directly serve the consumer seem to be busy, he believes that industry is holding back on investment in production apparatus.  JP shares that companies are best to be in a state of readiness, but if you can’t be ready, you better be resilient (best to be both). Our next guest is Oli from Germany who shares his experiences traveling between the States and Germany; which largely corroborates the experiences of JP and Don.  He shares that the only people who are reporting to the workplace are those working on the production floor or turning wrenches while the “knowledge workers” are working remotely; but even those on the production floor have changed their way of operations by minimizing close contact. And our last guest is Mandalyn who takes to the stage again to perform an acapella rendition of another song she wrote entitled “Cheater”. We wrap-up the show with a group conversation sharing what we are all going to be doing as we close in on the end of year; with Don sharing the latest updates in his beer-brewing “hobby”.  Oli is working on renewing an outreach program to build his funnel with new prospects as opposed to relying solely on his existing clients.  While Neal is hopeful for landing a new position and passing his ASQ Certification this coming January.  And Mandalyn is just going to keep working, and no doubt will continue writing some songs. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant. Co-Host: Don Burshnick

It's the 8th annual Guest List episode! Thirty of this year's Virtual Memories Show guests tell us about the favorite books they read in 2020 and the books they hope to get to in 2021! Guests include Derf Backderf, Philip Boehm, Ruben Bolling, Betsy Bonner, Henri Cole, Joan Marans Dim, Emily Flake, Jonathan W. Gray, Tom Hart, Arthur Hoyle, Rian Hughes, Richard Kadrey, Ben Katchor, Kathe Koja, Tess Lewis, Ellen Lindner, Margot Mifflin, David Mikics, Otto Penzler, Woodrow Phoenix, Darryl Pinckney, Alta Price, Steve Ronin, Dmitry Samarov, Michael Shaw, Stoya, Benjamin Taylor, Jeff Trexler, John Vercher, and Sheila Williams! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

This week co-hosts Kate and Medaya are joined by author Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, whose latest book is the collection of short stories Likes. Sarah discusses the magic of childhood, the difficulties of family life in the current political climate, and ways to see the quotidian in new and unexpected ways. Also, Richard Seymour, author of The Twittering Machine, returns to recommend Benjamin Taylor's Here We Are, My Friendship with Philip Roth.

This week co-hosts Kate and Medaya are joined by author Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, whose latest book is the collection of short stories Likes. Sarah discusses the magic of childhood, the difficulties of family life in the current political climate, and ways to see the quotidian in new and unexpected ways. Also, Richard Seymour, author of The Twittering Machine, returns to recommend Benjamin Taylor's Here We Are, My Friendship with Philip Roth.

Recorded: September 21, 2020 About the podcast It’s another “Open Mic” night at  The Outliers Inn.  And in this episode, Benjamin and JP discover there might be a couple of interpretations of that open invitation.  It would appear that, in addition to our regular followers and people who might see our invitations as shared in our normal channels, people could also search EventBrite (our registration tool) for terms that might interest them; including “open mic”.  This proved to generate some rather interesting guests; not the regular crowd talking about what our audience has come to expect, but rather, something completely different. Benjamin and JP start the show in the normal fashion; exchanging goings-ons, observations, and stories of our recent experiences.  JP contemplates the coming autumn whimsically and nostalgically and Benjamin finds himself duty-bound to share some British thing that he considers relevant; “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”.  It’s actually poetically descriptive. Benjamin also shares the transformation of his business from a traditional to virtual.  And though Benjamin is sad to see the past pass, JP (having been virtual before it was cool) is sure that Benjamin, and his company, will find themselves much better off for it. But this is where the show deviates dramatically from its norm. Our first guest is Dee Allen, a poet who has written countless poems and published several books of poetry.  He shares two of his poems, “Breeder of Flames” and “Washa-quon-asin”, with a passion that is obvious and enthusiastic.  In the poems he shares, he invokes his Native American heritage.  Dee’s books of poetry can be found on Amazon by looking up the author Dee Allen.  His new book is “Elohi Unitsi” and can be found by clicking here. Next up to the bar is Jamie Ryder from the UK who start by discovering they hail from the same parts of England.  Jamie shares with us that he is an artist and a blog publisher who’s websites include; “The Comic Vault”, “Yamato Magazine”, and “The Rum Ration”.  And our last guest is Mandalyn who takes to the stage (we didn’t even know we had a stage) and shares with us a song she wrote; and not only did she write it, she sang it for us! Indeed, The Outliers Inn welcomes all and is welcoming to all.  Give a listen… Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant.

Recorded: July 14, 2020 About the podcast Topic: Okay, the notion was noble, but the presentation might have been better.  If this was an episode of Master Chef with Antlerboy and JP being the wanna-be cooks, we would certainly have presented a repulsive-looking dish, but it tasted darn good. So here’s the story;  Antlerboy and JP had noticed that all of the guests at The Outliers Inn have been men.  Certainly, the men have themselves have been diverse in geography, industry and profession – but they have all been men.  So we wanted to consciously seek to make our guests more diverse and we came up with the idea to devote a show only to guests who were women – and decided to call the episode “Lady's Night” (I believe it was Antlerboy’s idea).  Try as he might, JP could not come up with another name with less sexist undertones, so we went with it.  We won’t do that again – we will find another name if we do a repeat. JP starts by sharing his joy of being back in action; in the States, client-facing, and in the field.  But JP’s primary engagement is with a nursing home and he is staying with his parents (who are both over 80 years old) while there.  So his COVID-RADAR is up and operational; social distancing, masks, limiting who he visits and under what circumstances.  It’s serious stuff and the risks are considerable.  Better safe than sorry – really sorry. Our first guest, Maria, is an industrial engineer at Spirit Airlines as Manager of Business Process Optimization.  She helps conduct improvement projects for the company and training employees in Lean Six-Sigma.  Since COVID has effected the airline industry especially hard, I asked what effects has it has had on her and the goings-on at Spirit.  It was refreshing to hear that Spirit was using the lighter load to improve the skillsets of their employees. Amanda joins us from Manchester, having crossed paths with Antlerboy recently doing a webinar on crisis communication (“which is exactly as it says on the tin”).  She police communications for 20yrs in charge of all communication.  She started before 9/11 and the world is a very difference place looking back.  Amanda’s personal turning point and most poignant moment was dealing with the terrorist attack at the Manchester arena and how important the people and communication were so critically important in working through a crisis situation.  She recently started her business (on the day of lockdown in the UK).  Her book, Crisis Communication Strategies (May-2020) is available on Amazon. Our next guest is Sonia, who is a Lean Six-Sigma Master Black Belt.  She is realigning her focus from process performance to personal and professional development.  She recently launched her company, SS International LLC.  She conducts workshops and masterminds and shares with us that she recently launched a three-month mastermind specifically for women to help them learn to unleash their potential, overcome obstacles, hold themselves and each other accountable, and reach their goals. This just skims the surface of the conversations and discussions.  There is a lot of interesting ideas and experiences shared.  Give a listen.  We are sure you will enjoy it as much as we did. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant.

Author, editor & memoirist Benjamin Taylor joins the show to talk about his wonderful new memoir, Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth (Penguin). We get into how his relationship with Roth evolved over 20 years, how it affected his own writing, and his notion that everything that happened is still happening. We talk about the nature of friendship and how it may differ from literary friendship, Benjamin's fixation on older friends, why The Human Stain is his favorite of Roth's novels, the notion of "literary lions" like Roth, Bellow, Oates, Updike, and Ozick, and why this era seems bereft of them. He also fills us in on how long walks with Vivian Gornick have helped him handle Pandemic World, why fiction isn't the only worthwhile game in town, what it means to be an American and a heartbroken patriot, and plenty more. Follow Benjamin on Twitter and Instagram • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

Prominent Arizona Civil Rights Attorney, Benjamin Taylor, joins Brigham Cluff to discuss the explosion of racial strife into the zeitgeist.

Recorded: June 3, 2020 About the podcast Topic: We find Antlerboy in much better spirits and more positive. He has been a bit beat down due to being locked-down. But is finding working in his London garden - replete with a cherry tree, recently Amazon-delivered pond weed, potatoes and onions - is very therapeutic. JP is happy for Antlerboy, but wonders; just how big is this garden in London? JP is itching to get back in the game; getting on an airplane and client-facing. Sitting and working from home is not his bag. But JP shares that he has booked a flight to the States for a few weeks from June into July and is looking forward to it. We start the meat-and-potatoes of the conversation by discussing the shift in the work paradigm from office to home. In conversations with leaders of companies (admittedly anecdotal data and not empirical data), the near universal feedback is that people are more productive working from home. But although productivity might have increased in the near-term, what are the effects long-term? Humans being social creatures, is it healthy to be isolated from people for an extended period of time? Working from home, will people have the discipline to protect the borders of work time versus personal time? Our first guest is a regular at The Outliers Inn, David. He shares that he has not been successful working from home in the past because of the distractions and has continued to go to his office during the shutdown. Work-wise, he is as busy as ever and he is still experimenting with his hemp-sprouts. Neal, from Louisville (however you pronounce it) in Kentucky, is our next guest. He shares that his contract was terminated in March and he is trying to discover where the next step in his professional will take him. He is wondering what the need will be for social distancing at work; equipment and workstation placement, walking around the facilities, and so on. Stephane, a regular from France, joins us and shares his thoughts about globalization and remote work; if the world was flat before, it has become more flat now. We discuss the rapid adaptation and evolution of telephony. People and companies have readily and rapidly implemented Zoom (or some similar solution) and are conducting business meetings remotely. Can virtual reality be too far off where people will put on virtual reality googles and be able to walk-up to a virtual whiteboard and draw? Stephane shares that you can already virtually cycle the French countryside on Swift. So is the notion becoming reality that far off? Hal from Washington State joins us and shares that he has recently been having a riot (pun intended); that the economy is booming for gun and ammo shops and his opinion that the question of gun control has been settled for a generation. But getting back to his core business, he speaks about the challenges of getting back to business for those companies that were shutdown (non-essential businesses). Our last and most regular guest taking his turn at the bar is Don. He wonders about the social discourse presently taking place and the duplicity of the messaging. How can one group of protesters be called irresponsible and another group of protesters be celebrated; Further, how can violence and destruction be excused? There are a lot conversations had and ideas shared. But the interesting thing is that most thoughts are about life-after instead of life-during COVID and how we are navigating towards it. We thinks that optimism taking root. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant.

Today's episode will give us a legal refresher on topics that are relevant to current events. Benjamin Taylor, partner at Taylor Gomez Law brings kindness, wisdom and action to today's conversation! I enjoyed my time with Benjamin and hearing how his career pivot ( from finance to law) led him to advocating for clients who's rights had been violated. We talk a lot about definitions of terms we are hearing a lot right now: civil rights violation vs. hate crime, defunding police vs. police reform. Best of all, Benjamin leaves us with ACTIONS we can take to affect change. I am grateful for Ben sharing his time and expertise. Learn more about his law practice here and follow him on twitter here. Looking to support DIE-ALOGUE? I recently joined Anchor as the show's new podcast platform and you can easily support the podcast through their site, just click here to donate! https://anchor.fm/diealoguepod/support DIE-ALOGUE MERCH ALERT! Check out the products and scoop up what you like. Items ship July 19, so you have to order prior. https://www.bonfire.com/store/die-alogue-yellow-tape/ Today's episode is sponsored by BIRDIE. Birdie is a modern personal safety alarm created for women, by women. I have one and I love it! Use code DIEHARD for 10% off your purchase! https://www.shesbirdie.com/ DIE-ALOGUE is a Yellow Tape Inc. Production. Hosted by Rebekah Sebastian. Edited by Chris Gersbeck. Original theme music by Olivia Himes. Don't forget we are on Twitter, Instagram + FB: @diealoguepod Use the hashtag #diealoguepod on social media! KILL THE SMALL TALK. START A DIE-ALOGUE. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/diealoguepod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/diealoguepod/support

S5 Ep 32: In this episode, meet novelist Maya Shanbhag Lang, writer Benjamin Taylor, and co-authors Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez. Each of these authors has combed through history—whether it’s of a personal relationship with a loved one or the cultural history of the Drag community—to create and share true stories of connection, inspiration, and love. Plus, discover which author rehearsed reading chapters of their book out loud for the month before their recording session began. What We Carry by Maya Shanbhag Lang: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/588770/what-we-carry/ Here We Are by Benjamin Taylor: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/575729/here-we-are/ Legendary Children by Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611526/legendary-children/

Recorded: June 3, 2020 About the podcast Topic: Antlerboy and JP welcome the first-ever, all male and exclusively British guest roster. It's a veritible sausage fest, except its more like Bangers. Come give a listen as we mash it up (see what I did there?). The episode starts with Antlerboy not being his usual joyful self, some would say "hacked-off", "fed up", or just "down in the dumps". And it all come down to too... Too long stuck indoors, too much disruption to business, too long a hiatus from life, too much time to contemplate his failures, just too much of everything negative for too long. It would appear some people do not do well in a sensory deprivation chamber. Let's see if our guests can bring him out of the funk. Our first guest is Paul, who does not help Anterboy's state by predicting there will not be a second wave of COVID, but rather one long, extended wave. Thanks, Paul, Anterboy is headed for the window-sill. But Paul does go on to share that the antidote for companies is to either generate cash or preserve cash. We welcome back John who bellies up to the bar. John's remedy to it all is to live a life of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll. Okay, John, you have our attention. But then John starts talking about being in the bath contemplating Maslow's heirarchy of needs and, in the middle of his mescaline-induced haze... NEXT.! As John stumbles aside, Andy snaps his fingers to place his order. We all know its rude to snap your fingers, but he's from Scotland. As we are taking his order, we ask how he is (just being polite, ya' know), and he tells us he is "outstandingly mediocre". Apparently, he is upset that he won't be taking a holiday anytime soon. Finally, a breath of fresh air walks into the Inn. And right behind them is Peter. But Peter has actually been having a pretty good go of things lately. Work is going well and his Mrs Peter is having him do a bit of gardening. Most important, he has had time to poodle about and contemplate life, what is important to him and what is not, and what he might do in retirement. By the time last call is shouted out, the mission has been accomplished. Antlerboy is definitely in finer spirits. A really fine, if sometimes dour and esoteric evening, at The Outliers Inn. We are sure you will enjoy giving a listen-in. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant.

Charlie talks with Ben Taylor, author of the deeply personal and meditative Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth. Taylor talks of his relationship with one of the great American novelist of the past half century and the conversation covers the nature of memoirs and novels, the place of humor in Roth's life and works, the heyday of the celebrity author, the manipulation of "reality" to create art, and more. IWS also launches its new affiliation with audiobook platform Libro.fm. For a special 3 for 1 offer and to support Bookmarks or your local indie with you audiobook purchases click here.

En una nueva emisión de Vidas Prestadas, Hinde Pomeraniec entrevistó al  escritor Martín Kohan para conversar sobre su nuevo libro “Me acuerdo”, en los que los lectores podemos leer los recuerdos de uno de los mejores escritores de su generación. Conversaron sobre memorias, listas de recuerdos y evocaciones de la infancia. En  El Extranjero, libros de los que se habla en el mundo, Hinde  comentó “Here We Are", de  Benjamin Taylor, que narra sus años de amistad con Philip Roth. "El libro cuenta momentos, encuentros, conversaciones. Es un libro emocionante" y en Libros Que Sí, recomendó “Amo a mi mamá”, del autor chino Chen Xiwo, editado por Editorial Mil Gotas. En la sección En Voz Alta, la escritora Natalia Rozenblum, que acaba de publicar “Baño de damas” lee un fragmento de “Poco hombre“, de Pedro Lemebel.

Topic: Antlerboy and JP celebrate the 50th episode of The Outliers Inn.  The theme of today’s show is “coming out of COVID-19” and we will be talking about our plans for re-entering society after government-imposed lockdowns.  JP, being blessed with abundant hair even with his years, shares that his first thing will be to get a haircut and to resupply on cigars which he has been without for some time. Oli from Germany is our first guest and boasts that he has shaved and is debating whether to use a pot and self-cut the top.  He is looking forward to re-engaging his clients, but in the interim he just received seven TONS of cement to re-do his basement; remember 3-2-1. Next up is Isaac from New York City but presently in North Carolina.  Besides promising to give JP his ’67 Mustang Ragtop, he’s working on the rehabilitation of a house in North Carolina and laying down 2,000sf of tigerwood flooring.  He is also helping to launch his daughter’s business doing temporary tattoos G-Tat. Stephane from France joins us and confesses that he has cut his hair himself.  He did the best he could, but managed to cut a couple bald-spots.  But it’s growing back and he is no longer embarrassed to go outside.  Stephane shares that he believes telephony will play a larger roll in daily goings-on in the business – but he’s looking forward to expanding the talent pool as telephony frees businesses to hire talent wherever they might be. Don “the beer man” enters the fray from Upstate New York.  The lockdown has been more severe there than in many other places in the States including counting how many customers can go into the grocery stores.  The City of Binghamton has a 10pm curfew.  Why?  Nobody knows.  His business has not been severely impacted, but there is a backlog of engagements which will keep him busy. There is a serving of fresh fish at the Inn.  Jason joins us from North Carolina and shares how he has been building a network in the Space Industry – that’s outer space, not commercial office or retail space.  His mission it to “make space boring” in that he would like to see space travel become as routine as any other mode of travel. And there is another serving of fresh fish at the in with Dan from Iowa joining us.  Being in higher education, he shares with us how telephony has become ubiquitous in the delivery of classes – even though Dan has been using telephony before it was cool.  Like Stephane, he believes telephony is here to stay. A darn good episode – and a fine way to celebrate our 50th episode at The Outliers Inn. We are sure you will enjoy it. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant. Recorded: May 4, 2020

David Fajgenbaum was diagnosed with Castleman disease as a medical student and nearly died several times. In 'Chasing My Cure,' he recounts crowd-sourcing his own treatment with a global network of doctors, scientists and patients.Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews Benjamin Taylor's book about his friendship with Philip Roth, 'Here We Are.'

Topic: With everyone in the world being locked-down, bored  rigid with nothing much better to do and in desperate need of speaking with someone other than their significant other or dog, it’s a full-house at The Outliers Inn with guests who hail from the States, the UK, Germany, and Iceland being represented.  The episode is long, but the conversation is fun and lively. Standing in for co-host Benjamin “Antlerboy” Taylor is a regular on the show, Don “the beer man” Burshnick. We start off with Don sharing that his beers are being recognized by his peers as being pretty darn good.  In a recent contest, his Raspberry Wheat won 1st place and his California Common took 2nd in their respective classes.  And we discover that “gravity” is indeed relative.  In beer parlance, it means that there is more sugar in higher gravity beers – and more sugar means more fermentation which, in turn, translates to a higher alcohol content. Hal joins us from Washington State and continues his work with small manufacturers.  His main challenge is navigating how manufacturers can continue working during the pandemic and what working together will look like after this is all done.  The biggest concerns is the potential over-reaction and the instilling of temporary controls that might become permanent. John from the UK whose passion is continuous improvement joins us.  Being recently retired and bored rigid, he made the rookie mistake of trying to teach his wife “5-S”, starting in the kitchen.  There is nothing a wife loves more than being told by her husband how disorganized her kitchen is – not.  Needless to say, she was displeased and demonstrated her colorful vocabulary with enthusiasm.  He reflects that he should have spent more time studying Sun Tzu before starting this war, and not just how Toyota works. Joerg from having just finished taking a cruise in the Mediterranean with his wife.  He has recently taken on a new role within the company.  But the new role will take him 500km from where he presently lives.  He has been spending his time preparing for the new role, but also looking for an apartment near his new place of work.  Due to the restrictions in place, he has had to look at apartments “virtually”.  It will be the first time he has ever entered into a contract for a place without ever having seen it live and in person. Wolfgang, also from Germany, then bellies up to the bar.  He is missing his daily workouts at the gym, but finds himself very busy.  He changed the delivery of his consulting and training to be virtual and has landed enough work to see him through to the end of the lockdowns – even though he is thinking to make this a permanent offering for his clients – more value-add and less rumptime in a car traveling. Andy from the UK shares his angst with the UK regulation called IR-35 and the burden that has been placed on independent contractors.  The confusion with the regulation has caused confusion with many prospective clients who don’t want to run afoul of the regulation and has been idle for longer than makes him comfortable.  All the patrons at the Outliers Inn share their angst with governments squashing small guys while they dollop benefits on those who are large enough to fight back.  So he is spending a lot of his time writing articles on LinkedIn.  Stephane joins us from France were some of the most Draconian lockdown measures are in place.  People are allowed to leave the house for only an hour a day, much like a prisoner in solitary confinement.  When he does leave, he can only go for necessities (like groceries) and has to carry a diary with him that logs his time in case he is stopped by the authorities.  He’s working from home and his new friend is Zoom.  He is also socializing by having Zoom-beers with his friends.    Oli is originally from Iceland, has lived in the States, and is now in Germany.  Being used to being in the field, the lockdown makes him uncomfortable.  Although he appreciates the “buy local” sentiment that is currently being expressed,  he talks about the benefits of globalizations.  Talk about global risks and the need for maintaining multiple sources in the supply chains – not just diversity in companies, but diversity in geographies. And David from Virginia decides to celebrate his 59th year on this planet with us miscreants at the Outliers Inn instead of doing – whatever else he can be doing.  Why?  We still don’t know.  But COVID-19 or not, he drives to and from his shop every day to do what he does – and trying to living his life as usual.  He is a Virginia licensed industrial hemp grower and is trying to develop a way where he can plant and harvest in 10days hemp-sprouts as a functional food.  He does admit to enjoying the empty highways where he can open it up.  His commute time is much shorter.  We end the program with the biggest dog-pile The Outliers Inn ever had…  Come listen in… Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant. Recorded: April 7, 2020

Topic: The episode starts off rather professional (read dry) with Antlerboy sharing some rather serious endeavors he is launching.  He introduces two new podcasts; “Joy in Work; The public service transformation” and “Transduction; the systems complexity and cybernetics” – neither of which pose any competition to The Outliers Inn (not even close).  And he also shares another project; Requisite Agility managing change and uncertainty (http://requisiteagility.org/), where “requisite” is required by the nature of things and “agility” being the ability to successfully adapt, cope, or exploit changing situations. That (thankfully) being done and dusted (read buried), the guests (mercifully) come to visit and breathe life back into the conversation with talks of; robot competitions, beer (again), heaps of cash for consultants in the UK, and the tragedy of a video being removed from YouTube causing one of our guests to actually do work. We welcome our first guest, David, who has been working with high school students design and build robots that have to complete a fixed series of tasks.  The robot that completes the tasks the most completely wins.  The team that David and five other mentors coach consists of 148 students.  And although they came in force, the take-away lesson was “don’t forget the ‘Loctite”. Don is still brewing beer and promises to share with the other visitors to The Outliers Inn.  He has been producing a bunch of lagers because the temperature has been cool.  And they just did two high gravity beers; a “Scottish Wee Heavy” which will take months to mature and come in at 10% and a “Barley Wine” coming in at 9%.  Made for sipping not for sessioning. John returns to visit us.  He is in much better spirits than his last visit – and we are sure it’s not because of Don’s concoctions.  Rather, he shares with us that the UK Government has a program with whole pots of money for helping smaller companies and the supply chain into aerospace – and that this will make consultants (including himself) very happy.  In the interim, he’s found a job to keep him busy in logistics – as a delivery driver. Our last guest is Stephane, who is rather desperate today.  He is working on team effectiveness and coming up with a brand new model.  He was disappointed that a YouTube video by Richard Hackman – which used to be there – was now longer there.  This meant he was going to have to actually do some work.  After it is complete, he will be rolling it out to his team, and perhaps further.  And the debate over the best beer continues; Belgian, German, or Don’s… Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant. Recorded: March 3, 2020

N-BEAM Consortium Every day we hear and experience music that has incorporated music technology, through electronic components and instruments, to positively contribute to the listener's overall musical experience. Electro-Acoustic (EA) music is now widely accepted in music - in both production and performance - from scores created for screen and stage, to popular music, and even the professional classical orchestra stage. As technology becomes a more important part of the daily life of our students and can create new palates of sound in our music, educators must embrace technology as part of our sound and our curriculum - much the same way as it already has been in most other areas of music. The New Band Electro-Acoustic Music (N-BEAM) consortium aims to add three new pieces of EA music to the school concert band repertoire. ​In 2018, N-BEAM v1.0 released it's first composition to its members - TECHNO BLADE, by Benjamin Taylor. This was followed in 2019 with Daniel Montoya Jr.'s composition AXE TO GRIND. In 2020, the N-BEAM consortium met the goal of introducing three new pieces of EA music to the school concert band repertoire by the addition of Alex Shapiro's OFF THE EDGE. With N-BEAM v2.0, the New Band Electro-Acoustic Music consortium project looks to build on this success with the addition of three more EA pieces to the wind band repertoire. Beginning in early 2021, N-BEAM v2.0 consortium members will receive the first of three new pieces of concert band literature, graded between 2 and 2.5, each including an audio component. Those components may be live or interactive, using an electronic instrument or computer/tablet to create sounds; or may be fixed, like an accompaniment audio track that is played throughout the composition. Each of these compositions will be created in a way that will allow any school (and their director), the "plug and play" ability to perform each composition easily and effectively, regardless of their experience with technology, their level of access to sound reinforcement equipment or their technology/instrument budget. ​At least 30 schools will have an opportunity to join a consortium that funds the creation of those three pieces. And each consortium member will receive performance benefits for being part of this project. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sketchbookpodcast/message

Topic:  In this episode of The Outliers Inn, we talk about the risks involved in falling iguana’s, long-flights and sore bums, speculating on government numbers, eating bats, and preparing for retirement (or semi-retirement). Antlerboy and JP start-off by sharing their experiences on recent travels with Antlerboy going to Southeast Asia and JP going to Florida.  We share some of our travel habits but the one we have in common is that neither of us can understand how a person can justify the added expense of a business-class ticket – even if we do sometimes end-up with sore bums on the long-haul flights.  Really, what can the airlines possibly do to deliver on a 5x-plus premium on the cost of a ticket?  Especially since neither of us are particularly large either vertically or horizontally – and our bums never get that sore.  The conversation moves to the subject or “risk”, with JP sharing a particularly novel risk he had never heard of before – that of “falling iguanas”.  When he was in Florida, it was so cold (dropping into the 40F’s), that the Florida weather service issued an “iguana warning”.  Apparently, when it gets that cold, the iguanas lose their grip and fall from the trees.  Reportedly, they are not injured and will re-awaken when they warm – but getting hit on the head with a falling iguana, which can grow to 6ft in length and weigh 20lbs, would make for a bad day. Our first guest to belly-up to the bar is Greg.  He shares with us the risks he sees in the global supply chain where single-points of failure abound.  Whether it’s an earthquake and tidal wave, or floods, or coronavirus’, it seems that companies have not learned to have redundant suppliers in case of catastrophe – or if they do, they don’t keep the secondary vendor sound enough to pick-up the slack when the unexpected happens.  His particular concern is the present risks to the supply chains and the global economy from the coronavirus. Our second guest, Don, being thrifty and bringing his own home-brewed beer, shares is real-life experience with respect to the hypothetical disruptions to the supply chain that he is having to endure and react presently – giving tangible evidence that the threats are real and not theoretical or anecdotal.  He shares with us that his deliveries are being delayed weeks or longer because of the concerns and actions related to the coronavirus. JP amends his Gastronomy Rule Nr.1 from; “No insects” to “No insects, snakes, or bats.” Our last guest of the evening is John.  He shares with us a real and heartfelt challenge; what do you do when you have spent so many years in corporate and find yourself to old to be hired, but too young to sit on the porch and yell at the kids to get off your lawn?  He feels he has so much to give but doesn’t know how or even where to begin.  He shares some regrets and expresses concern for what his legacy will be – the evidence that he was here at all.  We talk about various ways he can pass the wisdom he has gained over the years to others – including teaching and consulting.  A really interesting part of the program which should give everyone cause for pause – and reflection. We are sure you will find the conversations as interesting as we did… Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant. Recorded: February 6, 2020

Topic:  We do another theme-based episode, this time on “New Year’s Resolutions”.  It doesn't matter whether they are funny or serious ones, but it does matter that your word and resolve is so useless that you can't keep a promise to yourself.  In that case, you might not even have any resolutions.  But if you do, you will probably find that no one other than yourself will follow up on them.  As the immortal Shakespeare once said, "Please pass the bacon, I prithee." Oops, wrong quote. "To thine own self be true." JP shares some wisdom from Texas – which seems to be lost in translation to British-English.  And shares his experiences with the extremists of continuous improvement – as he refers to them as the “Taliban of Continuous Improvement” – that he has encountered on social media, with Benjamin sharing similar experiences he has had.  JP ponders whether Benjamin was involved in the floorplans that went missing at MI6 in a desperate attempt to improve his internet speed. Neal, a transplant from Atlanta now living in Louisville (however you pronounce it), Kentucky, joins us as the first guest.  His resolution is to become more active in maintaining and growing his professional network.  Neal shares that he engages in social medial, but has found it difficult to find peers for face-to-face meetings.  JP suggests that Neal introduce himself to the Systems Science and Industrial Engineering department (or similar) at the local university as a starting point. Remarkably, Benjamin’s first – and perhaps only – friend has finally joined us at the Outliers Inn.  Chris, who claims Benjamin did not have to pay much for him to join us, shares his interest in this emerging community.  A maverick technologist for several years, he got the opportunity to form a “guild” at his organization – a grass roots organization dedicated to a professional practice.  The idea of the guild was to bring people at work together in a non-transactional format.  Although not generally into creating resolutions, Chris’ resolution for 2020 is to consolidate and grow the guild.  Our last guest and frequent visitor to the Outliers Inn is Don.  Don starts off by sharing some distractions and interruptions which made him less effective and efficient in his efforts in 2019, so his goal and primary focus for 2020 is to get organized.  That being said, his one distraction that he will allow is his growing interest in brewing beer (how distracting can that be; wink-wink).  It’s actually a father and son project; or perhaps son?  After all, there is a stark difference in the approach to brewing between the two with the son being a sticker for adhering to a strict following of the formula and the Don being more “close enough is good enough”.  The official launch of the Square Deal Brewery (as it will be called) is a year away.  But when it is launched, it will be the official beer of The Outliers Inn.  There are a lot of other great conversations, and we don’t mind you eavesdropping.  Enjoy! Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant.

È il passato a dare forma alla nostra memoria o sono i ricordi a creare quello che sappiamo di noi stessi? Attraversiamo il fiume del tempo con i libri:- Nel profondo, di Daisy Johnson- Il clamore a casa nostra, di Benjamin Taylor

Topic: Antlerboy (aka Benjamin Taylor) continues to be plagued by substandard internet, although right in the middle of London and across the street to MI-6, yet can only get ADSL service to his office.  How can that be in 2019?  Broadcasting from home is not possible because Antlerboy is too “afraid” to tell his wife to be quiet as a mouse for an hour whilst we are recording.  Not to be undone, JP laments about his “high-tech house from hell”.  And so it goes…   Our guests are Seth  from Joisey   Seth shares his thoughts on Artificial Intelligence and sets the subject for the rest of the podcast.  He ponders the quality of the data being mined, whether people need all the information available to them – are they now being fed information for the wow factor or is all that time and effort waste?  JP goes on the offensive to challenge the use of AI in the hiring process among other applications.  But the conversation goes on to other introductions of innovation and technologies in general and on a variety of applications – and as experience guides us from the past; the knowns, the known unknowns, and the unkown unknowns.  JP shares the tragedy of “unknown unknowns” of innovation in the early days of high-altitude, long-distance flights – where square windows in the de Havilland Comet resulted in metal fatigue at the corners and caused several fatal crashes.  But this discovery lead to an understanding and that is why all windows in aircraft today have no corners.  In the podcast itself, JP erroneously stated that it was the “Lockeed Constellation”.  We regret the error and are sure it would not have happened if the hosts were AI bots and not live, and fallible, human beings.   Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant.

On Co-Authoring Books - with Benjamin Taylor Benjamin has been in public service reform and organisational effectiveness for over 20 years. He's always been an avid learner of systems thinking, which he traces back to reading his dad's 60s and 70s Sci-Fi novels, studying philosophy (with politics and economics at Oxford University), and being an outsider. He describes himself as a business evolutionary. He began work as a database developer, personal carer, and at a youth development charity then worked on the front line in a local authority advice centre. He spent seven years at the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham as Adviser to Leader, eGovernment Manager, and procuring a strategic partner. At PwC and Sector Projects (part of Capita), his work included customer strategy for Birmingham City Council and advice to the Government of Armenia. He founded RedQuadrant in 2009, now a top ten public service transformation consultancy. Benjamin established the Public Service Transformation Academy, a not-for-profit social enterprise which builds the capacity of public services to transform themselves, with the UK Cabinet Office Commissioning Academy as the ‘jewel in the crown' of its offer. He has also lectured in applied systems thinking at Cass Business School, City University, and at Nottingham Business School and Oxford Said/HEC Paris. Benjamin is particularly interested in system leadership, #systemschange, service design, and service transformation. He holds a lean six sigma black belt and is an accredited power+systems trainer. He believes passionately in the possibilities of transformation , that all meaningful public service challenges require a cross-sector, interdisciplinary approach, and in the power of systems thinking afnd system leadership to improve the experience of organisations and public services for employees, customers, and citizens. @antlerboy www.linkedin.com/in/antlerboy benjamin.taylor@redquadrant.com +44(0)7931317230 ----- Get FREE access to the Community Toolkit with additional trainings recorded by the guests for you: http://inside.booksmind.com (previously I called it Mentors Library). ----- Hook up with my open community group on Facebook: ► https://www.facebook.com/groups/GH4BCC ► CONNECT WITH ME! Website ➡ https://www.booksmind.com Facebook ➡ https://www.facebook.com/edevanrich Twitter ➡ https://twitter.com/edA1rich LinkedIn ➡ https://www.linkedin.com/in/edevanrich/ Instagram ➡ https://www.instagram.com/edevanrich/ YouTube ➡ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzU_IfFly80wp25uRaAP7_A

Topic: An eclectic bunch of visitors visited The Outliers Inn sharing a myriad of challenges. It was another successful Open Mic Night at The Outliers Inn.  Word is spreading of the new format of having random call-in guests is taking hold with the guests being greater in number and in energy. We start with Antlerboy and JP talking about attending and participating in conferences and whether they are worth it.  Generally speaking, the consensus supported by experience is that the expectation should be a longer runway before a connection becomes a transaction – but that keeping in front of people and share (and gaining) wisdom is essential.  The exception might be (the evidence is anecdotal) those who attend and are selling a specific and tangible solution (like software or some widget). Then JP goes on a rant about how people don’t read the words of what they are reading – they just skim.  Then they inject their own bias and pre-conceived notions of what should have been written and engage in a rather impolite way – playing a weak game of “Now I Got You, You Son-of-a-Bitch (NIGYYSOB)”.  JP reminds us that reading is fundamental, but comprehension is important too. Our first guest to step-up to the microphone is David, who share the challenges facing the nascent hemp and marijuana industry – not the least of which is the government regulations that exist – many of which are incomplete, conflicting, non-existent, and mis-understood (or all of the above).  It’s no small wonder the government of Ontario in Canada lost $42million trying to sell the stuff.  This is compounded by regulators and law enforcement not always understanding the difference between hemp (from which you can make many useful products) and marijuana (from which you can get high). Next up is Stephane who talks about the challenges implementing Operational Excellence.  He shares several frustrations including challenges born of cultural differences, people being fixated on tools, and trying to be someone else (like Toyota) rather than focusing on the intent and ambition of what continuous improvement and operational excellence could be – something greater than the sum of its parts. And last is Don who shares his experiences in the field of circuit-board assembly – chief among them being a de-emphasis on effective preventative maintenance programs and the lack of skilled labor.  Especially in the low-volume and high mix manufacturing environment which is perfectly suited for manufacturing in the States, he ponders the wisdom of having a KPI on boards produced and not on good boards produced.  The cost of rework is crushing. Don also shares that he is an amateur brewer who makes less than 200 gallons per year (wink-wink) and some of the challenges there.  Fortunately, we Stephane has a PhD in Chemistry – and from Belgium – and is able to offers some helpful guidance; not the least being that a degree or so plus or minus will not really matter. This is a high-energy episode and I am sure everyone will enjoy it immensely.  Cheers! Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant.

Topic: Business Owners get the leftovers and – unrelated – how it sucks to get old and looking for a job. The issue has been settled.  The Outliers Inn will no longer take reservations, but rely solely on walk-ins.  From this day forth, we will rely on the eccentricity of our audience and their eclectic interests, ideas, and opinions. Antlerboy and RedQuadrant reached a milestone – 10yrs in business.  Congratulations are in order indeed.  We talk about the joys and fears of owning a business and how business owners get the “leftovers”.  We get the leftover money after everyone is paid, leftover time.  As Elon Musk said, we “dream of a vacation that is more than eMail with a view.” Our first guest, Denis, shares how he has decided to leave his long tenure in the corporate world to start-off on his own (don’t do it!).  We discuss how most problems are obvious – all we have to do is capture the moments when we exclaim; “There must be a better way!”  We further debate the branding of programs; lean, six sigma, continuous improvement, and so on.  JP suggests that it’s the people not the tools and that we call them these programs “Purple” – but then there would be light purple, dark purple, plum, and even mauve. Joe shares his experience in joining the United States Army and eventually settling in Germany.  He shares his frustrations with getting large organizations to change, with the root-cause mostly being a culture of fear; a fear of making a mistake, a fear of rocking the boat, the fear of just having to endure nonsense that shouldn’t have to be endured.  He also shares his frustration with seeking a job when you are older 50 years old.  That companies do not demonstrate the common courtesy to return calls or even acknowledge the inquiry (and resume) being received.  His best question is; “How in the world can someone who is 25 years old be a ‘life coach’?”  Indeed… JP’s advice is; “If your CV goes to HR, you’re dead.  HR’s job is to be the first line of defense and to eliminate all those candidates who are not perfect.  Instead, you will find your next opportunity because of your network. Denis shares that, according to a UK study the source of your job will be from; 70% Referred, 20% Applied, 10% other. Some really good stuff in this episode…  Enjoy. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant.

Topic: Another “Open Mic Night” at The Outliers Inn.  Listen in on Antlerboy and JP as they discuss the Women’s World Cup; Renowned Transdisciplinary Behavioural Strategist, Organisational Misbehaviourist, and Ironist, Richard Claydon; and data privacy in the context of cyber security. We start with the discussion of soccer and the recent win of the Women’s World Cup by the American team.  We ponder (well, mostly JP wonders), why the Europeans can field several successful men’s soccer teams and the States can’t, especially considering the population of the States and Europe are about the same.  And we discuss Richard Claydon and his “cracking of the LinkedIn algorithm” for getting your posts (and you) recognized.   And for the more serious content, our call-in guest, Malu, discusses data privacy in the context of cyber-security.  We investigate the difference between data privacy and cyber-security and the consideration of whether the data is “outside the wall versus inside the wall.”  The difficulties in regulation and regulation “harmonization” in an attempt to avoid the Balkanization of the Internet including the (nonsense of) GDPR and the various ways people can get to content to which they are otherwise blocked, the deal with “Cookies” and whether people really care (whatever) and, if so, to what extent.   So, pull-up a seat, pour your favourite beverage, and listen Inn!   Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant.  

Topic: This episode finds us short of guests, but the show must go on.!  So, in an act of desperation and in search of fresh meat, we look inward and bring Chas – our podcast technician extraordinaire – from behind the curtain and into the spotlight.  Little did we know we were going to enter “Dr Whoopee’s Wayback Machine” and go back in time to discuss the earliest in personal computer technology.  Names like “Sinclair” and “Apple-II” – when a 20 MEGAbyte hard drive and 640 KILObytes of memory was the most anyone could ever possibly need – and a 40 MEGAbyte hard drive was living like a Saudi Prince.  Then there were the classic arcade games like Asteroids and Defender that are largely lost in time – except the movie “Pixel” brought them back from being the technology equivalent of cave drawings.  So pull-up a stool, open a can of Stroh’s or Utica Club and enjoy the show! Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant. Guests: Chas   About Chas:  Chas is a technology enthusiast (nut) and has been since around the year 1978 or so when he was introduced to a DEC PDP 11/70.  The rabbit hole got progressively deeper from that point on.   He's dabbled with many of the classic computers of the 70's, 80's and early 90's and still has his original Apple //e and Apple IIgs computers.  Modern day machines running emulation software allows him to dabble with machines that weren't available or accessible when they were new as well as playing classic arcade games from the days of his somewhat misspent youth.  He's still terrible at them but loves playing then nonetheless.

Topic: Although fraught with great peril, our intrepid hosts open-up the podcast to call-ins.  What can go wrong?  Well, everything can go wrong.  But in spite of the incredible odds, our first call-in episode went rather well.  So well, in fact, that the call-in format will be our new standard format for the show. In this first call-in episode, we will discuss the challenges faced when authority to effect transformation does not exist, but only influence – and the various approaches that might work under such circumstances.  And yes, we wade into geo-politics; starting with Brexit and moving to tariffs and the negative impact on businesses and their behavior when a lack of predictability exists. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant. Guests: A few call-in guests. Download Podcast Here

Topic: It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to hoover it. What can improv and performing comedy tell us about learning and collaboration?  After discovering several contacts in common, JP and Benjamin are joined by the Public Service Transformation Academy's  Paul Conneely to talk insights from his past forays into improv and comedy and their applicability to the developing collaborate and innovate teams Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant. Guests: Paul Connelly Company: Public Service Transformation Academy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulconneely/ About Paul: Paul's work focuses on enabling senior executives from a range of backgrounds and professions to innovate and transform their organisations and the results they achieve. The Public Service Transformation Academy's approach is to bring people together to access the latest ideas, insights and innovative practices and to translate these into practicable actions that senior executives can readily apply to achieve better results. We work with a wide range of government and public service organisations including Local Authorities, NHS Foundation Trusts and CCGs. Paul also has experience of working with commercial companies including Airbus, Amey, Astra Zenica, AXA, Balfour Beatty, Fujitsu, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Virgin Atlantic and Zurich Insurance.

Topic: Joining AntlerBoy and JP today at the Outliers Inn is Michael Webb, President of Sales Performance Consultants.  Michael will share the wisdom he has gained working in sales; from his start at Borroughs Corporation, and Rockwell Automation before founding his firm in 2002.  Most people believe there are two types of sales forecasts; wrong ones and lucky ones.  But Michael believes this is wrong – even lazy.  That there are ways of structuring a sales organizations and its processes so that the results are optimized and predictable, with an emphasis on working on what opportunities are real and which are hope – and hope is not a strategy, hope is dope.  Listen closely, perhaps you will gain insights for improving the sales results in your organization. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant. Guests: Michael Webb Company: Sales Performance Consultants LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeljwebb/ About Michael: Michael Webb is the President of Sales Performance Consultants.  He helps B2B companies turn sales and marketing into a continuously improving system that finds, wins, and keeps the right customers, and does it in a way salespeople love.  He works directly with the leadership teams to create tangible outcomes for your company to; Get sales and marketing departments to align almost effortlessly on what creates value and what doesn’t. Get people to stop spinning their wheels on the wrong prospects, flashy technology, and sales training that doesn’t get used. Help salespeople to become more effective with sales skills that are baked into the business, rather than into personalities. Add visibility to deal flow where the data will reveal which bottlenecks are most critical. Help the team to prioritize and implement the best improvement ideas. And, bottom-line, improve sales productivity, and margins relative to competitors

Benjamin Taylor racconta in questo memoir un anno della propria vita, delineando così il suo personale ritratto dell'artista da giovane.

In 2016, despite only mixed support from evangelical leaders, Donald Trump won an enormous share of the white evangelical vote. How did Trump manage to overcome the seeming mix-match between his record on social and moral issues and the longstanding views of evangelical voters? The authors and editors of The Evangelical Crackup?: The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition (Temple University Press, 2018) offer a variety of answer. The book is edited by Paul Djupe, associate professor of political science at Denison University, and Ryan L. Claassen, a professor of political science at Kent State University. Paul joined the podcast to discuss the evolution of this interesting volume and what it says about the state of research on religion and politics, the Trump victory in 2016, and what the future holds for the relationship between religion, partisanship, and elections. Other contributors to the book include: Contributors include: Daniel Bennett, Mark Brockway, Ryan P. Burge, Brian R. Calfano, Jeremy Castle, Kimberly Conger, Daniel A. Cox, Kevin den Dulk, Sarah Allen Gershon, Tobin Grant, Robert P. Jones, Geoffrey Layman, Andrew R. Lewis, Ronald J. McGauvran, Joshua Mitchell, Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Jacob R. Neiheisel, Elizabeth Oldmixon, Adrian D. Pantoja, David Searcy, Anand Edward Sokhey, J. Benjamin Taylor, Robert Wuthnow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2016, despite only mixed support from evangelical leaders, Donald Trump won an enormous share of the white evangelical vote. How did Trump manage to overcome the seeming mix-match between his record on social and moral issues and the longstanding views of evangelical voters? The authors and editors of The Evangelical Crackup?: The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition (Temple University Press, 2018) offer a variety of answer. The book is edited by Paul Djupe, associate professor of political science at Denison University, and Ryan L. Claassen, a professor of political science at Kent State University. Paul joined the podcast to discuss the evolution of this interesting volume and what it says about the state of research on religion and politics, the Trump victory in 2016, and what the future holds for the relationship between religion, partisanship, and elections. Other contributors to the book include: Contributors include: Daniel Bennett, Mark Brockway, Ryan P. Burge, Brian R. Calfano, Jeremy Castle, Kimberly Conger, Daniel A. Cox, Kevin den Dulk, Sarah Allen Gershon, Tobin Grant, Robert P. Jones, Geoffrey Layman, Andrew R. Lewis, Ronald J. McGauvran, Joshua Mitchell, Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Jacob R. Neiheisel, Elizabeth Oldmixon, Adrian D. Pantoja, David Searcy, Anand Edward Sokhey, J. Benjamin Taylor, Robert Wuthnow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2016, despite only mixed support from evangelical leaders, Donald Trump won an enormous share of the white evangelical vote. How did Trump manage to overcome the seeming mix-match between his record on social and moral issues and the longstanding views of evangelical voters? The authors and editors of The Evangelical Crackup?: The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition (Temple University Press, 2018) offer a variety of answer. The book is edited by Paul Djupe, associate professor of political science at Denison University, and Ryan L. Claassen, a professor of political science at Kent State University. Paul joined the podcast to discuss the evolution of this interesting volume and what it says about the state of research on religion and politics, the Trump victory in 2016, and what the future holds for the relationship between religion, partisanship, and elections. Other contributors to the book include: Contributors include: Daniel Bennett, Mark Brockway, Ryan P. Burge, Brian R. Calfano, Jeremy Castle, Kimberly Conger, Daniel A. Cox, Kevin den Dulk, Sarah Allen Gershon, Tobin Grant, Robert P. Jones, Geoffrey Layman, Andrew R. Lewis, Ronald J. McGauvran, Joshua Mitchell, Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Jacob R. Neiheisel, Elizabeth Oldmixon, Adrian D. Pantoja, David Searcy, Anand Edward Sokhey, J. Benjamin Taylor, Robert Wuthnow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2016, despite only mixed support from evangelical leaders, Donald Trump won an enormous share of the white evangelical vote. How did Trump manage to overcome the seeming mix-match between his record on social and moral issues and the longstanding views of evangelical voters? The authors and editors of The Evangelical Crackup?: The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition (Temple University Press, 2018) offer a variety of answer. The book is edited by Paul Djupe, associate professor of political science at Denison University, and Ryan L. Claassen, a professor of political science at Kent State University. Paul joined the podcast to discuss the evolution of this interesting volume and what it says about the state of research on religion and politics, the Trump victory in 2016, and what the future holds for the relationship between religion, partisanship, and elections. Other contributors to the book include: Contributors include: Daniel Bennett, Mark Brockway, Ryan P. Burge, Brian R. Calfano, Jeremy Castle, Kimberly Conger, Daniel A. Cox, Kevin den Dulk, Sarah Allen Gershon, Tobin Grant, Robert P. Jones, Geoffrey Layman, Andrew R. Lewis, Ronald J. McGauvran, Joshua Mitchell, Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Jacob R. Neiheisel, Elizabeth Oldmixon, Adrian D. Pantoja, David Searcy, Anand Edward Sokhey, J. Benjamin Taylor, Robert Wuthnow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2016, despite only mixed support from evangelical leaders, Donald Trump won an enormous share of the white evangelical vote. How did Trump manage to overcome the seeming mix-match between his record on social and moral issues and the longstanding views of evangelical voters? The authors and editors of The Evangelical Crackup?: The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition (Temple University Press, 2018) offer a variety of answer. The book is edited by Paul Djupe, associate professor of political science at Denison University, and Ryan L. Claassen, a professor of political science at Kent State University. Paul joined the podcast to discuss the evolution of this interesting volume and what it says about the state of research on religion and politics, the Trump victory in 2016, and what the future holds for the relationship between religion, partisanship, and elections. Other contributors to the book include: Contributors include: Daniel Bennett, Mark Brockway, Ryan P. Burge, Brian R. Calfano, Jeremy Castle, Kimberly Conger, Daniel A. Cox, Kevin den Dulk, Sarah Allen Gershon, Tobin Grant, Robert P. Jones, Geoffrey Layman, Andrew R. Lewis, Ronald J. McGauvran, Joshua Mitchell, Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Jacob R. Neiheisel, Elizabeth Oldmixon, Adrian D. Pantoja, David Searcy, Anand Edward Sokhey, J. Benjamin Taylor, Robert Wuthnow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2016, despite only mixed support from evangelical leaders, Donald Trump won an enormous share of the white evangelical vote. How did Trump manage to overcome the seeming mix-match between his record on social and moral issues and the longstanding views of evangelical voters? The authors and editors of The Evangelical Crackup?: The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition (Temple University Press, 2018) offer a variety of answer. The book is edited by Paul Djupe, associate professor of political science at Denison University, and Ryan L. Claassen, a professor of political science at Kent State University. Paul joined the podcast to discuss the evolution of this interesting volume and what it says about the state of research on religion and politics, the Trump victory in 2016, and what the future holds for the relationship between religion, partisanship, and elections. Other contributors to the book include: Contributors include: Daniel Bennett, Mark Brockway, Ryan P. Burge, Brian R. Calfano, Jeremy Castle, Kimberly Conger, Daniel A. Cox, Kevin den Dulk, Sarah Allen Gershon, Tobin Grant, Robert P. Jones, Geoffrey Layman, Andrew R. Lewis, Ronald J. McGauvran, Joshua Mitchell, Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Jacob R. Neiheisel, Elizabeth Oldmixon, Adrian D. Pantoja, David Searcy, Anand Edward Sokhey, J. Benjamin Taylor, Robert Wuthnow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz and Mr. Benjamin Taylor, Esq, present their talk "Crimes of Passion: The Extent of Human Responsibility" before a roundtable audience at the offices of Jaburg Wilk (http://www.jaburgwilk.com/) in Phoenix, AZ. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/cle-archives/ Many thanks to the Arizona Jewish Lawyers Association and Jewish Legal Aid for sponsoring this event. Thank you to Jaburg Wilk for hosting. For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ twitter.com/VBMTorah https://www.facebook.com/jaburgwilk/ https://www.facebook.com/AZJewishLawyersAssociation/ https://www.facebook.com/Jewish-Legal-Aid-255117814622551/ www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Watercolors" by John Deley and the 41 Players, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library

"My book is about an extremely consequential 12-month period in American history, and also in the history of my family and my own maturation. Being 11 and 12 is a very interesting time of life, when you, for the first time, begin to establish your frame of reference for the world outside of your experience at home. And, in my case, it was a discovery of history as an inescapable current. We were all writing. These were dangerous years."

One of the most important applications of service design is in the government or public services sector, where there is a big potential to create efficiency and meaningful change. We talk with Benjamin Taylor, who is a consultant in public services. As the founder of RedQuadrant management consultancy and a Chief Executive of the nonprofit Public Service Transformation Academy, Benjamin has a long history of innovating public services. Check out the show notes for all references and links. ________ Feedback loops are crucial in service design! Please take a moment to share your thoughts about this show at whyservicedesignthinking.com/feedback ________ Love what you hear? Please subscribe, rate, and review us. Each review goes a long way. As always, thank you for listening!

Annie and Chris get ready for the Bookshelf's upcoming Book Club Fair by discussing their favorite book club picks for 2017 (so far), including: In Case You Missed It: + Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal + Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff + Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert + This is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison + The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison 2016 Tastemakers: + A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles + Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb + A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman + Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi + Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance + Commonwealth by Ann Patchett Coming in 2017: + The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers (out now) + The Wanderers by Meg Howrey (out March 14) + Himself by Jess Kidd (out March 14) + American Fire by Monica Hesse (out July 11) + The Book that Matters Most by Ann Hood (out now--in paper back August 1) + Hue and Cry at Our House by Benjamin Taylor (out May 23)

In this episode, Angie and Haley ask past guests—Benjamin Taylor, Angela Montgomery, Oleg Konovalov, and Sonja Blignaut—to share their thoughts on a quote by Jeff Lawrence. His quote states, “There is no such thing as a dysfunctional organization, because every organization is perfectly aligned to achieve the results it gets.”

In this episode, Haley interviews Benjamin Taylor, a business evolutionary, systems thinker, and avid learner. Benjamin discusses the intended and unintended consequences of systemic leadership, and he describes the philosophical side of company culture, as well as, how leaders can influence company culture.

Topic: What is a leader and what does leadership mean? In the continuing adventures of JP and Antlerboy, we explore the meaning and the practicalities. We fluff a joke about the perfect leader accidentally being defined as a despotic dictator, and tap a rich vein with memories of leadership lessons from high school sports coaches. And we stray into dangerous territory of leadership in the home - specifically our marriages. This is likely to be the first exploration of many in this field! We were lucky enough to be joined by Rick Torseth, who actually knows a bit about the subject, from experience and application. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society,  & Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant. Guest: Rick Torseth - Human Securities, Inc. Rick Torseth is the co-founder of Human Securities—a leadership consulting and executive search firm established in 1992 in the Seattle area. Rick’s consulting expertise is firmly grounded in over 23 years helping leaders; teams and organizations reach more of their potential and goals with methods and tools that support leadership development. Rick completed his dissertation on Adaptive Leadership and has an MSc degree in Coaching and Consulting for Change from Oxford University and from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris. Rick believes that coaching seldom has to do with helping change the world that leaders face and more to do with helping them to understand how they are being leaders and doing leadership. This is inside-out work. It helps to have a coach-partner like Rick who has traveled this road and has a commitment to the change process. In Rick’s experience, few people or organizations truly grasp the magnitude of a change project and therefore underestimate the resources needed to successfully achieve change. Rick’s work is to help his clients build leadership capacity through learning, development and designed growth experiences inside their organization. He also provides access to resources, coaching and feedback that leverages the organizational eco-system so clients have more leadership moves available to them. Rick is married to a truly wonderful woman and father to a great daughter. Theresa and Annika allow him the space to practice changing himself without too much laughter.  

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Outliers Inn Podcast! Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society,  & Benjamin Taylor,  Owner of RedQuadrant. Guest: Matt (Boom) Daniel Topic: This is the inaugural edition, so please forgive the roughness of it – we promise to get better over time!   Pretty much just getting our feet wet, figuring out the technology, etc.   Its a bit rough around the edges at times, again inaugural episode, so please forgive the dropouts and funny audio. Your hosts, Joseph and Benjamin, joined by guest Matt "Boom" Daniel, Marine Aviator and graduate of Top Gun, kick of this episode by sharing how the Outliers Inn takes its inspiration from Car Talk, a show devoted to automobiles – more specifically, owners of automobiles and their maladies (of the cars, mostly, not the owners – but sometimes the owners… or perhaps their relatives or even their pets)... Go ahead and take a listen!

Best known for his seven-volume masterpiece A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time), French writer Marcel Proust is considered to be one of the finest novelists of the 20th century. Though born into upper-class society—his Catholic father was a doctor and his Jewish mother came from a well-known Jewish family—Proust did not show much ambition or aptitude as a young man. Indeed, he was a dilettante and man about town who spent his time having love affairs and squandering an inheritance. As biographer Benjamin Taylor makes clear in Proust: The Search, all... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Recorded on 2015-03-20 In our thirtieth episode, we are joined by Benjamin Taylor and talk about Alien Makeout Simulator, why we got into VR, Descent Underground, Lucky’s Tail, old school consoles, why Jason and Matt hate mobile VR, our views on the future of VR platforms, and listener feedback

  Christopher Fettweis says "Losing Hurts twice as Bad"...describing moving beyond Iraq... combat vets talk about post-tramatic stress issues.   Powerful.   Benjamin Taylor  is performing in Iowa.   Purdy music.