Beyond the Black Stump

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A podcast about learning, leadership and the limitations we impose on ourselves. The idea of the "black stump" is an Australian colloquialism, it is used to describe the limits of the mapped or surveyed area. The term seems to be derived from the practice of burning or marking a tree stump as a surveyors mark. It is also metaphor for the limits of our known universe. And it can also reflect the limitations we impose on our thinking, as this quote describes; “the Black Stump is much more than an imaginary marker – it is a fixed point in our mind, the fixed ideas that limit our thinking. It marks the limit of our comfort zone."[Ed Simpson] Each week I will be chatting with a different guest - fellow practitioners in the risk, resilience and continuity communities - who will share their history, their current context, accepted practices and their novel ideas. The aim is to provide a new and practical approach to thought leadership.

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BBS037 - Intangible skills, key to future employablility and promotion, with Cheyene Marling

Jun 13 2016 34 mins

G'day, this is Ken Simpson and welcome to episode 37 of Beyond the Black Stump. Do you live to work, or do you work to live? My guess is that most fit into the later group. So altruistic ideas around awareness raising and learning good, but show me the money! My guest today is well positioned to advise on the return on investment for our personal learning and development. She

BBS036 - Reflecting on awareness, in the rear vision mirror

Jun 03 2016 16 mins

G’day this is Ken Simpson and welcome to an overdue episode 36 of Beyond the Black Stump. Last week I was hit by the podcaster’s nightmare scenario - sore throat and coughing. Not a good sound, so I spared you the experience. But I still wanted to share my thoughts about BC Awareness week and how we go about trying to promote the discipline. My thanks to the small number of p

BBS035 - Finding the passion, and a new voice, for the future. Sarah Kara.

May 12 2016 33 mins

G'day, this is Ken Simpson and welcome to episode 35 of Beyond the Black Stump. Our May podcasts are all about awareness, not just making others aware of BC - but ensuring that we increase our awareness of other disciplines, the world around us - and how these things are changing. This week my guest is a young, female practitioner. While those two attributes alone make her rare in

BBS034 - Awareness and the Value of Ideas with Andrew Scott

May 09 2016 25 mins

G'day, this is Ken Simpson and welcome to episode 34 of Beyond the Black Stump. The podcast for the risk. Continuity and resilience communities. Links in this show BCI BCAW Page Participate in the Flashblog Webinar Guide Take up the Resilience Awareness Challenge I had every intention of recording live conversations at the Australasian BC Summit this week, but it wasn't to be. I

BBS033 - Resilience Awareness Challenge and Glen Redstall on the Australasian BC Summit

May 01 2016 22 mins

G’day this is Ken Simpson - and welcome to a new week, and a new month. Kicking off the month with episode 33 of the show and a month of learning and awareness raising. I am launching a month-long challenge to people today. You can get the details at blackstump.fm/challenge. Essentially the challenge is to commit to raise your awareness of another discipline, body of knowledg

BS032 - Adaptive ideas and resilience as culture, with Aaron Gracey

Apr 29 2016 50 mins

G'day this is Ken Simpson, and welcome to Episode 32 of Beyond the Black Stump. Another month has come and gone, the last Friday of the month so we celebrate it as a Book Club episode. But a book club with a difference, in that our author today has published a number of articles and blog posts - and is seeking to write a book. So we are just getting in early. After all the intent

BBS031 - New perspectives on practice and Value with Luke Bird

Apr 21 2016 43 mins

G'day this is Ken Simpson and thanks for tuning into episode 31 of Beyond the Black Stump. This week we are going to hear about the experience of a practitioner who has gone exploring beyond the black stump of legacy BC practice. Wider horizons provide different perspectives and resilience takes on different dimensions when you immerse yourself in another contributing discipl

BBS030 - Fit for purpose Part 2. Capabilities and Disabilities

Apr 17 2016 24 mins

G’day this is Ken Simpson and welcome to Episode 30 of Beyond the Black Stump. Over recent weeks I have been talking to a range of people about the need to build capability – not just produce documents. Even if those documents have “plan” in the title. To be totally accurate, I have been having those conversations for the past 20 years, it has just been a feature of the pod

BBS029 - Resilience = Fn(Confidence + Trust + Capability) IN Context

Apr 05 2016 29 mins

G’day, this is Ken Simpson and we are back with a mid-week episode - the 29th Beyond the Black Stump Podcast. This show is the final part of my chat with Karen Stephens from the Kestrel Group in New Zealand. I have known and worked with Karen for 17 years, we have delivered a number of engagements together -and at one point in her career she was also my client! Here is a link

BBS028 - EM in Middle Earth and embedding vulnerability into the culture - Karen Stephens Pt1

Apr 02 2016 35 mins

G’day, this is Ken Simpson and welcome to episode 28 of Beyond the Black Stump. As it turns out this is really the introduction to episode 28 and episode 29 of the show. After I recorded this interview I decided it needed to be split into two shows. You see this is an interview with somebody I have known and worked with for about 17 years, so it was both a little odd at first