Since the launch of the book in the summer of 2020, The Curious Advantage has continued to be a bestseller and its supporting podcast is winning awards and has over 50,000 listeners. We believe curiosity should be accessible to everyone, which is why we’re proud to announce The Curious Advantage, narrated by Joshua Manning, is now available on […]
In the new Curious Advantage Episode, Garrick welcomes the renowned studio potter and Chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts since 2018, Dame Magdalene Odundo in a wide-ranging conversation, exploring context. Dame Magdalene is an artist and artists really make us look at the familiar with new eyes! Garrick and Magdalene, curiously explore pottery […]
In this fascinating episode, Simon Brown, Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones are joined by Pamay Bassey, entrepreneur, executive, world traveler, educator, writer, comedian, philosopher and Chief Learning Officer for the Kraft Heinz Company! How can leaders create a culture of continuous learning and drive the company’s global learning and development strategy and initiatives? What is […]
In the new Curious Advantage Episode, Paul, Simon and Garrick are joined by Dan Pontefract, award-winning leadership strategist, thinker, academic, keynote speaker and best-selling author.
“Lead, Care, Win” – How do you become a leader who matters? Why is curiosity important for leaders? What is the advantage of organisations with Curiosity genes? Proactive learning, failure, hope, breakthrough, and success. Leadership, behaviours and learning in the digital world and much more!
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In this fascinating Episode, Simon Brown, Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones are joined by Pamay Bassey, entrepreneur, executive, world traveller, educator, writer, comedian, philosopher and Chief Learning Officer for the Kraft Heinz Company!
How can leaders create a culture of continuous learning and drive the company’s global learning and development strategy and initiatives? What is ‘Learn like an Owner’? What are sacred spaces in our contemporary world? How does the sacred link to curiosity?
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Philippa Neave, senior advisor on the UN’s Lexicon of Electoral Terminology, Activist, Connector, Consultant and expert in Journalism, and Public Outreach, joins Simon Brown and Garrick Jones in their latest Curious Advantage Podcast. Discover fascinating stories from around the world, working with young people in difficult environments where curiosity is at the edges! How important is context and how does it inform the tools used to form a campaign, what are the visual languages and skills required? How do you bridge the gap and the challenges that young people face to build trust? How does serious game come into play?
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Curiosity Expert and Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, Spencer Harrison, joins Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown and Garrick Jones in their latest Curious Advantage Podcast! The world of work is changing in radical ways. Organisations have seen unprecedented shifts over the past year. How does curiosity help in times of change and ambiguity? Research suggests that Curiosity is an Investment trade. Why is curiosity a superpower?
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Amy Brann, Author, Consultant, Global Speaker and founder of Synaptic Potential, joins Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown and Garrick Jones, authors of the bestselling book ‘The Curious Advantage’ to explore the application of neuroscience to the art of developing people, the role of curiosity and the connection to engagement. Why are we seeing organisations becoming more focused on curiosity, or growth mindset and why is it so important? Does knowing how our brain works change the way we engage? How can we ignite our curiosity?
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Business thinker and author Erika Andersen joins Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown and Garrick Jones, authors of the bestselling book ‘The Curious Advantage’, in a fascinating conversation on Curiosity, Learning and the skills required to thrive. How does curiosity benefit leaders and organisations in today’s world? What is the impact of digital in our need for curiosity? How can we learn how to lean curiously.
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Isabel Garvey, Managing Director of the world famous and oldest recording studio Abbey Road, joins the authors of the Curious Advantage Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown and Garrick Jones in a fascinating conversation on digital transformation in music and curiosity. What is the role of curiosity in navigating through the multiple disruptive waves hitting the music industry? How do tech innovators support its evolution and transformation in this fast-changing business landscape that has been forced to shift to digital? What opportunities can AI bring into play?
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Lisa Bodell, award-winning author and CEO of FutureThink, joins Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown and Garrick Jones, authors of the Curious Advantage in a fascinating conversation around the power of curiosity and its impact on individuals and on organisations. How can we craft killer questions and what role does bias play in this? Why might killing your company be a good idea?
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Stefaan Van Hooydonk, ex-CLO Cognizant and Founder of the Global Curiosity Institute, joins Simon Brown and Paul Ashcroft in this fascinating Curious Advantage Podcast Episode to explore how to master curiosity re-engineering. What does it mean to re-engineer one’s habits towards becoming more curious and towards having a growth mindset? What’s the role of curiosity in learning & development and why is it becoming so important for individuals and organisations? Are you open to the world, to others and to yourself?
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Jennifer Higgie, editor at large for Frieze Magazine and author, joins Garrick Jones and Paul Ashcroft in a fascinating Curious Advantage Podcast on Curation, Women in Art and Curiosity. Curation is a power skill in the digital world where we have access to infinite data and knowledge. How do you synthesize information? What are the key principles of curation? How is Curation connected to Curiosity? What is the role of woman in art and how did women exemplify the power of curiosity? Are you curious? Subscribe today!
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Dr. Christian Busch, academic at New York University (NYU) and the London School of Economics (LSE) and author of the Serendipity Mindset, joins the co-authors of The Curious Advantage to explore Curiosity and Serendipity. What is the Serendipity Mindset and how does Serendipity work in a digital world? What is the role of Curiosity in creating good luck? How can you cultivate unexpected encounters that lead to positive outcomes and be more successful? What are the serendipitous processes that happen across organisations?
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Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Utrecht University and author of How Attention Works and Concentration (MIT Press) joins Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones, co-authors of The Curious Advantage to talk about Curiosity and Focus. What is the relationship between curiosity and the way the brain works? How do we sample the environment around us and what is the role of attention and concentration in exploring these?
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Scientist, social entrepreneur and Founder of SciCo Theo Anagnostopoulos joins Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones, co-authors of The Curious Advantage to talk about Curious Communities. What’s the role of curiosity in the dissemination of science and scientific ideas? How do you get communities of people to engage with science in a ‘phy-gital’ environment? What is Collective intelligence and how can we increase it?
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Join Garrick Jones, co-author of the Curious Advantage, tomorrow @13:30 UK at the City Book Leaders ‘Kyuriosity’ Book Talks, where global leaders share their stories and learning from books that made them Curious, moderated by Rajesh Srivastava, Author, Former CEO JK Helene Curtis, Former adjunct faculty at IIM Indore.
Garrick, will be talking about the Curious Advantage, the greatest driver of value in the digital age.
Email pr@curiousadvantage.com to get complimentary access link and password to this Zoom session. Session starts at 13:30 UK and you would need to log in between13:15 – 13:30.
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Futurist Chris Meyer joins Garrick Jones and Simon Brown, co-authors of The Curious Advantage in a fascinating conversation about Curiosity, Complexity and Evolution. How important are current trends and scenarios for the future? What’s the role of Curiosity? Why is an evolutionary approach to knowledge formation so powerful?
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Gordon Fuller, IBM’s Vice president & Chief Learning Officer, joins Simon Brown, Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones, authors of The Curious Advantage in a fascinating conversation on Curiosity, Al and the Future of Learning. How do you successfully put learning and skills at the heart of a business? How can AI enable curiosity? How can leaders build skills and inspire curiosity in their organisation? Curiosity is the fuel for continuous learning!
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David Harrison and Sara Moralioglu, award-winning journalists and documentary makers, join the authors of the Curious Advantage Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones in a fascinating conversation on Curiosity, Criticality and the link to Investigative Journalism. How do you gain trust while maintaining emotional distance? How do you deal with unconscious bias? What does it mean to be Curious and what are the principles that can make us more curious as individuals? Listen to incredible stories driven by curiosity, the need “to want to know”; the obsession to uncover things, to get to the truth.
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Vas Narasimhan, the Novartis CEO and Steven Baert, Novartis’ Chief People and Organization Officer join the authors of The Curious Advantage Simon Brown, Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones, to discuss the importance of Curiosity in Business. They talk about how Novartis has worked to ‘unleash the power of their people’ and change the culture driven by an ‘Inspired’, ‘Curious’ and ‘Unbossed’ people strategy. Why is curiosity becoming more important in the digital age? Why is it important to have curious leaders? What does it mean to have a curious mind and how can curiosity impact individuals and organisations? Subscribe to this exclusive podcast today to listen to this fascinating conversation.
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The authors of The Curious Advantage, Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown & Garrick Jones, introduce their new book and their ‘7C’s of Curiosity” model in an exclusive podcast, hosted by Nina Bressler Murphy, Global Head of Enterprise Capability at Novartis.
What is curiosity and why is it a powerskill? How can we successfully “sail” the 7C’s to activate our curiosity and let it work for ourselves, our networks and for our organisations? Why is curiosity the greatest driver of value in the digital age? How is curiosity connected to neuroscience, history, innovation, learning and to exploring the unknown? Are we wired to be curious? Subscribe to listen to this fascinating conversation! Are you Curious?
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Dr. Diane Hamilton, Founder and CEO of Tonerra, author, researcher, speaker and radio show host, joins the authors of the Curious Advantage Book to talk about Curiosity and the factors that keep us from being curious. What is the relationship between curiosity and confidence? What if you’re not Curious? How do we go beyond Fear, Assumptions, Technology and Environment? How is a curious culture linked to an organisation’s value, productivity and ultimately profitability? Subscribe today to listen to this fascinating conversation! Are you Curious?
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Suzie Collier, professor at the Royal Academy of Music in the Junior Department and mother of Jacob Collier, the Grammy Award-winning musician, talks about Creativity and the Curious Environment with Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones, co-authors of The Curious Advantage. How do we nurture curiosity? How do you strike the right balance between being exploratory and open and not being fearful? The importance in enabling curiosity in a child, motivation and the curious reset! Subscribe today to listen to this wonderful podcast. Are you Curious?
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Professor Bill Sherman, Director of the Warburg Institute, which is sometimes referred to as the ‘Home of Curiosity’, joins Paul Ashcroft & Garrick Jones, co-authors of The Curious Advantage to talk about Curiosity, as the pursuit of things we don’t know. How does curiosity drive research? What can we learn from John Dee’s library and how can Aby Warburg’s approach help us to be more curious? Do we have the right tools to empower our curiosity or do they just take us to what we know already? Subscribe today to listen to this fascinating exploration of curiosity!
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Josh Bersin, Global industry analyst in HR and HR Technology, author and founder of Bersin, joins the authors of The Curious Advantage, Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown and Garrick Jones to discuss Curiosity in the flow of work. What is the role of curiosity in learning and people development? How does curiosity relate to the new digital reality? How can curiosity add value to organisations when radical disruptions are happening in the workplace? Adaptability, the role of curiosity for organisational growth, learning in the flow of work & curious leaders. How can curiosity help shape one’s future? Subscribe today to listen to this inspiring conversation.
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Jacqui Brassey, Director of Enduring Priorities Learning, McKinsey & Company and an Academic, joins co-authors of “The Curious Advantage”, Paul Ashcroft & Garrick Jones to discuss about Curiosity & Emotional Flexibility. When in a situation of curiosity, what are the many paths that we can choose and how does that relate to confidence? What is authentic confidence, and how is that different? What is the link with our emotional flexibility? How do you use curiosity as a power skill to survive and thrive? Subscribe today to listen to this fascinating conversation.
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