Episode Notes [03:47] Seth's Early Understanding of Questions [04:33] The Power of Questions [05:25] Building Relationships Through Questions [06:41] This is Strategy: Focus on Questions [10:21] Gamifying Questions [11:34] Conversations as Infinite Games [15:32] Creating Tension with Questions [20:46] Effective Questioning Techniques [23:21] Empathy and Engagement [34:33] Strategy and Culture [35:22] Microsoft's Transformation [36:00] Global Perspectives on Questions [39:39] Caring in a Challenging World Resources Mentioned The Dip by Seth Godin Linchpin by Seth Godin Purple Cow by Seth Godin Tribes by Seth Godin This Is Marketing by Seth Godin The Carbon Almanac This is Strategy by Seth Godin Seth's Blog What Does it Sound Like When You Change Your Mind? by Seth Godin Value Creation Masterclass by Seth Godin on Udemy The Strategy Deck by Seth Godin Taylor Swift Jimmy Smith Jimmy Smith Curated Questions Episode Supercuts Priya Parker Techstars Satya Nadella Microsoft Steve Ballmer Acumen Jerry Colonna Unleashing the Idea Virus by Seth Godin Tim Ferriss podcast with Seth Godin Seth Godin website Beauty Pill Producer Ben Ford Questions Asked When did you first understand the power of questions? What do you do to get under the layer to really get down to those lower levels? Is it just follow-up questions, mindset, worldview, and how that works for you? How'd you get this job anyway? What are things like around here? What did your boss do before they were your boss? Wow did you end up with this job? Why are questions such a big part of This is Strategy? If you had to charge ten times as much as you charge now, what would you do differently? If it had to be free, what would you do differently? Who's it for, and what's it for? What is the change we seek to make? How did you choose the questions for The Strategy Deck? How big is our circle of us? How many people do I care about? Is the change we're making contagious? Are there other ways to gamify the use of questions? Any other thoughts on how questions might be gamified? How do we play games with other people where we're aware of what it would be for them to win and for us to win? What is it that you're challenged by? What is it that you want to share? What is it that you're afraid of? If there isn't a change, then why are we wasting our time? Can you define tension? What kind of haircut do you want? How long has it been since your last haircut? How might one think about intentionally creating that question? What factors should someone think about as they use questions to create tension? How was school today? What is the kind of interaction I'm hoping for over time? How do I ask a different sort of question that over time will be answered with how was school today? Were there any easy questions on your math homework? Did anything good happen at school today? What tension am I here to create? What wrong questions continue to be asked? What temperature is it outside? When the person you could have been meets the person you are becoming, is it going to be a cause for celebration or heartbreak? What are the questions we're going to ask each other? What was life like at the dinner table when you were growing up? What are we really trying to accomplish? How do you have this cogent two sentence explanation of what you do? How many clicks can we get per visit? What would happen if there was a webpage that was designed to get you to leave? What were the questions that were being asked by people in authority at Yahoo in 1999? How did the stock do today? Is anything broken? What can you do today that will make the stock go up tomorrow? What are risks worth taking? What are we doing that might not work but that supports our mission? What was the last thing you did that didn't work, and what did we learn from it? What have we done to so delight our core customers that they're telling other people? How has your international circle informed your life of questions? What do I believe that other people don't believe? What do I see that other people don't see? What do I take for granted that other people don't take for granted? What would blank do? What would Bob do? What would Jill do? What would Susan do? What happened to them? What system are they in that made them decide that that was the right thing to do? And then how do we change the system? How given the state of the world, do you manage to continue to care as much as you do? Do you walk to school or take your lunch? If you all can only care if things are going well, then what does that mean about caring? Should I have spent the last 50 years curled up in a ball? How do we go to the foundation and create community action?…
Seductive soundscapes of beguiling music, blended with unique and original 100 word short stories that are written exclusively for the show by its listeners. And sometimes there are also serialisations of longer stories that have been written by our listeners. If you have a 100 word story to tell, send it to the show via Fb @BillLawranceColneRadio.
Seductive soundscapes of beguiling music, blended with unique and original 100 word short stories that are written exclusively for the show by its listeners. And sometimes there are also serialisations of longer stories that have been written by our listeners. If you have a 100 word story to tell, send it to the show via Fb @BillLawranceColneRadio.
Aesop loved, and knew, his onions, writing over a thousand fables about the Allium Cepa, as well as running the first burger bar in the whole of ancient Athens that served fried onion rings. In celebration of the ancient storyteller, who also made theworld’s first Onion based anti-perspirant, here are a whole bunch of Onions in one of Bills Big Bags, with each linked mysteriously, yet appositely, to the old Greek Fabulist himself. With Adrian Coen and Yvonne Pini…
Take a trip on pure Onions… Featuring 100-word scarcely-a-story offerings written by: Sarah Freely, Pamela Ennis, Amy L. Bethke, Jo Coldwell, B.A. Williams, Iqbal, Zavinia Orlossky, Jake Becker, Marianne Rossant, Giorgio Adalopoulos, Santian Vataj, John Davis, Kathy Fish, Jeelan, JSP Jacobs, Carol Ennis, Harry Voge, Steve Gow, Nil Yeshil, Yvonne Pini, and Michael Micky-Lidis. With Adrian Coen and Yvonne Pini…
Bahowo is a small fishing village, by the South China Sea, on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, on the equator, to the east of Borneo and to the north of Java. It’s a tropical paradise, of rain forest, warm clear seas, mangroves and volcanoes. Bahowo may be nearly 8000 miles from northeast Essex and Colne Radio Towers but like here in the UK, it is where people work, and play, help each other, are happy and sometimes sad, where they celebrate and mourn, and where they live alongside each other. At the heart of this community is Bahowo School, from where children of Bahowo have written their tales for us. With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, The Baroness Janet Fookes, Phil Boast, Paula Larcher, Sebastian and Cicha, and the children of Bahowo.…
The Colne Radio Onionistas have lost one of their beloved members: Gladys Hornett 1940-2024. She is being laid to rest this week, and to mark the sad occasion, we are rebroadcasting the brilliant 2023 anthology of Onions she wrote for the show, which nestle among the exuberant and evocative music she loved. Let's sit back and enjoy Gladys's idiosyncratic and nostalgic stories about a bygone Essex as we celebrate her life and offer our condolences to her family.…
Another chance to hear one of our most popular episodes… Roger - the archetypal mummy's boy - and Jean - the perennial victim - are made for each other. The feelings are so strong, you could cut them with a knife. Written by Angela Cairns. With Adrian Coen and Yvonne Pini
In this show, our Onionistas seemed to be unsure of whether the theme was ‘Isn’t This World Enough?’ …or ‘Aren’t These Onions Enough?’ Either way, the answers are.“yes” and “no”, respectively, although this may not be made clear by the content of the show. Featuring 100-word scarcely-a-story offerings written by: Sue Beer, Susan Low, Clare Kemsley, Jenny Miller, Angela Cairns, Jo Kerr, Daphne Button, Lis Edwards, Paul Hooper, Pat Blosse, Tim Morgan, Ian Hornett, Adrian Coen, John Dew, Phil Boast,Minnie Ardo, and Jim Crimm With Adrian Coen and Yvonne Pini…
In this show, our a-hundred-word’s-all-you’re-getting Onionistas try cogitating such things as the bleak prospects of a decrepit highwayman, besieging Troy in your 70s (metaphorically, of course) and the indignity of hair sprouting from all orifices. Featuring teeny-weeny micro-fictions written by Clare Kemsley, Sue Beer, Phil Boast, John Dew, Pat Blosse, Rob Lewis, Paul Hooper, Toni Peers, Susan Low, Lily Matthews, Eli Rose, Kara Black, Verity James. Jim Crimm, and Tim Morgan. With Adrian Coen and Yvonne Pini…
As the staff at Guppy Productions prepare to end their annual leave to the seaside village of MANADO, heres the final and 6th bonus episode of onions plucked from our Holiday Big Bag. with Adrian Coen & Yvonne Pini
With the staff at Guppy Productions still taking annual leave to the seaside village of MANADO, heres the fifth bonus episode of onions plucked from our Holiday Big Bag. with Adrian Coen & Yvonne Pini
As the staff at Guppy Productions enjoying annual leave at the seaside village of MANADO, heres the fourth bonus episode of onions plucked from our Holiday Big Bag. with Adrian Coen & Yvonne Pini
With the staff at Guppy Productions still on annual leave to the seaside village of MANADO, heres the third bonus episode of onions plucked from our Holiday Big Bag. with Adrian Coen & Yvonne Pini
As the staff at Guppy Productions are on annual leave at the seaside village of MANADO, heres the second bonus episode of onions plucked from our Holiday Big Bag. with Adrian Coen & Yvonne Pini
As the staff at Guppy Productions take annual leave to the seaside village of MANADO, heres the first bonus episode of onions plucked from our Holiday Big Bag. with Adrian Coen & Yvonne Pini
Here are forty four entirely interconnected previously-broadcast Onions that have been outsourced to a Cayman Islands holding company and then leased back to Colne Radio in one of the most audaciously ingenious tax deduction schemes ever seen in British third-tier radio after which the unwitting Onionistas – aside from Bill Lawrance himself, of course – now find that they have not only effectively paid for the inclusion of their own 100-word stories but have also footed the bill for a one-month long “fact finding” trip for Bill and the two voice artists, Yvonne Pini and Adrian Coen, to easily the most Cayman of the Cayman Islands. The names of the Onion writers who are the victims of this scheme have been withheld on the advice of legal counsel.…
In this show, our one-hundred-words-is-all-we-write Onionistas trot out scantily described scenarios about neglected guitars, illicit alcohol in Saudi Arabia, and Jane Austen’s outdoor khazi. Featuring remarkably low word quantity scribbling by KT Eden, Jake Becker, Sam Buru, John Dew, Rob Lewis, Phil Boast, Ian Hornett, Maggie Matheson, Tim Aston, Geoffrey Chiswell-Greene, Sue Beer, Bartholomew Crabbs, Brenda Bonzer, Sebastian Tombs, Ruth Hamilton, and Pat Blosse. With Adrian Coen and Yvonne Pini…