A Load of BS on Sport: The Behavioural Science Podcast
A Load of BS on Sport: The Behavioural Science Podcast
Dave Blakely on risk taking, storytelling & the invention of Scrabble
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Dave Blakely on risk taking, storytelling & the invention of Scrabble

A Load of BS on Best Behaviour Part 3

Welcome back to Dave Blakely and Mach49

For the final time (for now), I welcome back the supreme Dave Blakely and Mach49 to talk A Load of BS with me. Concluding this mini-series of conversations on innovation, design and creativity in organisations, we talk about risk taking, storytelling, how we live in partnership with AI and the invention of Scrabble. And plenty more.

Dave in action!

Show notes

  • Do corporations take enough risk?

  • What do we mean by acceptable failure?

  • How Alfred Butts invented Scrabble

  • TS Elliot’s answer to the problem with process

  • Why Dave admires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk

  • The wonders of good storytelling as told by Dave Trott

  • AI and creativity: impacts on how we work, live and play

  • How we live in partnership with AI

  • Our constant state of distraction

Bill Browder and I at Jewish Book Week

Bill and I at the end of our talk

Last Sunday 5th March, I had the pleasure of interviewing the inspiring Bill Browder at Jewish Book Week in London, a quite fabulous 9 day extravaganza of talks and discussions on… you guessed it!

We had a packed hall of 420 people listening to Bill’s gripping, tragic and uplifting story through the lens of his books Red Notice and Freezing Order. I will share the recording here as soon as it arrives. You can hear my podcast with Bill from last year here.

Next time on A Load of BS: Mother Superior in nipple tassels

Next time on A Load of BS, I welcome behavioural scientist Patrick Fagan to the show.

Described by comedian David Mitchell as a "Mother Superior in nipple tassels". Each to their own I suppose.

Patrick in Dr Evil mode

Patrick takes psychological academia and applies it to business. Have your notepad at the ready for lots of tips and tricks.

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Till next time,

Daniel

Podcast music: Tamsin Waley-Cohen's Mendelssohn's violin concerto

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A Load of BS on Sport: The Behavioural Science Podcast
A Load of BS on Sport: The Behavioural Science Podcast
A Load of BS on Sport: The Behavioural Science Podcast dives deep into the psychology of what makes elite performers tick; how they think about success and failure, how they find and maintain peak performance, how they manage fear and adversity, how they make decisions under pressure, how they deal with risk and uncertainty.